Mission by handkor

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made by handkor for LD33 (COMPO)
You have landed on an alien planet. Your mission is to collect rock, plant and animal samples. Rocks and plants are easy but the creatures that live there see you as a MONSTER. You must slowly earn their trust before you can take them to the ship.

Controls:
WASD to move
Space to Jump
Left mouse click to pickup and drop objects

The game is UE4 64bit only.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.42 250
Audio 3.45 142
Fun 2.84 584
Graphics 4.00 100
Humor 3.31 203
Innovation 3.25 311
Mood 3.21 312
Theme 3.58 343

Feedback

interwebsninja
24. Aug 2015 路 03:33 UTC
Easy to understand the goal, and I love the use of your voice for sound effects!
downsouthsoftware
24. Aug 2015 路 03:59 UTC
Solid game. Took quite a while to get the thingys to like me. I spent my time rolling fruit and rocks down hills. Jumping off the edge of the map is not recommended.
馃帳 handkor
24. Aug 2015 路 04:32 UTC
Yeah I forgot to put a blocking volume around the crater's edge.
Split82
24. Aug 2015 路 10:04 UTC
Very nice graphics and overall feel. Good job.
OxyOxspring
24. Aug 2015 路 14:23 UTC
Absolutely beautiful game! I found the use of your voice for sound effects pretty funny.
flyinpancake
24. Aug 2015 路 14:27 UTC
Glad you made the video- love your game. I will have to play on my windows partition later. Humor and Audio 5 when I rate it for doing all the sound fx.
chromebookbob
24. Aug 2015 路 14:51 UTC
really pretty landscape, and great use of voice effects
馃帳 handkor
24. Aug 2015 路 15:00 UTC
Yeah 3/4 of the way in I realized that adding voice over was the easiest way to indicate to the player what was going on. I also added the stress meter on the mission panel to show some measure of progress, otherwise the game left you wandering aimlessly. One tip, when the creatures let you walk out of your ship, no progess will be made if you stay in the ship as they are used to the ship but not you.
thatwhichis
25. Aug 2015 路 01:32 UTC
Audio X-D
gnuwilliam
25. Aug 2015 路 17:48 UTC
Good job on the graphics!
MinionStudios
26. Aug 2015 路 05:46 UTC
So polished, so clever and great voice acting... this is a great game!
liquidmedia
26. Aug 2015 路 06:06 UTC
Nice job on the audio and it runs well.
jk5000
26. Aug 2015 路 06:36 UTC
Simple, beautiful and fun.
ruerob
26. Aug 2015 路 07:36 UTC
I like your game! The species is cute!!! I ove the screams they make and how the sun reflects in their eyes!
mahalis
27. Aug 2015 路 01:15 UTC
Cute! I'm not sure what the trick is to get them to not be scared of me (tried standing around and letting them come up to me, building a trail of berries back to the ship, etc.) but it was fun running around interacting with them anyway. And as everyone else has said, great sound effects. :)
MartinFernandez
27. Aug 2015 路 03:28 UTC
Great game, good job whit the sound effects :P
TailyILoveYou
27. Aug 2015 路 23:48 UTC
Nice little game, I love the little sounds of the aliens :P Good job! :D
ChaosCult
03. Sep 2015 路 20:25 UTC
An interesting game. I couldn't understand how to get a specimen before my badly cooled GPU overheated, but it feels like and old-time sci-fi story. Good work!
Nurbs
03. Sep 2015 路 20:25 UTC
The sound effects were glorious. I liked the part where I played soccer with boulders. These new pikmins are weird.

it's a bit hard to walk when you pick up the dudes.
ohsqueezy
03. Sep 2015 路 20:38 UTC
Pretty successful as piece of world building. Evaluating it as a game left me feeling disappointing though. The gameplay consists of: Pick up 5 things, pick up 5 more things, wait 1 minute, move outside, wait one minute, wait one more minute, pick up 5 things.

