Miasma

by samuli
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.25
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★69%
You are wandering in the woods.
Looking for a safe place.
A home.

Miasma is dark and moody survival horror game that

includes:
- Resource gathering and crafting
- Dynamic weather, decided by gods
- God workshipping via sacrifices
- NPCs running in the woods

Post jam edits:
- Disable context menu in web player
- Optimized web player size from 60mb to 9mb

Quick start guide:
1) Your goal is to find your home, it is somewhere North.
2) Combine items to craft new items. For example: Grass + Grass = Grass idol, Stone + Branch = Knife.
3) Some resources like rock or cats require item.
4) Sacrifice stuff to gods to keep them happy & make weather better. They like idols the most.
I hope that helped!

Genres: adventure

Comments24

martijn
martijn28 Apr 2013, 20:38
Nice game, although on my computer (running linux), it is not a foggy as in your screenshots.
Hemuuuli
Hemuuuliauthor28 Apr 2013, 21:26
Sound interesting, I need to boot up my Ubuntu tomorrow and see how it looks and maybe patch it. The fog is big part of the experience.
Magnus29 Apr 2013, 07:16
This is the nicest looking entry I've seen so far. I love the colors. Really cool.
gilmore60629 Apr 2013, 07:34
You win the mood category by a long way. :)
texel29 Apr 2013, 07:39
Interesting, though the gameplay mechanics are lost on me. I can't tell what it means to have what looks like a hand and a plus icon next to it? Does that mean "combine"? It's not clear.

Also, playing it via the web, right click ends up causing problems, as it wants to open the context menu for the unity plugin.
SmallDeadGuy29 Apr 2013, 07:42
I hit F1 for help and it threw a russian page at me. Then I walked around for ages and got game over...
Zillix
Zillix29 Apr 2013, 07:43
really really pretty. great job establishing an awesome atmosphere
Xgor
Xgor29 Apr 2013, 07:45
Really great atmosphere, but it's pretty damn confusing what to do, I got a knife and killed some animals but I keep dying from the rain or whatever it is.
OysterKLAN29 Apr 2013, 09:22
Really nice, the audio especially completes the atmosphere. I really like how it looks in the dark distance. Really cool to see strange creatures appearing and disappearing. Only a few problems I see, sometimes the clicking seems unresponsive, I'm not sure if that was a problem on my end. Also, the rain particles move relative to the player, not the world, so that looks a bit odd.
Dark Acre Jack29 Apr 2013, 09:24
A monotone "Don't Stave". Good work on the mood & audio.
Hemuuuli
Hemuuuliauthor29 Apr 2013, 10:04
Thanks for the kind comments. ^^
I tested the linux build and it looks great on that platform too. Maybe the screenshots are a bit muddy.
Relation of F1 and Russian page are still mystery to me. :D But the game is now on Kongergate with updated build so it should be gone.
HelkeGames29 Apr 2013, 12:08
Nice game i love it! ;)
mushbuh29 Apr 2013, 20:10
Cool fog, cool effects nice music
ethankennerly
ethankennerly30 Apr 2013, 03:58
The pixelated impostors enchanted me. The music and fog crept up on me. I read the help; I'm not sure how to get started with combining things. How would you feel about posting a newbie tutorial with step by step instructions in the description of how to get started?
Hemuuuli
Hemuuuliauthor30 Apr 2013, 04:19
Here you go! Tutorial added to description.
Aaants
Aaants1 May 2013, 18:08
Very nice mood. I never entirely sure what 'mood' is - but this definitely has it! Nice work
Husky
Husky2 May 2013, 08:47
I like the world!
And it's fun to exploring,
Good job:D
MinionStudios
MinionStudios5 May 2013, 00:16
Awesome and amazingly atmospheric! wow
JustinMullin7 May 2013, 01:53
Very confusing, but I think I started to get the hang of it. This game is so insanely atmospheric, though. Phenomenal. It was very hard to see, which got in the way a little bit, but also cranked the mood up to 11.
Martin_Monosys7 May 2013, 21:37
For some reason I don't want to sacrifice animals to... whatever...! Does PETA know about this ?!? :)
Dietrich Epp12 May 2013, 05:48
Beautiful and haunting. However, I could never quite tell what I was carrying, and what I could do with it. Maybe if there was a little display at the bottom showing what you were carrying, with some more obvious icons for what they were.

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