27500m drop by Szkocka

made by Szkocka for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

"27500m drop" is a game with secret laying exactly 27500m underground and it is your duty to reach it.(there is actually some stuff)

Submerge yourself in this immersive falling simulator adventure to maybe even find a friend. Be careful, you may die on the way there.

Quick notes about the dev process:
-This edition I decided to sleep a lot more(it paid off) :D
-I did take brakes from coding and developing

Controls:
-A/D/W/S -=- walking around, drifiting in the air
-Space -=- slowing time down
-Escape -=- exiting

Software used:
-Unity Engine
-Blender
-BoscaCeoil v2
-Visual Studio Community

Bugfixes:
-None done yet

Important changes:
*-Version 1.1: Optimalization of segments displaying(Now game should no problem run on integrated graphics)

Windows/Linux-Wine Link	https://drive.google.com/file/d/13B0zwYxVFG_EI8kjq_NlJB3V_6tiQaw0/view?usp=sharing
Optimized verison	https://drive.google.com/file/d/17VPVYzAfw43x6A8Y3j5NKdm0CV3PJb1C/view?usp=sharing
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/27500m-drop

Ratings

Overall	1077^th	3.429⭐	30🧑‍⚖️
Fun	435^th	3.679⭐	30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	1131^th	3.054⭐	30🧑‍⚖️
Theme	326^th	4.054⭐	30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	969^th	3.636⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Audio	1084^th	2.913⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Humor	673^th	2.974⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Mood	1139^th	3.325⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		17🗳️	28🗨️

Feedback

fullmetal_automaton

26. Apr 2021 · 21:20 UTC

The air acceleration felt a bit heavy/slow to me at first. But after getting used to it, I was able to get pretty far. Good Job, it was fun.

joselor

26. Apr 2021 · 22:42 UTC

Never reached 27500 so i can't really rate the whole game, but i really liked what i played : the graphics are simple but that's not a problem, the acceleration is good and the controls can feel a bit slow when starting but I got used to it pretty quickly. It was a fun game

Alina Baybulatova

28. Apr 2021 · 17:07 UTC

Good graphic and atmosphere) I really have fun to play this game!
Thank you!

jasontherand

28. Apr 2021 · 17:59 UTC

I got to the bottom, and it was a perfect surprise! It was easy to maneuver, and had enough biomes to not feel repetitive. Great job!

PythooonUser

28. Apr 2021 · 18:48 UTC

I can't download the game :( After clicking "download" the page loads until request timeout.

🎤 Szkocka

28. Apr 2021 · 18:51 UTC

@fullmetal-automaton @joselor @alina-baybulatova @jasontherand Hey, thanks for playing^^ Also BIG Thanks to Mike for quick assistance: Now there is possibility to vote on audio and graphics. Feel free to vote in the newly available categories ;)

korfi

28. Apr 2021 · 18:53 UTC

Overall a pretty good game! I found the air acceleration hard to get used to, I wasn't able to beat it but got pretty far! I liked the graphics as well :D

miej

28. Apr 2021 · 19:03 UTC

took a little getting used to to figure out what my hitbox was. might have helped to have a visual indicator like a circle crosshair to indicatethe player's size? also i think theres some bug that causes the visuals to jitter when mousing downward when one is already pointed straight down? overall nice implementation though!

damagefilter

28. Apr 2021 · 19:17 UTC

God dang it I managed 8.6k. I tried so hard but it's the best I could do. I love the concept and, quite obviously, it's very addicting. I played longer and more than I had anticipated. The mouse felt too sensitive for me but I didn't have to use it very much either so ... just a minor thingamybob. Other than that, this is really a great little title.

🎤 Szkocka

28. Apr 2021 · 19:21 UTC

@pythooonuser Hey, what web browser do you use?

PythooonUser

28. Apr 2021 · 19:22 UTC

Firefox

🎤 Szkocka

28. Apr 2021 · 19:28 UTC

@pythooonuser Did you try downloading using private window?

