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A jam submission

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Guide lost ships home with the language of light. A calm night-time puzzle for the Uplifting Game Jam #9.
Submitted by rumisss13 — 4 days, 18 hours before the deadline
Rated by 15 people so far
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how the game fits the uplifting theme?
You are a lighthouse guiding lost ships home. No timer, no failure, no enemies. Each ship that reaches the pier lights a window in the town, and when the last one is home, the sun rises.

how the game fits the ocean theme?
The whole game is at sea at night. You signal ships with short and long flashes of light, then guide them past rocks and fog into the harbor.

please If you used any per-made assets or AI generated content credit them
Art: handmade by the team. Music: from Pixabay. Code and story text were generated with AI assistance and edited by the team.

Can you vote for other entries during the voting period? How many?
Yes. We will rate at least 15 entries.

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Submitted(+1)

Great game, beatiful, the mechanic was great implemented and funny to try and complete, very good art and development, very good job

Developer

Thank you so much for feedbacks. 

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I like the artwork!  

Side note: on both your jam page and itch page, there's still placeholder text in the description for things like your team members name and assets credits.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback! We just forgot to remove those texts. I am glad you liked the artwork

Submitted(+1)

Great game! Really cozy and lovely, and I like the morse code idea- it's so adorable how the boats just wait there until you communicate with them.
Would be great for mobile too!

The only small critique I have is the sound for the 'long' signal was a little grating, especially as the other sounds were quite nice. Found myself dealing with the ones who used the long signal first xD  -- of course, that might have been their plan all along!
Could be cool to have boats only show their code when you hover the mouse over them too? Makes it even more interactive.

Developer

We wanted to create a relaxing experience for the player. Happy to hear that you find this cozy!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Cool game, thank you.

Perhaps it would be more clear to make the bright time of day after the rocks switch a little longer to be able to orient. The animation of waves crashing on the rocks is a critical addition - the game would have been irritating without it.

It's also fantastic that you put options for the ship speed and beam width. It would be great to include a setting for the screen brightness too.

I got in a few situations where the large ship was bouncing off rocks from the left and the right. I think it was around 30 bumps - can a ship sink? I think it's just keeping track of the bumps - as far as I can see there are no bad consequences... I don't think a ship can go backwards even though that is a natural reaction (and they can go backwards in real life). Is it worth adding? Maybe if the bumps have an impact on the score.

"The largest ship comes home last. It always does."<== No, it didn't in the game! :P

Good luck!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your review! We weren't aware about the brightness problem, I guess all our team members using their machines at maximum brightness LOL! We are considering to develop this game further so we can add that feature later. We wanted a relaxing, risk free experience for the player so you just cannot lose :) Also you are right ships can go backwards and sometimes biggest one arrives first haha

Submitted(+1)

i think this is the game i rated the highest, the only thing that didn't convinced me is maybe the speed of the boats that is too slow and the fact that sometimes they "bug" into the lighthouse. but i liked so much the idea and the art!

Developer(+1)

I am really glad to hear that. Thank you so much for feedbacks. 

Submitted

you're welcome!!

Submitted(+1)

game is really good!

the only thing i don't like about it is the sound from the boats

it can get annoying sometimes when there all trying to get your attention at once

Developer(+1)

thank you so much for playing and feedback.

Submitted(+1)

I love the art assets made in this game. The morse code mechanic is an interesting take. The music of this game is one of the most uplifting ones among the game jam entries. The attention to detail on the waves hitting the rocks,  dolphins jumping out of nowhere, and the reflection on the boats makes feels nice, and how you've approached to add those features makes the game really uplifting. My only negative take on this entry is I dislike how you can only guide one ship at a time, making the other ships emit their loud signal noises. I think if you can guide multiple ships at once, that would be pretty satisfying. It would place the player to a decision on whether they shall guide more ships to advance the game faster but risk bumping into more rocks, or just guide one ship at a time to play safe if there's too many rocks.

Developer

That feedbacks really good for me thank you so much.

(+1)

Nice and casual gameplay. Matches the theme. Love that you can play with only the mouse.

Excellent work!

Developer

Thank you for playing i am glad to hear that

Submitted(+1)

Fun idea i like it

Developer

Thank you for playing.

Submitted(+1)

love it. best game of the jam so far

Developer

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you!