Backpack Quest by polyducks
Backpack Quest is the result of being the artist on another jam entry, then having a spare moment at the end of the jam. I made Backpack Quest in a very stressful six hours, making sure to cram in as many coding bad practices as possible.
Credit to Jupiter Hadley for her fantastic font 'Larua', available here: https://jupiter_hadley.itch.io/larua-font
All other content made specifically for the jam.!
| HTML5 (web) | http://polyducks.co.uk/hosting/ld42/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/backpack-quest |
Ratings
| Overall | 149th | 3.857⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 50th | 3.982⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 289th | 3.5⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 894th | 3.107⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 735th | 3.232⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 5th | 4.5⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 129th | 3.769⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
It is well written and restarting over and over again to try and get a higher score / read other possibilities gives a nice value to the game.
Maybe the interface could be a little more elaborated (instead of just stacking the paragraphs one onto the other).
Anyway, kudos!
Anyway, nice sprites, the text presentation is simple but well thought and clear.
I didn't encounter any bug / problem (Mozilla Firefox, up to date).
As for the writing, good job! It's pretty funny and there are many possible outcomes.
Since it's a bit short, you can retry a lot of times without it getting boring, in this kind of game it's a good thing. (well, to be honest, with this writing, I could play longer runs with no problem^^).
I agree with dietzribi's comment about improving how the content scrolls to make it easier to read, but it was fun to discover what everything did.
I like how many possibilities there are.
Edit: I've updated this about 10 times because I'm having so much fun going for the highest and lowest possible scores
PS. I couldnt help myself but try to find the best solution. Ended up getting 335 points, is that the highest score? Idk. Im sure having global leader board for this game would do wonder!!
"Um, that's a key."
**Yes. It is for you. Wed me.**
"No."
If I remember correctly, I managed to hit 600 points. Best ending ?
Good work !