Update: I have noticed that it's not very obvious how to get food. In order to get food you must punch the berry bush 3 times and each hit must connect. (Given more time I would have indicated that better).
You are a man that is trying to survive through each day. You need to satisfy your basic needs for food, water and shelter. Each day is 10 seconds long and in that day you have to complete a task. Fail to complete that task and the game is over.
Ideally this game would have been much longer but ah well. ;) Not too much polish either but I'm still happy with what I got out considering the time I put in. (I only got in a few hours in on day one and then worked all the way through day two.)
Tools used: FlashDevelop - IDE FlashPunk - Library Gimp - Graphics Ogmo Editor - Map LMMS (Famisynth VST and Drum samples from Commodore 64) - Music SFXR - Sound Effects
I am in awe. You win the stream tonight. 5s all across the board. Super well polished, I literally LOL'd most of the time playing it. The collision detection might need a bit of tweaking but nothing you can't handle. +10 internets.
Nice music, great idea, and good graphics. Sadly, I'm the worst player and always reseting to the start menu prevented me from finishing the game. Really fun, though.
This was quite good! I kind of hated it, that you couldn't retry the same level when you die. Also some kind of alarm when one stat was getting low would have been great!
Very cool game, you really did a good job. The graphics and gameplay are well polished and everything looks good. Kept dieing of thirst on the last level though, couldn't get to the water in time D:
The graphics are really pretty man, I like them. The concept behind everything is cool, I could imagine a multiplayer coop game with this as the base concept! Shame it was short! /shake fist at 48h
Awesome game, congrats! Tasks were simple enough, yet at times I found myself restarting 'cause I'd got distracted and died of thirst, or run out of time.
Cool idea! Nice use of the theme and overall solid entry.
I would have given the players bit more time to read the top description what their objective is, before making them rush. Causes more deaths than it should. But overall I liked playing this. Great job!
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Andrew Shouldice28 Aug 2013, 00:20
Wow, hectic! It took me a couple tries to notice the A/K alternation message, but nice job on a solid execution.
Would love to see where you were going with this! My first playthrough, I was too focused on completing the objectives at hand, and did not realize I still needed to eat and drink. Whoops! When making the axe, I missed that I needed tall grass two playthroughs in a row. The introduction mentioned rocks and sticks, and so those are all I looked for! It seems silly in retrospect, but then again with ten seconds I didn't spend a lot of time second-guessing.
First survival game I've found in this LD - and it's a pretty good one on top of it! The tasks were diverse and interesting. I really like the graphics - they have this console feel to them. The music is great too, and the sound effects fit well.
The A/K minigame could've maybe been made with the Left/Right keys. It came very suddenly after I thought I just need the arrow keys and space. And it's pretty harsh to start again from the beginning if you fail. I mean, it kind of makes sense, but it's not fun - especially because the world is the same each time, so it's not like playing again up to this point is a challenge.
And yeah, it's too short, but what's there is really fun. If you do a post-compo version, please tell me! Good job there!
Very punishing. Fun, polished, graphics were great. Personally the game was a little too hardcore for me, the fact that I had to start from scratch if I messed up a tiny bit was off-putting, especially as not all of the game mechanics were explained (food/water bars) until after I died. Had a few attempts though and still had plenty of fun. Also liked the little bits of story each day. Quite an amazing feat for the time you had. Good work :)
Great and polished game. Loved the music and the overall frantic gameplay. I wish there was a checkpoint system, it feels really bad having to start from the very beginning. Really really really solid entry otherwise :)
Overall this was fun to play. You kept it interesting by introducing a new task each day, but maintaining a couple of maintenance tasks to manage on top of that. I can see this being expanded into a neat survival type game. The only thing that took away from it a bit was this strange graphical glitch where various layers of the world seemed to jitter as they updated when you moved your character, even the food and water bars.
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As said before it's really addictive. I like the idea of a "story", and the graphics are beautiful.
and 10 seconds theme you chose to implement
solid entry
I know why days are not just 10 seconds now...
Well made, polished, and so !
The concept behind everything is cool, I could imagine a multiplayer coop game with this as the base concept!
Shame it was short! /shake fist at 48h
I would have given the players bit more time to read the top description what their objective is, before making them rush. Causes more deaths than it should. But overall I liked playing this. Great job!
My first playthrough, I was too focused on completing the objectives at hand, and did not realize I still needed to eat and drink. Whoops!
When making the axe, I missed that I needed tall grass two playthroughs in a row. The introduction mentioned rocks and sticks, and so those are all I looked for! It seems silly in retrospect, but then again with ten seconds I didn't spend a lot of time second-guessing.
Very nice graphics also !
Quite fun and engaging!
The A/K minigame could've maybe been made with the Left/Right keys. It came very suddenly after I thought I just need the arrow keys and space. And it's pretty harsh to start again from the beginning if you fail. I mean, it kind of makes sense, but it's not fun - especially because the world is the same each time, so it's not like playing again up to this point is a challenge.
And yeah, it's too short, but what's there is really fun. If you do a post-compo version, please tell me! Good job there!