Through the Woods

isayneigh 2020-04-22 17:27

Don't sell yourself short! This was a good play. I have to say the concept of using UI elements to move your character was different, but not in a bad way. Personally I hate keyboard controls.

I feel like you payed close attention to User Experience because I felt like I could pick up the game real fast despite no obvious explanation of controls. So good job there!

While the graphics are free assets, I still appreciate the art. Using free assets so you can dedicate more time to development is a skill in itself. It's one I can learn better since I tend to spend too much time designing the game instead of handling logic.

Overall, what a good first game jam!

karreg 2020-04-22 17:27

The pixel is very good, but the UI is horrible :( It needed 4 minutes to me to understand how to grab the items on the ground. There is a lack of objectives also. We don't realy have a motivation to continue the game.

2020-04-22 17:28

Picking up objects - since one can click on the object on the screen anyway, why force the other button click?

Regardless, game works, there's some obvious tradeoff in action choice. I would be curious to see where you would have ended up if you'd had more time.

defiant-genesis 2020-04-22 17:39

The game is rather short and isn't very intuitive, especially with out any sort of tutorial to tell you how to play. But overall a rather cool submission.

undead-aubergine 2020-04-22 17:41

At first I didn't like how much bureaucracy was implicit in moving the character and picking items up. But after some time of play, I feel like you could exploit this mechanic even further and make something great: maybe using upgrades to make some things like pickup automatic, discovering new features that implies more complex UI interaction, using all sorts of inputs (sliders, switches, wheels...).