RPG Maker Horror Game Jam #7: Polar Expedition

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A jam submission

Polar Seven (Demo)View game page

Search for the missing members of your team. Or at least, one in particular...

Submitted by onamint — 23 hours, 3 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay	#2	4.000	4.000
Horror	#3	4.000	4.000
Overall	#5	4.111	4.111
Presentation	#6	4.556	4.556
Story	#7	3.889	3.889
Theme	#8	4.111	4.111
Creativity	#8	4.111	4.111

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How did you choose to implement the Theme: Polar Expedition in your game?
The game involves finding the members of an expedition to a cold/polar environment.

Did you implement any of the optional Bonus Challenges, and if so, which ones?
There is a heating mechanic implemented! Just uh, only in one room. It would be functional in more though once I implement additional ones.

Did you create your game in RPG Maker?

Yes

Comments

Xenogate19 days ago(+2)

This is the game, even in demo form, that I liked the most. The atmosphere is excellent, the aesthetics are very pleasant, the hook allows for all kinds of experimentation, and the evolution—ranging from battery management to environments that could go beyond the cold/heat dynamic, such as a sanity system—could enrich it even further.

In my personal taste, this is the game with the most potential to become something bigger and a complete experience.

PS: I touched every grenade without any exception, partly because I didn't see the line, partly because the blast is too good to ignore.

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onamintDeveloper19 days ago(+1)

Thank you for giving it a go! Every play means a lot to me, and every comment, the world! XD

I do hope to find some more time to return to Polar Seven; I'm elbow deep in other jam work, classes, and uh just work work so the schedule is strained as-is, but I put so much time into it already that it would be nice to see it through. I had two modules (like the light and heater) planned that didn't make the deadline, and I need to add some more environment stuff and puzzles and things, but it's reassuring to know that other people can see it and think it has potential despite how little time there was to make content after doing the graphics and systems and stuff.

The tripwires are a delicate thing. I planned them around how visible they were on my setup, but I've since played a few games with puzzles that suffered a lot from visibility issues caused by like not having your monitor at full brightness and I need to account for such things better, I think. A feature I had planned that is actually easy to do but I couldn't find a moment to implement it is to make the tripwires have higher contrast when the player's light is on. This would solve the problem of them maybe not being visible enough, but I'm worried it would trivialize them too, hmm...

On the other hand it would make them easier to notice and hurry to for the tasty blast XD

Thank you again for playing and commenting! It really does mean a lot! :D