it's very immersive, it's almost like an horror game, but I've no idea what exactly I'm supposed to do, I died because of the worm, first time he just swallowed me, I saw nothing, next time I just the worm and died, then I survived, saw the mouth, got terrified by how big's the worm but no idea what do to next except playing with rocks my mech can't even grab uh. But really impressive atmosphere ! you guys did a great job.
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You pretty much just have to pick a direction and book it with the worm, you can burn the hydroboost first-thing if you want for a free escape. After the first one or two extractions I don't think you see the worm again - but arguably the Eyes are worse. You have to make use of the scarecrow and speedboosts with those as soon as you start hearing weird stuff, I think. I did play on easy mode (😇) but I ended up maxing out my mech in this game lol.
I did miss the info tab. And the first time I was lucky enough to see the Eyes approaching I did pop cloak, but when they walked right up to the cloak border and just sat there for a few seconds, I boosted and hightailed it to an evacuation point lol. And yeah, I did really like this game - the arm being tough to use is my only constructive criticism; I had a friend play it and he was also impressed by the atmosphere and the kind of storytelling it accomplishes along with the cinematics/drop sequences. Really good within 2 weeks, imo.
I'm not sure if your team executed on the entire design idea or if you had to shrink scope, but it'd be interesting to see what more depth (maybe not just more content? But probably starting with more content) would look like in this game.
Sorry for my little guys behavior, I have no idea why they did that. The scope was tailor made for this jam, but I still overdid that a little, so ultimately I barely finished with time extension, absolutely drained. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it, that alone makes me motivated to continue development later on.