It's all hand-polygon-filled 2D! I do sometimes use 3D models for reference but often times I'm just sketching and then building off the sketch. Example below:

Thanks for the play and the feedback! Hope you'll enjoy things as it proceeds. Feel free to check out the full project if you want to keep apprised: https://firgof.itch.io/to-ash-and-ember

DemoDay is over but if you'd like to access the project the password for the page is 'agdg'.

What options would you look for if there were options available? Are any of the fonts in the game ones you'd prefer over some of the ones presented? (e.g. location labels vs event text labels etc)

Casualty of the Unity Implosion. The original game was based in Unity; this version is a complete remake in Godot. Unfortunately a lot of time needed to be spent on the backend systems so there's not a whole lot of content just yet. Bones are largely in though so from here game should start rocketing past where it was with Unity (3 mysteries [1 unlockable], many more card events for locations, lots more events in general throughout the world).

Dungeons are meant to be multi-floor for instance, but the Hospital's only got the one. Also you ought be able to configure at least some of the dungeons -- but that requires a bunch of cards which aren't in yet. :P

Ideally the Dungeons should play a bit like Hand of Fate once complete. But yar you're not wrong, my internal estimate is about 10-15 minutes worth of content atm, presuming the player beelines the completion of the only available Mystery and then meanders around a bit after.

Though it's no longer available on Gamejolt, this was a remake of a gamejam game of the same name that was published on the site which was a text-based adventure game (also made by me).

Seen here: 

A fair question! What happened was Unity decided to say they were going to charge per-install and, though they've since backed from that, I do not trust them to keep to their word on it since they already twice failed to keep their word. As a result, I canceled the Unity version of the project and delisted the download. The game has since been restarted in Godot (this is what all the screenshots are presently showing; the Godot version of the game).

I'm getting pretty close to a fully playable version of the game but there's a few mechanics I got stuck on (playable combat event effects largely, which are taking long enough I'm reconsidering that whole part of the combat system) and recently I had to contend with a major surgery, moving to a new apartment, and now my graphics card giving me its notice that it's going to die soon. That said, I do intend to put up a playable before year's end (hopefully Octoberish if not sooner for those who subscribe to my Subscribestar).

Thanks for your interest! Be sure to follow the project if you want fast access to that download and join the Forgotten Workshop discord if you want to follow the smaller bits of development outside of my larger devlog posts.

(Any purchases made from the bundle will still give access to the eventual Godot build of the game)

I have, yes. In fact, I was toiling along with panstasz when World of Horror's progress was still mostly internal to the AGDG discord. His idea sprung up from wanting to make a Junji Ito game and mine sprang from the Arkham Horror board game and The Consuming Shadow. My combat, dice mechanics, events, etc, are all inspired from the Arkham Horror board game and my homebrew world setting (the 'Untamed World').

It's not remained that way, of course, as I've played Cultist Simulator and other big horror-themed games and I'm always keeping an eye out for things I felt worked great in the games I played and what didn't. This upcoming reiteration on the project is liable to look and feel a lot different than the Unity version as a result, because I'm always taking notes and try to learn from lessons to create a good game.

Starting a new game (by either death or by quitting back to main and starting a new one) causing control/softlock errors is a known issue that's being fixed but controls becoming unresponsive is new.  I've not been able to get my local copy to have the same problem yet.

Could you e-mail your game's log to theforgottenworkshop@gmail.com? (You can do WIN+R to pull up Run and then put in "%APPDATA%" without the quotes to get to your AppData/Roaming folder; from there you'd want to go up a folder to 'AppData', down into the folder "Local" and then either "Forgotten Workshop/Unfathomed: Event Zero" or "Unfathomed: Event Zero".)

Can you also verify your game says it's "V0.02B" on the main screen? [version number is located in the bottom right]

Thanks for the reports! RE: Controls randomly stopping working, how quickly did/does it happen? (Also do you have more than one input device [e.g. a gamepad, flightstick, wheel, graphic tablet] plugged in. Also did the controls stop working at any point before a death/before you went back to main menu)

Initial collaboration has concluded.  'EVENT ZERO' participants may locate the MK-II Testbed and associated Mission Data Reconstruction efforts here: https://firgof.itch.io/unfathomed-event-zero

https://itch.io/embed/2154907?bg_color=3f2832&fg_color=fb6b72&link_color=d4879d&border_color=384149

Cool, I'll bear that in mind and fiddle with it some. No worries about the design plan; it's rather loose on the particulars. I'm going for a 'vibe' but there's a number of directions I can approach it from. This sort of feedback's what the open testing is all about.

