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A jam submission

Fire EscapeView game page

A Text based Adventure Game.
Submitted by Sesso Kosga (@sessokosga) — 1 day, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Completeness#54.0004.000
Intention#64.5564.556
Overall#94.1334.133
Implementation#113.8893.889
Presentation#153.6673.667
Linux compatibility#174.5564.556

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Wow TIC-80, I didn't expect that. Really cool.

When it comes to gameplay, i really like the "escape room" idea. One this I was missing was more "visual" help when it comes to directions. Like for example a minimap, to help me figure out where I'm at.

Great job, I enjoyed it very much and would love to play a "full version" of this ;-)

Developer

Thanks

Submitted

That's cool you gave pico a try!  I would not have been as brave.

It's a nice, short game.  The timer combined with a text adventure is interesting.  I usually don't like timers in games, but it helps to amp up the excitement here and isn't such a short timer to be penalizing.

If you haven't already, check out my game and let me know what you think!  Thanks!

Developer

Thanks

Host (1 edit) (+1)

I love this!

Small piece of trivia - I made a text based/imagination oriented game about navigating a burning building for the very first Linux Game Jam back in 2017.

I really enjoyed the sense of urgency that the timer gives, and I though the puzzle chain was nicely executed.

I found myself wishing that there were some sound effects for interactions and movement, but I don't think the game is significantly diminished by not having any, and I'm not sure whether TIC-80 games have explicit size limits.

I would love to play a bigger game like this.


One thing to note - your instructions do not mention the need to give the game binary executable permissions.

If you are on Linux or MacOS and had set that before uploading, it's worth knowing that those permissions don't survive when a file is transferred via HTTP. Executable permissions can be preserved inside zip files.

If you're on Windows and can't set that yourself, I made a free tool to help manage that.

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

I’m happy that you love it :).
Thank you for your remarks, I’ve updated the instructions.

Submitted

Help needed! I can't use the big hammer on the locked door.

Developer

Yeah. It’s intended. Try using it on the box.

Submitted (1 edit)

I got the key but can't open the door.  Also I'm disoriented :(

Developer

Can you send a screenshot ?

Submitted (2 edits)

Sorry, I tried again and it turns out I broke the box but didn't take the key. Overall this is a interesting game, the smoke bar makes me nervous. :) I haven't played text based game before and it did take me some time to adapt to it. 

Developer(+1)

It’s my first attemp to make a text base adventure game.
I’m very glad that it pleased you :).

Submitted

Nice real time element to a text adventure!

Developer

Thanks.