Forest Loop

Short game idea for JamSepticeye

The theme for Jamsepticeye is Death is an Opportunity!

This is a very early prototype of multi layer quest based horror adventure. This project was very ambitious for 5 days development cycle so I have to cut some corners. Some unfinished content was removed from the preview build.
There are many things to improve, for now try out the game and have some fun with it.

• only general animations
• short task descriptions, possible typos
• no translation, only English language
• some bugs here and there
• not optimized, stronger HW recommended
• saving is highly experimental, do not rely too much on it
• some areas feels empty

Why not SUBMITTED in Game Jam?

Due to a bug in Development Environment packaging system, I was not able to prepare the build on a time and spent last 5 hours fixing the issue. Total development time was 5 days, 3 hours 40minutes.
Unfortunately submissions were already closed by the time the game was successfully packaged.
After some days I decided to publish the game preview anyway, outside the game jam, just to share what I was able to create during those 5 days.

Gameplay

• player is allowed to try 3 different approaches to resolve the same situation
• death will end every attempt and player will start the story again from the beginning with opportunity to change the things a little
• every new attempt will also result in a small permanent change
• experience ends after collecting all the necessary items
• most of the tasks have visual indicators in form of a waypoint
• fall damage is disabled for preview version
• game uses physically based movement system, some areas will be harder to pass through