Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
A jam submission

R.O.O.M.B.A.View game page

Explore a corrupted space station, restore systems, and survive a mysterious AI infection.
Submitted by Arkadiusz "Qinerth" Frąszczak — 2 hours, 33 minutes before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

R.O.O.M.B.A.'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#3944.2634.263
Narrative#6913.6323.632
Artwork#17123.7893.789
Audio#21993.2633.263
Enjoyment#37723.1053.105

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Player's character - the roomba is infected by hostile AI and tries to take over your machine by slowly reducing system integrity. Player needs to perform tasks before the integrity counts down from 100% to 0%.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Qinerth

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

Submitted(+1)

Cool perspective to play from! Funny, we had a similar idea for fixing a broken space station/ship XD

Submitted(+1)

WAY SO creative, congrats !!

Submitted(+1)

Cool! Got a bit dizzy though lol

Submitted(+1)

Who would have thought that playing a vacuum was so much fun. Everything is very polished, the art is very nice, the UI is amazing with lots of little details, the ambiance is thrilling. I enjoyed it a lot, would love to play a full game with that setup.

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept, I always dreamed of becaming a Roomba on the empty spaceship! The game was fun, but i found it really difficult and chaotic to collect all three floppy disks, after the camera changed.

Submitted(+1)

"This is the part where the station wins."
What a cool little game, and it is very funny, I love the pop-ups and the overall attitude and I chuckled out loud when the camera got shifted by me bumping into something I believe :D Very satisfying controls as well and a lot of charm, you should be proud!

Oh, and I say hi to the camera back. <3

Submitted(+1)

The concept if very creative, i love the theme and the idea of playing as a roomba is very fun. I also love the visuals, the first area looks amasing, and it sets the atmospere of a spaceship well! The popups had some quite funny messages! After a very short time playing and loosing some system integrity it becomes very difficult to navigate around the map, and i wasn't able to find all the discs in time. 

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

Very interesting concept for the theme! Didn’t expect a horror thing for a roomba.

The game itself has pretty much good potential- actually I just glance over PeteHeat’s comment and it’s pretty much that!

Unless you’re trying to make a point that it’s a struggle for a machine to continue on, like the art piece “Can’t Help Myself”, this is most likely ends up being a frustrating experience due to its difficulty. The best I can manage is to find one floppy disk without the assistance of a map.

We definitely need to have a method to mitigate its multiple effects to make navigation easier, but not entirely clean, like some time for “Diagnostics”, or adjusting your view to center you “forward-ish” enough because of the virus switching it somewhere… those kinds of things that keep your attention to struggle instead of the main task at hand so you actually feel the futility of your situation, and not as a frustration.

I know a lot of these can’t be done due to the nature of a game jam, but other than that, you have a very good concept on your hands, and myself would I love to see more of it!

I’m early enough to see “Soon there will be description and credits.”. Please work on it as soon as possible. A lot of people will appreciate it.

(+1)

Very interesting game, I never thought I would enjoy a horror game about being a malfunctioning robo-vacuum but here we are.
The game has great potential, I think it's just a bit too difficult now. A bit of polish with more tasks and a longer story would make this an amazing game i could recommend to anyone, really.

Also I honestly think the game could be better if it wasn't countdown based and instead lost integrity based on performance and events which I guess could be time-based, but not explicitly annouced to the player as a countdown.