Ludum Dare #22compo

I Was Here

by yosh_archived

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.21

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.37

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Community★★★★★★★★★★1.86

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★87%

Synopsis ##

"Will you wake up ? Don't be scared while exploring this dark but so familiar cave, and try to light up your own memories."

About ##

The name's yosh... a french guy crazy enough to participate to this awesome LD challenge : D

During these 48h, I worked on a little browser game based on html5/javascript. It's untitled "I Was Here" and it's a basic adventure/platformer game.

After many unachieved project, I started something less ambitious than usual, with both minmal gameplay and graphics.
Enjoy !

Feel free to check the soure code and ask questions :)

Yosh'

FAQ ##

(may contain spoiler or game help)

Q: I can't reach a book, my character is not jumping far enough when going out of water.
A: If something seems to be unreachable, try again later when you'll have collect the adequate power up.

Q: Some texts seem to be too big to fit in the screen
A: If you are using Firefox, have a look to the first comments below.

Comments14

Andrew19 Dec 2011, 14:36

There weer some ledges next to the water I couldn't jump over, and it was a bit tricky seeing where the water started/stopped.

olav_st20 Dec 2011, 19:58

Cool little game :) I player it in firefox and there was some text that extended beyond the screen, but other than that it worked great!

Codexus20 Dec 2011, 22:29

Cool little game.

On my Firefox the text was rendered way too big, it turns out this is because I have it configured to prevent websites from using their own font. Not that your game is to blame for that.

SonnyBone21 Dec 2011, 07:45

OH MAN IT'S SCARY WHEN YOU DROWN. Bonus MOOD score for that...

Goldendice21 Dec 2011, 08:15

It feels really eerie the second time you see the I was here sign. The books were off grammatically and I couldn't even manage to get to one (in the far lower right of the map I believe). I don't think I missed any powerups.

Benjamin21 Dec 2011, 16:43

good overall ! Minimalism gfx work well, but a swimming and walking animation ( 2 frames is enough ) would have been great. I guess you have the skills for that coz your information panel and powerups graphics are gorgeous

johndrinkwater22 Dec 2011, 13:24

I too found the fonts too large on Firefox, but font-face loading is enabled.

Enjoyable adventure, I got to the credits screen. It would somehow have been nice to get a ‘you’ll learn to do things’ message near the start, as I was convinced I had missed an instruction and went through most keys to find jump ;)

_ferritt22 Dec 2011, 17:27

Liked it, found it amusing for a simple platform game with a few interesting twists.

Oh and I found the kitty :)

x2l223 Dec 2011, 09:25

you use your own javascript library for this?

yoshauthor3 Jan 2012, 07:34

Thanks for the feedback :)

The game is mostly missing some sounds, a music and animation for the main character... for sure. I also think that an improved game-design would have avoided the ambiguous "water jump".

Concerning the programming, I made this engine "from scratch" based on previous little game projects of my own. (you can check this one for instance: http://www.kongregate.com/games/yoshh/samsara ).

Finally, I'm quite bad in pure story telling games... especially because I put the writing part at the extreme end of the compo (combined with a non-native tongue awful style).

Aaron7 Jan 2012, 23:20

It's really cool for you to include snapshots of the paper designs. I would never have the time to do those, did they help?

Kelly Thomas8 Jan 2012, 03:15

Cute game
This is a great job for a first release.

Cosr8 Jan 2012, 09:26

Liked it, but couldn't beat it.

Water was a bit too close in colour to the background. You also had to squint a bit too hard to see some of the secret passages, though making them lighter might make them too obvious.

Drebin9 Jan 2012, 03:43

Nice game. I think your scope was just right for Ludum Dare, it plays really well and you were able to get a few game design ideas in there.