Heading North

by uchiro
co-authored: @aja-aje, @gufovsky, @tish
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.05
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.21
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Try to survive as long as possible. Or get to the shelter.

Hey. Read the tutorial below! The idea of this game is to keep a group of adventurers alive. You find yourself in an unfriendly world with a bunch of enemies :)

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The main theme of this game was to make survival and interaction between the characters in the group. You meet characters with different parameters and you decide whether to leave them in the group and spend precious supplies on them. However, not every former ally would respond well to such a betrayal. Unfortunately, all the complex interactions and the influence of parameters on the characters could not be done on time.

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It was fun to work on this little prototype and understand our own mistakes, including the lack of time to work on the level design :) We will try to come up with a more interesting system of movement and varied gameplay! Enjoy.

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Tutorial

* F1 - show/hide tutorial
* LMB - select units and grap items
* RMB - movement

Genres: adventure
Tools: Unity

Comments19

Sheinxy
Sheinxy22 Apr 2020, 01:59
I survived 3 days x3

I really like this game, it has a very interesting idea!

Plus, it looks amazing, and sounds great!

(Although, it made my computer freeze when all my survivors died, I don't know if this was a bug, a memory leak, my computer being dumb or just bad luck, so I'm making you know just in case uwu')

Anyway, this is ending up on my favorite games list because how the big potential it has!
manadream
manadream22 Apr 2020, 02:30
Pretty solid idea. The controls are difficult to manage with the center of the circle being the focal point. It's hard to pick up items and whatnot with trying to line up the character on the X. It's not always clear how the items affect the character and food vs hunger details and whatnot. I think with some more work this could turn into a solid game as the concept is good and there's lots of potential.
Lukvasando
Lukvasando24 Apr 2020, 22:02
I agree with the previous comments. The game looks very interesting and the atmosphere is good. I also wanted some feedback on health and food, otherwise it's a bit confusing. Still, it's a game nicely done!
acgaudette25 Apr 2020, 04:14
good work. I was able to reach the end, although it did feel a bit random. the group movement felt unintuitive and at first I couldn't figure out that you had to unselect a character to move. once I realized this though, I found the "array your squad within the circle" mechanic intriguing! as the group became larger, reviewing all the statistics quickly became cumbersome, especially without a pause button. these are simple UI problems to solve, however, and are not that big of a deal. I never used the "skip night" button and found it to be superfluous--how does this input expand the interactivity of your playable space? I also never really found a reason not to accept a new member. ultimately, this game has a lot of interesting systems that I am excited to explore, but you will need to massage and balance the experience such that player choice within these systems has more of an impact on outcome. I really did enjoy swapping items out between characters to fit their stats, and micro managing all the squad members. I also appreciated the "figurine" art!
OndraSej25 Apr 2020, 14:39
A good game overall. The graphics is really nice (though static), and the minimalistic sound/music fits the theme well. I enjoyed playing through the game (and made it to the shelter in only a few tries). A few things that could be improved: the pacing of the game is a bit slow, and the later phases do not really add challenge, so making the game a bit shorter might not hurt. A pause button/menu would help (given how long the game is, and that the characters slowly die if you do nothing). And I did not find a correspondence between the numbers appearing during the combat and whatever happened to my characters. Clearing this a bit would help.
ZebraAtomica25 Apr 2020, 20:31
Well, I liked your game in the start but it indeed felt a little random due to the amount of information that I had to process and when someone Bliped away i was like: "Humph?". From mid up i got to fully understand the game and them i didn't really cared, just walking and killing everything, getting new guy, now he is main, and it goes. I missed picking up itens from dead partners and the enemies movement are too fast. If the group attacked together it would be awesome, but then you would have to balance the game again >-
BinarySpark
BinarySpark26 Apr 2020, 15:18
I really like the aesthetic, it reminds me a lot of Don't Starve. (The trees especially.) It's a bit unclear what I'm supposed to be doing however, and some feedback that would be useful seems to be missing, such as how much food/health a character has left, or what some of the (non-obvious) items do.

Regardless, this is an interesting prototype for sure. Keep going.
royur
royur26 Apr 2020, 15:22
Horay I reach the shelter in 8 days. wish there is fight scene. and the people status in UI instead of having to click each one to check. good game overall..
Kanda26 Apr 2020, 15:32
I survived 19 days O//O this game is great, I just did not understand why we stop at 19 days precisely?
Texz26 Apr 2020, 15:46
10 days to win ! Really nice ambiant, nice gameplay, you maybe should update it ! :)
ditam26 Apr 2020, 18:17
Sadly, I'm getting a "Your browser does not support any of the required graphics API for this content." error when trying to load the HTML5 version of this from Chrome latest. I've never had such issues with any Unity games hosted on itch.io before (but I'm not sure if this is using Unity).

Have you encountered this issue before? What are the supported browsers for the web version?
AndideBob
AndideBob27 Apr 2020, 13:20
This game has some really interesting ideas and some super nice artwork. I feel like it could play a little diffentent using a turn based system perhaps, but I see a lot of potential here, so really well done!
akitl
akitl27 Apr 2020, 18:22
the graphics are cool,
and it's a cool survival game with items and ennemies !
Indie Dragon27 Apr 2020, 19:07
Cool graphics and audio, really interesting idea, I miss a little bit more information on screen and maybe some effects.
ThornDuck
ThornDuck27 Apr 2020, 20:18
The tutorial is a little confusing, but other than that, it's a good game! I liked the graphics, good job! :D
GameOverMexico
GameOverMexico29 Apr 2020, 21:45
if u can fix the mechanical (control) the game its god idea, good job!!
zubspace
zubspace30 Apr 2020, 12:27
This would be my type of game. The sprites are great: Characters, trees and car/shop look are amazing. As others have said, movement is a bit odd and I would have enjoyed more places to visit and quests. Other than that, this could be an awesome game.
Notredamstra30 Apr 2020, 13:14
Love the graphics, albeit static. Didn't really get the gameplay mechanics though..
Endytroll12 May 2020, 17:37
Great graphics and mood! Really interesting game, it is strange that there are so few ratings :( The only thing is that there are some bugs, for example with positioning. And there is not enough opportunity to read the description of items. In general, there are small problems with control

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