That said, I do apologize for anyone who tries to stream or capture the game as some of the noise involved with this game is going to be just devastating to bitrates for modern CODECs.  That said, I suppose it does lend opportunity for whoever's capturing to try and describe what they see/saw haha

Let me know if you do some capturing and if the noise causes the quality to drop too much. I might build an accessibility feature for something more CODEC-friendly for streamers if it's too harsh/makes it difficult for viewers to see the gameplay (same with the LiDAR dots themselves in terms of shape/color/size).

Thanks for your feedback thus far, Researcher ABG. Do feel free to record/post video footage of the game wherever you'd like to as well. (Of course we'd love a link as seeing folks engage with the MK-II gives a tremendous amount of data for us to analyze and consider)

By 'spraying' you mean increasing how quickly LMB  fires off LiDAR points?

Either way, it is certainly possible. The system I'm using can support millions of points without much FPS loss; I'm just keeping the amount low because it 'makes more sense' versus the setting of 1990s for it to be capped to (presently) 65535 points of data. (ed: That said, I am actively listening to player feedback and it's not something I would mind adjusting if there's calls for it)

I am considering on the backburner things like discoverable upgrades that expand the amount you can have scanned, scan speed, scan fade distance, scan density, and battery maximums and charge speed. Would those be things you'd be interested in exploring the exclusion zone to find?

This is a LiDAR and SONAR focused first person mini-submarine exploration/horror game that is in active development. Perfectly playable at the moment, it's just missing some key features, polish, and some expected content near the anticipated 'end'.

Check it out here: https://firgof.itch.io/unfathomed-event-zero

https://itch.io/embed/2154907?border_width=3&dark=true

You may have noticed a file being uploaded without information or context surrounding it: it is not the MK-VIII submersible (codename 'STYGIAN ABYSS') testing application. It is a prototype reconstruction of the MK-II's mission data (codename 'EVENT ZERO'). 

Presently, said reconstruction is not complete. You may encounter bugs, missing information, and errors. It is being used as a testbed to explore various systems and design-patterns for STYGIAN ABYSS. Eventually, it will be moved to its own platform on this website but, for now, is sharing STYGIAN ABYSS' page.

Thank you for your attention.

-S.

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Congrats on your win! Please e-mail me at theforgottenworkshop@gmail.com so I can arrange the delivery of whichever prize you'd like!

Firstly, Congratulations to All!

Just having made a game for this gamejam, you're already a winner in my eyes! Not just my eyes, either, looking at the votes. Many of y'all's games were only separated by a single vote from your peers! Y'all made it pretty hard for the KO community to choose a clear winner ... 

... but the votes are tallied and the winners have been decided!

Winner of Best Use of Theme:

[Removed at Entrant's Request] - 2/2/23

Winner of Community's Choice:

"B-Ball Inferno" by kosmossen

https://kosmossen.itch.io/b-ball-inferno

🎉Congratulations!

I will be contacting both of you through your game-jam entries or whatever other contact methods may be available for me to get y'all's choice of prize taken down and then delivered as speedy as I can.

With so many amazing entries and such fierce competition for the wins this jam, I'm super looking forward to the next KO!! Game Jam. At this moment, I'm unsure when that will be, but outside it 'not being next month and probably not the month after that' I'd like it to be sooner than later and I expect the Knockout community would prefer the same.

If any of y'all go on to polish up your games and submit them to Steam, we'd love to hear about them!

Thanks again to everyone who submitted their entries to the competition and we look forward to hosting for y'all once more! Until then.

Vote thread is live on KO! Results should be in by Jan27.

Feel free to go check it out over on Knockout! https://knockout.chat/thread/45250

Thanks to everyone who submitted! We're thrilled to see the really high level of engagement this gamejam had and are excited to show your games off to the community.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty exhausted and I don't think I'll be able to get the vote thread up tonight as I had planned to.

