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Acornville Escape Room by candlesan

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made by candlesan for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

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Welcome to the Acornville Fall Harvest Festival Escape Room

Welcome to our community center - we're pleased to have you. Our volunteers have worked very hard to bring you this special treat. See if you can escape and feel free to ask for as many hints as you need!

Can you solve the first puzzle? FirstPuzzleScreenshot.png

I stream most of my Ludum Dare jams on twitch, you can follow me here: http://www.twitch.tv/candlesan If you're interested in game dev topics, check out my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/@candlesan

You can watch a video recap of the game being made: https://youtu.be/R_bWn3H6msA

Tool used * Unity * Blender * Photoshop * Audacity

itch.io HTML5 https://candlesan.itch.io/acornville-fall-harvest-escape-room
Link https://www.wyattcheng.com/games/Harvest/candlesan-LudumDare52-Harvest-src.zip
I stream my jams on twitch http://www.twitch.tv/candlesan
Game Dev YouTube http://www.youtube.com/@candlesan
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/acornville-escape-room

Ratings

Overall 73th 3.788⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 31th 4⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 177th 3.288⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 282th 3.019⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 177th 3.481⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 189th 3.04⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 188th 2.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 214th 3.104⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 28🗨️

Feedback

Pulni
09. Jan 2023 · 00:02 UTC
Nice game! Pretty cool puzzles, especially given the time constraints! The one before the corn maze was the trickiest for me.

I've never done a puzzle game. I don't feel that I'll come up with enough nice puzzles in time, but this inspires me to give it a shot sometime. At the very least, it would be a fun experience for me! Thanks! :)
danman9914
09. Jan 2023 · 02:54 UTC
You delivered where it mattered! The puzzles were at the perfect difficulty for a jam game and each one had character and inventiveness. The bag toss knocking out the pumpkin teeth was a stand out. Great work!
kristinamay
09. Jan 2023 · 03:08 UTC
I LOVE ESCAPE ROOMS SO MUCH. I was so excited to escape. The puzzles were well-designed, had a nice difficulty curve, and had satisfying resolutions (and a couple "aha!" moments - those are the holy grail of escape rooms!). I did utter a swear at one point when I realized I had to (SPOILERS!!!!) go back through the corn maze, lol. Great work, this is so impressive for a compo game. I wish there were more puzzle game entries in LD, they're my favorite.
miltage
09. Jan 2023 · 07:14 UTC
It's not easy to pull off a puzzle game in 48 hours. Kudos to you!
Dmitry_K
09. Jan 2023 · 09:02 UTC
Nice minimalistic graphics. Clear logic puzzles. It's fun to play!
rohanmoon
09. Jan 2023 · 11:18 UTC
A lot of fun, enjoyed playing this one. I ran out of energy in the corn maze though and got frustrated with being lost.
Harmadillo
09. Jan 2023 · 19:11 UTC
Puzzles were fun. The graphics are nice and clear so as not to be ambiguous. Fun game.
Ani
10. Jan 2023 · 23:00 UTC
Ahh I knew I'd have to go back through that maze! Great puzzle designs, had fun escaping!
LDJam user 280565
10. Jan 2023 · 23:10 UTC
Was very fun to play, nice work!
digital bacon
11. Jan 2023 · 11:13 UTC
Cool game. Nice progression on the puzzle complexity, though it was very difficult to find the sunflowers unless you were standing in the right spot. Also, some of the tooltips were hard/impossible to see against a bright background (kept trying to click the hint button in the sunflower room, because I couldn't see the "press H for hint" text). Decent graphics, nice puzzles (and all within theme). Well done.
Jason Wilson
11. Jan 2023 · 15:57 UTC
Fun little escape room game! The puzzles felt like something I could definitely see popping up in an escape room. Well done putting so many great puzzles together in such a short time frame. The art was perfect, simple and conveyed the idea behind each puzzle. Overall great job, I had a lot of fun escaping.
Lex
13. Jan 2023 · 09:27 UTC
Congratulations! You escaped! ... to a room with no doors and no escape :laughing:

That was a fun challenge, thanks for this awesome submission.
Cnaits
13. Jan 2023 · 09:37 UTC
Nice puzzles, I loved the room with three in it (not going to spoil them here). I had some performance troubles playing in full screen but I assume that is only in the browser. Downloading and running the source code will probably be better.
Langotriel
13. Jan 2023 · 17:39 UTC
I believe this is my first escape room in LD :thinking:

Considering you did it all yourself, the overall package is very well done and the visuals are impressive. I'd have hoped for more audio (even just some simple sounds & music) but 48 hours solo is rough so I get it. Well done on the entry!
Linus Lindberg
14. Jan 2023 · 09:56 UTC
Perfectly balanced puzzles! Perfect length. Graphics are good. I'm only missing some music which would have enhanced the mood.
This was one of my favorites I've played so far!
Justine Olshan
14. Jan 2023 · 17:33 UTC
I'm glad that even though there weren't a lot of sounds, there was a little jingle when the puzzle was completed. A great cue to know the door opened (sometimes behind me) and I found myself really getting excited when I heard it. A very fun little game to work through.
CheeseHead games
19. Jan 2023 · 04:32 UTC
I don't usually like puzzle games, but this one was actually pretty fun, the hint system was a nice touch that kept me from getting bored and giving up
niterich
19. Jan 2023 · 14:40 UTC
Great game! The puzzles were well done, and I really enjoyed the themeing!

My only complaint is that the mouse sensitivity was a bit too high for my tastes. Since there's going to be a lot of different gamers playing my first person games, I always allow players to adjust mouse sensitivity with the scroll wheel - that way, they're not stuck mucking about through menus when they should be playing the game. Perhaps that could be something you add to add to your games as well?
Itzemii
19. Jan 2023 · 18:55 UTC
A classic escape room. Small classic puzzles. Very solid clean complete implementation.
Controls too me felt a bit too "narrow" (having to be very close to be able to interact).
LDJam user 238500
21. Jan 2023 · 14:36 UTC
Great game for such a short time. Good puzzles, challenging enough. Really good job!
Matank
22. Jan 2023 · 20:19 UTC
Very cool escape room! Enjoyed playing through it, and the puzzle progression was very nice. I did encounter one really minor issue where the "puzzle solve" music kept playing repeatedly while I was standing in the room where you throw a ball at the teeth (didn't matter to my experience at all, just thought you might like to know :smile:)
Tod Semple
24. Jan 2023 · 04:59 UTC
Wow Dude! That totally captured the feeling of an escape room! Maybe you have some experience IRL? Those were pretty amazing puzzles for an LD game.
Statiko
24. Apr 2023 · 23:23 UTC
I had heard about escape rooms from friends before, but I never knew where to find one. One day, while scrolling through social media, I came across an ad for a website that offered escape room experiences. I clicked [on the website](https://questroom.com/) and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of rooms they had available. From horror-themed rooms to sci-fi adventures, there was something for everyone.