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Margrets Runaway by daandruff

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made by daandruff for LD22 (COMPO)
Margret decides that life is something more! She have heard that there is three old artifacts that could make her understand everything. Help her find the artifacts! It's not as easy as it sounds!

Soo, the goal is to ascend. To ascend you need a Sky-Beam and to get a Sky-Beam you need three artifacts. These artifacts is not very easy to get to. Two of them is craftable and the last you have to find in the world (rare find). The materials to the artifacts are rare and you need the right recepies. You walk around and klick the various objects in your surroundings to search them for stuff. At the same time you need to focus on staying alive and have your stamina up at all times to not start to lose life.

Spoiler List:
http://ld.artportfolio.se/margretsrunaway/recipelist.txt

(Not sure about Linux dependencies)

Windows http://ld.artportfolio.se/margretsrunaway/margrets_runaway_win.zip
OS/X http://ld.artportfolio.se/margretsrunaway/margrets_runaway_macos.zip
Linux http://ld.artportfolio.se/margretsrunaway/margrets_runaway_linux.zip
Source http://ld.artportfolio.se/margretsrunaway/margrets_runaway_source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=3244

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.56 417
Audio 2.00 397
Community 2.25 441
Fun 2.06 487
Graphics 3.56 96
Humor 1.09 653
Innovation 2.73 240
Mood 2.43 310
Theme 2.69 321

Feedback

uzimonkey
19. Dec 2011 路 06:50 UTC
Great graphics, but I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing.
馃帳 daandruff
19. Dec 2011 路 07:38 UTC
For you who doesn't know what to do; Gather resources and use the inventory to craft stuff... For starters: Stone -> Flint, Flint + Twig -> Fireplace...
Raptor85
19. Dec 2011 路 15:16 UTC
you're missing libphysfs.so.1 and libIL.so.1 from the linux zip (you generally want to package game specific libs, these are very unlikely to be installed on anyones system)
FrozenCow
19. Dec 2011 路 22:53 UTC
Looks simple but pretty (which is good). I first didn't know I could go offscreen. I made a club, but didn't really know what to do with it, I was just ferociously looking for berries!... but died nonetheless :P
cobhc6
20. Dec 2011 路 20:05 UTC
The objectives could be given in the game and the theme could be more present. Nice and polished graphics, presentation and ease of use.
Aaron
21. Dec 2011 路 03:38 UTC
Really polished presentation, very fun, and I appreciated your ambitious play on the foraging and crafting idea. But as with most of your other comments here, I agree that a brief info screen would have gone a long way for the first few minutes. Great work, and awesome game. :)
caranha
22. Dec 2011 路 02:17 UTC
Very interesting concept, smooth graphics, and responsive controls. But the game just wasn't fun to play. Margret walked around, picking berries and rocks, and a diamond, and then she died.

Some ideas to improve the game:
* Give us a key to open the inventory screen. We have to use the inventory all the time to eat berries, so this should have been streamlined.
* Give the player some idea of how far he is from the goal. Ok, I have a diamond, a gold bar, some flint. Are any of these one of the three ingredients? Are they used for crafting the items? Are they trash items?
* Make something that indicates the end of the world. No one likes invisible walls.

Thanks for the game! I really liked the smooth graphics.

PS: Reading the comments, I couldn't find a twig... I clicked on a bunch of trees, and not one gave me anything.
Benjamin
24. Dec 2011 路 00:44 UTC
I would add :
* Freeze hunger bar while the player is in the inventory. Using inventory to eat all the time is okay, but dying when I'm to slow to select berries... :-/

The graphics are top quality, Sfx are few but fit perfectly.