Terra by TheShrug

Short game with heavy emphasis on art, story telling and music/sound design. We really like how our first Ludum Dare game came out. Thanks for playing, hope you enjoy it!
Windows Download: https://theshrug.itch.io/terra
V1.01: Fixed story related text.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/terra |
Ratings
| Overall | 496th | 3.174⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 694th | 2.432⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 659th | 2.5⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 297th | 3.6⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 371th | 3.556⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 329th | 3.044⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 395th | 2.564⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 342th | 3.311⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 61🗨️ |
Music and graphics are awesome too!
The only feedback that I can give you is that when you lose, you start from the begining, and could be a bit frustrating, but apart of that, great game!
I had huge framerate issues that ended up killing me, and the game really needs to have quicker iteration cycles between death. Otherwise I think it was very interesting and I wish you well as you work on it!
Since you're emphasizing art, I will also critique the art. One of the biggest things I noticed was Arial type being used in the game. The planet artwork was actually very great - good use of colors, though lack of foreshortening broke the illusion of volume. Resolutions are also inconsistent as one sprite may have fat pixels while others may be rendered at 1:1, which will break the consistency of the art style. Overall, I would rate it at 4/5. Individual sprites are well done, but the graphics in its entirety is not completely pulled together
Thanks for making this. I really liked the storytelling and the sound although the gameplay suffered a little and got short. I could imagine you adding some more levels! And it could also be great as an Android game.
Concerning the gameplay, I wish there was more. In my opinion it was not challenging enough, I completed the game on my first try. I spent much more time reading the text than playing the game itself, to me it felt more like a interactive book. Maybe that’s the point, It’s relaxing for some and the opposite for others.
Overall I felt relaxed while playing this game, some music when reading the dialog would make the experience much more comfortable.
Have an awesome day, and hope to see you in the next jam!
// Isak (one half of [LiquidBrain](https://ldjam.com/users/liquidbrain/))
The gameplay could have been more challenging. Perhaps the obstacles could have gently pulled you in with gravity to make the levels a little more active.
I love the story and the emotion you put in the game and the way you tell the story. +10
The game concept it's funny (arcade games are funny) but it's frustating to not have a way to get checkpoints or something similar, because start at the beggining every time you die is... not funny.
Sound fits very well with the story and the "emotion", good work.
Althoght art helps the story it's very improvable.
In overall, it's a nice game for a jam!
Overall, great job!
I also noticed that during the first cut scene you use a different font than in the intro and the second cut scene.
One bad thing was resetting gameplay on the begin, when I die.