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Soot Story by blay09

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made by blay09 for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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Follow the story of a little soot whose flame has gone out.

How to Play

  • Bring coal to your furnace to heat it up
  • Upgrade your gear at the furnace
  • Help other soots to unlock their unique abilities
  • Explore dungeons and bring the heat back home
  • Keep heating up the furnace to unlock more soots

Controls

  • WASD: Move
  • Mouse Click: Mine
  • Space: Jump
  • E: Interact
  • Hold Q: Respawn at Home

Tips for Better Enjoyment

  • Return home frequently to upgrade the Furnace and purchase abilities
  • Don't buy the Jumping Boots unless you need them for a Dungeon
  • Remember you can hold W to climb up ledges once you have the Climbing Gear
  • There are 4 unique dungeons scattered across the map
  • If you can't see the Upgrade Button above the Furnace, try playing in Fullscreen

Post Jam

  • Fixed gamebreaking crash after completing one of the dungeons

Known Issues

  • Incorrect sections of the world may get revealed when locating a dungeon
  • The upgrade button may be off-screen on some resolutions, try fullscreen or jumping

Third Party Assets

  • "[LPC] Ore and Forge" by bluecarrot16, commissioned by Pierre Vigier (pvigier). CC-BY 3.0+ / GPL 3.0+ / OGA-BY 3.0+
  • Pixel Art Halo by samuncle. CC-BY-SA 4.0
  • Cave Tileset by GrafxKid
  • Health Bar by MortalPhoenix
  • Plus Buttons by www.tweetfold.com
  • Input Prompts Pixel 16× by Kenney.nl
  • Crang by Caveras. Attribution­-Non­Commercial­-Share­Alike
  • RPG potions 16x16 by Bonsaiheldin https://opengameart.org/content/rpg-potions-16x16
  • 16x16 and animated lava tile (45 frames) by davesch
  • A Small Fire Will Do (Calming Loop) by Cal McEachern
  • Piano 5 by hectavex
  • The Tale of the Fire by Tausdei
  • Fantasy Music - The Mourning Forest by HitCtrl
  • Win sound effect by Listener
  • Lava Splash by Michel Baradari
  • Fireplace Sound loop by PagDev
  • Fantasy Accessory SFX Library (CC0. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
  • Earthquake 3 by zatar
  • A Cat by shangri-la
  • sfx_throw by (c) copyright Blender Foundation | apricot.blender.org
  • Impact by qubodup
  • Tool Icons by BizmasterStudios
  • Sci Fi Goods/Commodities by ChaosShark
  • 16 direction rocket projectile by diggy
  • Smoke particle assets by Kenney.nl
  • Level up, power up, Coin get (13 Sounds) by wobbleboxx
  • HomeMade Flame by Prinsu-Kun
  • CC0 Footgear Icons
  • Rough Small Signs & Symbol Pack by qubodup
  • Admurin's Potions by https://admurin.itch.io/ - Admurin
  • Chest animation by saint11
  • LPC Grave Markers (remix) created by Barbara Rivera, Casper Nilsson, Carlo Enrico Victoria, Tuomo Untinen, ak-blanc, Johann C, & Jordan Irwin (AntumDeluge)
Link https://blaytheninth.itch.io/soot-story
Windows (itch) https://blaytheninth.itch.io/soot-story
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/soot-story

Ratings

Overall 289th 3.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 233th 3.762⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 518th 3.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 393th 3.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 282th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 535th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

barryrichter
08. Oct 2024 · 02:01 UTC
Reminds me of some of the fun tunneling games of the past
spacecadet
08. Oct 2024 · 21:02 UTC
I really enjoyed your game. It is really well implemented and has a great feel of progression. I was a bit confused first how to buy upgrades because the button wasn't showing when playing without full screen. Also I think some kind of mechanism which forces you to return could be nice. Now you can just basically explore the whole cave at one go and finish the quest really quick. Anyways good job :)
LDJam user 0
09. Oct 2024 · 05:41 UTC
I liked the progression of going out into the world and buying upgrades at the base, and finding the areas around the map was fun. The movement mechanics felt a little rough around the edges, sometimes I tried to climb a wall and it wouldn't work(?). Overall, a fun little game with a solid core game loop.
Answer21
09. Oct 2024 · 12:05 UTC
great job!
ChrisBeck
09. Oct 2024 · 12:54 UTC
Really fun, liked the Minecraft/Terraria gameplay and the progression with upgrades. Loved the art style and little bit bit of story in there. Really solid effort!
Don Fouts
14. Oct 2024 · 19:24 UTC
Neat concept for the theme and well put together. I liked exploring the areas around the furnace. I also dug as far down as I could to see what would happen. I won't spoil it for anyone, but it was pretty hot. Overall, great work!
mode_0x13
14. Oct 2024 · 19:27 UTC
Nicely executed. The progression and upgrades made me play more than I expected. Overall, it was soot a nice a game.
MachWerx
14. Oct 2024 · 19:39 UTC
Impressive amount of gameplay that you squeezed into a weekend! It felt pretty complete. I ran into a few bugs like the radars disappearing occasionally, but I loved the variety of powers and upgrades. Very cute art style as well. Well done!
ellaris
14. Oct 2024 · 19:42 UTC
Interesting, the climbing felt a bit clunky, the map seemed to be quite large and sometimes it was hard to find stuff, I liked the animations, but at the end it was very hard to read the text.
adhesion
14. Oct 2024 · 20:18 UTC
Quite an impressive amount of content for a jam game! Solid gameplay, the mining and exploration was pretty fun. Some of the interactions were a little finicky, like climbing, and I accidentally tossed a boulder into the furnace when trying to give it to the musclesoot which was pretty annoying. Also I got the scientist stuck in the floor when trying to hand over the lava bottle but thankfully I was still able to talk to them and complete the quest. Managed to get through the whole game but missed a couple of the dungeon items. (Seemed like the dungeon counter stayed at 0 the whole time too.) Still a pretty fun experience overall, nice work!
st00nsa
20. Oct 2024 · 14:27 UTC
Wow, this is an enormous amount of content for 72 hours. Great job.

I was frendzoned by lady soot =(
vjta088x
20. Oct 2024 · 14:44 UTC
This has to be a full game some day, you have to add more content and release it, I'd play it for sure. Really, really fun. Thanks
Weine
20. Oct 2024 · 14:52 UTC
Wow, you really got both story gameplay and contents just about perfect. This was one of the best games I've played through this jam!
freso
20. Oct 2024 · 15:09 UTC
This was more advanced than I thought. Lots of progression. Well done!
Digging with mouse click felt a bit odd, but cool game!
Alchemic
24. Oct 2024 · 22:15 UTC
Cute game! Very cozy.

I was able to buy all the equipment upgrades on my very first return to home, and I don't feel like I spent more than a couple minutes just digging down and gathering ores. So the rest of my time was spent simply doing the quests.

I really liked the progression you managed to fit in, even if it was kinda short.

I feel like the big jump could have charged faster, there was never really a time where I would have wanted anything other than max power on it.

I didn't really get to use the jetpack! I already had way more than enough coal to beat the game, and doing the jetpack quest was the last thing I did before putting in the 99 coal. And then the game ended immediately lol.

Overall very much enjoyed playing this one!