Keep the campfire alive by 1257th or nothing
You're a young scout camping alone in the forest. You are afraid of the night, but have a nice campfire to appease you till dawn. Just be sure to feed it regularly with wood to keep it alive, or you'll be VERY afraid.
Play with arrows, space to load or drop wood. The stress bar on the top should not fill completely. The night lasts about 2 minutes, try to reach the dawn...
Team : Lola, Vincent, Roland, Ropi & Pierre
| Youtube | https://1257thornothing.itch.io/keep |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-campfire-alive |
Ratings
| Overall | 2083th | 3.071⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2259th | 2.69⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2274th | 2.643⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1315th | 3.619⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1661th | 3.286⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 891th | 3.357⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1624th | 2.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 747th | 3.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
For those trying this game, it's worth trying to reach the end of the night.
I ran into two issues that killed me in frustrating ways. On my first playthrough, halfway in, I stopped being able to place the firewood that I was carrying into the fire, and ended up dying because my fire went out. On another playthrough, I died as the sun was rising, because firewood stopped respawning. :(
It would have been nice to have a progress meter telling you how close you were to sunrise - It was hard to feel motivated to try again when I wasn't sure how much longer I would need to last in order to win. Letting the player see how close they were to victory would help them stay engaged, and give them that feeling of, "Okay, I almost had this, I need to try again!"
Sound and atmosphere is quite good and I appreciate you kept the game as brief as made sense given the availble mechanics. :)
And a timer is definitively missing.
Thanks for your comments
Thanks for your comments
We indeed have some control issues. We made them better in a new release (that we will not publish before the end of the jam, of course), and we still need to work on that.
It is more difficult than we though first ;)
Thanks all for your feedbacks.
We are really happy if our game gave you some fun.
Short, but very instructive to us about what is wrong in the gameplay.
It gave us a good boost to try to make it better.
When you carry the log, go near the fire and press space to drop the wook in the fire.