I'll be putting the thread up on Knockout.chat on Wednesday to let the community start voting on your submissions. I'll be letting the polls run for a week before we announce results (that way folks have a chance to really play through the games and hear about the vote thread). Once results are announced, I'll contact folks who won through your gamejam entries to exchange information and get you your prizes. You'll have 10 days to claim them from then.

So to recap:

* Vote thread goes up on Wednesday

* Voting goes til the next Wednesday

* Winners announced. I contact winners through your itch.io game jam entry.

* You have 10 days to claim prizes; nonclaimed prizes will be given to the community by random draw.

I'll update this thread once the voting thread goes live on Knockout and will announce the results both here in this thread and over there.

Thank you all for your patience and this beautiful array of really cool looking projects. Best of luck to everyone in the voting!

Stay tuned to (by which I mean subscribe to) this thread for further updates.

Thanks!

Congratulations for coming so far! Thank you for your participation and I'm glad you got a lot out of the jam! We hope you'll be joining the next one the community runs, though I'm unsure when that will be just yet.

We're happy to have hosted! Congratulations and good luck on your entry winning a prize!

It is ok! You might get less folks playing it though as we can't guarantee voters have access to a working controller but we'd love to see what you come up with!

Slam is a theme, artistic is the suggested spice for that theme (you can use it on another theme however). You can mix and match and use as many of them as you like so long as you use at least one theme.

No discord channel, but we do have a thread for it on the forums:

https://knockout.chat/thread/44705

Nope, there's no need to provide anything but a game that runs by the end of the competition.

Yep, precisely!

Those are the themes, yes. You can use any or all of them; the words to their left are meant more for inspiration/optional guidance/flavor.

The $10 cash prizes are now $110 thanks to a very generous and kind member of the Knockout.chat community!

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Awesome to hear and congratulations! I'll be heading over to take a look.

It's been three years since I downloaded the demo! Sadly, I'm of the belief this project has been cancelled; the author's website is no longer available, no updates on twitter, and no devlogs to say otherwise. I do see that the page has been updated recently but I'd figure there'd be a devlog if there was news to be had.

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EXCELLENT. We ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT of your PILOT TEST APPLICATION and thank you for your time. Please RESUME YOUR NORMAL ROUTINE while your application is CONSIDERED. We will contact you INDIRECTLY VIA THIS FORUM in respect to your PILOT TEST APPLICATION should it be ACCEPTED OR DENIED. -W.

WELCOME!

We're thrilled to see your interest in the upcoming PILOT TEST of the MK-VIII SUBMERSIBLE PROJECT, '██████'!

If you would like us to consider your application, please do ENDORSE yourself in the thread below.

We are looking in particular for APPLICANTS in the following FIELDS OF EXPERTISE:

• Scavenger SV-4
• Fear Equation
• Iron Lung
• Genesis Alpha One

These SUPPLEMENTARY pieces of experience are desirable BUT NOT NECESSARY:

• FNAF (Any, minus Security Breach)
• Barotrauma
• Subnautica

Please do be sure to note if you are a MEDIA PERSONALITY with a SOCIAL FOLLOWING in your application to the program!

We take great interest in all applications to the MK-VIII SUBMERSIBLE PROJECT. Please note that your APPLICATIONS will be REVIEWED quickly after being submitted but ACTION WILL NOT BE TAKEN until the MK-VIII is ready for ██████████████████████ in accordance with ██████████████ █████████████████ GUIDELINES.

Should we accept your application we will respond to you INDIRECTLY, VIA THIS FORUMS!

Please resume your normal ████████ scheduling once you have finished REVIEWING, POSTING IN AND/OR CONTEMPLATING this thread.

-W.

Thanks so much for all the data and analysis. It'll definitely help me drive some of the UX decisions for my own projects.

Gravekeeper Academy

A gothic fantasy visual novel with horror themes. Drug from the mud, our shattered protagonist is quickly put to work learning the art of the Gravekeepers -- a cloistered group of warrior-priests who protect the dead. Her allies will be tested; her friends may be slaughtered. This once-prestigious academy may wind up as your final resting place -- if you can't escape from your destiny and protect the lives of your teachers and friends.

Browser-playable with a downloadable desktop version for Windows; still a work-in-progress.

https://itch.io/embed/492267?linkback=true&border_width=3&bg_color=e19143&fg_color=421d75&link_color=3f2832&border_color=553a99