Dampened Spirits
Mark's longtime rival Brandon is dead, and Mark can't wait to buy his company and close it down. But a nasty storm forces Mark to confront his past.
Use A and D keys to walk and W to climb. Move the mouse side to side to aim Mark's umbrella. Press space to carry, drop, and place objects. Be careful -- Mark can't use his umbrella while carrying and climbing!
Press ESC during gameplay to pause.
In dialogue scenes, left click the mouse to advance the story. You can also right click to skip dialogue.
Made for NDJam3!
- Theme: A dark and stormy night
- Optional sub-themes:
- Antagonist in mourning
- Rhyming dialogue
- Astronaut and Jolly
The team:
- Luke Ford (FordAudioDesign) - Music and SFX
- Aleece Harmon (aaleaf) - Art and animation
- Joshua S. Robinson (WordyRobin) - Writing and programming
- Henry Vargas (hvargas2) - Level design
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Development log
- Dampened Spirits updated to v1.2Jul 20, 2021
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Umbrella mechanic and centering it around staying dry is a neat idea! It’s rare when rain is used for something other than a visual aesthetic. Pointing the umbrella was a bit finicky for me, but it didn’t ruin my enjoyment or the novelty of it. Lol the Springwater Waterbeds made me chuckle.
Great music and sound design! I liked the story, it has a nice Night in the Woods feel/structure to it.
- Josh
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Unfortunately it crashed right when I was about to go to the overlook! Love the visuals
Did the game exit abruptly, or did it just go to a black screen? I saw some issues with the screen not fading in at the ending when trying to build a downloadable version. Will do my best to diagnose and fix post-jam.
Thanks for playing and hope you enjoyed it otherwise!
I'll see if I can replicate it! I had a little popup screen saying a specific error code happened
Thank you! Every bit of information will help me fix it.
Got it! Since it's a popup it won't let me copy-paste but I've got screenshots:
I'm playing on a Macbook with Catalina on Chrome - it very well may be on my end! It happened at the exact same spot too.
Thank you so much!!! I hope to have it fixed by the time the eval period ends so we can push an update to the game ASAP.
Goddam got stuck in the wreck haha
Oh no! This is definitely at the top of my post-jam bug fix list. Thanks for playing!
Really enjoyed it otherwise, music and the little dialogue noises were cute haha!
Yea.. Unfortunately if you don't move the wood beam over the space before falling in it's almost impossible to get out without resetting. Thanks for playing tho ^^!
There's supposed to be a "death" trigger there that causes you to respawn. Will be one of the first post-jam fixes! Thanks for playing and hope you enjoyed it otherwise. :-)