PythooonUser

28. Apr 2021 · 19:41 UTC

Okay, I got it working :) I loved the Dark Souls reference^^ Sideways movement felt a bit slow, and it was quite tricky at times. Slowing down time definetly helps a lot.

🎤 Szkocka

28. Apr 2021 · 19:53 UTC

@pythooonuser Yeah, in the process I thought of adding stamina for the slowing down time, but later I realized that it might make the game feel "unfairly hard" due to random generation of the well. So I decided to leave it as it was and balance the game around that ;)

Dom De Re

29. Apr 2021 · 05:12 UTC

Took quite a while to get the hang of, but was worth the effort, a fun game!

bmacintosh

29. Apr 2021 · 05:27 UTC

Nice job, the game is intuitive and plays well. The art was quite good as well, and I was surprised that there were three completely different biomes. I made it in one with liberal use of the slow key, but it felt challenging and took concentration.

shieldssounds

30. Apr 2021 · 16:53 UTC

I'm scared of heights, so this was very fun for me!

egercreator

30. Apr 2021 · 21:09 UTC

Nice game, liked it!

someone

30. Apr 2021 · 22:19 UTC

Nice game. The camera rotation suffers a bit from gimbal lock which was not ideal but the movement was good.
I managed to get to the end, but only by holding space for the entire third section. I found releasing space sped you up again so quickly I lost track of how things were moving and nearly always died straight away.
The first two seconds thing seemed a bit of a hack. I did fly through bridges several times during that period. It would have been better to delay spawning of obstacles for a distance at the start. Perhaps just the bridges.
I appreciated the extremely overdone intro scene.

AXLplosion

01. May 2021 · 20:31 UTC

I've never seen an ending for game with this style of gameplay, so that was a nice surprise, and having different scenery along the fall worked as a nice invisible progress bar and also made the game feel less repetitive. The moving minecarts were a nice touch too!

Kripakov

02. May 2021 · 12:14 UTC

Minecraft style tutorial, awesome! The reference to one famous cake game at the end made me happy. Good enty! Maybe the locations change a little more often, even if they would be repeated, and the camera speed is of course very high, but it's still a cool game! Good job!

MZA

02. May 2021 · 16:31 UTC

The falling was good and fun. The Slowdown time is much needed. At times i was playing with the space bar pressed because I wanted to reach the bottom so bad and that I am not good at this game. Just be aware that players will abuse the spacebar.

I dont feel like there is a point to the moving of the camera. When falling, the only direction i'm concerned with is down. Initially, i started with a hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard. I disregarded the mouse late and focussed both hands on the keyboard for more control of my movements.

27500 is a bit too deep. I would have prefered different levels of increasing deepness. For example LV 1 = 500m, LV2 = 1000m etc... This'll also give a sense of progression too.

fy0

05. May 2021 · 15:19 UTC

Interesting game. But really hard to controll, i can't reach bottom.

Louis Mareau

05. May 2021 · 18:18 UTC

That was fun!
After a first try that clipped me outside the hole and get the top score while just watching the giant grey cylinder passing by, I tried again and died. Then died again (poor me) and then got a lot further. The controls felt a bit junky at first (like too much sensitivity, maybe) but got used to it quickly.

Great entry for the jam.
Great job!

🎤 Szkocka

07. May 2021 · 13:17 UTC

@louis-mareau Hey, thanks for playing, when I get a minute I will patch this issue by just making the game not spawn the bridges in the first few segments.I implemented collider deactivation so you wont die instantly while spawning and hiting the bridge(I didnt have a system to change segments generated at the time of implementation of that failsafe). Thanks for the feedback

Jorne

08. May 2021 · 15:48 UTC

This was the most addictive game for me so far! I wanted to get to the bottom so badly. Don't know how many times I retried. I appreciate your tactical decision to restart just by pressing R, this was all I needed to get hooked. And I made it after all, nice ending, I felt very satisfied to reach it!

I think you did a good job with the controls, they were not easy to master, but that's exactly how the game should feel. I actually didn't find anything that looked unfinished, very nice game!