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Especially considering that's the first thing a player sees :face_palm: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":954585,"author_name":"the neon shark","author_uid":"the-neon-shark","epoch":1683089072,"text":"Love the mood. Didn't love that I sometime sank my ship with no obstacles in sight :( The one change to audio I'd like to see is making the water more wave-like opposed to a waterfall.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":954612,"author_name":"Rose","author_uid":"rose","epoch":1683089460,"text":"Really interesting game! Even though there wasn't a lot of story, the premise was enough for me to be invested in making it across and worried during the interactions! I made it though - phew. Cool style on the faces, and intriguing tidbits about the world it takes place in.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":956048,"author_name":"digital bacon","author_uid":"digital-bacon","epoch":1683112440,"text":"Interesting game. The narrative is intriguing, I kind of want to know more about the game world you've created. The opening dialogue was a bit slow to reveal itself, but it did a good job of setting the scene. There's a very moody atmosphere you've created, with the lighting and scene-setting doing a great job of making me feel very nervous crossing to Phiatho (even though I only ended up talking to two people in my first playthrough).\n\nI'm in two minds about the fixed viewpoint. On one hand, fixing the camera so it only looks straight ahead amps up the tension -- I kept wondering if something was going to jump out at me from the sides. But on the other hand, I want to be able to look around as I travelled.\n\nThis is a great effort. Well done on your first LD jam game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":958089,"author_name":"coatline","author_uid":"coatline","epoch":1683134276,"text":"The mood really fits the game and I think is pretty impressive! As other people stated, the opening dialogue is pretty slow but the story is interesting. I wish that the game didn't restart when you wrecked your boat as it can be tedious getting back to where you were. The title made me intrigued to find out more! \nWell done for your first creation!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":960174,"author_name":"LDJam user 321333","author_uid":"321333","epoch":1683153402,"text":"Thanks for the feedback! I\u2019m glad that I could share my vision of the world I imagined for this game\u2019s setting, and that even in this small game I could convey a sense of vastness expanding beyond what is being played.\n\n@rose I\u2019m glad you like faces in my pen sketch to vector art style. I\u2019m not much of an artist, but for 2d that\u2019s what I\u2019m most comfortable in.\n\n@the-neon-shark @coatline I agree about the boat and given more time I\u2019d definitely add some sort of health system so you could hit a few rocks before going down (and probably a repair\/upgrade system with it).\n\nFor the audio, I wanted the sound of water lapping against rocks and a boat, probably similar to what you\u2019re thinking. Too many of the tracks I checked out were simple \u201cwaves on sandy beach\u201d type recordings so this was the best I could come up with. Audio was a stretch goal anyway and only added in the last hour or so.\n\n@digital-bacon was wondering if anyone would bring up the viewpoint\/camera. I originally wanted to make a first person perspective and just have the boat be something you interact with to move. I scrapped that and tried for a couple hours to make a follow cam where you can still look around, as you describe, but I\u2019d never made a third person camera before, much less one like that, so in the end I had to settle for a fixed perspective. The camera was meant to follow the boat and keep the whole thing in frame, but at some point it ended up over the bow and I gave up trying to fiddle with it.\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":960445,"author_name":"JpBaraky","author_uid":"jpbaraky","epoch":1683157002,"text":"kind slow at first but nice mood","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":963077,"author_name":"Nikolai-Marian Sokolovskii","author_uid":"nikolai-marian-sokolovskii","epoch":1683206828,"text":"It's quite hard to understand how to play","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":965727,"author_name":"LDJam user 321333","author_uid":"321333","epoch":1683243515,"text":"@nikolai-marian-sokolovskii Oh no! Is there anything in particular that was unclear\/confusing?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":970821,"author_name":"LDJam user 370069","author_uid":"370069","epoch":1683383310,"text":"Not the worst, a bit bland though.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":971433,"author_name":"Agrimes","author_uid":"agrimes","epoch":1683400080,"text":"I made it to the other side and got arrested.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":971677,"author_name":"LDJam user 321333","author_uid":"321333","epoch":1683407782,"text":"@game-addict Thanks for the honest feedback, sorry you found the game on the bland side. In the week since the jam I've thought of a lot of stuff I could have done better, but it's been a good learning experience.