Astronaut Gary Inc. by gagapete

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made by gagapete for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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Story

Hey there my friend. My name is Gary and I was sent by my Inc. to a new Planet. Unfortunately besides my little helping Robot I am pretty alone out here. So to make my Life a lot easier Robo will take over some Tasks which might be too dangerous for me to do. We did find a dangerous crater out here, which has a high instability. You could say he is unstable. To prevent the crater from bursting lava you have to throw in some specific Items the crater asks for. We do have some machines build in here where you can combine, burn, electrocute, compress and wash Items which will change their State. If we are not able to throw the needed Items into the crater in time, it will most likely explode and destroy everything around it, including myself.

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Controls

Robo is controlled with wasd. To interact with the crater or the Items you use space. To drop down the last item you use R. To use your Boost press shift. To Pause the Game you press Escape.

We highly recommend you to play our Tutorial, in which all the necessary steps will be explained.

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Additional Information

This Game can be played in English or in German. You can also activate/deactivate the Sound. Since we didn't make it ourselves we deactivated the Rating for this one.

The Sources for the Audio's are from Mega Game Music Collection, Daydreamsound and Fantasy Ambience Pack.

We decided to take this Game further than the Ludum Dare and created a Discord you can join, if you are interested. You can find our Discord here.

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We hope you have fun!

Gagapete, Sedna, Menta, Tekk and FunnySoundFreak.

2021-10-05: Added additional postjam version for download with added level selector, but otherwise with identical features.
2021-10-09: Added Linux ports of the original jam and the postjam version.

Ratings

Overall 358th 3.804⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 694th 3.464⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 268th 3.768⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 779th 3.5⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 75th 4.5⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 589th 3.192⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 683th 3.481⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 37🗨️

Feedback

Matt Rice
04. Oct 2021 · 23:05 UTC
Love the effects on the items. The tutorial is also a really nice and helpful addition!
kurrik
04. Oct 2021 · 23:07 UTC
Wow, there are a lot of cool systems here. I really appreciated the tutorial which made it easy to understand how to play. The graphics and animations are great too! It's really impressive how much you got done. Only real downside for me is that it's really very difficult!
LDJam user 250905
04. Oct 2021 · 23:08 UTC
I really enjoyed the voxel art style in this!
Terabyte
04. Oct 2021 · 23:08 UTC
All the tutorials are present. It's good!
The graphics are interesting. Good job!
Aidan and seb
04. Oct 2021 · 23:12 UTC
The graphics for this game fit so perfectly. There's so many aspects to it with the chests, item washing, combining, crafting, tutorial level and the rest - you can tell a lot of effort has gone into this! I find it a little difficult to understand at first, even with the tutorial, but once you get past that it's good fun!
Kudos for including WebGL too :)
Jel2217
04. Oct 2021 · 23:14 UTC
Awesome game, loved the graphics and concept!
April Lehman
04. Oct 2021 · 23:16 UTC
Nice original idea. We liked the graphics a lot and found the idea of the game very compelling. It was a bit on the hard side when we tried to play (after watching the tutorial). Maybe consider having an easy mode or easier level. But great job!
LDJam user 270875
04. Oct 2021 · 23:17 UTC
Found it tricky to tell the required items apart at first. Much easier once I made fullscreen.
shade2810
05. Oct 2021 · 06:15 UTC
I find this to be a very pleasing game. It reminds me of something of games like overcooked where there's recipes you have to follow. There's just so many aspects to the game that Imma commend for the hard work and effort in 3 days!

It's definitely hard at first though
KutaryouShinkoku
05. Oct 2021 · 07:52 UTC
Nice game! I love not only the gameplay and also the effects when material is processed.
Astropower
05. Oct 2021 · 07:56 UTC
Perfect graphic, I really like the voxel style. And the full tutorial helps me understand the game concepts well.
Whysguy52
05. Oct 2021 · 08:01 UTC
Awesome work! there's a little bit too much delay with picking things up and controlling the inventory is a bit tricky
DanGribanovsky
05. Oct 2021 · 08:14 UTC
you managed to create so much in just 3 days that's incredible! love voxels, tutorial is surprisingly good
Flaterectomy
05. Oct 2021 · 08:17 UTC
I like this, a very clear concept with a solid style to it. I wish there were some more audio effects for actions, though. Item pickups, item drops, dropping items on the machines, movement. That would've really made things feel a lot more tactile.

After I lost on the second planet it ended the whole game and made me restart on the first planet, which I felt was a little harsh. I wish progress was kept, then I would have played more of it.

A very solid entry!
500yearsokawari
05. Oct 2021 · 08:18 UTC
I like the voxel art and the effects and the fact that you can forge, wash and craft stuff out of the materials. It's hard to tell the different 工 shaped thingy from each other tho.
chesschaser
05. Oct 2021 · 09:42 UTC
Adorable little game!
nshbae
05. Oct 2021 · 11:27 UTC
Nice boxel graphic and smooth motions! Love that idea of lowering unstable lava level with specific recipe. How about adding stage selector or difficulty selector for light users?
Tekk
05. Oct 2021 · 11:36 UTC
@nshbae yea, i think that would be great. thanks for playing!
Becky Rayner
05. Oct 2021 · 13:38 UTC
Cute little game, love the concept and the robot is adorable. Controls are really smooth and clear as well! Well done :D
MisaRavensoul
05. Oct 2021 · 15:55 UTC
Wow, those controls are so smooth and the art is cute. This actually reminded me of No Man's Sky right off the bat in terms of mood, so I liked that a lot!
JUSTCAMH
05. Oct 2021 · 16:14 UTC
Hey guys, thanks for submitting the game to the stream, it was a good time! Here's the vod if you'd like to rewatch; https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1167974254
menta
05. Oct 2021 · 16:41 UTC
@justcamh great feedback, thank you so much!
LDJam user 237913
05. Oct 2021 · 19:21 UTC
I've destroyed so many planets this Jam ...

Great job on this. Thanks for letting me play!
Anthony Servedio
06. Oct 2021 · 12:02 UTC
I liked this game. It was a good idea to put the tutorial in, helped me out. Graphics were great and I like the concept. Good job!
brads.space
07. Oct 2021 · 13:27 UTC
Really cool idea and the graphics are great. I think each level is a little too long.
Jupiter_Hadley
12. Oct 2021 · 13:48 UTC
Really nice game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 49 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/gL5Jq5zIm84
VarunDevs
20. Oct 2021 · 13:36 UTC
Cool
negator2vc
20. Oct 2021 · 15:17 UTC
Excellent game with polished gameplay and very good & unique art!
Good sounds and you have a very good entry!
Nice work!