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A jam submission

HopelessView game page

After years of burning coal, came the heat. The last survivors ride on a train, followed by the deadly light of the sun.
Submitted by MaverickHorn (@MaverickHorn) — 5 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#744.5044.504
Creativity#944.2194.219
Overall#1014.1334.133
Enjoyment#3853.6753.675

Ranked from 228 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You are burning dice to roll with a train

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted

Nice idea, and great presentation.

Submitted

cool and very  climatic

Submitted

Very atmospheric with the colors and somber music. The gameplay is fine and it gets more interesting (and more stressful in a good way) further into the game. And I really liked the quick tutorial section at the beginning.

Great job!

Submitted

This is a really well-made game. Having Dicey Dungeons-esque dice manipulation in a real-time environment really complements the entire "we're running from the sun" premise of this game. The atmosphere has this kind of quiet tenseness that I can't quite describe... a certain uneaseness.  A certain melancholy. Chugging coal away, hoping for another day. I loved it.

Submitted

Love the atmosphere! I just couldn't figure out if there was a time limit or not, so I was just rushing through immediately.

Submitted

It looks amazing! I love the atmosphere, and you put a lot of work even into little sound effects.

Submitted(+1)

"Nobody said it would be easy" -- indeed it isn't. But what it is is a great experience with very nice visuals, music and story telling.

Submitted

The game looks really nice and the music is very calming

It's easy at the start but then I think I lost but I didn't really understand why.

Very cool game nonetheless!

Submitted

Beautiful artwork, I especially loved the smoke. It isn't the most exciting game, but it doesn't drag. I think with some story behind it, it could become a really engrossing and complete experience.

Submitted(+1)

Very beautiful, a really interesting idea mechanically. Unfortunately, I feel I wasn't really incentivized to engage with the mechanics, I hardly ever used the dice modifiers because it felt like I could get away with blasting just through my dice - this was my undoing however, as I did eventually run out and got roasted to a crisp.

Perhaps if there was more information about how often the dice would be spawning, as well as maybe a bar that displays what speed the train is at that you have to keep filled, that tension would be more present and force me into thinking more carefully about how I used my dice.

Still, I really like the core idea here, and I think it ties in so well with the narrative. Great work!

Submitted

Noooo I died on the last day!!! It's a really cool concept and the art style, the story and the gameplay fits very well together!

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Submitted

awesome visuals and art, very unique take on the theme, is this inspired from Snowpiercer instead here it is Heatpiercer . 🤨🤨

Submitted

great art :D

Submitted

I loved it!!! At first I struggled to understand the gameplay, but when you understand it is very addictive and fun to play. The art is fantastic too

Submitted (1 edit)

Absolute pearl ! The art is beautiful, onboarding is impeccable and the flavor text really makes you want to keep on. Great choice of sounds too.
As a way to improve it imho, maybe it would be good to make the heating signal a bit more progressive as you only have a few seconds left before losing when the animation triggers but apart from that, this is amazing work.

Submitted

Really fun game, Loved the art!

Submitted

Nice Game! really liked the art and audio, i didn't really saw where you could lose or something, maybe make like an indicator for this? But overall until now one of the best games ive seen so far.

Submitted

Really cool game with amazing art. Sort of buggy/laggy but perhaps that was just the WebGL build? Either way I still liked it a lot, the atmosphere is great.  Nice work!

Submitted

Really good graphics! Well Done!

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