Escaping Fire by Shunaky
Play it online now: https://shunaky.itch.io/escaping-fire
Diary (Story)
I'm Lupin, I'm stranded and I don't know how to make a fire, ironic, huh? But luckly, I've found a enlightened campfire for this night... And that was just in time, it's almost dark and that's when the stuff get's creppy. I've seen some shadow creatures watching me, I think they want me dead... I have to find a way out of this island, but I CAN'T LET THE FIRE DIE, it's my only defense against those monsters...
How to play:
You have to find a way out of this Island, there is a Signaling campfire somewhere far away from the spawn, use your compass (Tab) to find you way there, but remember, you need to light the signal up, so you need to bring the fire with you and DON'T LET THE FIRE DIE as you don't know how to start it again.
How to move the fire: - Craft a campfire, go to the place where you want to settle down next; - Craft a torch, go to a campfire that is still lightened up, use the torch on it and run to the next campfire, use the torch again on the campfire; - Take care of the fire.
How to add fuel to the fire: - Find leaves, branch or tree trunks and grab them (Space with no selected item) - Go to the campfire and press space with the fuel item selected (Don't overfuel it, all the aditional fuel will burn faster)
How to craft items: - Press E, select the category and then the item; - On the right side you can see the ingredients for the item; - Find those items; - If you have all the items the craft button will be available.
Controls:
- Alpha 1~9: Select inventory slot;
- Space (With Item selected): Use Item;
- Space (With no item selected or with a empty slot selected): Grab droped item;
- Q: Drop item;
- E: Open crafting window;
- Tab: Objective compass.
Tips:
- Use axes to cut down trees (Don't forget to keep cuting it until you break the trunk)
- Rocks can be used as makeshift axes.
- Leaves, Treetrunks and Branchs can be used as fuel for the fire.
- You can't create fire, you can only move it.
- You will need to craft Campfires and Torches to move through the map.
- There are some campfires distributed around the map, but they are not many and they still need to be Lightened up as any other campfire.
- You will need to bring the fire to the final campfire (The one that the arrow points at when you hold Tab)
Screenshots
| Youtube | https://shunaky.itch.io/escaping-fire |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/escaping-fire |
Ratings
| Overall | 1204th | 3.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1912th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2098th | 2.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1203th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1492th | 3.425⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 639th | 3.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 524th | 3.775⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
The fact that the game start just before the night discourage me from playing again since it's a long waiting phase
That being said, sounds, arts and themes are great! :)
It's kinda sad that this didn't work as we planned hahaha
Thank you a lot for the feedback ^^
Thank you a lot for the feedback
@ben657 Can you inform us what were trhe issues?
However, I think that it is an issue to start almost right on the night, because it is too long to wait daylight. I would have like to start directly at the beginning of the day, so I could explore and try directly the craft features, I think that it will be a better start for your game. Because I didn't want to restart it due to the slow beginning. Moreover, the walk animation felt weird, like he is doing ice-skate.
But apart from these two issues, it is really a good job, you can be proud of you, because the systems work well, and as I said above, it is really impressive what you have accomplished in 3 days !
Don't take it too bad my feedback on the beginning, I just wanted to point out the main issue of your game in order to help you to improve it. I really think that it could transform as a bigger cool game ! :)
The controls were pretty difficult to figure out, and picking stuff up could be a bit faster.
If you had something selected it wouldnt let you pick new stuff up which could be a bit weird.
Well done!
Played on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/601008128
My biggest complaint here is that the pace of the game is far, far too slow. I don't see the point in having the shadow hover outside the player's fire for any amount of time longer than, say, 15-20 seconds. Any longer and you're just forcing the player to sit there and stare at the screen until they can actually play the game again. On top of that everything just felt too sluggish - from picking stuff up to chopping trees down to moving around the map. I understand why it was slow, and I actually think the slow pace would be a really, really great call... if the game wasn't a jam game. I just didn't have the patience to repeat the same cycle day after day until I made it to... wherever it was I was going.
The game mechanics overall are just well designed and complement each other well. I didn't finish the game because I didn't really know how to - pressing tab didn't do anything so I wonder if the compass was broken/incomplete or something, or maybe I simply didn't know how to use it properly.
The game successfully sets a really dark/tense mood when nighttime swings around. The music is pretty much perfect, and whatever shaders/effects you used to create the shadow were *awesome*. Controls were responsive and did what I expected them to, and the sound effects were appropriate and balanced. There were some clashing styles in the graphics - while the trees and the player had fantastic, smooth animations (minus the strange player south-walk animation), stuff like the fire's choppy animation stuck out of place, along with the land/water borders.
The fire and water we couldn't do the art in time, so I just made a really fast shader just for that, I just hoped no one would see that hahahahaha
But heey, that was actually a AWESOME feedback, I love to get all those tips!!
@amazura Yeah, we should definely have added a tutorial, we put all the information needed on the jam page but not in the game :I
Great work, great game. Had fun playing it and figuring it out. Nice one!