I love games like Myst and this game definitely gave me the same vibes! I was intrigued by how you managed to make this 3D environment look and feel so much like a real 3D photo?! Complete with the same little artifacts and such that you'd get a with a real camera, that was quite cool. The controls however I found a little hard to use and even disorienting at times. I'd rather be able to click and drag around the 3D photo like with Google streeview for example. I was also able to find the key, but had no idea how to open the gate... And then I got lost haha. I wish I had come further because I love the vibes of the game! I hope you keep working on it, it definitely has a great adventurous spirit to it. Thanks for participating to the jam, and congrats on finishing a game!
Thanks for the feedback. The inventory system can be a bit fiddly. You have to hover the cursor near the bottom center of the screen, then the inventory should pop up.
As for the mouse movement, it's best to drag the view around slowly. I might reduce the camera movement speed in a later version.. I'll probably be keeping the current joystick-like camera controls.
One place (or node) in the game's 3D environment is made up of 6 square images, all taken from different angles (every 90 degrees, front, right, top etc.) from a 3D scene rendered in Blender. These 6 images are configured to the faces of a cube to form a 360° panorama / 3D photo seen in the game. Not really that high-tech of a system :)
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neat graphics! I included it in my Cozy Spring Jam 2023 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look!
I love games like Myst and this game definitely gave me the same vibes! I was intrigued by how you managed to make this 3D environment look and feel so much like a real 3D photo?! Complete with the same little artifacts and such that you'd get a with a real camera, that was quite cool. The controls however I found a little hard to use and even disorienting at times. I'd rather be able to click and drag around the 3D photo like with Google streeview for example. I was also able to find the key, but had no idea how to open the gate... And then I got lost haha. I wish I had come further because I love the vibes of the game! I hope you keep working on it, it definitely has a great adventurous spirit to it. Thanks for participating to the jam, and congrats on finishing a game!
Thanks for the feedback.
The inventory system can be a bit fiddly. You have to hover the cursor near the bottom center of the screen, then the inventory should pop up.
As for the mouse movement, it's best to drag the view around slowly. I might reduce the camera movement speed in a later version.. I'll probably be keeping the current joystick-like camera controls.
One place (or node) in the game's 3D environment is made up of 6 square images, all taken from different angles (every 90 degrees, front, right, top etc.) from a 3D scene rendered in Blender. These 6 images are configured to the faces of a cube to form a 360° panorama / 3D photo seen in the game. Not really that high-tech of a system :)
Oh cool, well I love the look!
The inventory thing makes sense, I didn't know that. I'd maybe add that as a small tutorial on the itch page! Thanks for the answers :D