A Harrowing Journey by tylorlilley

made by tylorlilley for LD33 (COMPO)

A Harrowing Journey is a small adventure game that aims to really take this theme to heart! Do your best not to starve to death as you travel to the Grand City after suffering a mysterious curse. Good luck, because rumors have it there are monsters around these parts...

I used Game Maker Studio for the programming, Adobe Photoshop CS6 for the art, sfxr for the sounds and pulseBoy to make the music. My! That's a lot of tools!

NOTE: I found a fatal bug relating to the game's ending and have since fixed it and uploaded a new version, keeping everything else in tact. Please make sure that if you go to play it you have version 1.6, as that is the latest current version! Thanks!

Windows	http://tylorlilley.com/files/storage/ld33_ahj_v1.6.zip
Source	http://tylorlilley.com/files/storage/ld33_source_v1_6.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=26293

Ratings

Coolness	40%	1627
Overall	3.57	174

Audio	3.17	255
Fun	3.32	266
Graphics	3.05	483
Humor	3.07	309
Innovation	3.43	210
Mood	3.50	166
Theme	4.05	80

Feedback

patvanmackelberg

24. Aug 2015 · 14:45 UTC

That's the best score I've given so far - I'm not sure if there's a way to life the curse but it was fun getting into that city and killing some people! The music was good, set the mood, and kept with the style of game.

DeusOpus

24. Aug 2015 · 14:46 UTC

Very nice! An interesting decision to have the character be werewolf-esque, I was a bit confused the first time it happened (perhaps some sound to indicate the changing of day and night would be nice).I do think it would be nice if the player could move a little faster though, but I guess that could be a bit of impatience on my part.

PotatoGrader

24. Aug 2015 · 14:57 UTC

It was really hard. I barely got to the Grand City, but only at night.
Great night walking effect. And I really loved how you used the theme.

🎤 tylorlilley

24. Aug 2015 · 21:26 UTC

Thank you for your kind words you guys! It is definitely a hard game... @DeusOpus, there definitely is a loud flashing sound when day and night change... maybe it got lost in the midst of everything going on though! Haha.

ChosenCharacter

27. Aug 2015 · 23:23 UTC

You gotta change the name of your game.

Otherwise than that? I really like it. It's surprisingly free form, the fact that you put in all that NPC dialogue yet you can kill them all is a lot of effort and it definitely pays off.

I really like this, I think it's one of my favorite games in this LD so far.

fermenter

27. Aug 2015 · 23:32 UTC

Very nice work, Tylor! love the simplicity. Scared the heck out of me when I turned into a monster!

cgmorton

28. Aug 2015 · 01:42 UTC

Dangit, I accidentally pressed the sword button instead of the talk button, killed a guy, and got shot to death. Not the best way to go XD

If I had one complaint it's that it's hard to tell where you can move as the monster. e.g. I got stuck trying to eat the guy on the bridge and had to wait for day.

🎤 tylorlilley

30. Aug 2015 · 02:34 UTC

@ChosenCharacter: Haha, what is wrong with the name of the game? I am genuinely curious as to why you say I need to change it. Thank you for the rest of your kind feedback as well!

@The other two: Thank you also! I'm glad to hear people are enjoying it so much! It means a lot thanks :)

Biruts

01. Sep 2015 · 16:49 UTC

Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.

rogberth

01. Sep 2015 · 19:15 UTC

I love the theme!! Graphics are nice too although the only bad thing is the player's speed... nice entry!