Moon Mission

Wow a 3D game on a GM jam, that's nice. Make the dialogues shorter and faster. I also think for a jam game it's okay to forego different difficult settings and instead focus on more content.

Is this a sequel to Just Junk?? I thought there was a familiar vibe and the dialogue heavily implied it so I checked who made this game and it was indeed you people! For some reason I fondly remember enjoying Just Junk. This game has the same mood that I enjoy, and I think a lot of it is created by the music. I couldn't finish Moon Mission because I just got lost all the time and the map wasn't really helping. After playing it for a while I gave up and restarted to see the beginning again and I remembered that there were different difficulty options. I think I was playing on "fair". But I really need to try this again, maybe with the easier difficulty level, because I want to see how it ends!

I like the 3D artstyle and the music is also nice! The discovery theme is strong and it was fun to navigate the space (after I realized there's a map). I wish you could switch to full screen mode though.

It's funny that I actually made a very similar game for the Global Game Jam this year: https://reaktori.itch.io/remains-of-earth

I found the artstyle to be pretty and cohesive. Floating around was fun, however, I had a lot of difficulty with finding myself on the map. If there is an indicator for the player ship, I simply must've missed it...

I love how the ship 'rises' once it gets near a planet, that's a neat touch!

A lot of 3D games this jam, and this one was also very nice! Love the little space ship turning and moving around :)

Pretty cool game! You really nailed it with the 3D visuals, and I know how hard it is to do something like this in an engine like GameMaker! Your approach to the theme was pretty unique, though I did feel bored and really lost at times (sometimes I couldn't see literally anthing around, thought I passed the limits of the map and went back, also found nothing), but I guess finding each piece of the Earth was what kept me going. Dialogs pretty funny too. I played on the middle difficulty.

Well that was a nice game. But I have complaints!

• The map closing sound if about 34 times louder than the opening sound (and everything else)
• Way too much text (apparently mixed with tutorial), hard to read font, and the skip text REALLY skips the text, so if you want to read everything, you also need to wait for the full text to appear (which really takes a while, and I'm a slow reader). ...I'm sorry, but I skipped everything 😬
• I think there was a third thing but I forgot :(

Also, I played in fair mode, but if the player isn't displayed on the map on easy, it might actually be harder than fair? Since you can't really find yourself with newly added planets :D

Other than that, I don't really know why, but I really liked the giants / statues / idk holding the pieces of Earth. And of course the way planets get added to the map as you discover them is really nice.
Oh and really good job on those 3D objects, it doesn't look too fancy (I mean, it's like the exact right amount of polygons to fit the artstyle), and it really adds a lot to the game.

I really enjoyed the 3D aspect and the space exploration side of this one, it's an interesting game with funky retro aesthetics and I enjoyed having a little fly around space - my only issue is the tutorial text is very worded, a lot of saying without doing which got a little much sometimes, maybe slimming down the tutorial a bit might help, other than that though, it's a great entry, good job :)

I cry every time.

Earth is restored, the art and 3D are great of course. I wish you had a more hands on camera, or at least it showed your ship position on the map.

403 points, 500% fuel capacity :)

This was a very impressive game. As other people said, the map was a bit hard to use, and the camera felt quite limited, but it was a great experience nonetheless :)

I jumped into the deep end and decided to play hard mode first, and I enjoyed it. I like exploration games and being disoriented, but it would have been nice to know where you are approximately on the map. I wouldn't want to sacrifice the theme of discovery by showing your exact location, but maybe there could be a general hint (e.g. highlight the quadrant your are currently exploring, or highlight the last planet you visited).

However, I did find the pixel font to be pretty tricky to read at times. A few times I wasn't able to read parts of the text because N's look similar to H's. This would have been fine if the dialogue didn't automatically skip after a few seconds. I recommend using high-resolution fonts for text in the future, or to find a pixel font that is slightly larger so there is less ambiguity between letters.

Overall, this is one of my favourite submissions so far.

That was pretty cool! I did get a bit disoriented a few times, since the player isn't represented on the map at all, but it actually was pretty, well, fair, in Fair mode. There's enough landmarks to keep a good sense of where you are if you pay attention (although warping just made me confused...I thought they always sent you back to the center maybe, at first). Ended up just shy of 1000 points/fuel by the time I found all 3 pieces.

I really get a strong sense of discovery from this one, nice. I originally started the game in hard mode and planned to map the area out, but upon discovering that the map doesn't actually show your current position I realized that was gonna be a lot harder than it initially seemed, as you'd need to find "landmarks" in the form of distinct planets that are right next to each other to get your bearings after things like warping. In Fair mode, the game feels a lot better since you can head out in a general direction and use any planets you find along the way as pit stops.

I like the visual design. The giants floating in space holding the pieces of earth are very cool. I wonder who made them? Were they involved in the splitting of Earth? Weird details like that make questions pop up in the player's mind and I think that's a good thing!

Nice graphics and theme.

Feedback:

• Wasn't sure if the text boxes in the beginning are obscuring anything but they actually were obscuring the fuel and its how i got without fuel the first time around
• There were alot of text boxes in the beginning as mentioned...
• Neat controls / feel of the controls
• Unsure of my goals (might have skipped through some important text tho...)

This one looks so cool!

Looks like it uses actual 3D models from what I can see from the extra files. I got a little lost trying to find planets to refuel but I suppose that's part of the challenge. The writing also gave me a good chuckle and was a nice addition.

Looks and feels great, especially for a jam game.

Super impressive! I kinda got lost a lot, but it was still cool and pretty fun.