Graphite Journey by pnkvrt
Explore a forest and gather fruits for your lizard mount so you can go home.

Controls: WASD to move!
Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/track/fingerlympics
Sound effect: https://freesound.org/people/timmy_h123/sounds/160503/#
Art is hand-drawn on paper and scanned.
Bug fixes: - Camera is zoomed out a bit so you can see things better. - Fixed fruit collisions. - Fixed a bug where you could go outside the map. - Fixed another bug where you could go outside the map. - Added a Windows version.
| Link | https://kinglet-collective.itch.io/graphite-journey |
| Link | https://kinglet-collective.itch.io/graphite-journey |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/graphite-journey |
Ratings
| Overall | 1282th | 3.302⭐ | 103🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1549th | 2.876⭐ | 103🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1448th | 2.812⭐ | 103🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1811th | 2.56⭐ | 102🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 151th | 4.381⭐ | 103🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 815th | 2.788⭐ | 87🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 562th | 3.75⭐ | 102🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 113🗳️ | 145🗨️ |
Really good game!
The draw is original and consistent.
Gameplay is simple and efficient, I like it!
Thanks for your game!
Also, I think your game would have really profited if the camera was not as close to the player. At the moment, I could never really have a look at the fruit or the whole surroundings, because I was walking around so fast :smile:
Nonetheless, a really beautiful entry, thank you!
The handdrawn graphics are great though, well done!
I wish there was a little more, too - the messages in the second level really got me hooked. If a post-jam version ever happens, I'd love to see what gets done!
P.S. don't touch my fruit! >_<
@wizard-sino Thank you so much!!!!
the art style is pretty cool. Some mechanics to make it a timed search or to extend the exploration side would make it a bit more exciting.
There's a missing collision spot bottom left of the map (inside the plants), i was able to go under and walk all the way to the right, under the map, and was not able to get it back 'till i restarted the game
@nyanpierre I'm happy you enjoyed the game!
The fruit(s) had different pieces of art, right? The camera was so zoomed in / the fruit so big that I often just stumbled into them and noticed I had picked up fruit by the counter going up instead of seeing fruit and consciously going to pick it up. I think a slightly more zoomed out perspective could have been nice, but I don't know how well that works with the art assets / art pipeline.
When those messages started appearing on the second round, I actually got a bit scared ;)
Great aesthetic, cool little game!
The game is super simple, not a problem, but a couple design choices would help some things.
The camera is very zoomed in, and the fruits are very big, so I was usually walking into the fruit before I could see what it looked like. I'd suggest scaling down the player, and the fruit, and zooming out the camera FOV.
"Deeper and Deeper" wasn't well represented, but it's better to make *something*, than nothing :wink:
I tried to walk through this doorway up here, and it seems to have brought me outside the play area.

Still, the art is very nice, and it's cool to see some hand drawn artwork like this in a game. Even the little bit of existing story is good! Good job on the entry!
The camera and fruit size was pretty big oversight we noticed once the game was already submitted. You cannot also see the drawings themselves very well.
Thank you for the feedback its really appreciated!
@mykola Thank you! Will definitely work on a project with this kind of graphics in the future!
@battlerager Thank you for playing! The camera is the bane of my existence :D
@sand-gardeners Thank you!!!
The camera and fruit size was pretty big oversight we noticed once the game was already submitted. You cannot also see the drawings themselves very well.
Thank you for the feedback its really appreciated!
@mykola Thank you! Will definitely work on a project with this kind of graphics in the future!
@battlerager Thank you for playing! The camera is the bane of my existence :D
@sand-gardeners Thank you!!!
The camera and fruit size was pretty big oversight we noticed once the game was already submitted. You cannot also see the drawings themselves very well.
Thank you for the feedback its really appreciated!
@mykola Thank you! Will definitely work on a project with this kind of graphics in the future!
@battlerager Thank you for playing! The camera is the bane of my existence :D
@sand-gardeners Thank you!!!
The camera and fruit size was pretty big oversight we noticed once the game was already submitted. You cannot also see the drawings themselves very well.
Thank you for the feedback its really appreciated!
@mykola Thank you! Will definitely work on a project with this kind of graphics in the future!
@battlerager Thank you for playing! The camera is the bane of my existence :D
@sand-gardeners Thank you!!!
@ismael-rodriguez Thank you for the feedback! We did consider animations but we had some trouble with them, the camera will hopefully be fixed in the next build as for the theme... We had more levels planned, ultimately the idea was that as the character you go deeper and deeper into the sketchbook, eventually running out of pages. Sadly, that idea was a bit too much for us at our current level :D. Thank you so much for playing and leaving such a thoughtful review!
But I would like to see more gameplay.
where they can include more elements and mechanics, a big hug to everyone, and I await your evaluations regarding my game.
Good job!
I know you said that you fixed a bug where the player could leave the map, but I was still able to, on level 2. Once outside, I couldn't get back _in_ though.(Screenshot below - yellow arrow points to where the break in the "barrier" was)
Good entry!

Having no experience in unity makes this a really impressive first game,specially being made in the short time you get during a gamejam.
I want to see your future games, after you got some more experience with unity.
Stick to this art style, it's working and is very charming!
@his-games Thank you! We will actually continue working on this game so who knows! :D
@roidz Thank you so much! We have a lot to learn so I'm happy to have people cheering us on <3.
EDIT: Also, the lizard is really cute :heart: :lizard:
I was really hooked by all the weird text on the second run, too bad you didn't have time to finish it but awesome job already on everything that is in here!
Thanks for the experience 💕
I was thinking that the dark-substance were at first another domain to explore (swamp?) but it's the boundary of the level.. Was very curious to see what lurks beyond that Gateway (Top of Level)..
Curious if you have tried Blender3D - And in particular to the Grease-Pencil?
The Environment style reminds me of the comic artist: Carl Giles
Cozy!
I think the map bug might not be fixed because I just got trapped in the border drawings (HTML version). It happened when I was in the top left corner, near the rocks, trying to walk through them because I thought there's one more location. But luckily it happened during the first level, so I just restarted it. :) The second level looked very promising and I would really like to see more!
 :D
The guitar tune is also very nice and adds to the mood enormously.
The game itself is very short and left me wondering - where is this story going? Cause it is quite clear that someone does not want me in his forests and meadows! :grin:
Overall its an okayish game with aaaawesome graphics ♥
This was such a nice and different game, I really enjoyed your graphical style. Too bad the story ends so suddenly, I was getting into the mystery and suddenly... game ended ^^
Congratulation, this was really a wholesome game.
@pat-cleaver Thank you! Originally we were going to have the menus be hand-written but we ran out of time :D
@acronaut We had more levels planned but ran out of time. We are going to expand this game a lot so you can keep an eye out on our itchio page :). I've heard about grease-pencil before, I've been meaning to look into it. Carl Giles? That's high praise, thank you! :D
@ynneblack Thank you! The pesky collision bugs took a while but I think they're finaly fixed, I hope they didn't ruin your experience. Thanks for the feedback! :D
@fabula-rasa Thank you so much! Now I feel bad for diverting your attention :D I've been playing danger zone games a lot these last few days, there are so many great games that aren't getting any attention.
@karo Thank you so much for being honest, I think so too :D Hopefully with more time we can make something more substantial.
@ferocious-industries Thank you! We will work on a game with a similar art style in the future, keep an eye out on our itchio page :)
@togis Thank you for streaming it! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)