LD 48 Jam √
The game
Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/the-case-of-the-door-in-the-woods
You find yourself surounded with trees.
You came to these woods with only one goal:
Find the mysterious door. No matter what.
You need to know what is behind it.



Development
This is my first time entering with a game made in Unity. It was a lot of fun to make and I have learned a lot.
Next to Unity, I used FMOD for the first time in combination with the ink scripting language which was also something I had not used before.
Unity
Having used pico-8 in the previous two game jams, this was big difference for me developing this game. Overal it was a great experience using Unity. I like the mindset in thinking in components.
I did spend way too much time trying to make the game work in Safari. For some reason audio just does not work in this browser, making the game unplayable.
Please use Chrome and headphones when you want to play the game. If someone knows how to fix this, please let me know!
FMOD
FMOD is an incredible powerful audio middleware that is an absolute delight to use: using FMOD's global parameters I could control all the events and animations in the game according to the music and vice versa.
Check out my main event:

Ink
This is a, hopefully spoiler free, screenshot of the first few paragraphs written in ink.

Binding variables and setting up external functions was super easy to do and setup in Unity: It made focusing on writing, which I find not particular easy, a fun and smooth experience.
Animation
I had way too much fun using Procreate to draw the small animations frames.



Music
All the music and sound effect were made in Logic.
In tribute to the theme 'deeper and deeper', I tried to make the global theme of the music a reversed shepherd tone. Can you hear it go deeper and deeper as your brain tricks you?
Final words
Sadly, as it is with game jams, I did not have enough time to make this game as epic and deep as I wanted. So please enjoy some assets that I made but were not all used in the game.

Thank you for playing