Ludum Dare #45compo

Legally Dead

by vilcans

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.64

Legally Dead

With nothing, not even memories, you find yourself maneuvering some kind of craft in strange caves.

A cave flyer with a story. Mainly made to practice some Rust. And because I love cave flyers!

Controls: Press return to dismiss the text prompts. The rest of the controls? You'll have to remember them...

Updates

The update (version 0.6.1) fixes a bug where the last message you get is an error message. Now it instead says "Out of content. Thanks for playing!" Yeah, the game ends pretty abruptly. 😜

Making of

I posted about the Tools and tech.

Comments10

NachtWitch8 Oct 2019, 20:50

Really interesting story! I would love to see this expanded on beyond the game jam :)

zubspace8 Oct 2019, 21:06

Controls are nice and exploring the level is great. I also like the music. The intro and story is well done, but I think that stopping the game when new messages appear disrupt the flow a bit. Overall good job!

Grhyll8 Oct 2019, 21:09

Cool game :) With a bit of practice, controls become pretty enjoyable! But for some reason the death SFX startles me a lot every time :') Sadly I didn't go through the end (although I suspect I wasn't far), I died once too often during that part in the lvl3 after the "asteroid field" where you have to go through a very tight gap among 4, and I think I ended up finding the right one but then the death FX startled me again and I had to stop ^^' Good job anyway :)

mAnimal8 Oct 2019, 21:11

I really like the movement of the ship, pretty easy to get into it.

Tommislav9 Oct 2019, 18:08

I agree that the controls are very tight! And the music is super moody! I think a bug prevented me from reaching the end... or I just didn't find the exit. I really want to know what happened =D

Foursay10 Oct 2019, 21:20

The contorl of the "plane" is tricky but fun. I like floating around in any direction I like. The sound really create a special atmosphere for the game. Good work man!

FedorL13 Oct 2019, 10:52

Wow, kudos for the Rust language!

The idea of the tutorial-like narrative during the intro and the story overall is really great! But I agree that pauses for the messages was maybe a bit too long?

MattWoelk13 Oct 2019, 16:25

Controls felt really good. Nice job. :)

vilcansauthor14 Oct 2019, 11:08

@fedorl You hit enter to dismiss the messages, so the pause is as long or short as you want it to be. 😊 But I agree that they interrupt the gameplay too much. But showing them while the game plays would make it hard to read them, was my thinking.

I'm glad that so many people like the controls!

BLK Dragon27 Oct 2019, 05:50

Cool aesthetics and overall game-feel.
Ship movement feel 'right' -- I feel like I'm actually piloting something.
Also world exploration + narrative feels good.

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