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Survival Adventures by tomdeal

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made by tomdeal for LD 39 (COMPO)

Survival Adventures with Bob Bryllz.

============= Summary ========

Survive for 5 days on a barren island. There are no dangers, only your stomach! If you don't eat, you won't make it. But trying to find food is hard, but it is a survival game after all :-)

====== Video Trailer =========

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qjbyGXB-Fg

=========== How to Play ===========

Just follow the Ingame Tutorial.

=========== Music & Sound, Exit =========

There are Music and Sound Volume Sliders once you are in the main game screen. Press Escape to open the Menu Screen. If you press Escape during the intro screen or the game will also exit.

========= Feedback ============

If you have feedback or found a bug, please leave a comment here or on the itch.io page, or tweet me at @dizelabs.

========= Versions ===========

  • Windows Versions (32 + 64bit) are available via itch.io: Windows Build
  • MacOSX (universal, untested) is available as Dropbox Download
  • Sourcedoe is also available as Dropbox Download

========= Bugs ==========

There is one nasty bug, which can cause infinte Items. I'll upload a bugfixed version once I found it.

A Ludum Dare 39 Compo entry. The game was made by Thomas Diehl in 48 hours. If you like it (or don't) please leave a comment

Windows https://dizelabs.itch.io/survival-adventures
macOS https://www.dropbox.com/s/102wvpwwwm5bqhs/SurvivalAdventuresOSX.app.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/survival-adventures

Ratings

Overall 208th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 133th 3.56⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 238th 3.32⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 164th 3.8⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 301th 3.36⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 114th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 73th 3.435⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 225th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 21🗨️

Feedback

Gurvan
31. Jul 2017 · 18:59 UTC
Really good game ! It is really ambitious. The graphics are good, the humor is not the best but it is still good, the music is really chill, and there is a nice gameplay. Loved it
Larx
04. Aug 2017 · 15:24 UTC
Quite the project for such a short amount of time! It lacks some polish and there are some bugs / frustrating things like cooked fish disapearing, if you put in raw one, without taking the cooked one out first. But overall it's a neat game.
ledez
04. Aug 2017 · 15:27 UTC
Nice job. I can recommend to improve graphics animations since you got a nice system running in your game.
Nick Rafalski
04. Aug 2017 · 15:41 UTC
Tons of content here for an LD game. I'm super impressed by all the interactions/crafting/items you've implemented in 48 hours.

The game isn't super 'fun' just yet, but I can definitely see this expanding into a great survival game. The TV-show parody theme is genius too. It gives you a non-contrived win condition (last 5 days), which I like in survival games. Much better than just survive as long as you can.

Great stuff!
randomphantom
05. Aug 2017 · 14:34 UTC
Pretty ambitious to have a survival game for LD but you managed to pull it off! Needs some bug fixing though - if I eat cooked fish it doesn't remove it, rather it removes the last item in my inventory, so I could eat cooked fish all day and let it remove my sticks instead. There were also some z-ordering problems. Didn't manage to use the traps, but I used the fishing rod. Music was pretty cheery which was a bit clashing with dying of hunger. Nice humor too. Managed to last 5 days. Nice and short!
DevOrc
15. Aug 2017 · 20:27 UTC
Good submission overall! The UI Looks really good and the controls are very intuitive. The only bug I ran into was when you lay a trap it requires inventory space even though you don't gain anything... Anyways, great job! I would have never attempted a survival game but you pulled it off!
Badly Drawn Rod
15. Aug 2017 · 21:03 UTC
It's an ambitious compo entry, but it works. It's very clever, with an amusing take on the theme. Nice little soundtrack too. I'm surprised you don't have many ratings - this game deserves to be seen.
Rothens91
15. Aug 2017 · 21:14 UTC
This is really cool!
ViKingGames
15. Aug 2017 · 21:22 UTC
Good idea, and execution too, but the cooked fish didn't leave my inventory after I ate it, so I basically had infinite food.
joebeard
15. Aug 2017 · 22:38 UTC
How has this not gotten 20 ratings yet? There was so much to do and so many good ideas put together in just a couple of days! A really swell game, I hope you keep working on it!
LuckyFeathers
15. Aug 2017 · 22:44 UTC
Simple and easy. Good job for a compo. The music gets a bit annoying, but that might just be because I've heard a lot of 8-bit music while testing LD games these past two weeks :p In terms of game mechanics, I don't really understand the point of the selection square thingy. Why can't I just use the mouse to click on items I wish to interact with? When there are just 4 directions my character can point at, I struggled a bit to focus the square on the item I wanted.
doomshmuck
16. Aug 2017 · 02:01 UTC
It's an interesting design... it felt like the hunger meter dropped really fast and felt pretty unforgiving. I think it could have used some more tutorials or something to help with explaining more of the mechanics. I didn't really see any way to start a fire. I also felt like my inventory was always full, to the point of where it felt a little off. I also noticed that if I tried to place a trap and my inventory was full, it didn't let me place the trap.
Herman Chau
16. Aug 2017 · 02:21 UTC
This was good! It feels a lot like Don't Starve and I think there's enough variety of things to do that I tried playing around 5 or 6 times!

There was a bug where I tried to trap the bunny next to the fire pit but the bunny was still there, with the trap and I couldn't actually get any meat from the trap. The trap mechanics did work for the bunnies further south though.
Timps
16. Aug 2017 · 08:54 UTC
This was a lot of fun. Well done.
Cursor placement got a little odd at times, having to inch in, sometimes it didnt recognise things I had IN the cursor.

That music though... it drove me nuts every time!
PixzleOne
16. Aug 2017 · 14:39 UTC
Fun take on the theme and gameplay worked pretty well. Music and graphics were pretty nice.

Well done!
beardogames
16. Aug 2017 · 16:05 UTC
Ah, this was extremely ambitious and you pulled it off quite well! I'm impressed that you were able to add in so many elements in such a short amount of time. Well done!
sgt3v
17. Aug 2017 · 10:40 UTC
This was a fun game with a lot of content for a compo game! Only thing missing was maybe some animations to make it a bit more vibrant. Very well done!
Mastersmith98
18. Aug 2017 · 19:01 UTC
This was a great, funny little game! One minor suggestion I'd make is to allow the player to eat berries without having to put them into their inventory first. It's kind of redundant and they basically serve as quick little pit stops for the players energy.

I'd love to see an improved upon version with bears, predators and a multi day survival loop. And Mr. Brills hamming it up for the camera :P

Great work!
knarf
22. Aug 2017 · 06:24 UTC
Funny game ! Cool concept and features, the easiest way to win is to make a fire go for anorexia and sleep but I wanted to have some more plays to try much :) Cutting trees needs a lot of power and it makes it dangerous but i had to explore the game for a while, and find out what was in the chest on the left. After a few tries I survived once again until there is only one hour left and then died fishing because it is almost as exhausting as cutting trees ahahah :) Maybe with a few more balance and features, the game could be very enjoyable. I was sometimes stuck with the inventory and couldn't manage to change from my backpack to my hand so i died this way too :D good job!