So, after almost a year of absence, i submit a game again. This time, it's a simple walking simulator.
Your goal is to get to your workplace and get home again. On the way you might encounter bullies.
To protect yourself, you call upon the mightiest of weapons - the Pocketsand! Throw it at the bullies to make em go away and let you advance to your working place.
Some features: - Basic UI that tracks your Health, Sand and Karma - Multiple (textual) Endings based on your Karma - 4 Action-Packed Levels filled with NPCs - Day and Night Cycle - Graphics like WatchDogs (What you expect vs. What you get) - Emotiondriven Story of Love and Betrayal - Pocket Sand! - 8 Minutes of completly original Soundtrack
Some of the above features may be hilariously overhyped.
Basic Controls: Movement - WASD / Arrows Attack - F Jump - Space Start the game / Skip Cutscene - Enter
They gameplay is very linear and the movements felt very sluggish, but apart from that, I love it. I love the idea behind it. Something similar happened recently in my life, so your game really touched me, thank you. BTW, it's funny how you can still jump and throw sand during the final texts =)
Made it to work and back home again. I had hoped for some kind of office romance between your guy and mary, but well what can you do.
Had some real lag issues at the beginning when jumping but I was able to fix that by making the browser window very very small. The sand mechanic is a little bit weird to be honest but it's definitely an usual weapon. The music really stood out!
Didn't experience lag, experienced the ease of getting to work and back. I got hit a few times, but it wasn't a big deal once I figured out the timing of hitting people with sand and never stop moving. Best feature of this was the music, 5 star for that.
Easily the best sand-based combat platformer of the compo, well done! You're acceleration values could have been a bit higher to make the game feel a bit more responsive, those stairs were annoying!
It was pretty fun, I guess. The art needs work, but the mechanic is fine. The physics didn't seem all that bad compared to some of the others I've played. Would be nice to have to be more conservative with sand - felt too easy.
Oh man, I actually made it home! I was out of sand after blinding throwing it all out in the dark because who knows what kind of bullies are creepin in there. Nice game. Controls felt sluggish and the camera could lead the player a little more. Keep up the good work!
Ah, slow movement combined with inertia of a small planet :D Despite the "shortcomings", I think I got the spirit of the game. The standout is easily the score, which possesses just the right kind of dramatic banality to go with every scene of sand throwing -based carnage this game has to offer.
Well, I enjoyed this x). I only understood at the very end that you could let the green guys live. Oh well, already started to kill them all, might as well finish.
@All: Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Guess i'm gonna tweak the physics in the after-LD Branch!
@jhell: Well, you get different endings depending on how many of the green guys you kill ;) (3 different endings, Bad, Neutral and Good). And yes, Music was greated by abundant-music and then rendered with some high quality soundfont :P
Nice game. Player movement might be better if it weren't a simple acceleration, because at first it moves painfully slow until it gets normal. This is really annoying when going up stairs. Good work, nevertheless, I never thought sand could be so useful :P
BTW, it's funny how you can still jump and throw sand during the final texts =)