Salacius Crumb's Small Journey by Alcarendor

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made by Alcarendor for LD 38 (JAM)

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We are crumbs, living between the keys of your keyboards. And we want to be free! Escape from home and search the HUGE WORLD. May the Great Bread be with you.

Inspired in the "Hero's Journey", from Campbell.

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Controls

  • You only need to click to the adyacent key to move to it!
  • Travel around this tiny keyboard-world to escape!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgOJSl84xlo

Game!

Play the game (GameJolt).

Play on browser!

Tools:

  • Unity
  • MagicaVoxel: https://voxel.codeplex.com/
  • Music: http://www.beepbox.co/

Credits:

Ratings

Overall 503th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 402th 3.111⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 228th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 309th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 489th 3.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 369th 2.895⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 130th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 501th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 6🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

mrnyarlathotep
02. May 2017 · 11:05 UTC
Very interesting concept and 100% accurate simulation of what my keyboard looks like, but very very difficult - the time window where keys are valid to enter and not get stuck or squashed is very short, and often you are stuck with no 'safe spot' to jump to as all surrounding keys are sticky or being mashed. A bigger gap between seeing a shadow and a finger coming down would help a lot, or making sure there is a minimum 'safe time' between a splash and a finger to escape.

I found the idea that to a crumb bread is their god very funny, and could see this working with a bit of a balance pass to be more forgiving as a sort of comedy Frogger / Crossy Road type game
Ian W
02. May 2017 · 17:23 UTC
In the browser, this game was hard to control. I am going to download it later, it was just nearly impossible to play in the browser
OveRMolo
02. May 2017 · 18:37 UTC
Thank you for your comment. You're right, the browser version doesn't work very well...
elektropapst
08. May 2017 · 16:21 UTC
Really interesting game with a very nice concept. I would suggest other inputs: Move the crumb along the keyboard by using your keyboard, i.e. if you press a valid adjacent key (regarding your position) the crumb moves to that key. All in all a very pretty game, which fits the theme very well. I like it :)
OveRMolo
12. May 2017 · 15:09 UTC
Yeah, thank you. This is one of the ideas that we were thinking about. We think it's a very interesting mechanic. Thank you for the feedback :)
karln
18. May 2017 · 10:20 UTC
argh I kept getting squished even though I visibly moved away before the finger landed :(

It's a shame it's so hard to play, the idea is really fun and I wanted to see more of the story...

re @elektropapst's idea, I think it's interesting but in practice there's probably too much difference between keyboards for it to work? Which is a shame.
MrSmith33
18. May 2017 · 14:49 UTC
+1 for using voxels here!
s-ol
18. May 2017 · 15:14 UTC
Very hard but cool game with nice music. Do you know keyboard sports? That control scheme would have
worked very well here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJkMyl-BOs
madalaski
18. May 2017 · 15:42 UTC
Voxels? 8-bit soundtrack? Enlarging perspective on an everyday piece of our modern world? It's like you took all of my favourite indie game stuff and put it in one entry! Congrats!