Raiders of the Lost Bark by Moritz Jaeger

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made by Moritz Jaeger for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

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A mini survival adventure about befriending Corgis and going on a mysterious treasure hunt with them!

  • Explore a desert full of treasures & ancient ruins
  • Befriend cute Corgis :dog2:
  • Send them out treasure hunting!
  • Sell treasure to buy better gear and EVEN MORE Corgis :dog2::dog2::dog2:
  • REMEMBER TO STAY HYDRATED! Otherwise you will pass out and lose all your treasure
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Controls

[WASD / STICKS] directions

[SPACE / A] jump

[LEFT MOUSE / X] interact

[Q / Y] send corgis scavenging

[E / RT] call corgis back

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By

Fatih Olcaydu / @CrashMusashi

Moritz Jäger / @jaegermoritz

Vincent Walenta / @vincoboy123

Thomas Reisenegger / @olima

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Changelog v4: Fixed small glitches

Ratings

Overall 192th 3.859⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 269th 3.641⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 379th 3.438⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 674th 3.172⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 72th 4.344⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 234th 3.609⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 191th 3.532⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Mood 202th 3.823⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

changemewtf
08. Oct 2019 · 00:55 UTC
VERY cute. Unfortunately, I got lost in a dizzying and endless expanse of sand and thirsted to death!
Skyeward
08. Oct 2019 · 01:03 UTC
Looks like a lot of work has gone into this, from one game about digging around in a desert to another, well done!
mactinite
08. Oct 2019 · 01:09 UTC
Adorable! I love my doggo army.
08. Oct 2019 · 01:13 UTC
Good game! Dogs are a very fun component. The mood it sets is very nice as well.
firetwoonenine
08. Oct 2019 · 01:13 UTC
Cute and fun! Very easy to get lost if you wander anywhere though. Seems that the best way to play is to stay near the shops and waterfall and just let the corgis bring you what they find.
psychic_ash
08. Oct 2019 · 01:15 UTC
very cute, your artist did a great job with all the art. The mechanics are pretty straight forward but after a couple dogs and a few water upgrades later I was kind of wondering where else I could I explore. I did find a few monuments? with small jumping puzzles to get treasure but they were kind of spread out. SHRUG. as a concept though I think it's really great.
Caesura
08. Oct 2019 · 01:16 UTC
It's a cute game, I love the 2d store stalls, but I just felt like I didn't really know what I was supposed to be doing. I explored around as much as I could, but all I could find was more treasure. It was difficult to tell if I was actually intended to go in a certain direction, or if it was just an empty area ahead of me and I was wasting my time by exploring it.
TheoG
08. Oct 2019 · 01:16 UTC
I'm a huge fan of the graphics. Everything is so cute. No music needed if you have dozens of dogs that barked for you! Great job team!
mharring
08. Oct 2019 · 01:18 UTC
Can't go wrong with Corgis! I enjoyed this one. The camera movement was a little jarring though. Graphics were well done - nice work!
dry-squid
08. Oct 2019 · 01:22 UTC
Another cool game! Loved the pizza game from Ludum Dare 43. This game is awesome too. Love the corgis, whistle, and fetching stuff. The art is super pretty too. Feels like a good shader is at work. Good work team! Made me feel super powerful getting a herd of corgis to follow my every action
Raitozan
08. Oct 2019 · 01:22 UTC
I really like the feeling of the camera, the corgi thing is really funny too ! overall, a great cuty game that fit the theme well ! great job !
Almighty Games
08. Oct 2019 · 01:26 UTC
I didn't get it at first, but eventually I did catch on, and thought it was fun.
Noshiz
08. Oct 2019 · 01:39 UTC
Very fun game. I loved the idea and very good excecution. One of the better entries, good job. The only real feedback I have is that the camera was moving a little bit too much and felt a bit nauseating, also it would be nice to have a compass as an upgrade so you can find your way back to the shops. Great game.
Shigor
08. Oct 2019 · 01:41 UTC
Looks cute. Plays pretty badly on keyboard, I had some problems walking on thin walls and jumping. I like it, but it's so damn easy to get lost in the desert so I left the game and my small pack of dogs after a while (had to kill the process, game wouldn't quit and hanged up after I've alt-tabbed.
oxrock
08. Oct 2019 · 04:27 UTC
I thought this was a very cool game. It took me a moment to figure out what I was doing, but then it was pretty easy. My biggest complaint would have to be the camera, it was very disorienting somehow. I very much loved having my very own treasure fetching pooches though! Congratulations on getting the game done in time and good job. :)

I recorded the gameplay for a video which I'll be publishing in the morning. I'll update this comment with a link when it goes live.

Edit: Video is live! https://youtu.be/x8bA_1_fLEk
Doc_Moustache
09. Oct 2019 · 06:34 UTC
Awesome game! I love the graphics and the game is easily addictive!
Diotins
09. Oct 2019 · 14:43 UTC
I enjoyed this game quite a lot! It's really well balanced and fun. Loved the 3d art, though I would recommend you worked on the UI and 2D art so it better matches the 3D (I know you probably didn't have the time to do so during the jam, and it's perfectly understandable)! There are many possibilities to make this game go an extra step which is awesome! It would be cool if there were some "oasis" spread around the world (few and well scattered), allowing the player to replenish his water bottle even if he was far away from the shops. Oh and one more thing, I don't know if you actually want this to happen, but I've seen some comments of players warning they got lost, in case you're considering preventing that you should have some sort of pointer/arrow pointing to the stores, or even have some key that makes the dogs go in the direction of the stores, so you'll have to follow them in case you get lost. Overall it's an amazing jam game, congratulations to all the devs involved!
rroni
09. Oct 2019 · 14:54 UTC
That was fun! The corgis are AWESOME! Good job!
cephalo
09. Oct 2019 · 20:26 UTC
This game was cute, fun, and astoundingly well done. I played it with a controller and the stated controls are mixed up; it's RB, not Y, that sends them out and Y, not RT, that calls them back.
Once I figured that out I loved the game. Great work!
Asterisk
09. Oct 2019 · 21:10 UTC
I love the concept of this game! It took me a while to know what I was supposed to do but I got it as fast as I died and saw the camp haha. A little thing you could have add is a compass, so you know where the camp is (camera doesn't help much).
Nobongo
12. Oct 2019 · 20:41 UTC
If I was to try and survive a harsh desert, having corgis would be the best way to do it.
The uniqueness of this game is amazing. Having to budget your time and plan out your routes was really fun, and finding some kind of structure was always a gamble because you could easily use too much water and die.
The illustrations and the 3D graphics were very well done. My only suggestion would be to use the drawings separately, instead of having them in the 3D world maybe have them be in separate menus that you open.
I really enjoyed the game, 5 stars! You guys did an awesome job!
Derek Volker
18. Oct 2019 · 11:37 UTC
1 extra point for cute dogs. Got me smiling just for starting the game. Another extra point for the pun in the title

The graphics are just amazing. Even not having animations, seeing the dogs do small jumps for moving was nice. The sfx are very good, but i felt that it lacked a soundtrack to enhance the ambience. The windy sound set the atmosphere right, but the correct music could do it better in my opinion.

The mechanics of the game are easy to understand and work quite well. While its a bit tricky to walk in diagonals with the perspective view using the keyboard, the commands answered right and after a few tries i could jump in the ruins and climb the stairs to get the treasures.

Outstanding job!
Paulo Brunassi
27. Oct 2019 · 16:48 UTC
The atmosfere is great! The gameplay is very fun, I definitely think that this game could be expanded in a full comercial game. Good job!