Washed Ashore by nek0las

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made by nek0las for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

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PLAY THE JAM GAME HERE (not balanced, see changelog) https://washed-ashore.jam.nicobarray.com/

PLAY THE FIXED GAME HERE (fixed version) :pointright: https://washed-ashore.game.nicobarray.com/ :pointleft:

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Controls

  • AD or Left and Right Arrows to move.
  • Right mouse click to select a character and buttons.

Intro

You wake up on a unknown island and don't remember what happened. Your ship is wrecked in from of you.

Objective

You need to escape the island, but you won't succeed without your crew mate. They are all around the place and are starving... give them some food and they will follow your orders again ! Beware for the nightly wolfs who inhabitate the land.

Find your crew, feed them some fishes, order them to guard, fish and build up your new boat !

If you want to discover the game, you can play now by following the link bellow. If you want more details on the gameplay, check out next section.

In Depth Guide

Once you start the game, you are in your camp. Walk on the fish to collect it.

During the day, recruit some blue wanderers with 1 fish ressource (the current amount of fish you have is displayed all the time in the top-right corner). To do so, click on the wanderer. You can choose 1 of 3 job:

  • Hunter (bow icon): he will idle around the camp during the day and defend it against the wolves during the night.
  • Fisherman (fishpole icon): he will fish for you during the day around the camp, and idle during the night.
  • Builder (hammer icon): he will build the boat that is necessary to finish the game during the day, and idle during the night.

There are multiple wanderers around the island to recruit. It is suggested to hire 1 fisherman to begin .with.

Everynight, wolves with attack to camp. They will try to reach the fish basket in the center (they ignore humans). If 1 succeed, 1 fish is removed from the storage. In the morning, all hire eat 1 fish from the storage. If you don't have enough stock, they go back to be wanderers.

If you feel like your are stuck without food, checkout the sides of the island every morning :speaknoevil: Also you can restart by reloading your browser page.

That's it ! Try building 100% of the boat and have fun :)

Last note

We attempted to follow the theme by starting the game without anything (as the captain you play lost everything -- his crew and his boat). We highly encourage you to leave critical feedbacks and comments bellow :) If so, we'll checkout your game to play/rate them :blush:

Changelog (post JAM version)

Bugfixes

  • Fix wolf spawn rate
  • Fix fish item not vanishing after 30 sec
  • Fix hunter not attacking during the day
  • Fix the insanely low builder work time (now x40 faster)

Gameplay

  • Bigger island (14 -> 20)
  • Longer day, shorter nights (10/6 ratio)

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Ratings

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Feedback

Shinmera
08. Oct 2019 · 20:00 UTC
The game looks pretty nice, but I gave up after a while because it just takes so long for anything to happen. I also don't understand why you can't get more fish by yourself. It seems that if you don't pick fisherman as the first job, you soft-lock the game completely.