Thank you for dropping by! I have a slightly more rewarding ending in the next build of the game. I'll be dropping it later today after the jam ends.

Thank you for checking it out!

I struggled with figuring out how to end it because I knew I didnt have time to draw up a whole scene. It was already pretty late in the jam by that time, and I still had other pieces that needed to go in. I am working a little more on it to fit my initial vision a little bit better (edible items to increase time and a shorter timer). Maybe Ill work on creating a final scene for Desertopia as well! Thank you for playing!

Because of the time constraints, the size of the map isn't huge (in fact I had to cut few misleading paths to be shorter to save time) because I had to create each room individually. Id really like to create a random mode where it automatically creates rooms and a path, but thats a considerable time investment and lends itself more to a rouge-like than it does for a story driven game. Thanks for playing!

Thank you for checking it out! Glad you enjoyed it!

Good to know! I did want to have some level of uncertainty, but perhaps there could be additional people. Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you for your feedback! I'll try to think of ways to make talking to people more necessary, and how to make the text and game feel more alive. This was my first attempt at creating a game around dialog box features, so I definitely have room to improve! Glad to hear you liked the graphics and colors as well.

Thank you for playing! If I decide to continue development on this project, I will definitely be adjusting the difficulty with a reduced timer and adding items to add time.

Thank you for the kind words! I was definitely shooting for an approachable experience more than a savagely difficult game. I'm very glad you enjoyed the game. I'm still considering adding some minor features to it.

Thank you for your thoughts! I'm glad you found it fun.

Thank you for checking it out and giving the nice feedback!

I agree about the music. It was the best I could muster with little music experience. I was going to use a different tool to create music but it just didn't work out. I'm glad you liked the screen transitions; it was hard to find examples of what I wanted, but I found one finally, and the solution was far easier than I expected. Thanks for checking it out!

I had intended to have a timer that was much more limited, with foods/water to increase time, and other things to potentially lower it. Unfortunately my own jam timer ran out lol. I even had frog and onion sprites that didn't make it into the game. Thanks for playing!

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to strategically place them and not make all of the dialog too obvious. I didn't want someone coming by the game later and not understanding why all the directions were wrong. It becomes pretty obvious when you know the theme.

Good work! I didnt have a lot of time for others to playtest, so I gave a pretty generous timer. Thanks for playing!

Thank you for playing!

It was a little simple. My focus for this jam was to work on dialog boxes, art, and making an animation for the first time. Thanks for playing!