Short Dark by Préda
In this game you have to survive for a couple days, before being saved.
Surviving includes fishing, cooking fish, boiling water and collecting wood to keep your fire alive. If you go far from your any source of fire, you will freeze.
•Interactions happen by holding down the left ALT key and Left Clicking,
there is no other inputs just W,A,S,D which is movement.
•You can fuel a fire by adding twigs onto it and you can light it up with a burning torch.
•If your torch would happen to blow out, you have to re-light it at a campfire.
•Scrolling moves your camera up/down.
•Space drops all the items you're holding
•To get the ending you have to use your sleeping bag.
•You can cook fish at your main fire and boil water on the one on the lake.
•If you hold alt you can see some extra info about the intractable items. Ui is messy there
| Youtube | https://ppreda.itch.io/short-dark |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/short-dark |
Ratings
| Overall | 946th | 3.6⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1277th | 3.286⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1634th | 3.08⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 319th | 4.11⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 410th | 4.186⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 731th | 3.479⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1764th | 2.321⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 503th | 3.786⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 123🗳️ | 60🗨️ |
@commanderstitch Yes I could've probably said something more about interaction, the tutorial text was added as a last thing so that player still has a way to maybe find out how to play the game.
I think the HUD is too messy sometimes, informations displaying on top of others.
Great job anyway !!
The UI could use some work if you decided to expand upon this. In particular I had issues cooking the fish and drinking the water. The water pot seemed to get stuck on the fire unless I'm missing something.
Good effort overall, I'd love to see this expanded. Also, I love the title if your game haha.
@ion-programming Yes I forgot to mention that... The fish has to be cooked at your main fire.
Sounds are not put there the perfect way, but anyways, I hope they made some mood to complete this world :)
I understand that this might have been choice due to how the mouse also controls the camera so needing a way to switch between manifested itself by holding a button. Perhaps allowing me to press "E" to interact with the objects instead might have made the experience a little more fluid. To which you might need to some how indicate which objects are interactible.
Beyond that the game looks nice, the atmosphere gives a proper sense of isolation, and the overall presentation is good.
Unfortunately it did not record my commentary
I could not figure out how to cook the fish. I tried clicking on the fire i tried clicking on the pot but nothing ever happened :(
I liked the graphics and the audio. However, the audio could have profited from a bit more variety, the constant wind sound got annoying after a while. For the graphics only the sidewards animations were a bit wonky.
I think Diagonal movement is faster than straight line movement. You will see me moving diagonally towards the end.
I did not like the alt click interactions and would have prefered a more classical press e to interact
my comment really sounded a bit harsh, overall I liked the game which would have been more apparent if I had recorded the audio :D . I just wrote down more of the things that you could improve on :)
The Graphics are really well done and the overall gameplay also works very well.
But I really can't find where it says that you have to cook fish on the main fire. That also does not make much sense in my opinion. Maybe do an in game tutorial next time, it is nearly alway worth investing some time
But as I Said overall I quite liked it!
Many interactions where sometimes its not totally clear what to do. But the Tutorial Helps here.
A huge amount of work what you have done in that short of Time.
Well Done Good Job