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Running Out of Time by Arthur Mairs

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made by Arthur Mairs for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

PLAYABLE IN WEBG! (fullscreen preferred, still doesn't run too great.)

You have been poisoned. Track down the man who did it to you and get answers.

Story: In this game you have poisoned, the object of the game is to keep taking pills to fight off the timer, that once it expires, so do you. Track down the villain throughout various locations in an open city. Too weak to fight, you will have to use stealth to get things done.

Gameplay: Follow along convenient waypoints as you find pills throughout the city to delay the inevitable. Each location will involve avoiding guards and lasers as you work towards your goal of finding out what happened to you. Follow the green lights and waypoints to help you through the levels.

Controls

Left click: Use/Interact. E: Consume pills. Space: Jump. Control: Crouch.

Credits:

Aaron Mairs: Programmer / Voice Actor (Player/Guard-1).

Arthur Mairs: Project Lead / 3D Modeller / Writer.

Zack Grimley: 3D Modeller / Voice Actor (Karl/Bin-man/Guard-2) / Writer.

Kaden Williams: Voice Actor (General Population).

Oliver Grumley: Emotional Support.

Link https://wobbleblocks.itch.io/runningoutoftime
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/running-out-of-time-1

Ratings

Overall 537th 3.634⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Fun 592th 3.463⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 844th 3.159⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Theme 378th 3.915⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 644th 3.695⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Audio 491th 3.476⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Humor 189th 3.888⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Mood 534th 3.634⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Given 56🗳️ 69🗨️

Feedback

Jamsgams
05. Apr 2022 · 12:18 UTC
Really interesting game, super impressive work with voicing and creating a big city. I enjoyed sneaking aroumnd the warehouse.
BingThePing
05. Apr 2022 · 12:19 UTC
great game! loved the animations!
wondry
05. Apr 2022 · 12:19 UTC
nice bike!
Dean Isseyegh
05. Apr 2022 · 12:21 UTC
Had a big smile on my face the whole time. Can't believe you guys did voice acting for a Game Jam, points just for that! The death animation was the best part!
Thibault Raffaillac
05. Apr 2022 · 12:22 UTC
I couldn't play too long because the game makes my laptop very hot and lags a lot even in small windowed mode. However I like the concept and there seems to be a lot of content. With better optimization and a smaller scale (just sneaking into a warehouse was fun already) the game would have been great.
GlorifiedPig
05. Apr 2022 · 12:25 UTC
Good job, love the voice acting
LDJam user 240168
05. Apr 2022 · 12:44 UTC
A nice touch on the theme! Would be nice to have a minimap or something else that shows where the guards are. Unfortunately I got stuck: the game autosaved in a situation where I get immediately caught.
LambBrainz
05. Apr 2022 · 12:44 UTC
The sounds are pretty good, and there's definitely some polish - like when I walk past people and they ask if I'm alright. Sucks that it runs so terribly on Web. Maybe post a download so we can play a native version? Great job!
Vincent Salgueiro
05. Apr 2022 · 12:47 UTC
A few frustrating respawns right in front of guards at times but overall really fun and hilarious especially the voice acting of the scientist lmao
🎤 Arthur Mairs
05. Apr 2022 · 13:04 UTC
@lambbrainz there is a download link if you scroll down!
LambBrainz
05. Apr 2022 · 13:28 UTC
@arthur-mairs so there is! Sorry I must have missed that. Thanks!
Neon Orbis
05. Apr 2022 · 18:11 UTC
A great game and an impressive amount of work done in such a short time. I really enjoyed sneaking around the warehouse and love the sound and animation when caught by the guards. Well done!
Tony Li
06. Apr 2022 · 00:53 UTC
Great job with the voice acting and animation! Having to stay on the lookout for pills was stressful in a fun way. I ran into one little issue: Pressing Ctrl + W closes the window, so I had to be careful when crouching to not accidentally close the WebGL game window.
Quartzite
06. Apr 2022 · 01:02 UTC
Fun game! The voice acting really sells it, and the stealth section feels extra engaging because of the timer counting down. It makes waiting for guards to walk by even more tense! Nice job!
LeoM
06. Apr 2022 · 09:59 UTC
I managed to finish it !(I think...? I turned zombie?)
Hopfully their is check point.

For those who are stuck, try to run(shift) and jump, that give invulnerability frames on gards !

Same problems, some checkpoints are not safe enouth and gards spot you immediatly
Nice voicesover, i did not get everything but nice ^^

The second part (after the warehouse) is easier and more interesting that the first.

