Saving Private Morse by fgreeman
Your goal is to guide a soldier to the exit while navigating a dangerous battlefield. However, you can’t simply tell him which direction to move. you must send signals using Morse code with only a single button!
This game is my first attempt at participating in a game jam (compo actually) and my first attempt at creating something beyond a clicker. I could have done more, but it is what it is). The game is super short, no sounds at all btw. So in case if you think that music is not working, that's not a bug))). There's also a SECRET code, that is doing a thing.
Ratings
| Overall | 163th | 3.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 157th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 45th | 3.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 72th | 4.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 83th | 3.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 116th | 2.75⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 207th | 3.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
I would have add something in the UI to show when a click is considered as "long" and maybe more "turns" because the start is pretty much "going up" (maybe I had some chance on the snakes ?).
Great job anyways !
I think with just a single sound that you modulate slightly for the Morse input you could have elevated it even more!
I wish there was a checkpoint of each area because once I died in the vertical laser getting back took forever!
The obstacles should have some anticipation. Maybe an exclamation mark before something appears would have been nice to give the player more agency.
A button instead of clicking would have also been nice as mashing a key is nicer than clicking at least for me. :sweat_smile:
The artwork is phenomenal and fits together beautifully especially for a compo game that is super impressive! Keep up the great work!
I also tried sos or ld59 as the secret codes but I guess those are not it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I came until the laser-thingies inside the building where the ceiling was partially covering the view.
For the rest, I think Domenixius has some great feedback that I can stand behind :-)
Also, congratz on your first LudumDare entry!! How's your experience until now? :smile:
i could get though electric fences but not further (i guess it was lasers?), i think you had to add some kind of indication of current input, because sometimes i stucked because i couldnt get if i ended the last sequence of dots and dash and started new or i didnt, i hope i explained it well.
also my pc gave me bsod during game) but its okay i think