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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Audio | #13 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
Innovation | #279 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
Overall | #466 | 2.893 | 2.893 |
Theme | #496 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
Graphics | #549 | 2.786 | 2.786 |
Game Design | #638 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Fun | #832 | 1.929 | 1.929 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does you game fit the theme?
A radiation worker survived a huge explosion and almost lost his eye perception. He could only see things close to him. In order to know what happened in the city, he must grope in an unseen forest and find a way out. The animals from the forest guided him on his way.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes
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I like the atmosphere with great music and sound effects, but I'm not a fan of the controls. Repeatedly pressing the J and K key is tiring and not fun. Since your game is more on exploring the world, maybe you should use simple controls where the player can move with just the WASD keys.
Beautiful game, calmly introduces you to his apocalyptic world.
Great game. Check mine too.
The game is very atmospheric with all the cinematic sounds and I like the hear sound mechanic.
I encountered a bug though. In the end I reached a sign showing "to the city" and a promopt wit text "walk away" appeared but when I press Space nothing happens so I am basically stuck in the same area. Also you can spam j and k quickly to move as fast as you can press those buttons. All in all good submission.
The mechanic of being extremely nearsighted is novel. Excellent choice of music that fits an aftermath situation. I like the setting that the player is unable to see and desperately has to rely on nearby visual references and sound to navigate around.
The controls and feedback on movement could use tweaking. Repeated alternate key presses became straining on my hand. This became an issue on the third screen, where the game glitched on the walk-out prompt didn't work. I thought I had missed something or was in an unused area, so I started mashing J and K to move around the map faster. This leads to the movement feedback issue, I would think I am moving in the middle of a wide plane, but would find that I am walking into a boundary or an object that can't be passed.
Overall, I enjoyed what I played and would like to see how the character's story would end.
Really good atmosphere in this game, i think even the movement system added a lot to it. GJ with your entry :)
Pretty cool game
Loved the use of panning sound to direct you! Amazing innovation there!
Game felt really good right away however as you get furthur in, it's easy to tell it was not complete at all.
After you move into the second level, it's hard to tell what you can walk on and not, the sound direction cue no longer works and I can exit the map
Some things to improve on for player experience IMO:
But overall it looked and felt really COOL!
The game doesn't work :( The sound effects I can hear when I click play are cool though.
The game sadly didnt worked for me :(