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Missing Parts by radow

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made by radow for LD 43 (JAM)

Missing Parts is a point-and-click adventure, in which you play a little robot in a big factory. Your job is to maintain and fix the big machine.

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Why?

Because that's your Job!

The boss is putting a lot of trust in your capabilities. Better not disappoint them...

Features:

  • Self-explaining gameplay: Don't waste your precious time on tutorials!
  • Handmade sounds & soundtrack: Use your ears for recreation while you work!
  • Cuteness!!!
  • Puzzles: Who doesn't love them?
  • Hand-drawn everything: Use your coffee break to rest your eyes on a beautifully crafted environment!
  • Supportive messages from your boss: They really trust you!
  • Feel-good: Nothing is more satisfying than coming home after a hard day's work!
  • Union-free-zone: Who needs these lazy scumbags anyways?
  • Work-game-balance: Feel like you're actually doing something!
  • No pay-to-win: You are already selling your labour!

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Problems: There are a few problems. Depending on the browser you use you may not hear the robot speak, have no sound at all or (only happened in one case so far with Microsoft Edge) see no cursor. If any of these happen to you please consider using another browser. In the timeframe of this jam there was nothing we could do against these issues.

HTML5 (web) https://blog.purplesloth.studio/missing_parts/
Source code https://git.hemio.de/purpleSloth/ld43-sacrifices-must-be-made
HTML5 (web) https://blog.purplesloth.studio/missing_parts/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/missing-parts

Ratings

Overall 46th 4.118⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Fun 84th 3.907⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 70th 3.926⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Theme 17th 4.5⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 228th 4.046⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Audio 93th 3.907⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Humor 161th 3.64⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Mood 121th 3.907⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Given 72🗳️ 66🗨️

Feedback

MadreDeDios
04. Dec 2018 · 20:31 UTC
Very neat! Great ideas there! Really good game :smile:
hbirler
04. Dec 2018 · 20:41 UTC
I love it. Amazing to instantly see the results of the sacrifices.

Innovation. Aluminum. The future.
wheatleyscience
04. Dec 2018 · 20:43 UTC
hey cool game but maybe you should change the font in main menu. beside of that game is good.
RAFFE
04. Dec 2018 · 20:46 UTC
Woah! This game is sick! I love the artstyle a lot, and I think the graphics and animations look really good!
The voice acting/robot voice (U know what I mean) is perfect! It makes for a moody, and interesting game. Some stuff is actually pretty challenging to figure out, for peanutbrains like me ;3
Really good entry. Enjoyed a lot. :)
sadzanenyama
04. Dec 2018 · 20:50 UTC
Good sounds, nicely drawn graphics and overall polished. I got quite confused at parts but I suppose that's what a puzzle game is supposed to do!
LeReveur
04. Dec 2018 · 22:05 UTC
I'm an early lover of point and click games, so I started with a good idea of this game. I love the mood, the arts, the voice, sound and music. And the puzzle is interesting, while you have to wisely choose what to do and when. However, I ended with a lose message, but I don't understand what I missed. I don't know what is missing to the machine to be functional - I have an arm left to use, but the only place it could go have a green light from the beginning (and I tried to go up see if it's going wrong at the last minute, but nothing). Whatever if I finish it or not, it was fun to play, very well done!
Ente
04. Dec 2018 · 23:22 UTC
@lereveur Thanks for your nice feedback! :) Have you fixed everything else? And put the battery in the second slot again and seen if the light is still green? There is a very specific way you have to do it to make it work. (and you also have to realize you can get your first arm back...) I wasn't completely happy with how it was done in the end either - as in I think it is a bit too difficult/seemingly random. (before it made more sense, but when we added the graphics it didn't quite give away what we were trying to tell there...)
Budark
05. Dec 2018 · 01:24 UTC
Nice concept
Trusty
05. Dec 2018 · 02:41 UTC
Great game, took some thinking but I made it through successful. My poor robot :(
disperse
05. Dec 2018 · 02:55 UTC
Excellent. I 'won' and I'm not usually all that good at adventure games. Love the symmetry between the game win and lose states.
sketchycode
05. Dec 2018 · 05:03 UTC
Really cool, audio and puzzles were on point, found the click positioning to be a little finicky at times. Great game.
CaryStringfield
05. Dec 2018 · 05:16 UTC
Cool game. I liked the voice over and the puzzles.
LandoSystems
05. Dec 2018 · 05:26 UTC
Good game, thought it'd be pretty straightforward after getting the first door open, but the tension of the self-imposed handicaps, especially the battery timer, made for an effective puzzle. Good art style too, nice work overall!
Pecc0r
05. Dec 2018 · 11:33 UTC
Wow, my poor little robot. This was a great game with a really nice puzzle. I had some trouble with the mouseover effects, but I managed to solve the puzzles. Also the voiceover was great.
FROG5TAR
05. Dec 2018 · 12:14 UTC
This was an amazing Puzzle Game you had the Theme On point :)
Evgeniya Zapolnova
05. Dec 2018 · 16:32 UTC
I don't like puzzles (maybe I don't like to think) but I liked this robot and his job
LJay
05. Dec 2018 · 16:44 UTC
Nice idea and artwork! Like attention to details:)
Nikolay Zapolnov
05. Dec 2018 · 16:52 UTC
This is so awesome. And very philosophical in the end :) Sacrifice yourself for your boss to enjoy his life. I enjoyed playing it, thanks for the game!
Codesity
05. Dec 2018 · 19:15 UTC
Sounds made by yourself are always really nice! The Graphics are good and the gameplay is with much interactions really nice. Good Work!
Kszaku
05. Dec 2018 · 20:11 UTC
That was one of the "why for gods sake I haven't got that idea" kind of game. I liked how sacrificing parts of robot affected the gameplay. Also, didn't really expected point and click puzzle game, to be that intense. And, thanks to your game I am now sure, that I wasn't the only one to use browsers speech synthesis to make game :D Great job!
Rena Hataka
06. Dec 2018 · 03:15 UTC
Game goog
Dan Colman
06. Dec 2018 · 05:11 UTC
Great work, love the puzzles and figuring out the order. Graphics are gorgeous.
legavroche
06. Dec 2018 · 05:37 UTC
This was a great interpretation of the theme. The sacrificing body parts and having it impart the robot was really innovative, and it made me think out the specific order that I should use when solving the puzzles. Awesome job!
great-bobleny
06. Dec 2018 · 06:13 UTC
The whole thing was really fantastic, the art, the audio, the mood, your use of the theme, and it was even amusing. It would have been funnier, to me anyways, had the boss just shoved the robot into the scrap heap or inferno.

