You've been stuck by Dr. Needles! Injected with his death serum, you have little time to find your cousin, a pharmaceutical genius, who is the only one with the antidote. You can find him in the notorious nightclub/hotel known as The Loop.
NOTE: I believe I have some bugs fixed related to not being able to push the start/quit buttons on different monitor sizes fixed at this point. Will appreciate a comment letting me know if something like that is still not working.
The concepts certainly there, and the art is charming. However it maybe would've been better to get clues on the whereabouts of the doctor so it feels more like a game rather than a job. Apart from that great job 😀
Reminds me a little bit of earthbound/undertale feel. Super impressive that you did this on an home made engine. I feel I did need some indicators to help me through the game. Felt like I was guessing the entire way through
@gumemura Ha, thank you for having faith! The size is definitely not optimized at this point....I'll look into ways to trim anything not necessary and see if I can get it down.
Incredible graphics, like others have already said it did feel like a chore to complete the game with a lack of clues but I honestly think there is something unique about this game. Great job, you should be proud :D
@radgegames@gonzalol @cz46 Thanks for the comments! We totally agree about the game play. We were happy with what we made but it needs to be more interesting/fun to play.
I'm amazed by the quantity of things you did in such a short time, the game is really fun, i think it was well paced and made, i loved the graphism too on my first two attempt i was too lucky and found the dude really fast, so i tried a third time and i could enjoy fully your level design, good work !
@tori Awesome, thank you! Indeed @melon-spirit made an enormous amount of art for us. We didn't have any level design tool so connecting up that map was quite tedious!
very cool. The graphics and sounds were cool, and the story was pretty funny. I like the idea of finding somebody before time runs out, but you feel to slow to make it exciting. I found him my first try, but I would have like if you find hints to get to him, because it felt like wandering around without any clue of were I'm going.
So much fun with the story I have found myself many times in the situation of having to find someone like that haha, level design and music are pretty good aswell. Good job, great entry!
Really nice graphics and pretty cool music, as said in other comments, the game could use some hints to make it feels more like a game. Giving the ability to sprint would also add to the game as I felt th character was kind of slow (maybe at the expense of the venom killing you faster to compensate for being able to find your cousin faster by sprinting). I really liked the small details such as the character going greener as he becomes more infected and nice voice acting
@ghost-in-the-toast@etrealjunior@raigo-k@vivien-fargette Thanks for the comments and suggestions! I like the sprint idea. We really wanted to have more interaction, like being able to have dialog with characters to get clues, or fighting deterrents off, etc, but didn't have the time. We'll try Resurrection today sometime!
The graphics are fantastic! The sound is good too. I found the game fun. The gameplay is cool. I was a little confused at first about how to play, but it worked out! Congratulations.
@natpat Thanks for letting me know. If you have any patience to help troubleshoot, could you try to run the game from a cmd prompt....(open a cmd prompt, navigate to the folder where the exe is, and type the name of the exe and hit enter). I think you should see any errors generated if you do that...it might help me to fix whatever it is if I can know the error.
Really good entry! Amazing work you got there, good ambiance and artistic feel. I feel like it was perhaps a bit too difficult to beat as clues of what direction to go were sparse. Great game!
Art is quite good, but main character is very simmilar to Chara from Undertale. Colission of player are very confusing - there shouldn't on whole character. I don't find any audio control.
Version with JRE, are not starting withous JRE installed
@szatku Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the collision is extremely basic and not correct...it is a limitation due to using my own engine which is just barely opertational at this point....so more work to do in my engine's collision! The artist @melon-spirit complained a lot about that too!
Nice job ! I was a bit confused at the beginning what I had to do but it's an interesting concept :) I only would say that there are sometimes frustrating colliders ^^ Well done
This was very nice to play. Loved the artwork and music, was all very fitting for the mood. Also love the character designs. And nice voice acting. I always like it if this extra effort is made. Some interactions with charactes would be nice, but that would increase the scope beyond a gamejam.
@peace-of-cake-games Hmm, sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. Can you let me know what you desktop screen resolution is, or if you have your display scaled or anything. Does the game come up running fullscreen? This is most likely the fault of my not-fully-formed engine.
@peace-of-cake-games On the itch.io link I just now opened up access to the original download that uses a different JRE. If you have the patience, could you try that one and let me know if the behavior is the same? Thanks.
@peace-of-cake-games Thank very much for the details. I haven't been able to test anything on a monitor smaller than 1920x1080, so most likely that is the cause...I'm really sorry, but it probably won't work for you until I can get a smaller screen to debug on to see what is happening....just setting my monitor resolution lower doesn't seem to cause a problem for me though. This is the peril of using a very newly developed homegrown engine!
@peace-of-cake-games Thank you. For now I'm going to put a note on the game to warn about that and see if I can find a computer to work out the problem on.
@merpui Thanks a lot! That is definitely one of the weaknesses..you might find him immediately, or struggle and never find him. Would have to improve that to make it more fun I think.
The graphics of the game turned out to be very pleasant. The neon glow is especially felt. The music is a little annoying, hits the ears too hard. I was able to complete the game by accident just walking around the rooms in anticipation of death. I have not found a single clue where to go and how to find the antiode. The character also rested on absolutely everything, there was a feeling that the boundaries of the walls were shifted one tile down.
@ninjacatz@hicko Thanks very much for the feedback. Agreed on the collision, it was a known limitation of the super basic engine I'm developing - not sure if I'll have time to fix it for this jam but certainly by next jam...also agree about the lack of clues and sort of randomness of finding the antidote.
I'm working on my to-play list today, and hey, your updated version works! Thanks for getting a version that works on smaller screens out! The game was great! I managed to find the cousin right before I died, turns out going into completely random rooms works good. The collisions were weird as lots of other people observed, but this is a homemade engine, so no ratings subtractions for a few weird collisions in a game that you made the engine for! Great job, for both the game and the engine!
@peace-of-cake-games Thanks very much for coming back and trying it again...I meant to send you a note that I'd updated it with a fix but forgot to! I'm hoping to get the collision updated sometime, but not sure if I'll get to it for this jam though.
It's okay that you didn't let me know! I never kicked this off of my to-play list because I wanted to play this so much. I don't regret waiting! (And I guess it's a good thing that a: I check my notifications often and b: I posted my gamedev email in my profile. Makes it easy for people to get in touch.)
Nice graphics and the music. I managed to find the cousin at first time yayy!! I agree with comments below that it could have been better if there were clues to find the cousin.
The intro and general presentation of this is great, so I quite enjoyed it although it was more or less just running around without a clue. :D As others have already said, it would be more interesting if people would talk to you and send you to a specific direction etc. Feels like a solid foundation that just needs some more gameplay.
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on my first two attempt i was too lucky and found the dude really fast, so i tried a third time and i could enjoy fully your level design, good work !
Thanks for the comments and suggestions! I like the sprint idea. We really wanted to have more interaction, like being able to have dialog with characters to get clues, or fighting deterrents off, etc, but didn't have the time.
We'll try Resurrection today sometime!
Great game!
Version with JRE, are not starting withous JRE installed
Well done
Also love the character designs. And nice voice acting. I always like it if this extra effort is made.
Some interactions with charactes would be nice, but that would increase the scope beyond a gamejam.
Good work!
As soon as the game launches, it goes to completely fullscreen. Screen is at normal 100% scaling, screen size is 1366 x 768.
It felt a bit short for me because I immediately found the cousin :P
But nevertheless, well done!