Join the crew of the unlucky Apollo-13 mission to the moon in this simplified historical simulation. Listen for commands from Mission Control, and control the spacecraft by simply pushing buttons. Keep the crew alive, and bring them home to Earth.
\n","source":"morph-games/apollo-13kb","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":378933981,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Love the idea and the presentation. Im also a big fan of Apollo13 so I new most of the actions to perform :D
\nI feel some animation would had made the game more alive.\nAlso the zooming felt more annoying than helpful.
\nAlso I would had love to see some indicators of CO2 or Electricity to see if Im running out of time.
\nAnyway, one of my favourite entries this year.
\n","games":["Deep13"]},{"at":379022563,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"Liked this straight away. Someone had to do an Apollo 13 game, its perfect for the theme :)\nPlayed it to the end. Really nice. You cant really stray away from the story but might be interesting to have other stuff go wrong and you have to work out how to fix it rather than follow the flow.
\n","games":["Get the Flock Outta Here"]},{"at":379043356,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Apollo 13 was in my ideas list, glad someone made it into a real game
\n","games":["O HIII BAD SKATEPARK","EMOJIPHOBIA","GREAT PLUMBER 65"]},{"at":379262479,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"I made it home, and received the Medal of Freedom! Nice job, this was a pleasant experience. Brilliant interpretation of the jam theme. My biggest feature request would be tooltips, so I could find the thing I’m looking for without zooming in and out all over the place. Other than that, this was a pretty polished experience, and a great use of the text to speech features. Nice job!
\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"at":379394344,"author":"Stanisław Małolepszy","login":"stasm","gh":265818,"url":"https://piesku.com","twitter":"stas","text":"Great concept and a great interpretation of the theme! The gameplay is interesting and engaging, and I felt invested in bringing the astronauts safely back home (which I did).
\nA few improvements that I might suggest:
\nNice interpretation of the theme! And the gameplay is quite interesting! Well done!
\nBonus points: text to speech sounds extremely funny when your default language isn’t english :D
\n","games":["Lost City Of S"]},{"at":379551325,"author":"Alex Delderfield","login":"AD-Edge","gh":3481465,"url":"www.delta-edge.com.au","twitter":"Alex_ADEdge","text":"Some good innovation here, I’m a big fan of the Apollo missions so this was a fun one to get into and playtest. I’m liking all the detail in the controls and interactive options overall, and the way youre playing through this historical event.
\nIt might need a bit more work on the states/state machine setup here. With so many controls I imagine its hard to cover every condition and state along the way. I managed to jettison the lander with the crew in it, and the game half kept going and half broke haha
\nI could see this being the basis for a very interesting and fun educational game, which steps you through the history of what happened here in the level of interactive detail space geeks would love to see! Great entry
\n","games":["The Anti-Poker Protocol"]},{"typ":2,"at":379584872,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"“Oh no, what have you done?” noooooooo!!! I blew us into space again!! This is a very cool puzzle game and familiar real-life adventure, awesome idea. I wish it zoomed in much slower, and if I could pan around I would have felt more in control. I really like the line art you created of the appolo-13 craft itself, and though I disliked the tts voice, the game was much more immersive because of it; I just pretended it was like a HAL9000 emotionless computer rather than a person at mission control in houston or whatever. really great work!
\n"},{"at":379673253,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Clever idea, I did not manage to win as I cannot help but press all the buttons :D I would bot make it into NASA!\nNice graphics and a decent simulation.
\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"at":379717689,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Really original idea to manage a ship. Not quite easy by the way!\nTips helped to know what to do, which was mandatory as I don’t know many things about how to control a spacecraft
\n","games":["13 Steps to Escape"]},{"at":379755757,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"What a take on the theme!
\nI like this historical NASA mission simulation.
\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"typ":2,"at":379820198,"author":"Richard Davey","login":"photonstorm","gh":164476,"url":"www.photonstorm.com","twitter":"photonstorm","text":"Really great use of the theme! Can you help the crew of the Apollo 13 mission survive? Me, definitely not. It didn’t matter what I did, I couldn’t get Tom Hanks to move into the LIM, even with the hatch open. After clicking around I managed to detatch the LIM entirely, consigning my crew to a painful 15 minute death.
\nOh well, can’t win them all :) Graphically, really nice! Works very well given the limitations. The text to speech was pretty funny and although I would have liked to be able to pan around while zoomed-in, it was fast enough to get where I wanted for it to not really matter. Good fun, and a clear indication NASA should never employ me, ever :)
\n"},{"at":380366775,"author":"Grzegorz Tańczyk","login":"gtanczyk","gh":1281113,"url":"https://www.gamedev.pl/","text":"OMG, wow, great fit into the theme!
\n","games":["Monster Steps"]},{"at":380425186,"author":"Michel Sabchuk","login":"michelts","gh":361492,"url":"http://turbosys.com.br","text":"I loved the concept, but I found the zoom on clicked elements a little disturbing.
\nSeems like this game has a lot of potential with some polishing!
\nGreat work!
\n","games":["Thirteen Truco"]},{"at":380446820,"author":"Marcin Walczak","login":"wiserim","gh":18725798,"twitter":"wiserim_","text":"Interesting concept.
\nI like the ship’s presentation (it reminds me of some simplified schematic from some manual) and zoom in effect on selecting ship’s component.
\nThe voice synthesiser assumed my default language which gave a rather funny effect.
\nIt has some problems with running on Firefox.
\nTom Hanks would approve.
\n","games":["Thirteen"]},{"at":380448211,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I liked the graphics and the exploring the ship.
\nThe voice-over was cool, but sounded like somebody speaking with an accent and very quickly, so was hard sometimes to discern what was being said?
\nIn my frantic clicking to find out what things were, I released the lunar module by accident - oops.
\nDissapointingly - the sim didn’t run at all on latest FireFox browser.
\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":2,"at":380483820,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"The controls can be improved, i kept zooming in and zooming out forgetting where are the modules and which part of the spacecraft refers to what.
\nI enjoyed the game in general - taught me a bit more on how spacecrafts work!
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