I love puzzle games, please make more of this game.
great-bobleny
06. Dec 2018 · 06:13 UTC
The whole thing was really fantastic, the art, the audio, the mood, your use of the theme, and it was even amusing. It would have been funnier, to me anyways, had the boss just shoved the robot into the scrap heap or inferno.

I love puzzle games, please make more of this game.
AfroAnt
06. Dec 2018 · 07:16 UTC
Very cool game! Way to take the theme and run with it. At first it was sort of off-putting - there wasn't much freedom to do what you wanted to do - but the gameplay fed into the theme and the puzzles and everything worked in the end. I really liked how losing body parts effected the controls and sight and audio. Great job!
hugonun
06. Dec 2018 · 20:17 UTC
Great game, reminds me of the old escape room games but with a more unique mechanism.
Myrrhe
06. Dec 2018 · 20:29 UTC
Yeah, I repaired the factory ! That was a cool game, sounds and graphism were really good, the difficulty was well balanced.

A nice puzzle !
aortega
06. Dec 2018 · 22:35 UTC
Everything worked correctly. I had difficulty moving until I found I had to click on the floor (moving when clicking on empty space would be nice). The mechanics are easy to understand and this is a great use of the theme. I like the drawings, the music and even the voice. This is excellent, thank you.
MandaRad
06. Dec 2018 · 23:21 UTC
That was great, nice job. It fit the theme really well and I liked the ending. The only thing I had problems with was at the beginning I didn't know I could use pieces of the robot to fix things right away.
Aphid98
07. Dec 2018 · 03:11 UTC
Well made! The graphics were nice and the gameplay was enjoyable. It didn't seem possible to complete, though I may have overseen something. Overall, well done! I enjoyed :wink:
AwiX
07. Dec 2018 · 08:17 UTC
An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)
AllesKapaul
07. Dec 2018 · 11:52 UTC
Nice little puzzle game! Nice how you see everything change once you use your body parts for repair, very well done!
selina
07. Dec 2018 · 16:55 UTC
Nice, I like puzzle/adventure game. The robot voice is a cool detail
najmm
08. Dec 2018 · 03:34 UTC
Love the voice-overs...Your take on the theme, along with the puzzles is quite interesting...Also, I like the idea of having no tutorials...Brilliant game...
KsardX
08. Dec 2018 · 09:22 UTC
This game is great! It's very innovative and the usage of theme is great. Sometimes it was hard for me to understand the controls, especially how to move, but after that I started enjoying the game. The sound is great too. VERY good entry, splendid job!
rodel77
08. Dec 2018 · 19:07 UTC
Very nice game, one thing that I liked is the "Vote" button on the menu, I will use it on my games from now. Also I want suggest to center a little bit the game canvas in your website.
meldrian
08. Dec 2018 · 22:07 UTC
That's a really great way of "sacrificing yourself" for a greater good. I really liked it, even if I weren't able to finish it yet. Another great game I would love to see polished on a commercial base and gladly would pay to play those game. Had a lot of fun realizing that Iam unable to move without both wheels :D
xarona
09. Dec 2018 · 11:47 UTC
@meldrian: try to repair everything upstairs, then repair everything downstairs, then see if something happens (maybe something new broke?)
gukuu
09. Dec 2018 · 15:53 UTC
All judes 5.0 ) i just playing only about 20-30 games but it's my favorite
Zetorama
09. Dec 2018 · 20:29 UTC
That's awesome! Idea, graphics, sound and puzzle itself are all made so good, that I forgot it's just a jam entry, not a published game from store :)
philippkick
10. Dec 2018 · 00:01 UTC
Nice submission. This looks like a legit game and you folks totally hit the nail on the head with the part sacrifices. Well done :v:
Thob
11. Dec 2018 · 20:08 UTC
Good game, really complete !
There is a lot of good things in this !
The puzzles are well thought, there is voice acting, sounds, FX, a story, and more !

I think the thing that could be better is the lisibility, mainly of the items I can interact with.
We feel a little lack in terms of (game and graphic) design at this level.
There is too much information at the same level : The background (the wall tile), the background with the machines, the plateforme, the UI+ the text. You need to prioritize the elements visibility according to their importance, to establish graphic codes.

I felt a little lost during the game because of all the informations i had at te same time. It's important to let the player eye's rest !

Beside that the game is cool of course, good job to the 10 of you !
LuCecyl
12. Dec 2018 · 19:18 UTC
Really nice game. Fells like a product that is complete.
Nice use of the theme! Nice job!
Guy Withivy
13. Dec 2018 · 10:12 UTC
Great job, congratulations :)
arron-fowler
13. Dec 2018 · 12:28 UTC
Excelent entry. Nicely thought out and the art and sound is great. I really enjoyed it.
shubart
13. Dec 2018 · 22:10 UTC
Really nice game. the whole idea and gameplay is well balanced. Thank you