Aleph Qoph / Duat
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Wander deeper and deeper into the desert.
See and bond with other wanderers. Bring lost words you have found to the oasis, to get seeds, with these you can plant trees and let the oasis grow deeper into the desert. Place the words into the sand, to help you orientate and find back home.
I finally got to draw a font again! (albeit a last minute thing, bc nothing fit)
to see the controls press ESC ingame and click on the little ? in the lower right corner
WASD/left stick - move
LSHIFT/left trigger - run
SPACEBAR/right bumper - jump
ARROWS/MOUSE/right stick - look
LMB/gamepad A - use
thank you, have fun playing and please give me your feedback, thoughts and ideas :blush:
See and bond with other wanderers. Bring lost words you have found to the oasis, to get seeds, with these you can plant trees and let the oasis grow deeper into the desert. Place the words into the sand, to help you orientate and find back home.
Oopsie!
I havent tutorialilzed how you plant trees, thats a big error on my side. You need to activate the word you are holding when you are in the water to get a seed, only then with now the seed in your hand, you can plant a tree, instead of a navigation stone.The good:
The core and minimal product was possible to finish in time and I learned a whole bunch for my main project. Like how to gain performance even in such vast and open spaces like this desert. My pseudo 3d implementation already culls the quads to render quite good. But its still a problem to go through very large arrays of objects and check stuff (eg which to draw)I finally got to draw a font again! (albeit a last minute thing, bc nothing fit)
The bad:
Many things had to be cut. I wanted more player interactions, more gamejuice and different ways of exploration, like a hawk for scouting, dropping items, interact with the trees for small puzzles etc - feature creep was big - at least in my head^^ Also I had to drop the mobile support, bc it was just too much. The power of HTML5 didnt suffice XDThe ugly:
I aimed for the compo, but a very weird and slow day 2 left me with almost no *appreciable* progress. Day 3 was good though and so I am finished. Maybe I´ll revisit the idea or this particular game another time and add to it, but ofc I dont need another main project :wink:Controls:
you can play with keyboard and mouse or with a gamepadto see the controls press ESC ingame and click on the little ? in the lower right corner
WASD/left stick - move
LSHIFT/left trigger - run
SPACEBAR/right bumper - jump
ARROWS/MOUSE/right stick - look
LMB/gamepad A - use
thank you, have fun playing and please give me your feedback, thoughts and ideas :blush: