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An Oregon Trail like. Live a minimalist lifestyle. Keep your basic needs in harmony with items you find as you travel to join your family.
Less of a "challenge" type game in its current iteration, more of a "relax and soak in the atmosphere" type game. We had a lot of mechanics planned like random events, the ability to control your pace and have it affect your stat degradation, items breaking down after a certain amount of time, etc. We had to cut a lotttt for time.
We'll be expanding this post-LD, for sure! Thanks for checking it out. Comment and let us know what you liked and didn't like!
Sounds are from freesound.org
Music used from freemusicarchive:
Chris Zabriske - Is That You Or Are You You? Indian Wells - South Beach
The items are passive, picking them up is all you need to do to start using them. They affect your stats. We'll need make this clearer in future versions, thank you all for the feedback so far!
Hmm... probably doesn't help that I've never played Oregon Trail, but not knowing what any of the icons means (aside from sleep) made it rather frustrating. Also, every time I was at a settlement, I'd choose sleep, but the sleep meter never increased.
Avrec: I hear ya, the intent was to stick with a minimalist UI just enough to get certain concepts across. Parts of it are a bit too minimalist. You're not the only one to mention the sleep meter not going up, been trying to pinpoint that bug myself.
the music was a good choice, and really set nice a mood. not understanding the passive item thing did make it feel like i did not affect the game interaction wise. am interested to see what you do with it postLD
I really didn't understand what I was supposed to do. A little intro explaining the goal would be nice. Also, the music is a bit too repetitive in my opinion.
Very nice ambience, fun contemplative game. I didn't find much to do except choose where to put items so I did really have time to sink into the whole thing. The game is beautiful, thanks for a moment of peace and wonder.
It really doesn't have much in the way of gameplay, though. If some encounters or items that would have forced you to make some sort of choice were introduced, there would have been some danger or ability to strategize involved. As it stands, you basically just agree to everything you come across and wait until you win.
Very awesome visual style, though. Glad to haer you'll be keeping it up. Music choice is nice, too.
I like this game, the ending is sweet. It's an interesting screen setup with 3 frames to look between. It could use more meaningful choices/challenges. Cool style!
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If you do some polish and expand on it, it could be a fun little game
Thanks for playing and leaving feedback!
Also, the music is a bit too repetitive in my opinion.
It really doesn't have much in the way of gameplay, though. If some encounters or items that would have forced you to make some sort of choice were introduced, there would have been some danger or ability to strategize involved. As it stands, you basically just agree to everything you come across and wait until you win.
Very awesome visual style, though. Glad to haer you'll be keeping it up. Music choice is nice, too.