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A jam submission

The Heart Grows Cold - Jam DemoView game page

A story about guilt. Developed in 2 weeks for My First Game Jam Winter 2020
Submitted by Mental_Inaction — 20 minutes, 6 seconds before the deadline
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Submitted (1 edit)

As I think everyone said, I love the art! 

I also found the automatic camera orientation jarring, since I would feel like I had a pretty good handle on the camera+movement system and then have the camera yank away from me. 

I didn't check the game page until after I died the first time, so it would be nice to have a cue that you can raise the torch, even if it's something subtle like an "X" forming in the campfire smoke to keep with the aesthetic. Since I already had my fingers on "A" and "D", "X" didn't occur to me as a key I should try.

Also, and this might be something that would be fixed with sound, it wasn't clear to me when and why I was succeeding at burning away the wolves. I thought I was doing it right for a couple of them until I finally had one explode, and I guess my losses were spread out enough that it didn't kill me, but I don't know! Just something to think about, I guess. 

I look forward to seeing where you go with it! Really neat idea and execution.

Submitted

Fantastic art and I like the idea that you can rotate the camera. The enemy is a bit too hard for me though but overall really great job! With some music an sound this will be incredible! Well done.

Submitted

Love the art, great job!

Submitted

Liked the graphics/art. Bit jarring that the camera seemed to keep turning for me (or was that to disorient the player)? I wasn't really sure what to do, though i got far enough to grab the torch. Anyway great job.

Developer

I’ll keep that in mind about the camera angles. And once you’ve picked up the torch you just need to return to the campsite at the beginning to view the ending.

Submitted (1 edit)

I love the Art it's gorgeous and the Screen Rotation, this is so incredible I love it. Just please add some music this would make it perfect :D

Developer

I knnnoooooowww, I feel so bad I wasn’t able to add any sound into this. If I had only had one more day.