Excellent atmosphere, and the narration was on point (just a tad too loud though). 3D is hard to do at this scale mostly for the reasons you mentioned, but I found it to be well done here. Hope you do keep working on this!
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Loveland (64x64 Jam)'s itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Audio | #64 | 3.731 | 4.375 |
Graphics | #148 | 3.411 | 4.000 |
Overall | #191 | 3.278 | 3.844 |
Authenticity (Use of resolution restriction) | #250 | 3.624 | 4.250 |
Gameplay | #277 | 2.345 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
This was a fantastic team building experience for our studio! Participating in Game Jams helps your team learn to communicate in more efficient ways while also learning how to avoid feature creep and sunk cost fallacies.
Game & Level Design
Christopher Baracani
Twitter: @BaracudaDoom
Nick Jones
Programmer
Twitter: @NullifidianNick
Art & Animation
Shane Minetta
Twitter: @BonIsDead
Voice Acting
Bold King Cole
Twitter: @morrow_cole
Was the resolution a challenge?
When dealing with this type of resolution, Text is always an issue. We overcame a majority of the issues by utilizing specialty fonts, but there's always some kind of problem that will slip through. Another major issue was keeping the visual noise to a minimum so we can show a far more complex scene without suffering from a loss in visual fidelity. We found that using flat and vertex shaders opposed to Textures helped keep noise to a minimum
What did you learn?
We entered this jam with the intention of creating an immersive horror walking simulator that could be converted into a full-fledged product.
This was a genre we have not developed for before, so it was a very interesting experience. We found that a typical walking simulator can be even more immersive if you strive to have everything intractable as you do in an immersive sim. We will definitely be taking what we learned during this jam to turn "Loveland" into a full Steam release.
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