...Sorry for Your Loss ...
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Description:
You find yourself in your home after the strike of tragedy. To discover the truth you must collect six scattered cassette recordings.
Controls:
- W, A, S, D or Arrow Keys
- Click the tape recorder in the top left to access or stow your cassette tape collection.
This game was created for the 2020 "I Can't Write But Want To Tell A Story" Game Jam hosted by Charlmes.
The optional theme was "Lost".
Special Thanks to:
SoundBible for providing the public domain cassette tape sound effec
My Wife for her love and support.
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Install instructions
Once you are finished downloading unzip the file and enjoy the story. For Windows downloads the app has not been set up yet but if you select the exe file it should open the game for you.
Development log
- Bug Fixes!Aug 13, 2020
Comments
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As others said, I wasn't expecting a platformer in this jam, but the retro aesthetics mixed with getting the story from tapes, everything was a great combination!
I'm horrible at platformers so that one area absolutely killed me with the wall. Felt great at the end though when I finally got through, so a great level scale!
I couldn't quite figure out what the bat was for, I thought it was a enemy at first but I didn't receive any damage from it. It just followed me around the room. Which was neat with the light on it, I fell like if I took more time I could've got it to darker areas.
I liked the attention to the small details. Like the light switches. And the small control tutorial, I would add in how to open and close the tapes, the first time I kept hitting all buttons to close and clicking out, finally closed with space.
I loved the little duck:
I brought it with me as far as I could. And using it down that dark hallway was such a cool idea!
I second everyone's suggestions on voice acting with the tapes. And, I ran into a death issue as well. Just the animation for death kept replaying as I got transferred to the start of the zone. I think it's because I started moving during the animation. It eventually solved itself when I gave it time to get through the whole animation.
It was a wonderful job, especially considering the time frame! The art was great, and I really liked the idea of telling a story only using pieces of dialogue from the tapes. Keep up the great work!
I like the aesthetic of this game a lot! The main thing that I found a bit strange was the keybindings felt a bit awkward to me. I think it would've been better if tab opened your cassette inventory instead of space so that space could be jump. It also wasn't immediately clear to me that I was supposed to click on the cassette tapes, so a small instruction for that might have been nice. I liked that there were checkpoints, but having a couple of lives before going back to that checkpoint might have been good as well. Overall, really good job, though! I enjoyed it.
Thank You! I appreciate the feedback.
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