Space Ltd. by mortusnegati

[raw]
made by mortusnegati for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Come play a relaxing puzzle game in space. Like rush hour in 3D. Slide blocks to collect shiny orbs and solve an interlocking tangle. Featuring: my first attempt at game music!

ldjam-thumbnail-hires-cropped.png

A puzzle game about pushing interlocking blocks to solve a rush hour traffic jam style puzzle.

Controls

WASD to move, Space to access the pause settings. Right click + pan to rotate the camera. Mouse wheel to zoom in and out a bit.

Example level:

Space<em>Ltd</em>Gameplay.png

Edit: Darn! I should have called it space jam.

Ratings

Overall 59th 3.985⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 102th 3.75⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 42th 4.045⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 185th 3.652⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 100th 3.859⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 134th 3.403⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Mood 115th 3.567⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Given 46🗳️ 53🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 379026
01. Oct 2023 · 22:32 UTC
Fun game, takes a bit of time going back and forth with the current perspective. Would be great to have the camera pushed back some for visibility but with the small level it was easy enough to navigate to view. More levels would be great, after the last I immediately wanted to see the next difficulty increase.
LDJam user 373998
01. Oct 2023 · 22:49 UTC
Forgot to mention you can scroll zoom
MajoMirez
02. Oct 2023 · 14:45 UTC
Pretty fun! I really liked how you introduced the mechanics one by one without any tedious tutorials
WAD
02. Oct 2023 · 21:02 UTC
A good game should have Tetris) 5 stars
LDJam user 260720
02. Oct 2023 · 22:41 UTC
Great concept!
Pawel12
02. Oct 2023 · 22:43 UTC
Really nice puzzle game
LDJam user 237413
03. Oct 2023 · 08:25 UTC
Nice puzzles, I originally thought it was going to be 2D puzzles portrayed in 3D, but the 3D blocking and locking is a cool mechanic! Good one
Igor Grincu
03. Oct 2023 · 11:44 UTC
Great concept. Really liked the intuitive understanding of what I have to do. Its smart, simple and addictive. The visual as well as the ambient music made me feel well the space theme of your game. Great work!
xinux
03. Oct 2023 · 11:49 UTC
Hehe, you had almost the same name idea as me :D

The puzzles are hard to grasp at first, but become strangely intuitive. Colorful, cute, and nice music!
Lee Martin 77
03. Oct 2023 · 11:50 UTC
Loved this, really enjoyed it all the way through. I liked how the mechanics were introduced and there was a nice feeling of progression. It ended a little abruptly but also that final level was the trickiest by far! Looked real nice too!
Martin Bousquet
03. Oct 2023 · 11:50 UTC
I want more levels!
manabreak
03. Oct 2023 · 11:51 UTC
Awesome take on the theme! I finished the first level purely by accident, because I didn't grasp what I was supposed to do. After that, it became more clear, and the last level was a real brain tickler. :)

The only issue I had was somewhat laggy effects when they loaded for the first time. I guess that could be handled with preloading the scenes, if you didn't already do that.
MasterProject
03. Oct 2023 · 12:58 UTC
Interesting and mind-bending puzzles, I enjoyed it! Having to move around the cube to solve this 3D conundrum was very intriguing, giving me a sensation of dissassembling a 4D machine. The artstyle gave me a bit of a headache, not gonna lie, but other than that, this was very enjoyable.
kenevil1
03. Oct 2023 · 17:05 UTC
Really like the puzzle design, was fun to play!
Gamer Fates
03. Oct 2023 · 17:15 UTC
Wow this is great!

Enjoyed the grid based mechanics with the complex puzzles.

Godot hype train is real!
JOZGames
03. Oct 2023 · 17:49 UTC
Bem bonito e bem programado, adorei!
cogcomp
03. Oct 2023 · 20:27 UTC
What a stunningly beautiful game and the puzzles are neat too. The music is atmostpheric and nice but I think it could've needed a bit more variation, but for a 48 hour game this was amazingly good! Well done!
Boyar
04. Oct 2023 · 18:41 UTC
ON MY QUEST TO RATE ALL 15 GAMES NAMED SPACE LTD I’M TRYING OUT ALL THE GAMES NAMED SPACE LTD. I guess it was self explanetory…

Three dimentional with tight spaces are usaly very cramped and hard to navigate. Glad to see that you are actionaly made it really clear to see what's going on and also really easy to control. Amazing pazzle, would LOVED to see more levels, this game has a huge patentual. Special thanks for mouse control - it is very easy to understand what is happening in the puzzle and all that remains is to solve it.

