Energy Outage

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.58
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A super quick game I made using a tiny and fast game engine called Bitsy by @AdamLeDoux! I didn't decide to participate until it was already too late and I had a flight to catch... I spent about 4 hours making this, and I was on a flight half that time.

I submitted this game with about 10% battery left (laptop was running out of power), 10 mins of WiFi left, and while 40,000 ft in the air!!

screenshot
Genres: adventure
Tools: bitsy

Comments23

Kingethaniel31 Jul 2017, 05:52
For 4 hours, that was really impressive. I thought it was full of character, despite have such simple sprites, and I was genuinely curious to see what would happen. It was a little annoying have to to tap the movement keys instead of holding them, but other than than nice work!
TheFlyingKeyboard
TheFlyingKeyboard1 Aug 2017, 23:02
As for the game made in 4 hours it is really big. Graphics looks very nice, it reminds me some of the games from C64. To sum up with it is a very fun game to play.
celia14
celia143 Aug 2017, 00:38
Really fun and well-done, especially for 4 hours! The graphics and dialogue felt quirky and charming and it was fun to explore. I couldn't find the 3rd ending - sorry, Power Bot!
internetfett3 Aug 2017, 02:56
I'll say what everyone else said; great work for such a short time commitment :P
JelloKeynote3 Aug 2017, 03:02
Cute, simple concept but fun! Holding the movement keys worked for me.
kleinzach3 Aug 2017, 03:03
Cute little game, though I was very puzzled when I first started playing because I thought it was controlled with the mouse. I kept clicking and the character would move, but most of the collision wasn't there and the rooms would play out in the wrong order. When I finally figured out that it was with keyboard I liked the cute little stories, but I always like finding little seams in games and I didn't expect to see that here. Fun game. I like the art and animations.
Reiv
Reiv3 Aug 2017, 03:08
I loved the graphics! At first I thought it was a rouguelike game, you know, because the controls. A really well done game for being made in 4h! Nice aproach of the theme. Oh! and those dialogues! I wanted to talk with everything and everyone in there :D
asixjin
asixjin3 Aug 2017, 03:09
You are a beast! This was a really fun and to have done it in the air. Now that's something for the bucket list! It took me a minute to get that last ending!
Strega
Strega4 Aug 2017, 04:39
This game is super cute! Played through every ending :) Also had the bug where you could click to move through walls and things.
DDRKirbyISQ
DDRKirbyISQ4 Aug 2017, 14:36
Haha that must have been fun to cram out. Playing using both the arrows keys and WASD simultaneously makes things go much faster =X Fun~
TeddyDD
TeddyDD4 Aug 2017, 21:18
It's cute and looks nice, good job!
PeachTreeOath
PeachTreeOath5 Aug 2017, 07:42
This is gonna kill me, where is the 3rd ending!??!?!

I tend to not care for game stories but you had me intrigued right at the key, and everything past that. I demand more.
rosypenguin
rosypenguinauthor6 Aug 2017, 04:47
@kleinzach Mouse control is a feature from the game engine, but it seems like it's not catching the flags that mark which tiles are walls. Thanks for catching it!

@@peachtreeoath try poking around the boss room a little bit more. Glad you enjoyed the story!
christina-antoinette-neofotistou
So adorable!!!! Got all 3 endings (lovely). Loved the C64/ Speccy vibe. Love that you budgeted your time precisely and managed to finish it under those conditions! Lots of lessons for a rash gamedev like me
bazoo
bazoo7 Aug 2017, 12:25
Man, how did you do this in 4 hours? Mine took ages to finish!
Johngun7 Aug 2017, 22:01
Wow this is impressive work for 4 hours especially when thinking of work done on a plane

Great job!
WillData
WillData8 Aug 2017, 02:50
4 hours to make nice graphics, a lovely setting, good writing and 3 endings (one of which I couldn't find)! Nice work!
Drag0mir8 Aug 2017, 04:27
4 hours? taking off my hat!
Great style, I like it.
cnoble
cnoble8 Aug 2017, 11:48
That was a neat little project!! I would love to see it fully fleshed out :) I loved the graphics and the mood that you created in such a short time frame. The way the world was constructed, it felt much bigger than it was which is a good way to expand on the idea. I look forward to your future projects!! :)
evbo
evbo8 Aug 2017, 12:04
Cute game! I'm a little annoyed with myself that I needed your hint to find the third ending. Obviously what you've done is phenomenal given the time constraints. If you had any more time, I would have liked some bleep-bloop sound effects to round it out. Great work!
Ace17
Ace1715 Aug 2017, 12:14
This is definitely good ; strangely immersive, maybe this is due to the low-fi/abstract graphics? Or maybe the story?
I dunno, anyway, i played through and found the 3 endings!
Your game made me want to do my next game with extra-low-res graphics :-)
Kudos!
Belga54
Belga5415 Aug 2017, 23:20
WOW man ! How you did this awesome game in just 4 hours ! Great story and the graphics was simple but pretty. Good entry !

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