Cool idea! Turns out surviving in a dark forest is not that easy. Who knew?!
One thing I missed in terms of UI was more visual hints on what is clickable. In the beginning I didn't realize I can relight the fire.
Good job!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Linux compatibility | #2 | 4.900 | 4.900 |
| Completeness | #18 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Intention | #21 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Overall | #23 | 3.680 | 3.680 |
| Presentation | #27 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Implementation | #32 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The downloadable binary worked well and had executable permissions set, etc., but I ended up running a modified version of the .py because I really couldn't have it extending over three monitors for a game that's not much bigger than 600x600 pixels.
I also fixed a crash when assembling the victory text, but I see that you resolved that in the meantime - good catch!
It took me a little while to realise that I could re-light the fire after snuffing it out. That's a nice mechanic that could perhaps be surfaced to users more directly.
The extra dialogue when clicking on your camping companion was a nice touch.
It's always nice to see a game with a beginning, middle, and end. Well done!
Ah ha, that makes sense. Personally, I prefer running everything in a window, so my workaround was a better fit for me than any properly behaving fullscreen mode would have been.
I think some kind of prompt or indicator might be a good idea. If it were my game, I'd probably lean toward having the other character respond to the fire going out and squeeze it in with that dialogue - though maybe that's not a good idea since it's easy to click through dialogue accidentally before having a chance to read it all.
One other thought on the re-lighting UI - since the bar was emptying, that made me feel like my embers were losing heat. Having the bar fill as it gets closer to being re-lit might be more intuitive.
wow we actually had the same thought process, I added in the refined version both a windowed option and a dialogue (if you enable tutorial dialogues) for lighting the fire back! There was the chance of you skipping it by accident, I initially just put an empty dialogue line before, but I just realized I already have a way to stop dialogue interactions with a timer. Also the bar growing instead of shrinking is a good idea, thank you!
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