We Made A Game While Camping by loadsofmana
The game based on the true story of us making this game while camping!
Allow me to set the scene, me and lucas, driving to pismo beach joking about trying to frantically make a game on my laptop while running out of power, about us trying to frantically make a game on my laptop while running out of power, ultimately laughing off the notion as too much stress to be worth it. Come friday we look at the theme out of curiosity. "Running out of Power". We knew then what we had to do.
You play as the third person we wish we'd had to run around and get us power. move with WASD, interact with space. Find ways to power all the jam stations.
I'll be sure to return the favor for any comments we get! I love me some feedback.

Character Art: Lucas Binkley
Everything else: Tyler Smith.
Ratings
| Overall | 109th | 3.875⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 87th | 3.833⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 247th | 3.375⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 40th | 4.208⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 593th | 3.042⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 94th | 3.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 92th | 3.583⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 149th | 3.75⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 17🗨️ |
Great idea, great challenge, more than great game! :smile:
Edit: Found the 4th piece. You need to use the fishing rod on the lake... Don't know why I didn't try that.
Also found where the axe is useful. On the top right there is a solar generator and you need the axe to get to it
I think you forgot to remove the debug play buttons, and when you press 3 all the battery meters go to 100%, and you can press it as many times as you like!
Edit: Pressing 4 will fill the progress bar of all characters. The quick way for a "Game Won" scene, and
pressing 5 will close the game. It's the quick way to a "Game Over" scene
The music is really well made and so incredibly catchy.
The gameplay is more than just "juggle this generator between the three developers" as there's collectables, a mission, light puzzles etc.
The art isn't really my cup of tea, but A+ for the effort and being able to produce as much of it as you guys did.
Overall; well done guys! this was a very enjoyable experience, kudos for that
I really like the game and have a lot of fun with it.
It's pity that the game crashes when timer ends.
:metal: **Overall: 5**
I also like the soundtrack, but I think I wanted to hear more sounds rather than only this one.
But, of course, you did a really good job on the level itself! And all the interactions - holy balls...
### :grin: Overall: 5
I cannot beat the game. This is very frustrating but that is the way it goes sometimes. Two guys get the solar thingy, the other one the generator. Then you run out of fuel and althogh I got all three to be almost done, they lose their progress when unplugged, I am not sure about this mechanic.
Anyway, the music is awesome and the graphics are mostly OK. The problem with the graphics is that you cannot really see what is what, it took me some time to make out the fishing rod, it looked like a pixel mess at first, but the real problem is those propellars or whatever they are. Only after reading the comments I knew what they were and what to do with them and when the whatever in the north started rotating I did not see it taking any effect. What are you supposed to do with that? I first thought it might blow away the clouds so the SUN generators work better, but that was not the case. What am I missing here?
The controls are off, sometimes space will not do anything, it seems that always after starting the game I pick up the generator and the first time trying to drop it, it does not work. Then sometimes when you pick up a generator you only can put it back onto a lightning square, then pick it up again and then you can put it anywhere.
There are some graphics glitches, the draw order is messed up sometimes, e.g. carrying the beer box over the bridge draws the bridge on top.
The gameplay is very long, making me think twice about going again, then on the other hand I have taken five attempts now so the game holds up even while it is very tedious. The map could have been smaller and the time shorter, would have been less frustrating.
Why does the game simply close when I lose. Shutting down the program is not the best way to end a game :-)
Overall this is a very cool idea, I spent a lot of time on this one, still I am a little frustrated by it.
Keep up the good work!
I liked the concept of combining things to make them work, as I kept going to see what I could do next. Very inventive.
Took some time to figure out the wind power which doesn't really make sense (thought it was an icicle for the beer), would prefer the character to run faster (while having a faster time limit). The solar generators seemed pretty useless given the cloud cover.
I tried like 4 times and it grew slightly tedious, but was still fun. Didn't realize you had to "submit" at the end! I managed to get all the generators (not sure if i cleared all the jerry cans)!
To echo above, found issues with controls in terms of putting down the power generator sometimes.
Graphics were serviceable although the colors were a bit jarring, also noted some z-ordering issues and the text was a bit tiny.
Great job and it sounds like you guys had fun jamming in the woods. BTW sound robot was awesome!
I hate that it just shuts down when the deadline bar runs out or when you submit.
I had fun exploring, but it's true, the shut down thing is a little anticlimactic. Anyways, great game an concept!
I really like the music! The graphics work, and especially the animations are enjoyable! Thanks for making this! :)