Salacius Crumb's Small Journey

mrnyarlathotep 2017-05-02 11:05

Very interesting concept and 100% accurate simulation of what my keyboard looks like, but very very difficult - the time window where keys are valid to enter and not get stuck or squashed is very short, and often you are stuck with no 'safe spot' to jump to as all surrounding keys are sticky or being mashed. A bigger gap between seeing a shadow and a finger coming down would help a lot, or making sure there is a minimum 'safe time' between a splash and a finger to escape.

I found the idea that to a crumb bread is their god very funny, and could see this working with a bit of a balance pass to be more forgiving as a sort of comedy Frogger / Crossy Road type game

ian-w 2017-05-02 17:23

In the browser, this game was hard to control. I am going to download it later, it was just nearly impossible to play in the browser

overmolo 2017-05-02 18:37

Thank you for your comment. You're right, the browser version doesn't work very well...

elektropapst 2017-05-08 16:21

Really interesting game with a very nice concept. I would suggest other inputs: Move the crumb along the keyboard by using your keyboard, i.e. if you press a valid adjacent key (regarding your position) the crumb moves to that key. All in all a very pretty game, which fits the theme very well. I like it :)

overmolo 2017-05-12 15:09

Yeah, thank you. This is one of the ideas that we were thinking about. We think it's a very interesting mechanic. Thank you for the feedback :)

karln 2017-05-18 10:20

argh I kept getting squished even though I visibly moved away before the finger landed :(

It's a shame it's so hard to play, the idea is really fun and I wanted to see more of the story...

re @elektropapst's idea, I think it's interesting but in practice there's probably too much difference between keyboards for it to work? Which is a shame.

mrsmith33 2017-05-18 14:49

+1 for using voxels here!

s-ol 2017-05-18 15:14

Very hard but cool game with nice music. Do you know keyboard sports? That control scheme would have worked very well here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJkMyl-BOs

madalaski 2017-05-18 15:42

Voxels? 8-bit soundtrack? Enlarging perspective on an everyday piece of our modern world? It's like you took all of my favourite indie game stuff and put it in one entry! Congrats!