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I feel as though I need a badge.\n\nIn my exciting 15th game, you get to experienced the action-packed life of a desert explorer, in the Victorian era. All you arrive with is a map, a small bottle, and 100 pounds (camouflaged as dollars in-game), and you must locate the treasure, hidden miles away, deep into the desert. Your money is only useful for buying some equipment in the starting town; from then on, you must trade your precious water away; your lifeline. Equipment ranges from water-carrying items, helping you survive longer in the desert (and trade for more things), to navigation equipment, which is crucial for not getting lost in the desert.\n\nI've also implemented what I consider to be a rather interesting mechanic: the ability to toward the horizon. This allows you to navigate by the sun and the stars, as well as letting you know when you're nearby to a village, if you're ever lost (which you will be if you don't buy navigation equipment (and aren't a pro navigator)).\n\nI would like to apologize in advance to any astronomers; I have simplified the cosmos quite a bit, due to time, but what you need is all there.\n\nThere is music! THIS ONE HAS MUSIC! AND SOUND!\n\nThank you very much for playing, I do hope you enjoy!\n\nControls:\n\nW - Move forwards\n\nA, D - Rotate Player\n\nS - Perform map location reading using sextant and\/or watch\n\nH - Look at horizon\n\nM - Look at map\n\nE - Fill water, pick up treasure\n\nF - Buy Item\n\nQ - Enable\/Disable Music\n\nTools used:\n- Android Studio\n- Paint.NET\n- FL Studio Mobile\n- Samsung Voice Recorder\n- Toilet Paper (for the sand sound effect, but it was used for other things too)\n\n![screenshot_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c1.png)\n\n![screenshot_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c3.png)\n\n![screenshot_4.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c6.png)\n\n![screenshot_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c5.png)\n\n![screenshot_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c8.png)","meta":{"author":[6818],"link-01-tag":"50","link-01":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/832rr1grbjsfml3\/Heat%20of%20the%20Star%20Source.rar?dl=0","link-02":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ouw5xiwr0c0s0lb\/Heat%20of%20the%20Star.rar?dl=0","link-02-tag":"42337","link-02-name":"Java","cover":"\/\/\/content\/2aa\/1\/z\/21576.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/heat-of-the-star","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":1,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T21:41:36Z","grade":{"grade-01":5,"grade-02":5,"grade-03":5,"grade-04":5,"grade-05":5,"grade-06":5,"grade-07":5,"grade-08":5},"magic":{"cool":84.779124789066,"feedback":1,"given":2.875,"grade":5,"smart":-17.841616374225}},"text":"15th (consecutive) Ludum Dare! I feel as though I need a badge.\n\nIn my exciting 15th game, you get to experienced the action-packed life of a desert explorer, in the Victorian era. All you arrive with is a map, a small bottle, and 100 pounds (camouflaged as dollars in-game), and you must locate the treasure, hidden miles away, deep into the desert. Your money is only useful for buying some equipment in the starting town; from then on, you must trade your precious water away; your lifeline. Equipment ranges from water-carrying items, helping you survive longer in the desert (and trade for more things), to navigation equipment, which is crucial for not getting lost in the desert.\n\nI've also implemented what I consider to be a rather interesting mechanic: the ability to toward the horizon. This allows you to navigate by the sun and the stars, as well as letting you know when you're nearby to a village, if you're ever lost (which you will be if you don't buy navigation equipment (and aren't a pro navigator)).\n\nI would like to apologize in advance to any astronomers; I have simplified the cosmos quite a bit, due to time, but what you need is all there.\n\nThere is music! THIS ONE HAS MUSIC! AND SOUND!\n\nThank you very much for playing, I do hope you enjoy!\n\nControls:\n\nW - Move forwards\n\nA, D - Rotate Player\n\nS - Perform map location reading using sextant and\/or watch\n\nH - Look at horizon\n\nM - Look at map\n\nE - Fill water, pick up treasure\n\nF - Buy Item\n\nQ - Enable\/Disable Music\n\nTools used:\n- Android Studio\n- Paint.NET\n- FL Studio Mobile\n- Samsung Voice Recorder\n- Toilet Paper (for the sand sound effect, but it was used for other things too)\n\n![screenshot_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c1.png)\n\n![screenshot_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c3.png)\n\n![screenshot_4.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c6.png)\n\n![screenshot_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c5.png)\n\n![screenshot_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/2aa\/1\/z\/215c8.png)","title":"Heat of the Star"}