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Escape Paradise

By brad-kavanagh

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness608
Humor722.82
Theme1053.48
Audio1232.83
Overall1533.17
Fun2102.79
Graphics2342.79
Innovation3862.21
Community4061.79

Comments

gornova 2011-08-22 20:41

add some wandering enemies :D

p.s: epic intro music!

brad-kavanagh 2011-08-22 21:10

Hey Gornova!

I really wanted to make the spiders wander (they have a full spritesheet to support it) but I just ran out of time. If I had another 6 hours I would have made them wander, animated the player, and added some game music... but such is the nature of LD48, I suppose! :)

Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you have a deep appreciation of my beatboxing. Untz Unts Untz. <o/

pgil 2011-08-22 21:31

I got stuck in a wall moving from that room in the first screenshot (with the spider) to the left. Still, a nice little game.

brad-kavanagh 2011-08-23 07:34

Ah shoot, I thought I removed all instances of that happening. :( I should have added an 'escape' hotkey for the compo that places you right in the middle of the room. Would have taken 3 minutes and prevented that from happening for LD.

wbobeirne 2011-08-23 07:43

Sorry to hear the time got the best of you, the game definitely would've been improved by some more challenges and animations. Still, very cute game and great work.

jedi 2011-08-24 09:16

As mentioned, animations would be nice but I found it to be, short, simple and charming as-is :).

In-game music is the only way it's really lacking, IMHO. A little more challenge wouldn't hurt either but I thought having to gather food was enough, possibly perfect for LD.

I especially liked the visual theme and look of the character :).

paulsb 2011-08-24 13:06

I quite liked this! A bit thin on gameplay but it was surprisingly pleasing to wander around the island looking for supplies :)

richmakegame 2011-08-25 00:34

pretty fun! but, I'm sad that this is the second 'stuck on a desert island' game I've played this compo where you can eat dodgy mushrooms, and there's no trippy visuals. Son I am dissapoint :P anyway apart from that well done :)

brad-kavanagh 2011-08-25 08:08

@wbobeirne, yeah, I would have loved to add some more challenges or at least moments where the player has to think. I have learnt a lot about pacing from this LD, so hopefully my next one is a bit better.

@jedi, if you watch my timelapse you'll see me fighting with myself to do the character animations. I feel like I'll never do them justice, so I just postponed it... indefinitely. ;)

@PaulSB, I'm glad you enjoyed wandering aimlessly!

@Rich, had I known my competition would be mushroom trips, I would have upped my game! :) How can I compete with that?!

Thank you guys so much for checking it out!

matthias_zarzecki 2011-08-30 14:23

Nice solid work!

The basic mechanic (collect stuff) is nice, and the size of the island is just big enough for exploration, but not too big to get lost.

brad-kavanagh 2011-08-31 23:51

@matthias

Thanks! The world was supposed to be 8x8, but I'm happy I scaled down or it would have been so incredibly boring. ;) 4x4 is a good enough size for the scope of the game I ended up with.

tulrath 2011-09-02 03:00

Collision, combat, inventory, hunger - that's a LOT of systems for such a short compo, I'm impressed you got them all working! Fun to play, the hunger mechanic makes it pretty challenging too.

Nicely done!

tcstyle 2011-09-04 11:15

Yeah, escaped! It was very close.
I like the mouthmade sounds. Got stuck once in a wall after changing the screen.

summaky 2011-09-04 11:28

I agree that the gameplay lacks some variety and is somewhat boring, but the idea is sound. The intro music is awesome!
:-D

recursor 2011-09-09 02:21

Loved the intro music. Some walking animation for the guy would be cool (I know time constraints). I quite enjoyed this, although I wish there were more to do.