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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #36 | 4.519 | 4.519 |
| Theme | #79 | 3.948 | 3.948 |
| Overall | #85 | 3.814 | 3.814 |
| Audio | #157 | 3.701 | 3.701 |
| Gameplay | #224 | 3.584 | 3.584 |
| Enjoyment | #299 | 3.662 | 3.662 |
| Innovation | #345 | 3.468 | 3.468 |
Ranked from 77 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
You start the day on your typical shift, inside the sci-fi control room of your local space colony: you are going about your daily tasks, repairing stuff, sweeping the floor... Yet, slowly, things start to descend into chaos.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
The intermission music, which is free to use by Kevin Macleod.
How many people worked on the game?6
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Very nice game! visuals look awesome very well done :)
the game is very good I like the gameplay and the idea is great
I like the visuals too and the game fits the theme very we'll
Peak visuals this game looks so sexy, great gameplay really stressfull in a goof way, and last but not least the ramping up music tying it all together! This is an outstanding entry! props to everyone on the team!
Thank you! Our team was formed impromptu yet turned out to be really talented 🙏😭💕.
Damn I was surprised by how the game looked, aesthetics and movement reminds me of Paradigm
Gameplay loop holds well and is very fun too, Incredible work :D
Thank you! Yeah, both follow some common Point & Click archetypes, though Paradigm is definitely much more bizarre 😭!
Very cool idea, cool visuals and sound design. But i find the temp of the game too fast
Otherwise, it's very polished and underrated game. Great job, guys!
Thank you!
This was well made!
It reminded me of the old Jumpstart games that I used to play as a kid,
complete with the math and puzzle games.
Congrats on finishing the jam!
Finally finished it!
Woah! Haha. Nice job. Not many people have seen the credits 😭.
What was your strategy?
Found a bug with the pathing of the insects (pun unintended). If you kill enough insects on where they spawn, they get blocked off and gets stuck on that corner.
The corpses of the insects seems to block their pathing off. This made the final 1:00 minute at least doable for me, as I only needed to stomp on that one corner (final life around 5 out of 100 I think).
And yes, in the final minute, the fusebox will go off without any rest, so I focused on stomping insects, then taking out the fire.
Nice! The one I found in the late game was to stop the fire completely (fusebox) and take care of the bugs instead of the motherboard. :D
That was great! Everything fell to pieces with a minute left and it was nice and stressful! I love a hard game! <3
Thank you! I can relate.
The art style on this game is just incredible, amazing work! The game in itself is also really fun :D makes you want to try over and over again. Cool submission!
Thanks! Did you manage to beat it?
I absolutely love the art! The chromatic aberration adds a great effect on top as well. The gameplay is pretty tough but super satisfying. Great work!
Thanks to our artists 🙏🙏🙏! I was against aberration at first but it did end up looking better.
It was pretty hard i didnt get the electric box, but visual and music was great.
Thank you for playing. The fuse box is meant to be a quick addition game: you need to grab and place the fuse that, when added to the number on the left, makes up the number on the right.
I liked it. It was pretty hard to beat, and the music was pretty loud, but it looks great and is overall, very polished. Nice job!
Thanks, and congratulations on beating it!
A nice game! Loved the visuals and the task werent too complex! Controls were also decent. Decent well rounded game!
Thank you! Did you manage to beat it?
I loved the game the art style is really great i even finished it but it got too hard at the end too much things happening at once. also i found a bug where i had to do the fuse box over and over again and it would never fix! more task would be awesome but it would need a lot more balancing the game. its worth it tho
Thanks for the feedback! Also, congrats on beating the game!
If development continues, we'll likely fix balancing issues like that one.
The art of the game is really good, the UI presentation is really creative and the game feels very polished. The only complain I have is that I felt it was too hard, I was really close to beat it, but it felt impossible.
Really nice entry to the Jam!
Zankiu, profe! We were lucky to have really talented artists.
Also, yes, it ended up being harder than expected, but be assured that it's 100% beatable!
Another game of "panic management" 😆
Very beautiful and well-polished ! Nice !
Maybe the footstep sound is a bit loud
Wow I love the art style. Reminds me of 2000s YTV.
I like the idea for the gameplay, but I found myself just putting out fires instead of having time to solve any puzzles. I also wish sprint was auto-enabled because I had no reason to let go of the Shift key the entire time.
Overall really well done!
Thanks for your feedback!
Sadly, that seems to be a Canadian channel, so I can't relate 😭, but I understand.
What stuck out to me the most was the quality of the artwork and sprites. And I love the expression of panic on the little alien's face when you start using the fire extinguisher. Tasks are varied, but I wish there was a bit more time to figure out electrical minigames in the beginning, as I couldn't fix the device on the bottom left at first, and immediately fire broke out and everything went straight to hell.
The game is fun, and visuals are very polished, great work!
Thank you! We got lucky with our artists.
Yes, difficulty ended up being higher than expected, specially fire. Though, it's definitely beatable!
This is quite fun! Running around the spaceship trying to save it from breaking while doing minigames, it certainly is chaotic during the last minute of the game. I failed at around 40 seconds left sadly. The art is very nice and stylised and fits the game nicely! Well done!
For some criticism, I'd say the game is very punishing if you fail a certain thing, adding more stuff for you to juggle while you don't have time for that in the first place is truly frustrating to most players(both in a good and bad way). Putting out fires and stomping bugs take so much time that by the time you deal with that, you are probably going to have another outbreak. And I think the time limit during the late game is quite harsh, like 3 seconds for the wires. Is that even possible? There are some minor issues as well, such as the outline being very hard to see, and objects blocking other objects when dragging etc.
Anyway, this is still a well made game! You should be proud of yourself!
Thank you!
Yes, the game is definitely quite hard. The trick is to find out what you can and cannot sacrifice in the late game, but it certainly takes a few more tries than we'd have liked (not really intended as a rage game in the first place lol). Fortunately, it shouldn't be hard to adjust in the future.
This was a lot of fun! I like the minigames mixed with trying to put out fires and stomp the bugs. Also I love the characters angry sweeping animation it cracked me up lol. It gets crazy hectic in the last minute I wasn't able to pull off a win, but I enjoyed my time playing the game! Great work on this!