Charly the orphan

by jaypay

co-authored: @daisho, @iresh

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.96

The story of Charly, an orphan looking for his original family.
After another bad day in your orphanage located in Chicago, Charly leaves his "home" to find himself in the street, looking to find his original family.
Will you manage to find your parents?
Or will you fall into the claws of Mr.J?

The rest of his life is in YOUR hands.

A game made entirely from scratch in 72 hours for the 45th Ludum Dare game jam.

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How to play?

Arrows keys to move.
Gather ingredients for Mr.J
When all ingredient are gathered, a dialog box from Mr.J will appear. You only need to find him in order to get to the next level !
Dodge Doggos & Perverts.

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Update :

Fixed the dialog box from the 2nd level.

Fixed the placement of all the dialog boxes from level 1 to level 4.

Known bugs :

There's a jittering effect caused by moving right or left + up or down.

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About us :

We just entered a game design school, and were thrilled by joining our first Ludum Dare !

We are a team of three people :

Nicolas who worked on the level design & game design.

Stephane who worked on the art assets and the game design.

And Paul, who worked on the programming and game design.

Credits to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLJaOj86aNuqr8kxHb2v_w for all the musics.

Thanks for playing.

Comments13

JoelLikesPigs7 Oct 2019, 19:45

I want to rate this fairly but I don't want to come off sounding too harsh. Theres quite a few bugs, such as walkking animations jittering and after collecting all the items mr J asked for, the game didn't end or continue, and I wasn't given any option to do anything else. I found the family portrait but that also didn't do anything. That being said you mention you're a team thats new to game design and compared to some my early work this is a good start, and I think if you continue to work hard at it you'll go on to produce some good stuff.

It's an interesting take on the theme, and I liked your text scrolling effect. Keep doing your best.

However I'm a little concerned Mr J. is ok with me collecting street lemons surrounded by rabid dogs haha.

QuantumSno7 Oct 2019, 19:54

^ I dont know if I had softlocked the game or if I was missing some ingredients, but I couldn't finish the first level, not quite sure :)

robopossum7 Oct 2019, 19:54

Unfortunately I couldn't get Mr J to accept my items. But very impressive for new team, and certainly better than some of my early attempts.

Jaypayauthor7 Oct 2019, 19:56

Hey @joellikespigs !

Thanks for your review. I knew the jittering animation is ugly, but we didn't manage to fix it. It happens when you press one directionnal key + up or down.

For your second problem, about the dialog box, I just tried that in Unity and it worked pretty well in all levels. :(

Jaypayauthor7 Oct 2019, 19:57

@quantumsno Hey !
On the first level, you need 3 items, some ice cubes, a water bottle and a lemon. Did you get all of those?

Jaypayauthor7 Oct 2019, 19:58

@robopossum Hi ! You need to collect all the items from a level in order for Mr.J to spawn, after that you just need to talk to him :)

Orion Five7 Oct 2019, 19:59

Good effort! Unfortunately the game didn't continue after collecting all the items and the character jitters like crazy.
I like the classic art style. The intro text could have been more to the point for my taste ;)

Daisho7 Oct 2019, 20:09

@joelikespigs hey joel, thank you for playing our game (or trying to anyway ahaha). We are actually working on resolving that bug that we didn't encouter before uploading our game..

NachtWitch8 Oct 2019, 18:57

Very interesting game, very compelling and enjoyable, glad you joined us for this year's jam

kessutinnu8 Oct 2019, 19:46

I think the reason people fail to give Mr.J his items is that rather than clicking on "click here" you have to click above it. It could be an issue with screen resolution, but I'm not sure. I also notices that the reloading after bumping into things takes oddly long. Overall I think it's not bad for people just starting to make games. :smile:

JaspyGames8 Oct 2019, 20:07

I liked the gameplay, collecting the items and Mr. J appearing. It would make a great indie game for release if you continue to work on it and add more levels! The ending seemed sudden, wasn't sure if my ending was a glitch or I actually escaped in time. But either way, great game!

Jaypayauthor8 Oct 2019, 21:18

@jaspygames Hey ! Thanks for your review. Maybe we will continue to work on it, fix the few bugs there are, we'll see !

The ending is pretty sudden yes, when you get on the road it change instantly to the ending scene, but yes, you made it in time ! :D

envy_softworks26 Oct 2019, 19:16

Why is Charly an orphan? We want more backstory!