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IanLindsey112 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

What a great looking, unique game with some really nice controls and feel to it.

First of all, I LOVE the look of it .It didn't really fit the summer vibe of the jam, but this has it's own style and had it in spades! The character is awesome and brings a lot of life to it, along with the unique controls of him - and they work really well, including all the physics of the character.

However in contrast, I felt moving around the world was just too clunky for me, especially with the hands, grabbing the floor and dragging it was a hit & miss affair and became a little awkward at times. Using the controllers with the thumbstick worked much better though.

Shame it wasn't finished, I can see where it was going and I would've really liked to have seen the game play part of building a camp and surviving whatever hazards you were going to put in.

Overall, a really fun, unique experience (even though it's unfinished), a super polished character and art style. Would've really liked to see the gameplay elements in there, perhaps you could extend this post-jam?

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andyman404112 days ago(+1)

Thanks! The grab locomotion doesn't require grabbing the floor - it's just grab the air. But hand gesture recognition can be a bit fussy even in good lighting. In bad lighting it is a lot more of a hit & miss affair.

Now I realize that I totally forgot about the "Summer Spirit" aspect of the jam and just focused on the "Unhappy Camper" theme of it. I initially was planning on making this game happen in a summer camp area, but thought it'd be too conventional, so twisted it to be urban camping instead.

For the urban camping, I originally had a bunch of mini games planned before COVID-19 hit me. The garbage shelter building was going to be the first mini game - where you'd first place your sleeping bag, and would need to build protection from the rain from above while keeping a certain amount of empty space above the sleeping bag, while the rain and wind would progress and test your shelter. Then would have been a dumpster diving minigame where you bite the garbage bags and shake them around to open them and scatter their contents, and find food. Then the third part would have been to sneak to the other alleys to steal stuff without being seen by the humans.

I'm glad you had fun even though one of the minigames were done, and physics were wonky!

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