Hidden Prison by javifugitivo

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made by javifugitivo for LD28 (JAM)
Welcome to Hidden Prison.You are trapped in a prison of high security in a far away galaxy. You only will get one opportunity to live if you escape. Your team is inside the prison too. Rescue them and exit the prison without activate the alarms.

Theme: You only get one skill in each character, because of this you have to play turns and work in team, to escape of prison.

Throughts:
Sincerely, this has been a hell of Ludum Dare, we have developed a very ambicious project: a top-view stealth game. The problem came when the AI of guards has been a problem since the first time. Due to this, the rest of the game has been done without proper testing and the result is a 1/2 game.

It was thought that the game will have a plot, will a lot of dialogs and more puzzles and levels. At least we can consider this project as an alpha, and with more weeks of work, we can end a good game because I believe in the potential of Hidden Prison. Thanks for reading and playing!

Controls:
AWSD: Move character
1-2-3-4-5: Change controlled characther
E: Use skill, for example open a door with a lockpick, or use the stealth with the spy (the effect time is 5 secs,and 5 secs of cooldown)
Q: Drop Item
7- Save game
9- Load game
Esc- Exit Game
Home: Restart


Bugs fixed (19/12/2013)
- Improved Guards AI to avoid spin fun!
- 1-5 keys works again.
- Fixed some bugs and now you can end the level

Team:
Javier Martinez Vidal (Programmer)
Eduardo Perez (Designer / Artist)
Felix Herrero (Musician)
http://www.mechanicmoonstudio.com

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.21 209
Audio(Jam) 3.08 205
Fun(Jam) 2.95 239
Graphics(Jam) 3.47 193
Humor(Jam) 2.53 221
Innovation(Jam) 2.93 242
Mood(Jam) 3.21 170
Theme(Jam) 2.75 270

Feedback

MRvanderPants
17. Dec 2013 路 17:31 UTC
Some of the npc's movements were a bit weird. Liked the game a lot thou. Nice graphics and animations!
Diptoman
17. Dec 2013 路 17:51 UTC
A full 5/5 from me!
Great use of the theme to create something like this! My only (two) complaints would be that the movement is a bit slow, and some of the inmates acted buggy when I got near them (and it's rather weird that they don't escape even after a door is opened).
But overall, brilliant!
馃帳 javifugitivo
17. Dec 2013 路 17:56 UTC
Thanks for the feedback: We didn`t have time for npc movement and the dialogues. We want to work in the game to improve it, if the feedback is good ;-)
Coblynau
17. Dec 2013 路 18:56 UTC
The music and sound effects were well chosen and really helped set the mood, good job. :)
LexGarza
17. Dec 2013 路 19:18 UTC
A guard suddenly started spinning and kept there XD, but the game was great :D. The only thing that would have helped a lot was a mini map, i got lost a lot XD
skysthelimit
17. Dec 2013 路 20:01 UTC
Its just a little too slow paced for me. I can see what you are trying to achieve and you did really pull it off though! Audio was great, and the mood is fitting.
kalth.streil
17. Dec 2013 路 20:21 UTC
Great game overall :)

Love the idea, but the NPC scripting is a bit buggy, since I got sighted and the guard tracked my Thief even though my Siren was the one who was spotted. He got stuck at a corner (Thief was hiding behind a wall) and from then on no guards cared about me, so I got all the rest of the characters until I needed the Thief, then tried to handcuff the guard and failed miserably :(

Going to give it a second round before I rate it completely :D
馃帳 javifugitivo
17. Dec 2013 路 20:32 UTC
Thanks kalth.streil and skysthelimit and LexGarza for the feedback. We know that the guardas are buggy, it was the main headache of the development, and we ran out of time to complete better the game. In a very possible remake, we will improve the AI.

Please, if you like the concept of the game, spread the word and we will have more resources to do the remake ;-)
tiffi_gaming
17. Dec 2013 路 21:49 UTC
Wow graphics were amazing. Really like it. Just guard movement was little bit off
Mekuri
17. Dec 2013 路 21:54 UTC
Good graphics, and decent animations. A few bugs here and there, and the guards didn't react to me at all. I could easily see this game become a fully developed game, there's some nice potential there.
馃帳 javifugitivo
17. Dec 2013 路 21:59 UTC
Thanks tiffi_gaming and Mekuri! I think that we believe the same, in a few weeks we will study the posibility of a remake with more options and levels! Thanks for your feedback!
AtomicVikings
17. Dec 2013 路 22:19 UTC
WOW I am so happy to klick on this game. Its awesome. Thank you for sharing this. The Arts are realy cool! It's raining stars for you guys ^^
HellBlazer
17. Dec 2013 路 22:20 UTC
Very cool idea, lots of potential for development there. Maybe a kind of top-down The Lost Vikings? :) I wish your characters would move faster though, it's a pain travelling long distances. As it turns out, I also made a top-down stealth-ish game, and I had trouble with the guard AI too, so you're not alone. ;)
Piat
17. Dec 2013 路 22:21 UTC
Nice entry, great idea and visuals. Would have to agree the pacing is a little slow, character switch a bit more like Trine would have kept game play moving a bit smoother.
Und[0]ne Devs
17. Dec 2013 路 22:25 UTC
Juego entretenido con un arte bastante chulo, espero figuritas de la esp铆a, jajajaja
Suerte!
馃帳 javifugitivo
17. Dec 2013 路 22:29 UTC
Thanks for your feedback HellBlazer and Piat! We will listen that pieces of advice for the remake (faster characters)

