[SA Game Jam 2019] Shack Attack
SA Game Jam 2019
Shack Attack
Hobbyist?
48hr entry
2 man team(Ember Works team)
A game where multiple kind of natural(?) disasters happens, the player needs to use their safe time between disasters to gather material and upgrade the shack, tools, etc... Still a work in progress idea and how far we'll get we shall see :)
Shack Attack
Hobbyist?
48hr entry
2 man team(Ember Works team)
A game where multiple kind of natural(?) disasters happens, the player needs to use their safe time between disasters to gather material and upgrade the shack, tools, etc... Still a work in progress idea and how far we'll get we shall see :)
Comments
We only have a simple acid rain event where you are safe inside your shack as long as it has enough health, both you and the shack looses HP over time. Wood can be picked up and trees can be cut down to repair and upgrade the shack but we haven't done the repair/upgrade code yet. Also want to be able to upgrade your pickaxe so farming better material is easier. Wanted to do meteor showers/tornadoes and such but doubt we'll have the time to get started on that.
[Note] Last minute things made us forget that the terrain texture wasn't made by us.
I liked the timed hazard that added a sense of urgency to my search for resources. When I finally found them I was rewarded with a very satisfying sound (or animation, when chopping trees).
My two main suggestions would be to try get diagonal movement working, only being able to walk horisontally or vertically at a given time made movement feel limited (unless I was doing something wrong?). Also, there were times when I really wanted to rotate the camera and see where I was going, maybe the mouse could control the view?
I'd love to see the other hazards mentioned, in future!
We didn't really have any time to test the difficulty either but glad it worked out for you :) Ideally there would be things attacking the player as well while gathering resources or preview of disasters. Wasn't really sure on the camera use, we thought of trying 1st person as well.
to improve id say make some enemies and weapons to craft aswell as a heal item this will really make it interesting i think.
other than that its simple clean and easy to play with simple directions so good job id say!..just wish there was more to do.
You do heal slowly over time in the shack, I find the idea of playing safe gathering resources and the lower your health the safer you should be, if people want to be greedy, then there will be risks ;)