Average game time: 10 minutes (You will know when you're close to ending)
You woke to find yourself in a dimly lit cave. Dotted around you are sparkling minerals, illuminating only a little of the cave. There's a vague smell of carbon in the air.
Explore the shifting dungeon of Nanaina to try and discover fire - if you don't get lost, that is.
Being ported to Linux/Mac soon!
Requires: OpenAL (Installer included) Controls: WASD + Space (Hold S to drop through platforms)
Future plans: - Once fire retrieved, find the exit. - Items/Powerups to "pin" rooms and increase sight range/ jumping abilities.
Known issues: - Sometimes you can spawn with no exit. (Getting stuck outside the spawn is okay)
Story behind the name: Nanaina is Hawaiian for "Sight" or "Vision". It just so happened that I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt whilst programming this game!
The whole game is gorgeous. I really like the mood created by the world changing when you look away, and I really like the way the lighting works. I hate to plug myself, but you and I actually did something moderately similar, and I think you might find my game worth checking out. Just a thought.
I liked the feel of the game-- very shadowy. The random generation is pretty cool too. Sometimes I got stuck, though-- which was frustrating with no way to restart.
Fun! Would love the controls to be on the right hand though. Didn't find fire, eventually got stuck in a section where the world wouldn't change around me. Love the concept.
Is it just me or can't one jump over two block wall? Gameplay was quite hard because of that, basically I could only go downwards... Otherwise the game felt solid
I think the basic idea is interesting, though the random generated levels did cause a lot of confusion for me. Ditch the double jump and make a variable normal jump, then it will have a better flow
Nice graphics and great idea. The jumping was a bit anoying, especially because there were a lot of jump were there was no margin for error on the jumping. Being hard is not an issue, but there were a lot of jumping :P Anyways aside from that- I loved the graphics and the way you handled the lighting!
Double jump is annoying, as others have mentioned. The randomly generated rooms sometimes resulted in sections that could not be jumped past, like a series of sections required to get upwards that were only 1x1 spaces, and thus too small to jump in. Nice concept, though.
I liked the premise of a world that is changing in the shadows, and you followed the theme well! A bit frustrating controls, and I also got stuck with no exit and no way back. Also would have been cool with some atmospheric music/ambience to really set the mood.
The game is good and the "room" randomness system, even if needs some improvements, is great.
Still, the graphics are simple (including the character, who looks as the one in Minecraft), the double jump is annoying and sometimes you get trapped on a room because the way out is just too small to enter there (that's one of the improvements to the room system).
I liked the mood of the game. I was not sure where to go exactly, so I think I went everywhere, but didn't see a way to complete a task. The double jumping was really hard to do, which was a bit frustrating.
Comments35
But overally nice game.
Switching from MonoGame to Love2D.
Controls a little bit rought to, but nothing to be ashamed of :D
The music and the graphics (moving shadow, for example) set a gread mood.
Good work :D
Anyways aside from that- I loved the graphics and the way you handled the lighting!
sounds was a bit annoying
Still, the graphics are simple (including the character, who looks as the one in Minecraft), the double jump is annoying and sometimes you get trapped on a room because the way out is just too small to enter there (that's one of the improvements to the room system).
Overall, it's good for me :)