The art in this game is very simple but charming. I felt bad every time I killed the little guy :( But I found the deaths and the death text very humorous! At first I struggled to understand how to get the dialogue working but then I figured it out. Very fun game to try and figure out where to exit.
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How does the game fit the theme?
The game is a logic puzzle with some exploring. As a prisoner, you must question the other prisoners about how to escape. All will lie except one, so you can trust no one's answer. I found this theme hard; it took me four days to come up with a reasonable idea that I could complete. I wish the game had a more in-depth questioning system, but the limited time meant I had to keep the scope small, so only a superficial clue system was implemented.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Art assets: about 75% were created and extended my existing Black-and-White Dungeon Tileset. All animations, except for the main player (which reused existing animations), were created for this jam. The tileset was mostly redrawn and extended with 50% new tiles; I was fixing issues with the previous tileset I had created.
All art and animation were created using Aseprite.
The game was created using Unity, with Rider. 80% or more of the code was written from scratch during the jam, with Copilot disabled. 15% was reusing my own existing code. 5% was generated code to solve a single bug fix that I could not solve on my own.
For text, I use Grammarly because I am dyslexic; it makes generative suggestions and corrections to make my writing at least readable.
Sound and music are from Pixabay. Some sounds were modified and cropped using Audacity.
How many people worked on the game?1
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Thank you for your feedback. I have answered many of your bugs and feedback in other posts here.
The death counter is a new suggestion; I do like the idea. I was thinking about having a small achievement system (to help signpost some of the hidden parts, like the tunnel to Princess, aka Pink Lady)
Thank you for playing.
Thank you for the feedback.
You have a good point, and in the updated version (available after the voting period ends), I now have a small intro scene that serves as a soft tutorial in which you will need to interact with a key and a door, and an NPC gives a short intro explaining that the other NPCs will all lie except one.
3 days ago(+1)
Fair criticism of the dialogue text. First time trying to implement one. It is harder than it looks. Already got improvements coming after the voting period finishes.
Glad you enjoyed the deaths; it's the most enjoyable part of developing the game.
Thank you for the feedback and for playing my game.
3 days ago (+1)
Well done, someone else had a video that shows me where the hole in the wall is that should not be there.
Thanks for playing.
That spike was initially put there for testing, and I had left it there and kept running over it in testing. Then the evil thought was to leave it in, but I did put a warning sign next to it. I just put it in the right spot to catch those who naturally like to move down at the beginning.
The dialogue system was the bare minimum to get the job done. Currently rewriting the whole dialogue code atm (see InDevelopment link). Already added a text type effect, which makes it so much better.
(Test bug already explained in another post/faceslap moment)
Thank you for the feedback and for playing my game.
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