What A Time To Be Alive by Pyshnyy

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made by Pyshnyy for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Have you ever wanted to have the experience of flying from the comfort of your own home? Chasing brightly burning food, the snake fills everything in this gloomy space with its body and it is only up to you how fed up it will be and when it will eventually start chewing itself up.

This game is a reinvention of the usual snake game. This is our first time participating in a Game Jam, and we only recently started learning Unreal Engine 5. It was a great opportunity to practice and work as a team. We got a lot of fun. Thanks to Ludum Dare. :>

Also a special thanks to our friend, Nikita, who recorded the food sounds.

π‚πŽππ“π‘πŽπ‹π’: - For movement just point in the right direction. - 𝐄𝐒𝐂 to exit - 𝐑 to restart - 𝐏 to enter photomode (needs a restart after)

Enjoy.

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Ratings

Overall 870th 3.205⭐ 24πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Fun 819th 3.114⭐ 24πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Innovation 967th 2.795⭐ 24πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Theme 723th 3.409⭐ 24πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Audio 588th 3⭐ 23πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Humor 386th 3.263⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Mood 838th 3.167⭐ 23πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Given 27πŸ—³οΈ 21πŸ—¨οΈ

Feedback

jellycopter
03. Oct 2023 Β· 01:02 UTC
Managed to play a little, I like the idea here. However, performance wise I could barely get my framerate into the double digits. Would love to play a more performant build.
Wook
03. Oct 2023 Β· 01:05 UTC
'What a time to be alive' 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh' this is the best sound design ive heard in this jam. good game!
MatthewDrake
03. Oct 2023 Β· 11:46 UTC
Cool atmosphere and funny sound effects. I wasn't able to get far, but I enjoyed what I played. Nicely done!
thebmxeur
03. Oct 2023 Β· 11:47 UTC
Same as jellycopter, the perfs were bad on my machine (and I my opinion the visuals did not justify it). An average of 17fps, which made it quickly very hard to do anything after a few speed pickups. The sound for the pickups was really annoying to me.
LDJam user 4312
03. Oct 2023 Β· 14:58 UTC
Really weird (in a good way) take on 3D Snake. The hit detection felt a bit off sometimes (failing out of nowhere) but overall interresting game.
TeamLDM
04. Oct 2023 Β· 00:13 UTC
Woah this was really cool! It felt super weird to see my tail behind me in the first person. I really felt like some kind of dragon snake creature. I only got to 12, but I was making some really sick maneuvers!

Would be interesting if you also accumulated time-based points on some kind of logarithmic scale πŸ€”
🎀 Pyshnyy
04. Oct 2023 Β· 22:26 UTC
@jellycopter @thebmxeur performance is an issue we found out about when we started the playtests, so about 1-2h before the deadline... We tried some things out to fix it and it did become much better than it was, but it still is far from perfect. Sorry you couldn't enjoy it fully, we will give our best make a better performing game for the next jam :)
Ladylpcr
04. Oct 2023 Β· 23:33 UTC
I really like this game, the audio is fun and the atmosphere is scary !
Raphiell
05. Oct 2023 Β· 03:19 UTC
First game so far that has made me laugh out loud. Well done, and nice take on snake. I love it!
asfdfdfd
05. Oct 2023 Β· 19:24 UTC
Human made sounds are the best ones.
Griddolini
06. Oct 2023 Β· 14:45 UTC
lol the sound. I like the mechanic, simple and pretty fun.
sansen
10. Oct 2023 Β· 07:39 UTC
Interesting game, good idea, I like the sounds.
Daniel G
10. Oct 2023 Β· 13:23 UTC
Great sounds and mechanics. This game have a great mood, and it’s satisfying to play!
mvasko2
10. Oct 2023 Β· 16:03 UTC
I like the idea of a 3D snake in a continuous environment. I liked the graphics, the overall atmosphere, and it was pretty fun to play.

Like others mentioned, the performance wasn't the best, but it was playable on my machine.

I must say I'm not a big fan of the sounds. When I took the first ball, I thought I did something wrong, because the scream was so loud and scary (maybe just lower the volume?). I would have expected a more cheerful sound, I only knew I did the right thing by looking at the score.

Overall, nice work. Pity about the sounds and the performance, but it's a good game to kill some time with :slight_smile:
Harksa
10. Oct 2023 Β· 19:22 UTC
It's a nice game ! It's a good idea to have a Snake in 3D. Unreal Engine wanted to burn my pc though !

Keep up the good work :smile:
A.Bond
12. Oct 2023 Β· 06:15 UTC
The sound of picking a ball sounds like a Serious Sam reference.

This game leaves a surreal impression. And the size and requirements of Unreal Engine are part of this surreal picture.