No Time For War
Made for the $104 Adventure Game Challenge.
This was my first game jam entry and like probably all new people I bit off more than I could chew for 2 weeks but I'm going to keep working on it over the next bit and finish it off.
This is just a small part of a much larger idea. Basically a war between 2 sides was started in this town, but nobody remembers or knows why it started. Your character grew up without parents and has had a single goal in life and that is to stop the war.
To do this through some arcane means he has developed a way to travel to the day the war started. The only clue you are given on how to stop it is a passage in a book in your home.
The gameplay is a point and click adventure where you travel between past and present versions of your home town and try to stop the cause of the war. The only clue to how to stop it is a history book that changes clues as to how the war started in the first place on that fateful day.
This entry is a VERY rough series of tasks to assassinate one of the kings that is thought to be the cause of the war. I am still working on the town in the present as I have only started to make it war torn ( its surprising how long it takes to destroy a town). Also I have only added a few few NPCs and interactable objects. The vast amount of the 2 weeks were used building the systems to accomplish the rest of the game.
When the game is complete I hope to have different avenues to accomplish the same task and a number of different cases for the war you must stop. Travelling between time at any moment will give you access to areas and items in one time that may not be available in the other.
As you complete your task you may find the present still remains as dark as ever, but another way to stop the war is revealed in the book. Will stopping a brawl between two groups of soldiers on rival sides or finding the missing son of the mayor stop this town from being destroyed?
Can the past really be changed?
Check back for a completed project in a few weeks or so.
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Hello. What you have so far looks really good. I'd seriously consider changing your style of camera though. The constantly changing camera perspectives is just disorienting when trying to navigate around.
Unfortunately, I have to remove this from the Adventure Game Challenge jam. Partly because in its current state, I don't know if it can really be called an adventure game. but mainly because I don't see how this game even remotely fits the theme of the jam.
Best of luck to you on developing it further. It's a cool idea.
I agree with your assessment of the cameras. Thank you for the feedback.