Ludum Dare #46compo

A lost fire

by barbiche

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40

This is the story of a lonely capsule. He/She is on a desert island, lost in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe you can help him/her survive. At least one day, against event the strongest forces in the sky.

_And may he/she finds peace..._

#### Instructions:

__/!\ This game has sound, so plug your headset :)__

- __Click here to start playing !__
- Use W, A, S, D to move.
- Use the mouse to control camera.
- Use E to grab items.

__/!\ QWERTY__

#### Made with :
- Dev : Unity
- Art : Blender
- Sound design and music : Ableton and my piano

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#### Update :
I did some bugfixes following to some comments I've quickly received. There are always numerous things to improve, I've limited myself to only one-hour for fixes, to limit the "cheating" on the event time.

#### Bugfix patchnote :
- Game reset on death or win is now working finely
- Overall physics is improved for pickable objects
- Death is now triggered only once
- Improved the river death collider
- Repaired the random music player during day time
- Character movement should be more precised
- Smooth the terrain between the bridge and the fire

- Increase the camera FOV. I didn't wanted to implement a real Y axis movement, that should not be part of a bugfix quick update. However, it was indeed really hard to see the environment, so I've increased the FOV a bit, althought it distorts a bit the image.

Genres: survival

Tools: Ableton Live, Blender, Unity

Comments16

Ben Taylor21 Apr 2020, 10:57

Hey! This was fun! I liked the ways you simplified the "survival" genre to make things like crafting possible with a smaller scope. Also the capsule was hilarious.

alferbayter21 Apr 2020, 21:48

The sound effects were lovely. Really liked the fire blazing animation too, great job!

Itskdog21 Apr 2020, 22:06

I liked the simple piano sound effects. It gave it charm. Good job with the game mechanics.

Barbicheauthor22 Apr 2020, 11:47

@ben-taylor thanks, capsules are nuts !

@alferbayter Glad you enjoyed the animation, it was real fun doing it !

@itskdog I am surprised actually of the power of just some piano notes! Thanks a lot for playing.

mmadara122 Apr 2020, 18:05

Its really impresive your work for a compo game, good job!

Marco Stagni22 Apr 2020, 18:23

This was good! It would be perfect if the mouse was able to move up and down as well as left and right, seeing the required elements would be much easier. Loved it!

Kris Casimir22 Apr 2020, 18:30

Beautiful music! Interesting perspective and controls. I already feel addicted to it even though I'm only barely figuring out what to do (but it feels figure-out-able). I love the beach and this game makes me nostalgic. This dvorak user appreciates you specifying that I needed to use qwerty to play! Cheers!

Diego Escalante22 Apr 2020, 18:32

I don't know what was supposed to happen when I brought over materials to the specified locations, and I wish I could look up a little. However, the environment was well made and the piano was actually really nice. Good work, keep it up!

raytheonly22 Apr 2020, 18:48

Sadly the Mouse cursor didn't lck in for me, nonetheless great job! It was fun and most things were well telegraphed. The BotW inspired music and sound effects were a really nice touch. You can be proud :)

arkinrev23 Apr 2020, 05:17

Really nice entry, and I was sad when I ran out of projects to build. There were some fun surprises in there too. nice job!

Gelgavish23 Apr 2020, 12:09

Hi, that's a really nice game, I love the concept and the music and everything :). But I had one thing that I made me taking 1 star from this good game, the controls! I played both versions and in the first one the physics wasn't great but it got fixed, in the other version the cursor was visible and I couldn't spin the camera too much. So that's my major problem with your game. But other than that, that's a great game :)

Gelgavish23 Apr 2020, 12:09

just-stanley23 Apr 2020, 13:48

The controls need some work. You should be able to look up and down and the mouse should not stay visible. The mouse should be invisible and not be confined by the edge of the screen, allow you to spin around freely. The sensitivity was also really high. The level did look pretty though.

Barbicheauthor25 Apr 2020, 17:14

Thanks all for your reviews! Indeed the controls are a pain. I had a lot of troubles having a good third-person control system, + the fact I wanted it to come from me (and not from a distant package), it leads to this situation. I will train for next time.

DiegoCTorguet1 May 2020, 12:39

Nice game! I really liked how you decided to create a place to play with. Also Appreciate the fact that you got the time to make some music

M8rix4 May 2020, 18:19

Cool sound effects and relaxing atmosphere. A bit clunky movement however, it irritates me that the player cannot rotate in the same spot. Some of the trees seems to levitate also. But in general, awesome little entry!

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