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Book of Crab by Andreas Roschal

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made by Andreas Roschal for LD 43 (JAM)

Short Description

“Book of Crab” is a stealth game where you have to gather animals and sacrifice them in a specific order to perform a demonic ritual, so you can make your wish come true with the help of the devil. You have to dodge the alerted villagers so they don't hinder you in performing your ritual.

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Gameplay

You want to perform the ritual described in your demonic book to make your wish come true. So you have to gather everything listed inside the book and sacrifice it in the right order to successfully perform the ritual.

Controls:

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Technical Details

  • The game was made in Unity
  • All sounds and graphics were made by ourselves

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What we would have added or changed if there was more time

  • Fetch Quests
  • House Interiors
  • Advanced sacrifical tasks
  • Minimap
  • …

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Sacrifice your time to play our game.

HTML5 (web) https://andreasroschal.itch.io/book-of-crab
Windows https://andreasroschal.itch.io/book-of-crab
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/book-of-crab

Ratings

Overall 660th 3.274⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 582th 3.179⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 705th 2.927⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Theme 170th 4⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 534th 3.476⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Audio 324th 3.393⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 279th 3.338⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Mood 483th 3.354⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Given 52🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

InfinityForger9
04. Dec 2018 · 02:35 UTC
The link to your game seems to be broken
🎤 Andreas Roschal
04. Dec 2018 · 02:39 UTC
@infinityforger9 Thank you, it's fixed now.
Vodish
04. Dec 2018 · 02:43 UTC
I loved the pig noise! It's a bit of "try to find out how the game works", and I'm bad so I didn't manage to bring anything back to the circle :(
Great potential though!
Pawciu
04. Dec 2018 · 02:51 UTC
Game is pretty hard.
Would use a minimap because one can get lost :P
arielle stroman
04. Dec 2018 · 02:51 UTC
Absolutely love the movement of the main character, I giggled so much while playing. The proximity of detection for the enemy characters has a wide breadth, which was slightly frustrating but enjoyable all at the same time. Such good art too. :)
Luis Guariglia
04. Dec 2018 · 02:53 UTC
nice game, i like the run animation its very funny
woergbi
04. Dec 2018 · 02:55 UTC
@pawciu Thank you for your feedback. After some playtesting we also figured, that it would have been nice to have a minimap, but unfortunately there was not enough time left to add that feature. We hope the game has been enjoyable nevertheless!
zaicuch
04. Dec 2018 · 05:29 UTC
it's fun!, it's a little difficult to go back to the sacrifice circle tho. but i liked it!
wowa
04. Dec 2018 · 11:10 UTC
Nice entry! But i wish the character could move a bit faster ;)
Gebowunjo
04. Dec 2018 · 13:00 UTC
Ahah ! Nice game ! A bit difficult sometimes but the ambience is great ! well done !
Jaa
04. Dec 2018 · 14:24 UTC
ниче в круг не смог принести(но неплохо
brklipel
04. Dec 2018 · 18:31 UTC
Nice Game!!!! But hard xD
Sempiternal
04. Dec 2018 · 18:58 UTC
Very challenging but fun! Props for sounds design!
Budark
05. Dec 2018 · 00:30 UTC
Nice hard game. I love the movement of the main character
Helen
05. Dec 2018 · 00:44 UTC
The idea of stealing all these animals in the night is funny. But it is really hard to do so. Some of the crazy people can't see the difference between a goat and a chicken. How about a map so you can find your way back?
BananaBobBert
05. Dec 2018 · 03:14 UTC
@helen haha, thanks for the feedback! :) Yeah the difficulty is a bit overtuned, 3 animals would have sufficed and the minimap would have been great but sadly we ran out of time :(
Daniel Grinshpon
05. Dec 2018 · 03:36 UTC
I like stealth games, and this was pretty neat and fun. I actually enjoy the lack of any map because it makes learning the layout part of the game, and stealth games are supposed to be sorta kinda puzzle/maze games.
MadreDeDios
05. Dec 2018 · 19:00 UTC
The game concept is very interesting. However, this noisy chicken will give me nightmares
BananaBobBert
05. Dec 2018 · 19:13 UTC
@madrededios haha sorry, especially for the missing sound mute :D
Eddie Li
06. Dec 2018 · 01:59 UTC
An amazing game! It was a lot of fun to play and the graphics are nice. I don't have much to complain about. Good job!
Arvejeitor
06. Dec 2018 · 13:06 UTC
Game is kinda hard, but graphics are nice!
haharo
07. Dec 2018 · 00:14 UTC
The pig sound is amazing, the farmer is really scary! The graphics are very nice, good job here.
AfroAnt
07. Dec 2018 · 03:46 UTC
Very cool game. The audio was on point. NPC interactions made the villagers come alive. I tried a few times, but the villagers loved their Betsy too much :( Never managed to beat the game. Good job overall, though!
rjhelms
07. Dec 2018 · 04:49 UTC
Great premise, the animations are great, and the sound design is on point - like others have said, the difficulty is a pretty harsh, especially at the start. Maybe a checkpoint system, where when you were caught you kept any animals you had brought back or sacrificed already, would make thing easier.

I also ran into a bug with my Xbox 360 controllers in the web version, where pressing a button was treated like repeated presses for as long as it was held down. The Win64 version doesn't have that problem, so maybe it's more a quirk of Unity's web builds or my browser than your game. (EDIT: I just learned my game is doing the same thing, as is my game from the last LD which certainly didn't back in August - I'm leaning towards "browser bug")
Almax
12. Dec 2018 · 13:25 UTC
Omg that walk animation had me in stitches, made the game for me :smile: Loved the ambience, music and SFX were great. Wish there was more to the game though, perhaps being able to distract the NPCs or an option to fight instead of run. Also as @rjhelms said a check point after you get each animal into the circle would help keep people quitting after their first failure. Otherwise great entry!!
EddenSoft
15. Dec 2018 · 08:45 UTC
I love stealth games