Good job on animations too.
ArianaD
06. Apr 2022 · 13:12 UTC
First Game I played with Voiced Lines!!! Really good job! I'm horrible at stealth games, but I still tried a couple times LOL, It was fun and you were really able to capture the atmosphere!
Jesse Martin
06. Apr 2022 · 15:52 UTC
Its an impressive amount of work in such a short time, one thing don't know if it was deliberate or not but the puzzles didn't reset when you died, so you could run grab the key die (that animation never got old) and then walk to the door
sillyman987
08. Apr 2022 · 12:58 UTC
NO WAY! My game practically the same as yours!
sillyman987
08. Apr 2022 · 13:09 UTC
Unfortunately I was caught in a loop of constantley being seen after I respawned, but still impressive.
real_flamingicecubegames
08. Apr 2022 · 13:57 UTC
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Impressive open world, fun gameplay, and it was a decent length too. Probably one of the greatest game over animations I've seen. I don't really have anything negative to say about it.
🎤 Arthur Mairs
08. Apr 2022 · 16:08 UTC
@real-flamingicecubegames Thanks for the feedback, the group had a lot of fun making this game! the game over animation is definitely a highlight!
someone
08. Apr 2022 · 19:21 UTC
Its an impressive town with a lot of detail there for the time constraint.
Some of the outdoor areas were a but far with nothing interesting to do but hold w.
I found I could ignore the guards a lot of the time and just blast through the map.
The camera ends up pointing somewhere random whenever I clicked in the webgl version which was annoying.
The exclamations of the npcs was a nice touch. Could have done with some music though.
I appreciate the autosaves, though I did get caught in a loop of being seen for a bit.
AmyE123
10. Apr 2022 · 11:28 UTC
Really interesting game! I love how you had voice acting, and just bumping into the NPCs gave me a laugh! Very detailed there with the NPC feedback!

I couldn't get further than the inside of the warehouse as I kept getting caught, but I loved how the guards would punch you down, nice little cutscene there!
OnlinE_Play
10. Apr 2022 · 11:32 UTC
deserves for a lot fame. There's so much effort: NPC are talking and game starts with the cutscene! Good job!
lpettler
11. Apr 2022 · 17:36 UTC
Played on the Web version:

Extremely ambitious concept for a Game Jam. The random street people voice lines and the kick to the coin purse when caught in the warehouse made me laugh - very nice touches. The stealth genre in not one I'm very good at and it's barebones approach here (which I fault more to the limited time of a Jam) made it very hard for me to get through. The suggestion for a minimap would have been a huge upgrade.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with this game and was very impressed with the amount of work and attention that was put into this Jam. Great job!
Don Fouts
11. Apr 2022 · 20:25 UTC
I played both the web version and the windows build. The web version ran really slowly, but I think that may have been an issue on my side. For a jam game you were able to get a lot done and I really like the stealth mechanics. The use of lighting to create a mood was great. The audio peaked a bunch or sounded like it was recorded in a room with an echo. Having some sort of lean mechanic to look around corners and not get caught would have been helpful, though after getting caught a few times I was able to learn the guard patterns. Overall I think this is a nice entry, great work!
Daniel MacCormick
14. Apr 2022 · 00:15 UTC
Great work!

This is really cool! I am super impressed that you managed to fit fully voiced cutscenes into a game jam game!

I had some performance issues on web, but it seems like it is much better when downloaded. While I liked everything, my favourite feature was definitely the short voice lines that the NPC's played when you walked by them. That was a really nice touch!
gamescodedogs
18. Apr 2022 · 16:30 UTC
Really funny game! All sound are very amusing! I like atmosphere you made, that's cool!
koalatte
19. Apr 2022 · 07:07 UTC
had a good chuckle with the game over sequence :laughing: nice one!
LCStark
19. Apr 2022 · 19:02 UTC
An impressive amount of work for such a short time! I got a few laughs out of it. ;) I loved the NPC's lines, it was a rather unexpected feature to find in a jam game.

I see most of the issues I had with the game (performance and controls in the web version) have already been mentioned by other people, so there's not much for me to add here. Perhaps one thing I'd change is the wording on the hover text when pointing at a pill bottle - it says "left mouse button to use", but left mouse button just picks it up, and you have to use it with "E". Come to think of it, is there any reason to hold on to them instead of always using them immediately? In that case, it might be better to just auto-use the pills on pickup.

Oh, and it would also be great to have an option to skip cutscenes - I had to restart the game a couple of times and couldn't skip past the intro.