A Soul of Clay by fullmontis
A Soul of Clay - An Adventure Game
In this game you are a golem who just woke up in his creator's room. You need to understand what is gong on, and how to escape.
The power you are gifted with is the possibliy of shaping your body and hands. With it, you can copy the tools you get in touch with, and give yourself a chance.
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There is an in game tutorial. It is highly reccomended to follow it to the letter. The game uses only the mouse.
Controls:
Move mouse to discover hotspots. The nearer you are, the brighter they are.
Click left/right mouse to advance in dialogues.
left click: examine an object / act on it with the current shape
right click: take the shape of an items (works only on some items)
Made in HTML5/js. Tested with Firefox 45. It should work with all the major browsers, but in case of problems, try Firefox (and please report any strange behaviour). Thank you.
19/04: added walkthrough
In this game you are a golem who just woke up in his creator's room. You need to understand what is gong on, and how to escape.
The power you are gifted with is the possibliy of shaping your body and hands. With it, you can copy the tools you get in touch with, and give yourself a chance.
---
There is an in game tutorial. It is highly reccomended to follow it to the letter. The game uses only the mouse.
Controls:
Move mouse to discover hotspots. The nearer you are, the brighter they are.
Click left/right mouse to advance in dialogues.
left click: examine an object / act on it with the current shape
right click: take the shape of an items (works only on some items)
Made in HTML5/js. Tested with Firefox 45. It should work with all the major browsers, but in case of problems, try Firefox (and please report any strange behaviour). Thank you.
19/04: added walkthrough
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.62 | 216 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.13 | 403 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.27 | 423 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.61 | 386 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.07 | 707 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.32 | 316 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.96 | 71 |
| Theme(Jam) | 4.08 | 61 |
The style is super atmospheric and the script well written, though it needs proofreading in a few places. An excellent entry!
Awesome entry! Congrats!
You're using the theme well, it really fit the adventure game nicely, good job! :D
One complaint about the text: Expanding from the middle makes it hard to read until it is finished. I would prefer starting from the left. It almost gave me a feeling of motion sickness and there is a LOT of slow text. Instantly appearing text would be even better to me.
Hotspots and action icons are too small, it's inconvenient.
Text animation could be more polished.
But it's still a very good entry. Good work! I love to see a point&click adventure on LD. )
A really really solid work, I enjoyed very much this one. The only thing I'd change is, perhaps, the text size which was a bit hard to read for me. Congratulations!!!
maybe doesn't fit in the "humour" part, so I'm leaving this one n/a, overall I enjoyed a lot!!
Good job!
Just some choices weren't really evident or logic, and finally i was clicking everywhere.
You made an excellent game - and the humble beginnings of a brilliant horror story.
I also had trouble with the corner of the carpet; though that is primarily because I thought I had already gotten the dust from the bottles on the shelf and I was just trying to crush the powder; it would be helpful to be able to tell what you have already put in the bowl.
I also was bothered by some state not being tracked; e.g. I broke the draw multiple times. And some of the longer text would have been more appropriate if not repeated every time the transformation was made; e.g. transforming into the broken bowl.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Played briefly on stream @ 3:17:40 : http://www.hitbox.tv/video/991443
If I could make one recommendation it would be to change the text on examining objects as they are changed by the player - most notably the glass bowl would be a good candidate for this treatment.
Had fun playing your game! Hope you enjoyed making it!
The artwork is really great, the level design is damn smart, and the atmosphere, the mood, they fit so well togheter it scares me!
Great great entry!
Minor gripe: the text appearing from the center is only readable once it settles, because it moves too quickly before that. And click targets are a bit small.
The music gets too annoying after a while.
for a long time not to play this type games!viusal also nice and everything mix good .Thanks/ well done!