The Blueberries Dawn by Forik
Mood
We have recreated the atmosphere of a horror game in a spaceship.

Aggressive Blueberries?!
Just avoid this little one!

Survive
You woke up in an abandoned spaceship. Find out what happened. Survive.

Game Control
[W] [A] [S] [D] -- Walk
[E] -- Interaction
[Space] -- Jump
[C] -- Crouch
[LMB] -- Shoot
Team
- @Forik - Game Designer
- @Daupoh - Game Designer
- @Pepechill - Level Designer
- @Reizer - 3D art
| Link | https://forik2628.itch.io/the-blueberries-dawn |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/the-blueberries-dawn |
Ratings
| Overall | 167th | 3.974⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 177th | 3.842⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 353th | 3.526⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 564th | 3.658⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 125th | 4.368⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 67th | 4.224⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 68🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
I'm currently stuck in a room with the gun. I jumped down from the vent after getting my first battery, took the gun aaand I can't get out? The door is locked and the jumps are not high enough to get back to the vent. Is there a bug or am I mising something?
Also, I can see you have very low given and received ratings. The ludum shows your game more if you give more ratings to the other games and get likes for your comments for other games. It would be a shame if this game eventually won't even pass the minimum 20 votes, so may be spend some time and check the other games!
Finished the game, loved it. The final getting to the escape pod was dense, a nice change of pace. Now I will whir while eating blueberries :D
There's certainly an issue with the color coding. I have spent shaminly much time searching for the second battery, because they are, well, black thingies with yellow parts, just like a lot of other stuff in the game. I searched through all the maps before finding it. Same with the burnable grill, actually, could be that it only shares color with the projectile, and may be with the blueberries.
(Graphics is amazing!)
I really liked the game! The color coding works great, I was surprised by how intuitive everything felt; I never got lost. The enemies are unique, and I probably won’t ever be able to eat or go near blueberries again! Fun-wise, I had a blast, even though it doesn’t go much beyond what a typical horror shooter does. I also love how big and readable the subtitles are, they're so convenient, and they add a unique touch. Interpreting the theme as a tiny mysterious horrific monster is also unique, and probably the best use of the theme I have seen so far. Overall, it’s a really solid entry! Well done!
https://youtu.be/OQAGwbz_CFE
Also Wanted to ask if youre fine with me using gameplay from the game in this LDs [score chasers tournament](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/$405421/ludum-dare-score-chasers-qualification-begins) intermission video. (Would play in the breaks of the tournament on my stream). Last year for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuddhZScWxo
I'm glad you guys are still making games :3
p.s. Yeah, it's not a horror game imo, but I don't care about genres anyway
I thought the level design was really good and it seemed like the difficulty was slowing ramping up. I got really excited when I found that gun. I had actually gotten frustrated at first and quit because I had just woken up and I guess I wasn't ready for a challenge yet, but I was intrigued so I gave it another go and finished it lol.
Minor things:
Right after getting the 2nd battery...the text still says get the batteries. I think it would have been helpful if it had sad something like...ok now power on the reactor or something. I was just initially confused because I had the batteries setup and it still said get the batteries and I didn't realize I needed to toggle another switch.
There was some minor clipping of the weapons and batteries against the environment...nothing major...just a tiny thing that fixing could add more polish to the game if you decide to spend more time on this.
Anyway, well done!
Really nice game, the controls are smooth and do not distract, the puzzles (puzzles? can i call battary hunting puzzles?) are pretty fun if you are prettu good with direction, the pew-pew is amaizing (i would love if there vere some bluberry vines you could shoot too buuut oh well, vents are already really cool), i do think that it makes tittle sence to not destroy the vent instantly tho? kinda confusing, feels like you need to shoot repetadly
I love the 3d models and graphics at all, bluberries were weird but cool, tho you calling them bluberries kinda made me treat them less seriously i think? still awesome tho
Overall a very cool game
You did a great job of making the entities feel scary.
I did get a bit lost in a couple of places towards the end,and the battery could be more obviously a battery. It took a while to find because it didn't really stand out as something to be picked up.
Thank you for bringing it to the stream :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC_AQD1Ocyk
~XpMonster
https://youtu.be/aNyxoCmmD18
Enjoy the highlights and great game!