\n\n@Agrimes Thanks for the comment, I was wondering if anyone had seen that ending.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":973624,"author_name":"chompdev","author_uid":"chompdev","epoch":1683492292,"text":"Great atmosphere and mystery you've managed to evoke here, and excellent work completing your first Ludum Dare! The soundscape and ambient wind with no music works well, and the evening lighting with crawling shadows and sweeping searchlights is great for building tension and immersing the player. I love the idea of a stealthy delivery-by-water game, almost like playing as Samuel in Dishonored. \n\nIf you decide to add more features after the jam, it would be cool to have a system where you can choose to move faster but the splashing would alert sentries at a longer distance. It could also be a lot of fun to manage your boat's inventory and keep a certain amount of cargo earmarked for bribes when you do inevitably get caught. All in all, this is an impressive entry for being so new to coding, and you should be very proud of your hard work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld53\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/play.unity.com\/mg\/other\/deliver-us-brother","text":"Deliver Us, Brother on Unity Play"},{"url":"https:\/\/otergen.itch.io\/deliver-us-brother","text":"Deliver Us, Brother on Itch"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"87682","g_author":"1321333","g_event":"LD53","g_eventkey":"118","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"406967","g_title":"Deliver Us, Brother","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1114","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"334514","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"334514","n_urlkey":"406967","n_parent":"332127","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/deliver-us-brother","n_slug":"deliver-us-brother","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"321333","n_created":"1681261118","n_modified":"1779035240","n_version":"1130752","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":321333,"body":"Your maker has not returned from the island of Lithon. Lead your fellow factotums to freedom by sailing across the Lapidarean Channel from Rodnokos to Phiatho.\n\nDeliver Us, Brother is a combination stealth-lite game and text based narrative adventure, where your choices matter and you can either succeed or fail to deliver your precious cargo. Talk your way past the sentries and onto the island of Phiatho, or slip past and avoid them altogether - just mind the rocks, they'll sink your ship.\n\nI highly recommend you play through Unity Play or itch, as the embed is iffy.\n\nControls: W - Move, A\/S - Rotate (only while moving), Esc for the pause menu.\n\nThe game is best played in full screen accessed by the WebGL player or by scrolling to the bottom right of the embed.\n\nWhen not in full screen mode, you can exit the game via the white X in the top right corner of the screen (Unity only).\n\nAudio: I added low ambient ocean sounds (essentially white noise), which can be muted\/unmuted through the Unity WebGL player. The audio is not my own, it is Oregon Coast Ocean by deadrobotmusic, downloaded from freesound. I did minor editing to remove a noisy section in Waveform.\n\nFont: GarineldoSC, an OFL font created by gluk and downloaded from fontspace. Several of gluk\u2019s fonts are also very good, and this one is exactly what I envisioned for this game. I recommend checking them out.\n\nBasecode Notes:\nThe dialogue and subtle reputation system featured in this game is something I coded from scratch (without following guides etc) over the course of the last month as I practiced and prepared to participate in LD53. All of the dialogue was written in Excel for csv formatting (and was written during the jam of course).\nI use the new Unity Input System, and arranged my Input Controller script based on a tutorial by the Youtube channel NowWeWake, someone who isn\u2019t a Youtuber but posted a handful of very good Unity tutorials during lockdown.\nSpotlight detection by sentries is based directly from a coding tutorial by Youtuber Sebastian Lague. Only that method is copied and then adapted from his Stealth Minigame Tutorial.\n\nI didn't use any AI or other assets besides those mentioned above to make this game. It was quite a learning experience!\n\nIf you find any bugs :frowning: comment and let me know and I'll fix them and post the changelog here.\n\nPlease also comment with your thoughts and feedback! 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The audio is not my own, it is Oregon Coast Ocean by deadrobotmusic, downloaded from freesound. I did minor editing to remove a noisy section in Waveform.\n\nFont: GarineldoSC, an OFL font created by gluk and downloaded from fontspace. Several of gluk\u2019s fonts are also very good, and this one is exactly what I envisioned for this game. I recommend checking them out.\n\nBasecode Notes:\nThe dialogue and subtle reputation system featured in this game is something I coded from scratch (without following guides etc) over the course of the last month as I practiced and prepared to participate in LD53. 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