Seven for a Secret by bisente

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made by bisente for LD 42 (JAM)

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Guide through a cave a small raft guided by a bird. But beware of the creatures of the profundities, they will try to steal your raft.

Try not to run out of space, and follow your compass.

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CONTROLS OVERVIEW:

WASD----------------------- (move)

Space on a border + WAS (holding)--- (row)

N-------------------- attack

M-------------------- attach new planks to the raft

Ratings

Overall 640th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 984th 2.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 454th 3.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 750th 3.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 193th 4.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 289th 3.421⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 143th 3.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Melmo
14. Aug 2018 · 21:00 UTC
Getting a 404 on your link, sorry!
🎤 bisente
14. Aug 2018 · 22:11 UTC
Ups! It was on draft! Solved. Sorry!
isubka
15. Aug 2018 · 12:37 UTC
Nice!
panurge
16. Aug 2018 · 08:10 UTC
Beautiful aesthetic and a nice concept. However, the row function didn't seem to work for me (animation played but raft went nowhere) so unfortunately I couldn't make any progress.
Annie Owl
16. Aug 2018 · 08:28 UTC
Really great atmosphere you have been able to make in this game. The visuals, background howling sounds, and the water splashes work really well all together. However, you should have mentioned about using WASD to guide your boat in the tutorial, because I also was a little bit stuck, when I was rowing and my raft wasn’t moving anywhere.
Skyc
16. Aug 2018 · 09:39 UTC
I also didn't know to use WASD at first. The first time I played I didn't know how should I follow the compass because there are no white indicators at my first play. Also, I only use compass as a indicator for the direction to the North. I don't understand why I need a compass.

The control is a bit buggy. Sometimes, I have to restart the game for that.
🎤 bisente
16. Aug 2018 · 11:57 UTC
We added a small overview control to this and the itch. page. Maybe it's a bit confusing :/ You are supposed to keep the spacebar pressed at a border of the raft, and then, also keep pressed WASD to row.
manusaiz
16. Aug 2018 · 17:38 UTC
Nice Idea! Would I see great potential in this game, allow me for some constructive feedback:

- When adding a new board, the shape of the raft was right remained unchanged and weird shapes happened.
· It would have been nicer to have a squared shaped raft, just by snapping the board in a grid shape.
- There were some bugs, such as enemy and boards UI not moving and sudenly moving all fast in the blink of an eye. Fixing that would add a lot of tension to the game.
- There was a bug also having the enemies poping from nowhere and removing boards instantly (maybe bugs are related)
- There was another bug causing the chicken not to row even when at the farthest corner of the raft.
- Agree with @annie-owl, took me a while and 3 reboots to realize how to move and ingame tut helps.

Besides from that, really cool entry, and super cool art and mood.

Congratulations :baby_chick:
chkkll
17. Aug 2018 · 01:36 UTC
Unique idea! A little hard to navigate and attacking is unpredictible, but there surely something here. Also loved the art and character design!
DreamingDice
19. Aug 2018 · 20:24 UTC
Loved the concept, trully outside the box! I had some minor bugs playing, like the raft not moving when i pressed space + WASD on a few ocations and minor graphical glitches (characters in rocks). Overall tho, unique and pretty awesome TBH. Loved that little slide show to give you the setting at the begining, the 2D artist is incredibly talented! Favorite detail of the gameplay was how you can add pieces to the raft yet said pieces dont "Snap" and insted go wherever you placed them
tweedle
29. Aug 2018 · 18:38 UTC
art, mood, & mechanics stood out, nice work!
LeoPhys
03. Sep 2018 · 05:12 UTC
It's hard to understand the purpose. maybe some instructions would be helpful. I noticed that mine also had this problem when I saw someone else playing. Please, play mine if you can, and tell me what you think. good luck
Andrei9
03. Sep 2018 · 10:27 UTC
Nice idea! cool game! :thumbsup:
camilovr
03. Sep 2018 · 22:34 UTC
Loved the atmosphere !! SFX and art very good .... congratulations
HellSquirrel
04. Sep 2018 · 13:37 UTC
Good!