Little Steps
Winner of Women in Games Jam 2021 'Best Overall Game'
In order to take on the bigger things in life, one must start with the small, taking things in little steps...
A game about the struggles one can have in overcoming obstacles, both physical and mental on an ordinary day, and how our direct atmosphere can affect us. The player must tend to and interact with the environment around them in order to improve their state of mind and have enough energy to step out into the world.
A project by Dream Team for The Women in Games Jam 2021 with the theme Atmosphere
Dream Team is an Australian four member team of participants consisting of:
- Amanda Parks | Programming & Tech Art
- Jane Wei | Music & Sound Design
- Samantha Handley | 3D Art & 2D Art
- Harley Brown | Narrative Design, Script Writing, Voice Acting & 2D Art
Check-List 4 Today:
- Turn on the lava lamp
- Empty the old pizza box
- Eat some breakfast
- Let some sunlight in
- Water the cactus
- Hang up fairy lights
- Put trash in the bin
- Put away clothes basket
- Deal w clothes on chair
- Pick up clothes on floor
- Hang up the posters
- Put on fresh T-Shirt
- Stick Glow-in-dark stars
- Crack open window 4 air
- Make the bed
- Put on pants!
How To Play
Move: W A S D
Look around: MOUSE
Examine/Close Text: E
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
extremely fun little game I have a couple of polish ideas if you are still working on it and honestly, you can turn this into a commercial game if you find someone to invest in it
ok so ideas are
1- put the list inside the game I know you probably ran out of time but every game element should be inside the game :)
2- I think it would be better if the music started right off the bat maybe something sad at first and gradually changed throughout the cleaning process I know dynamically changing music is pretty hard but I believe in you, Jane Wie \(^o^)/
3- there seems to be a few bugs (again I know time, the ultimate game killer) with the text box not showing up when prompted :( also dynamic scaled text always remember accessibility some people might struggle with the text size and it's very easy to forget this one unfortunately
4- a little ding when you complete one of the lists items as well as visually seeing a checkmark humans love to see items crossed off the list very good in delivering more dopamine aka fun (if you want to try one of those productivity apps like Habitica and you'll see what I mean)
5- a major thing is adding a visual way to distinguish objects once colour starts changing it is very hard to see what you're clicking at in the end (an outline might help highlighting when there are multiple objects in the camera's view)
6- keep making games you girls have a bright future :)
Great game, I enjoyed following the list, getting the room tidy and feel like things were actucally improving step by step.
Veryyyyyy cute!!! I liked it, nice aethetic, very please to play this :))) there were 2 texts I couln't see but it's still really nice! great job
Thank you so much for playing our game! And on a personal note, I'm so glad you could enjoy it despite the bugs! ^^;; I was the programmer and it was my first time doing raycasting and UI. I'm looking forward to finishing it properly now we have time and I hope you will try it again! <3
Played the game and I ran into a lot of bugs. I played it both on the web browser and through the itch.io app download.
1. Sometimes text boxes will appear and disappear very quickly for some items. (EX: Squirrel Doll)
2. When trying to pick up some trash on your desk (near the computer) the trash doesn't seem to disappear. You can continue to click on the trash to clean it up adding to the red bar infinitely.
3. It looks like more color is supposed to be added the more you clean your room, but that effect never happened for me. You can use the arrow keys to add this effect (the cheat effect) but the effect never occurs naturally.
4. For the itch.io app version, after you complete the game, the mouse cursor will not appear, making you unable to select the choices. I had to force quit using alt + F4 (or by alt tabbing, then closing the window by click the X button in the tab)
This is a short, neat game, wish there was more things to interact with and do though! Music was chill! And when fully in color, it looks pretty nice!
Thank you for playing our game! \(^o^)/ We're glad you enjoyed the music and art style. Unfortunately we ran out of time to iron out the bugs (hence the arrow button hack :p) but we plan to upload another version when it's all fixed up. I didn't know there was an itch.io app! We'll make sure to test in that in the future.