The Great Escape

Introduction

This is a game about a captain whose boat is sunk by a rock from underwater (similar to the story of Titanic). He swims to a nearby island to find a way to get home, and luckily he seen a boat boarding on his way past the island.

The goal of the game is to get to that boat, so you can get back home safely. If you do not get to the boat in a certain amount of time you lose your only chance to live.

Instructions

The game will explain how to do all the things you need to know.

Gameplay

You have to sneak past enemies across the island to reach the boat. There are a few obstacles, like platforms that move and fall.

A list of the things the game offers:

• Stealth.
  
• Visual timer.
  
• Many movement improvements.
  
• Platforms.
  
• Jumping.
  
• Minimap.
  
• Game over common evented.
  
• No title screen or menus.
  
• Score system to see how good you did based on how many times you were caught.
  
• Improved message system.
  
• Messages from the actor without a message box appearing.
  

Screenshots

Feedback

If you have anything to say about the game feel free to post here, and I will fix it as soon as possible if it is deemed worthy.

Conclusion

I made this for fun and in a short time frame, and if I don't win the competition it doesn't matter that much. I wanted to see if I could outdo all the projects here in a much less time frame to test my skills as a designer and developer.

I can't seem to beat this game at all! :(

The tutorial at the beginning is very well written and clear, so the object of the game and the controls are easy to grasp. Good job there. I think my issue is the monster's field of view is so hard to determine. I would get caught by monster's who I couldn't see on the main map or the mini map, and, I'll admit, that got a wee bit frustrating. I'm not sure if there's a way to adjust the line of sight monster's have, and I'm not sure you should! Best to wait and see what other people say. I could just be horrible at it because I'm horrible at it and everyone else might dodge those monsters like it was child's play.

I enjoy the little comments from Vance as I played however! That was a nice touch.

One tiny glitch I encountered was after I passed out from heat and ultimately ended the poor tale of Vance's life, the screen faded to black and forgot to fade back. The game was still running underneath because I could hear soundFX of Vance falling in the water when I used my arrow keys.

I hope you get some input from some other users to help judge the difficulty of the game! Good luck in the contest!

Yeah, I am aware of that and thanks for your feedback.

It was so much worse before I spent four hours modifying the stealth mechanisms, and it is easy just takes some practice. I'll alter it a little more and release a patch before they judge it though. :)

Okay! : D I'll check out the patch for sure when you put it out. I feel very sad that I could not save poor Vance.

I have updated the game to be easier and fixed game over issue. A few mapping improvements have been done, too.

The RTP version has not been updated yet, as a fair warning. I'm working on uploading that now.

Yes! I think that seems much better now.

I still struggled, but it was a much less frustrating struggle and I managed to make it to the end. Thank you very much for adjusting that.

Once again, good luck in the contest! :)

Good fun :3 I like the sneaky >:3

Thanks. ^^