Mystery Bomb

by morcado

co-authored: @cocomendes, @elxar-productions

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.71

One action can change everything...

You wake up in a strange building, and find yourself next to a bomb, which is imminent to explode...

But you can't delay the inevitable... can you?

Only mouse is required.

Be carefull... Remember that it takes time to get to another room (literally)

Credits:

@morcado - Coding

@cocomendes - For pixel art assets

@elxar-productions - For awesome music

Created for Ludum Dare 50 with love and care

PS: You may die the first few times :)
How much time left do you get at the end?

Genres: puzzle

Tools: Unity

Comments21

SimplePotential5 Apr 2022, 00:08

There was a point in my life where I played a ton of games like this and it really took me back a bit. Not a bad little game at all, nice job.

Kyra Sanchez5 Apr 2022, 00:15

Cute little game and I loved the puzzle aspect of it. Quick to finish once you get the hang of it (and explode a few times). Reminds me of twine text-based puzzle games I used to play.

Surfa5 Apr 2022, 11:30

Good little game. I enjoyed trying to solve the puzzle without resorting to just trial and error and I think I fluked the ending with the key. Would like there to have been more content but for three days I'm impressed.

LDJam user 2348075 Apr 2022, 19:42

Nice game - Would like to have the font colour not the same as the walls - bit hard for me to read - Pixel art is very good - love point and click - well done

Tony Li6 Apr 2022, 01:18

Really nice pixel art. This reminds me of classic point-and-click adventure games from back in the day. The puzzles are pretty well done.

Defrag6 Apr 2022, 01:43

I escaped the inevitable! Took me quite a few deaths though. I kept falling for some red herrings and trying to follow some hunches that might not have been intentional. Evocative art, especially for a game jam. I thought the music fit the mood too. I thought some sound effects would have gone a long way, such as a floorboard creak while walking to another room, or a rustle as I go through the different books.

MaruMari6 Apr 2022, 21:42

Maybe its just me but the text is really hard to read because of the font style

mrbrainfed6 Apr 2022, 23:47

took me a few tries, but i got it in the end. Really good job, the solution definitely wasn't what I was expecting!

Vhalenn8 Apr 2022, 07:53

I love the graphic style of the game ! The text is just hard too read overt the light background I found.

amkingTRP8 Apr 2022, 08:00

Short but sweet, managed to complete on my 2nd attempt.
I like the graphical style, and the sort-of dynamic music as the countdown gets low is good.
Not sure if it's what you're doing, but it might be worth making the symbols random each time (I only saw the symbols the once before I beat the game) so you have to go through the whole game and can't rely on knowledge from a previous run.

eLxAr_Productions8 Apr 2022, 11:27

@amkingtrp thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my little adaptive music track :)

Emaigualmc2_art8 Apr 2022, 18:26

Good job here! I think that mystery games and solving clues are always fun, I liked the color palette that they chose a lot, however I think that the pixel art that they made can continue to be polished. The music is very good, without a doubt with more effects such as noises in the rooms, or falling objects, or creaks, it would be much better and would help the atmosphere that they already have. Nice job!!

LDJam user 2789189 Apr 2022, 00:22

This was great! The text was a little small, but I really enjoyed the art and the music. Awesome job!

bodCodes9 Apr 2022, 08:13

Very nice entry. Liked the concise in-game tutorial. Super mood from artwork and soundtrack. Lots of gameplay. Immediately regretted first decision to try to deactivate bomb :sweat_smile: Some great retro vibes here.

krakadushka9 Apr 2022, 10:29

Wow it is really good! I have much fun time play in your game) Art is really cool but the story and the end quite unfinished. And also puzzles really easy and it feels like they don't sequenced. But still really cool! Nice game!

Anuradha9 Apr 2022, 11:30

A compact game, quite short and straightforward but very well put together. I liked the red herrings but unfortunately as there were so few things to do I didn't catch them until my second play! Great artstyle and I'm loving the vibe, great job :smile:

eLxAr_Productions9 Apr 2022, 14:44

@emaigualmc2-art thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the game and my little soundtrack :) Yeah I agree we could have added some more atmosphere with some FXs. Thank you for your feedback! :)

Noiyy11 Apr 2022, 07:58

Nice story game, didn't expect I'd just run away, felt kinda like something was missing :sweat_smile: Liked the dramatic music, really helped the atmosphere. I'd probably add some animations in the background, to make it more "alive", since its just static backgrounds with text and perhaps even a bomb ticking sound? :smile: Good job though! :smile:

eLxAr_Productions11 Apr 2022, 08:23

@noiyy hey Noiyy thanks for commenting and leaving feedback! Super glad you enjoyed the atmosphere I tried to create with the adaptive music :)

..and you're like.. TOTALLY right: there should have been a bomb ticking sound. We actually talked about adding it in and in the end I guess it was kind of "forgotten" as the end of the LD was getting closer ^^''

I'll take the blame for not remembering in the first place ^^''