Where am I ? by Manou
[ADDED]
Gameplay video added!
[IDEA / WHAT'S NEXT?]
The idea of this game was to make a puzzle/adventure game, where you must find the exit in a labyrinthic house, and trying to escape the Master so he doesn't make you one of his "collection". Didn't have time to make all this of course :/ so I'll definitely work more on it if you guys think it has potential or maybe not if you find it too common and without soul.
[CONTROLS]
E,S,D,F to move,
mouse to look,
left mouse button to pickup / use.
alt F4 to close!
[CREDITS]
I made the voices with mic and music with a Camel audio instrument.
Original sounds of rain, thunder, footstep before mix by Mike Koenig & Grand evans.
Gameplay video added!
[IDEA / WHAT'S NEXT?]
The idea of this game was to make a puzzle/adventure game, where you must find the exit in a labyrinthic house, and trying to escape the Master so he doesn't make you one of his "collection". Didn't have time to make all this of course :/ so I'll definitely work more on it if you guys think it has potential or maybe not if you find it too common and without soul.
[CONTROLS]
E,S,D,F to move,
mouse to look,
left mouse button to pickup / use.
alt F4 to close!
[CREDITS]
I made the voices with mic and music with a Camel audio instrument.
Original sounds of rain, thunder, footstep before mix by Mike Koenig & Grand evans.
Ratings
| Coolness | 57% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.00 | 572 |
| Audio | 3.03 | 325 |
| Fun | 2.42 | 828 |
| Graphics | 3.97 | 111 |
| Humor | 2.26 | 660 |
| Innovation | 2.62 | 704 |
| Mood | 3.61 | 118 |
| Theme | 2.90 | 737 |
Nice little game. For your information, I don't think its ok for the compo on the sound of rain thunder and footsteps. I might be wrong.
Flygamer, actually I recorded some evil laughs with my mic but I had'nt the time to put some random triggers when you walk through the house !
For the weather sounds I don't know ! Maybe I could opt out audio or remove these totaly !
I don't see why i'm a monster, but i really like those in the cage even if they are like plastic. I'm not a unreal user so i can't figure out the difficulty of making that, but it's really well polished, and i really like the simple UI.
Could have been a nice hide & seek game with this master that you don't have to seen.
It was however very irritating that I couldn't strafe. Strafing is so common in 1st person games that I tried to strafe all the time even tough it was obvious that it isn't possible.
Since you are asking about those rain, thunder and footstep sounds. Using them is definitely against the rules. Everything has to be made by you. So if you ask yourself whether you are allowed to use an asset in your game or not, the question you should be asking is "Did I make that asset?".
No one is going to police it but you really are giving yourself an unfair advantage by using these. It's ok to use assets made by others in the jam but not in the compo.
I hope I don't sound to harsh, I really think your entry is fine and since you were open about using those sound effects I don't see any malicious intent. I just tried to inform you about the rules :)
About the strafing, it's weird because I can strafe :P I changed the common input sheme (a,s,d,w) for (e,s,d,f) to solve qwerty/azery problems (I'm french so azerty here!).
About the sounds I used, after reading the rules again (http://ludumdare.com/compo/rules/), it says loops, textures, fonts, mask, samples and instruments are allowed if used in a derivative way. I edited the original sounds in a way that it adds to the visuals and atmosphere, so with the voices and visuals we get a complex soundscape. It is then a derivative work, maybe we can ask about the limits of this.
If it's still not ok for all people, I will opt-out audio !
Thing is if you don't go for the retro pixel art style, where you can use simple generated sounds with sfxr that suits the art style, and you go for more realist art style, you get quite limited with ambiant sounds for the compo, and I find this a bit sad. Don't want to launch a debate at all!
Anyway thank you for your constructive comment, that's the kind of comments I'm waiting for!
Sorry for my english, I'm french!
Thanks for the comments!
I watched the video though and what amazing art. Is that Unreal? It gotta be.
Mood was good! Great job!
Still can't export for html5 or mac guys :/
It's very nice (graphics + ambiance), but as other said, the end is so frustrating ^^' I restarted it, thinking this black pane could be a bug (in addition to this being quite abrupt, we can still see things on the floor and the ceiling), and finally read comments when it happened again...
I love the monsters design, wish it was a bit longer!