For those who saw that there are no screenshots and did not try it - shame on you, LOOK AT THIS! give it a try!

![chrome_NA4cjAMAVu.png](///raw/f9b/82/z/5fa00.png)

Very good job, waiting for any postjam develempent!

P.S. I encourage you to try every space-ltd games using ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/space-ltd-[number] (or don't use a number to get a first one) link to see what other ppl got! As proud space-ltd creaters should hold onto eachother!
LDJam user 373998
04. Oct 2023 · 20:29 UTC
Thanks for the enthusiasm! I got so lucky dreaming up this idea for the jam and it was fun watching it come together. I shall now go on a space-ltd journey. FYI I'm already working on post jam content. I have 10 new levels, I made the background less motion sickening, I fixed a bug I hope nobody found, etc. Too bad I can't release any of it for 16 more days without interfering with the compo. P.S. I added a game play screenshot.
The XJ Project
05. Oct 2023 · 14:04 UTC
Yo Fantastic game! Finished all the levels and I loved the puzzle box style challenges. Polished and Looks and sounds amazing! Great job, Also @SpaceLtdGang
Fendri
05. Oct 2023 · 19:03 UTC
It's a perfect game for this jam. Easy to play, tetris vibes with an original mechanics, loved it
Lovewerk
06. Oct 2023 · 16:20 UTC
This is a really impressive entry! The tutorial is really good. Short and sweet, and each level specifically addresses one mechanic at a time. It too me a little while to realized that the blocks on the surface of the cube continued inside of it. It was fun to walk along all sides of the playing surface. For the last level, I couldn't really see the insides of the box so I just flailed around until I solved the puzzle. The music suited the game's style perfectly.

Good job!
Hakro
08. Oct 2023 · 15:50 UTC
Awesome little puzzle game. It took me a couple of tries to understand what's going on, but when I got it, I enjoyed it a lot.
Feels, nice, the 3D models are great, and the music belongs there.
Very good entry overall. GG.
finbobby123
09. Oct 2023 · 16:11 UTC
I really enjoyed playing this. It's really well made. It's fairly unique but still intuitive to grasp and play. I managed to pretty quickly figure out how things worked without any walls of text. Good job!
Notinatal
09. Oct 2023 · 16:11 UTC
Really liked the idea of this game, it feels very unique and required quite some visualization from me. There is definitely some way of making the game even more friendly for people not that good at visualizing 3D, but I don't know whether that's the goal, so I won't say anything.

Overall, great entry executed with a nice level of polish.
LDJam user 373998
10. Oct 2023 · 00:23 UTC
I'd be glad to hear ideas on how to make it clearer, but it's possible I already thought of some of them. I'm working on a post-jam cleanup version. I think the most helpful changes are the ones I made aimed at improving camera controls. Don't worry about sounding mean, I ran out of time, but I can also use some feedback.
Madbarron
10. Oct 2023 · 04:38 UTC
Very clever! My spatial reasoning skills are very poor, so I was relieved that I didn't have to do anything harder than that final level 😀
I liked it, great job!
One note is that it took a while to download and performance wasn't great in the browser (Chrome). Might have been a fluke but I wonder if you could optimize it a little bit.
Go team Space Ltd!
LDJam user 371030
11. Oct 2023 · 17:59 UTC
Bravo bravo... very nice entry! This is *so well thought out* and at the same time - so clear and simple - that I have nothing much to say! : ))) You've got a **flawless puzzle experience**! Congrats ^^

No confusing details! Especially taking into account the fact that 3d puzzlers like this are *very tricky* around visualization of all pieces! Bravo.

Would LOVE to see a lot more!!!