The Indie Tales Jam

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A jam submission

There's room for only one HeroView game page

Submitted by Alexandre2BI (@Alexandre2BI), Resnox — 10 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Aesthetic Flair (Graphics & Sound Presentation)	#4	4.615	4.615
Immersion (Gameplay & Storytelling Engagement)	#23	3.885	3.885
Technical Excellence (Design & Engineering)	#26	3.808	3.808
Overall	#30	3.798	3.798
Relevance (Creative Expression of Theme)	#143	2.885	2.885

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

Hey! It was a pleasure to watch this game be constructed over the weekend. Seeing two streams was awesome. The game is very well polished. I love the camera, lighting and pixel art animations. The enemy AI works very well and was very immersive. I also loved the encumbrance of slowing down when holding too many items, and the way that affected the gameplay. Good design, overall. Super fun to play and aesthetically pleasing. I will say I thought the tutorial was a little bit "heavy", and some of those explanations could have been removed (e.g. instead of down arrow to hide, just show "E" and let the player figure it out). I also would have appreciated a bit more integration of the theme / story in the gameplay. Maybe in the ending? For one weekend, a very commendable entry. Thanks for making it, I had fun!

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CodeRaurusSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Very good game! Aesthetics feel very polished and the gameplay is fun. I wish there was some sort indicator of your progress throughout the game. I also accidentally closed the game with esc, when I was just trying to pause it. I hope we see more of this.

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Outta My Waters!

RobokiSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Great game finding stuff and getting safe from thise green monsters was kinda easy if we go in a barrel overall the game was very nice and that was a huge amount of pixel art within the jam time it was awesome.

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JackaljkdanSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

The game looks really impressive, it's really detailed! I was a bit overwhelmed by the tutorial, so much info all at once when I just wanted to play :P it's somewhat debatable whether it's just one room, but the mechanics are fun!

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In Darkness I See

KJC13Submitted3 years ago

This was really fun to play!

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One Room Shooter

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks, glad you had fun :D

Sagitarius343 years ago(+1)

Very good jobs, thanks for this game

Daniel DewaswalaSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Great lighting and well polished, but it is very easy to outrun those orcs

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Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

Thank you! Yeah they are quite stupid too :p

ZettabitSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

This game was definitely well put together, but I did run into a few small issues. I ran out of time having collected 3 items, and when I restarted I won as soon as I collected 1. Also it is very easy to skip over the text at the beginning, though it didn't hurt me too much. Definitely some great art and lighting though.

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TemporalShift (IndieTalesJam)

Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

I hope you still enjoyed playing our game, sorry for the issue it looks like we are missed to test some scenario case (run out of time probably) haha

leastparkSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I enjoyed this game a lot. The graphics are insane!

Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

Thank you a lot !!

Safariminer3 years ago

What happened to WebGL.

Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

Doesn't like dynamic lightning :c

LynnearitySubmitted3 years ago

I'm kind of terrible at stealth but I had a good time with this. You might be a little too much faster than the orcs when not carrying anything, but I liked using the sewer grates to get around while weighed down. Not sure about how well it fits the theme since it's more like "one floor" of a castle, with hallways between different spaces. But it's high marks everywhere else for sure.

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ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago

The game still goes accordingly to the definition of "Room". Although many people think that a room is small, it's just defined by the fact there is wall, floor and ceiling.

Anyway, thanks for playing it and I'm glad you had a good time playing it. The fact you go faster than orc is unfortunatly due to a bug .__.

Pierre VandermaesenSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Great game, amazing graphics and sound. Controls are a bit weird (too many different buttons, might not be necessary)

I had fun, super polished, congratz !

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Dark PeaceSubmitted3 years ago

It looks so great but it's too laggy for me

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Last ticket for Eternity

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Were you playing on the Desktop version ? The WebGL is really laggy because of light processing.

Dark PeaceSubmitted3 years ago

No my laptop is just not good

BroknSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

i like the art and the feel it gives

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ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Thanks, I also do like my mate's work on the art.

SonnyMakesGamesSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

An immediate 5*, great art, great presentation, solid mechanics (sound effects for hiding are really fun) and orcs putting your items back is a really lifelike behaviour I didn't expect.

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もう一度(One More Time)

Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

Thank you for the livestream commentary and the review :D

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago

Ahah, nice too hear someone went on this situation. They do indeed take items and put them back, even if you stop them from taking it.

ElderGibSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

This game is incredibly well put together! Every asset is of really high quality, and the lighting helps sell the mood in such a convincing way. The mechanic of hiding and traversing using vents is simple to understand and execute.

Though I felt the stealth was fun, I found that as a dominant strategy it was much easier to simply run through getting seen by every Orc, only to hide or use the smoke bomb once an armor piece was in sight.

I found it humorous that the Orcs couldn't find me even if I hid right in front of them, but either making them check cover or having some additional hazards that could slow your movement for a time might mitigate this and prevent wanton sprinting.

Regardless, excellent work!

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Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Thank you for the review! That would definitely be a great idea (that the orc can check in a barrel) !

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

I found it humorous that the Orcs couldn't find me even if I hid right in front of them

I agree, and the sound make it so comical.

Though I felt the stealth was fun, I found that as a dominant strategy it was much easier to simply run through getting seen by every Orc, only to hide or use the smoke bomb once an armor piece was in sight.

That a mistake on my part, near the end of the development, a bug appeared, making the orc way slower when they got you in sight. I unfortunately didn't had the time to fix it :(

Thanks, and glad you did appreciate it.

aweelexSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Good job! Nice art style. Feels really polished. As it been said game is a bit laggy on the web version. I liked the mechanics you chose here. They are pretty simple but effective yet.

Well done!

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Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago

thank you for your nice comment ! The web version can't manage the dynamic lightning and we didn't find a way in such a short time to reduce its cost :c

SeabassSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Wow this game is great! The art is great, I'm amazed you guys finished full animations for the characters! I also love the use of Unity's 2D lighting. The game is really laggy on Chrome browser for some reason though. The stealth mechanics are awesome. I'm honestly amazed you were able to make this much content over the weekend!

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ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks, we struggled so hard to make the lighting good and getting some mechanics.

Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago (1 edit)

Hey, big thanks ! If you want to check how we made the game, we have both of us a twitch channel with all the vods over the weekend !

bobosupremeSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

really nice art you got here, lighting effects were definitely worth it.

also the thumbnail and menu image is great. good call putting a lot of work into that drawing. helps tell the story as well.

your ai was pretty smart, which i liked. i know ai can be a huge place for bugs to pop up, so bravo for creating a bugless stealth-type ai.

nice work!

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Alexandre2BIDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Hey thanks for your nice comment ! We are glad than you enjoyed cheating our orcs !

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago

That was really difficult to get a strong ai, so that it feel nice in game. But I'm glad to hear you liked it

And indeed, I really love the way the game looks, my mate did a good job on that part.

bobosupremeSubmitted3 years ago

really nice art you got here, lighting effects were definitely worth it.

also the thumbnail and menu image is great. good call putting a lot of work into that drawing. helps tell the story as well.

your ai was pretty smart, which i liked. i know ai can be a huge place for bugs to pop up, so bravo for creating a bugless stealth-type ai.

nice work!

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mikomoaresSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

The art work is very good, and the game is fun.

I would decrease the number of text in the tutorial.

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Tito's Nightmare

ResnoxDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Thanks.

Some of the text is explaining the lore, while other are explaining the mechanics since there is a lot of information. Better have more information that being lost on your first game, but I do agree that there is a lot of text.