Shut (WIP, jam)

xyz

DaveTheCoder Will you be providing the project folder on github, so that it can be downloaded and run in the Godot editor?

Not likely. I see no reason to publish the open project. Besides, it was put together hastily with the sole purpose of exploring the main mechanic. I wouldn't feel comfortable with people looking at my draft code.

xyz

Trying to wrap it up with a title screen, menus and some hints/instructions. Those are always the most tedious but still necessary parts of any game project. I included an AAA style contextual hint system 😃. The minimap is now color coded as per @SeaApes suggestion. Yellow for rooms with all windows closed and green for completely shut rooms.

I also removed the Remnant counter. There's more tension if you don't know how many Remnants are still present in the building.

xyz

The game is published. There's no browser version. Whoever is interested - can try it out. Any feedback is appreciated.
https://nenad2d.itch.io/shut

Here's also the latest gameplay video:

DaveTheCoder

xyz Any feedback is appreciated.

I can't run it, since I use Linux. And I wouldn't download an executable. (You asked for any feedback.)

Tomcat

xyz The Remnant is triggered when the last window's shutter is completely down. There's a short time between clicking on the window and its full closure, in which you can escape the room if the window is close enough to one of the doors.

This could have been hidden under a spoiler. 😺 Finding such workarounds that are not specified in the rules is the greatest pleasure.

xyz

Tomcat This could have been hidden under a spoiler. 😺 Finding such workarounds that are not specified in the rules is the greatest pleasure.

Right I'll keep silent about it from now on and remove it from the hints. This is not easy to find though and may be tactically significant on larger maps. Statistically, it'd take some critical mass of player which is unlikely to happen.

There's one other such "aha" thing that is easier to "discover" - that you can wait for the light and heal yourself at the same time using the same clock resource.

Tomcat

xyz Right I'll keep silent about it from now on and remove it from the hints. This is not easy to find though and may be tactically significant on larger maps. Statistically, it'd take some critical mass of player which is unlikely to happen.

Well, the creation of the game is still condemned here, and mentioning this mechanism is quite reasonable. So, on my part, the spoiler is more of a joke (I tried to emphasize this with an emoji). But I wanted to say that I like such workarounds (and I suspect I'm not the only one).

Gowydot

The shutting sound effects is asmr 😃 Could turn this into a great anomalies puzzle game similar to platform 8

xyz

I re did the room layout generator. What I had initially was a bit buggy and sometimes produced unreachable rooms. It now does proper binary subdivision and removes enclosed rooms at every iteration, in order of their size. This results in more "natural" looking layouts, no orphan rooms, better cyclicity of the layout, while still having some nice elongated "corridors". It also guarantees at least one windowed wall in every room (not including the ceiling).

I enabled the glow. Now you can "feel" the sun frying you 🙂

Those updates will be uploaded as soon as the jam voting finishes.

xyz

Been visually enhancing the game a bit. Added some carpeting and visible grids when windows are closed. It's subtle but adds a lot to the mood.
Btw you can vote for the game at: https://itch.io/jam/isolation/rate/3892910
Or - god forbid - play it and tell me what you think.

xyz

The game principally won the jam. It ended up first in all categories except Playability where it placed second. The other game is pretty well done too. The primary criteria was Story & Theme Integration.
https://itch.io/jam/isolation/results

In hindsight, I should have done it for a more prominent jam but I really liked the theme of this one.

kuligs2

xyz i expected no less than 1st place from you. well done!

ArDanZ11

xyz Not surprised, you are good at making games.

Toxe

Nice, good job!

xyz

@kuligs2 @ArDanZ11 @Toxe
Thank you!

Gowydot

congrats!!

MikeCL

Nice one, big congrats!

ArDanZ11

xyz This thing doesn't have viruses right? I saw someone asking about why Windows thought there were viruses in it

xyz

ArDanZ11 This thing doesn't have viruses right? I saw someone asking about why Windows thought there were viruses in it

No. One user had a false positive to a wacatac trojan script by windows defender. Which happens quite commonly. If you get something similar, look at the discussion above the jam entry: https://itch.io/jam/isolation/rate/3892910
This false positive doesn't happen with the newly updated version I've just put up. So make sure to download that.

ArDanZ11 I just ran into a remnant, it was really creepy, and I almost freaked out

Oh, I thought it wasn't creepy enough 🙂

ArDanZ11

Ok, I like this game

ArDanZ11

I just ran into a remnant, it was really creepy, and I almost freaked out

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