Out Of Space by aa4z2

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made by aa4z2 for LD 43 (JAM)

You are stranded in space, and your shuttle computer is out of disk space... I suppose this is what some people would call ironic. In order to save your ship from total failure, help the engineers from Mission Control fix the filesystem. At your disposal are: 1. A minimalistic linux terminal 2. A text based gui of the filesystem 3. Guidance from Mission Control

If your not sure what to do, "man" would be good place to start...

Ratings

Overall 894th 2.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 852th 2.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 131th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 568th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 851th 2.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 658th 2.559⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 875th 2.719⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Daniel_Abeleira
02. Dec 2018 · 17:08 UTC
Haha I like the game! Tell me about disk space I just had to import 5000 files for post-processing and I don't think I even need them :joy:
Belonzik
08. Dec 2018 · 21:57 UTC
After struggling with the first mission for like 20 minutes, going throught the 2nd one in a few second and then getting stuck again on the 3rd, I must say, this game is not at all friendly to the player. I've used linux for a bit, but the game doesn't specify anything. It's probably enjoyable for people that are only very familiar with linux and working with linux's command terminal.

Helping the player along would've made this alot more enjoyable.
Aurel300
21. Dec 2018 · 15:54 UTC
Very nice! Nicely highlighting that there are always multiple ways to accomplish the same thing in Linux :)

There were some little problems – `man find` showed a stub with `cat` (presumably a template for `man` pages). After the second or third level of the second loop (since the levels were the same?) the game stopped and by the CPU spike I assume there was an infinite loop somehow. But these are minor, terminal games are fun. Well done!
Fylipp
27. Dec 2018 · 00:42 UTC
Very nice game! Love the idea and implementation.
smbe19
27. Dec 2018 · 12:39 UTC
This game is awesome! I think it's my favorite of this Jam so far. It's quite fun to think how you could replace some command with a combination of others.

It has a few bugs such as `man find` printing something about `cat`. Furthermore, it would have been nice if some more features were supported. For example it's a bit sad that flags (e.g. `ls -a`) and wildcards (e.g. `ls power*`) are not supported. I'm not sure how you would use find with such restricted input...

Also, the missions repeated itself and then the game got stuck after displaying a success message.
Joror
27. Dec 2018 · 14:22 UTC
Fun 'educational' game!
Got stuck on the third mission, and I am not a cli noob :laughing: - needs some more hints as to what commands can do what, and what syntax is allowed. ( | is possible, but not shown anywhere?)