Pendulum

by nugamestudioclub

co-authored: @bbbrassil, @jesusonwheels, @thesilentdefender, @jordandb524

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Solve puzzles while trying to maintain your sanity in an ever-changing environment.

NOTE: WebGL Build does not work as reliably as on Itch.io. If Itch.io doesn't work, try the PC version. Will fix soon.

CONTROLS: LEFT and RIGHT arrow to turn. Left click to interact. ESC to pause.

Pendulum - Northeastern University Game Studio Club Escape Room Teams Submission for the Ludum Dare 51

Jordan Brown - Level and Game Design

Joe Turco - Sound Design and Art

June T. - Art

Brendan Brassil - Programming

Madhav Kapa - Programming

Sebastian Kobori - Programming

Frame Paintings: DALL·E 2

itch.io page: https://nugamestudioclub.itch.io/pendulum

Tags: #atmospheric, #escape game, #first-person, #horror, #point & click, #singleplayer

Genres: puzzle

Tools: DALL-E, Unity

Comments15

Aryaman4 Oct 2022, 11:33

Nice game dude.. Has potential i think

William Baker9 Oct 2022, 02:00

great idea

Jean-Baptiste9 Oct 2022, 02:46

I liked the art style and the voice coming from the gramophone is really creepy and set a weird mood (in a good way).

Unfortunatly (maybe because i'm not used to this kind of game) i was unable to discern what was expected from me.

IMHO a bit of context, a more defined goal, or the explanation of the basic mecanics (or something that tells you if you're on the right way) would be helpfull.

fizzbark9 Oct 2022, 04:33

Great art style. Sound design was great in some places(gramophone, unlocking noises when triggering an unlock), but the ticking really got annoying after a while. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the game as clickable items like the photo inside the pillow diapered and the teacup stood itself backup. Pretty minor stuff but it unfortunately made it impossible to tell what's going on - let me know if you fix it and I'll play again.

Steve74119 Oct 2022, 04:37

I don't think I understand the game mechanics, and I've "solved" the puzzle 3 times. Sometimes the hands point to the same positions when I zoom in to the clock face vs the unzoomed version, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the second hand stops when I zoom, sometimes it doesn't. I was only able to find two number clues in the environment, but they didn't seem to correspond to the solution. What am I missing?

ZwodahS9 Oct 2022, 05:06

There is a bug with the order of items picked up causing the game to be soft locked. I had to reset a couple of times to proceed.

You should also blocked any input upon the final puzzle solved. I clicked out of it after hearing a sound thinking that there were more but I couldn't find any.

Overall the mood is quite nice and the puzzle is quite nice :)

Thanks for the game.

Barna9 Oct 2022, 20:17

Terrifying atmosphere :scream: . I think the clues could take a little more polishing, but overall its a solid entry, nice work!

Turquoise Moon9 Oct 2022, 20:20

The art style is beautiful! I got stuck on what I was supposed to do though.

JesusOnWheels10 Oct 2022, 02:46

@steve7411 Currently, there is a bug with the clock ticking when you have zoomed-in the clockface. It does not affect the solution, but it confusing when it happens (it is cause the clock ticks each second, but time freezes when inspecting objects, so when you inspect something right at a second interval, it will rapidly tick).

There are two main puzzles, it looks like you found the clock puzzle, were you able to open the chest? The are 3 picture clues for the clock puzzle, and one of them requires that you solve the chest puzzle.

JesusOnWheels10 Oct 2022, 02:51

@zwodahs Yeah, the puzzles are designed to reset periodically (as per the theme), however, some puzzle states are not reset properly leading to the issue you described in some instances.

As far as the game not ending properly, I do agree that we should have made sure that it would still proceed even if you clicked off the clock. I think this happened since we knew the solution in our testing so we didn't think to click off the clock. I think next time, we will make sure to get some blind testers to catch those sort of issues. Thanks for the feedback, I am glad you liked the game.

Gonzalol10 Oct 2022, 09:42

Nice entry, a brave concept for a JAM game. I'm glad to play something so different, congrats

LDJam user 29849610 Oct 2022, 10:15

Neat little escape/puzzle game, I encountered a couple softlocks but I think there's potential here.

Likirus11 Oct 2022, 19:28

Amazing to see an escape room game in Ludum Dare. Sadly, I wasn't able to solve it :(

Ninjavitis13 Oct 2022, 02:50

Played the web version, but sadly got stuck. Figured that the numbers probably had something to do with the order I had to push the 4 buttons on the chest, but wasn't able to find them all (or make sense of the ones that I did find.)

Bloham19 Oct 2022, 09:04

I did not managed to finish the game :(
But I liked that you made an escape room game!
The art is nicely done and I like how you integrated Dalle-2 into the game in a meaningful way.
You created a good athmosphere .
The puzzles are a bit hard I think. But you always know what you have to do vagely.
When does the game end?

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