Und[0]ne Devs, creo que podr铆amos mirar algo para una recompensa en el Indiegogo, jejeje Un abrazo!!
Venks
18. Dec 2013 路 04:15 UTC
Im also not a huge fan of the movement or AI. Really interesting take on the theme though.
ludotrix
18. Dec 2013 路 10:22 UTC
Very cool concept. It seemed to guards didn't always detect properly. Also it is easy to trap them in a corner.
glovecat
18. Dec 2013 路 11:22 UTC
Alg煤n fallillo con los polic铆as que se quedan girando en las esquinas y los protas se mueven algo lento, pero ya lo tienes bien contemplado para un remake. Pero por lo dem谩s buenos gr谩ficos y m煤sica y bien pensadas las habilidades
Zhrack
18. Dec 2013 路 18:27 UTC
Very nice entry! I liked it!
psychomonster
18. Dec 2013 路 21:05 UTC
Woe this is a clever and well designed game. Like the smooth gameplay and the nice puzzle elements. Cool Game1
馃帳 javifugitivo
18. Dec 2013 路 23:10 UTC
Thanks for the feedback Venks, ludotrix, glovecat and Zhrack. Today I have worked in fix a bug with the end of stage: Now is fully enjoyable and you can pass the level! The guards have been fixed too (I think that was a crucial fix to feel the complete experience.) They aren't perfect, but they do something ;-)
scoopsy
19. Dec 2013 路 01:16 UTC
Looks neat - I'm on OSX though so I can't give it a try.
馃帳 javifugitivo
19. Dec 2013 路 01:20 UTC
Sorry men! We try to get a OSX version soon!
MrTedders
19. Dec 2013 路 02:04 UTC
Smart game you have here. Love the art, very stylized
Several
19. Dec 2013 路 02:09 UTC
I can't play a Windows-only game, but I can coo at the graphics.
Scipio Xaos
19. Dec 2013 路 02:16 UTC
Hmm.. I get an error when trying to run the game. A "cabinet is not valid" error. Then again, I am trying to run it in WINE. :P Oh well. It looked interesting.
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
19. Dec 2013 路 02:29 UTC
So very very well designed! I loved the different powers, loved the different character designs, and had a lot of fun, and some adrenaline when I was being chased. I know I'm asking for a lot, but could the enemies have a way to detect you even when you're no longer in their Line Of Sight? For example, a guard was following me, and I turned a corner and then he forgot about me. This is fantastic for me, because I'm safe, but I could do with the game being a little more unforgiving :) Top marks though, this is a fantastic entry!
ENDESGA
19. Dec 2013 路 04:02 UTC
Heh-hey! This is pretty awesome!
The characters move a tad slow but, it's really fun!
Very nice!
馃帳 javifugitivo
19. Dec 2013 路 09:12 UTC
Thanks Mrtedders, Several, Scipio Xaos, Christina Antoinette Neofotistou and EDESGA for the feedback.

Christina, thanks for the pieces of advice. Now it's impossible to solve this, because we would have to make the AI again, but I promise better AI in the remake and faster characters ;-)
Jiggawatt
19. Dec 2013 路 12:24 UTC
I appreciate the thought that went to this, Metroidvania-style level design is always fun. My biggest nuisance was the music, which sounds somewhat derpy with all those hard chord changes.
JaymeeMak
19. Dec 2013 路 20:07 UTC
Can't play, mac
local minimum
19. Dec 2013 路 21:20 UTC
I think this game could become something with time. As I read the narration suspense is quite vital -- the player needs to be scared of the guards and the cameras. Sneak, hide, pick locks and blow stuff up. As it stands now the NPCs are too simple to lure into a wall to make it fully enjoyable. Nothing a little more dev can't fix, and as you say you want to continue, I'd say that's where your effort will pay off the most the fastest.
rnlf
20. Dec 2013 路 19:40 UTC
Sweet. Really nice visuals and gameplay. Wanted to play this one all week but only now had the time to sit down at my windows machine and play it.
Bruno Massa
20. Dec 2013 路 22:18 UTC
good game man. there are some issues, but you have yes a good game. congrats.
archaeometrician
21. Dec 2013 路 15:37 UTC
Wow ! Great game ! Nice idea !
hbocao
22. Dec 2013 路 14:27 UTC
This is fun and a clever idea too. Very good looking graphics. I just suck and get caught all the time.
Techblogogy
04. Jan 2014 路 18:34 UTC
Great game. What more can I say?