For more constructive criticism I would say move at least the stress level indicator to a HUD, so you can watch it deplete while you are not in the ship. That would also fit with the concept of having a "Personal Helmet Assistant".
Quij
04. Sep 2015 路 01:39 UTC
Loved the sound effects, and the graphics/models in general. The aliens were cute! And the spaceship looks great.

It wasn't clear which of my actions were actually helping me progress in gaining their trust. Was it me clearing the berries from underneath my ship? Was it just time passing?

Great job overall!
amras0000
04. Sep 2015 路 12:13 UTC
Cutest game I've played so far, your voice is amazing.
Two issues, though: It was hard to determine what was earning the creatures' trust. I tried feeding them, sitting in the pond with them, singing to them, and eventually I got their trust, but I had no clue what was working or not.
Also, the textures look really photorealistic. Were they all made by you?
馃帳 handkor
04. Sep 2015 路 14:25 UTC
48h compo so yes the textures were made by me, if you download the source you'll see the pictures of stones from my backyard that I used for the textures. If anyone needs repeating stone texture with normal and bumpmaps go ahead and use these, there are 5 variations available. Funny fact, he creature's skin is from my kitchen's linoleum tiles.
Thanks for the comment about my voice, most of the clips were done in a single take due to the short amount of time available.

As for the gameplay, the original design called for feeding and helping the creatures to earn trust but I didn't have the time to implement any of that. The only thing you can do now to earn trust is to stand around and let them get used to you.
andreiichim
08. Sep 2015 路 02:43 UTC
Haha. Loved the humor of this game. I liked how much work you put into the little creatures.
Pavel M. Dlouh媒
08. Sep 2015 路 08:03 UTC
Your game has been rated by our team member Antonin Charvat (music composer). Here is his comment: Haha, very funny end of game! You gained their trust, then kidnapped them and left! :) It reminds me of something.. Anyway great concept and excellent graphics!
Jelinib
09. Sep 2015 路 04:00 UTC
Unique concept, cool texture, and nice clean audio!

I once had them down to low stress levels, but then couldn't resist suddenly jumping into the pool of drinking aliens. (INSTANT 100% HIGH STRESS, and I only half regret it!)

Then in order to finish the job, I busied myself with kicking berries around, into the pool, at the aliens, etc. Makeshift soccer, haha!

There should also be a lose condition. Like, on my first run, I killed all the aliens in their own home, but nothing happened, so I had to ESC/try again manually. I think there is an opportunity for a humorous voice clip there. :)

Their screams of terror were also pretty funny. Great job!
MrTwister
12. Sep 2015 路 16:19 UTC
Amazing game! Loved the idea and execution.

Something weird happened when I picked up a creature that was moving. It was suddenly very hard to move with it, as if I had to "fight" the speed vector the creature had before I picked it up.

The game is missing terrain boundaries, some music perhaps, and probably some bug fixes (probably what I described early was a bug?), but it's a seriously good entry.

I'm also a fan of how the game "taught you" to play through the "mission control" voiceover. It explains you enough to play the game, but it's still up to you to discover how to collect the samples and befriend the creatures.

Well done, man :)
yuigoto
13. Sep 2015 路 20:15 UTC
Nice work on graphics, the voice/sfx are really nice and make the game fun! :) It reminds me a bit of Pikmin. :)

The way you used your voice was really well done, and the explanations/objectives are clear and really easy to understand! :3

I had some glitches with the aliens' feet and once, when I tried to board the ship, but nothing serious.

Good Work! Cheers! :D
Sparrow
14. Sep 2015 路 12:00 UTC
Excellent work! loved it. :)
andyman404
14. Sep 2015 路 21:53 UTC
Hahaha. I love these little aliens. Cool looking ship.
Mubox
15. Sep 2015 路 00:38 UTC
Very good graphics. :]

PS: We have fixed our game, if you want to see it again. ^^
Thank you.