| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #6 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Overall | #7 | 4.046 | 4.046 |
| Use of the Limitation | #7 | 4.148 | 4.148 |
| Enjoyment | #11 | 3.852 | 3.852 |
| Presentation | #16 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
PixelPax (project management, programming, level design, modelling/animation, graphics), Eschen (programming, level design), AndreRoz+renejoseph (Music/sfx Composers),DieAnto(Pixel Art),CheapGrams.ttv(Pixel Art),Murapx(PixelArt),Jaya(Brainstorming/recruiting/misc)
Software used
Unity, Aseprite
Use of the limitation
Lighthouse operators; the air traffic control of the sea-- Who has less a lower tolerance for taking hits? Especially so for this special, manually-turned lighthouse operator: one crash, one monster, one slip up and it's all up in flames, protect those fragile ships at all costs!
Cookies eaten
In soviet Russia, cookie eat you. (Play to the end for some special twists!)
oh shoot, I'll make it last longer! That's great feedback, thank you!
Did you have ships crash without giving any warning? Sometimes ships will seem like they're on a collision course, but actually be aware of rocks and ready to steer around them. We used an a* pathfinding grid for this, so sometimes the fastest route is 2, tight, 60 degree turns around a rock (these guys are excellent sailors, heheh)
LOL yeah, I guess lighthouse operators have discovered the dominant strategy for this game. Thank you for playing!
Ahhh, yeah. Stopping the noise would be such a nice touch. You've got a good intuition for this stuff.
Someone else mentioned the lack of tutorial too and I can't seem to reproduce it in any browser. Does this screen not show up when you start the first level? Anyways, thanks for playing even though this didn't come up, it can definitely be frustrating when games don't teach you how to play!
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant tutorial about monsters and the fact that when you run out of fuel your lighthouse goes out (I didn't notice that indicator in my first play) and also, that screen is shown, but it doesn't have text "Hold Right click to refill lantern" (I play browser version). And as I said these are minor things, because the overall atmosphere and gameplay give a lot of satisfaction.
ooo, yeah, it looks like it's cropped wrong too. There's clearly some messed up scaling going on for you. I'm not able to reproduce this on my end, though (that screenshot was from itch/Chrome).
Do you have browser zoom turned on or are you using some alternative browser/extensions?
idk if you've ever released web versions before, but it can be a real pain because each browser does things a little differently and browser zooms can mess everything up, unfortunately. Yours actually looks like it's not obeying to the canvas pixel resolution specified on itch.
Oh, yes, you are absolutely right. When I don't click blue full-screen button in the right down corner, I see everything. But I don't have any zoom enabled. And also I use Yandex Browser, but as far as I know it uses chromium, so it should be similar to Chrome in such situations, but I may be wrong.
AHA! Thanks for helping me diagnose, you're the best!
I'll see if I can find a way to remove the fullscreen option in Unity WebGL build.
Hey Becca, thank you for commenting! You can hold right click to fill the lantern with more fuel. There are supposed to be instructions for this in the first level at the bottom of the screen, are they not showing up? I know some users have had issues with the canvas scaling strangely if their browser is zoomed in.
I'm so happy to hear you played all the way to the end, we spent a lot of effort on the final day and it means so much to me that you committed to finishing the game. Thank you :)
Hey PonPonSmite, I've taken your feedback and added a power curve to the game. Now there's a shop where you can improve the lighthouse, and the rotation of the beam is now Slerp'd and limited by how much you've upgraded. I've also added a system for refilling the lantern oil which I'm hoping will keep the game more engaging.
If you have time to give this another look/rating , I would be so interested in what you think of the changes! :)
I should have some time to play your game tomorrow
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