Blackout - Our first release with Godot

WavveN

A witch on the roof of a scary old house. Black cats, cobwebs, and a crescent moon - all too creepy! In this point & click adventure, your task is to guide the main character Marilyn as she ventures deeper and deeper into a mysterious house in the middle of the night.

Blackout is a straight forward point & click adventure. Investigate, navigate, and use items to interact with things in your environment.

First time using Godot!

Back in April me and some friends participated in Ludum Dare 48. For reasons I can't clearly recall, we decided to go with Godot for LD48 even though no one in the team had ever used it before. Bold, perhaps, but it turns out it wasn't a bad decision. During the 72 hours of the Jam we created Blackout, which was appreciated both by the team itself and the good folks at Ludum Dare and Itch as well. Success!

After the Jam we decided to continue with Godot and make a more polished version of Blackout, which we released on the eve of Halloween. And throughout the experience Godot has been kinda great, so I figured we'd post our game here for other Godot-users to enjoy and comment.

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Play the game here!

##Screenshots

cybereality

OMG!!! It's the best game ever!

Erich_L

Very well polished.

@cybereality said: OMG!!! It's the best game ever!

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE OLD KEY :s had to drop this before half the day goes by。 Edit: Oh, I found it, didn't like that part.

cybereality

Not sure. That grandfather clock looks pretty old...

Erich_L

@cybereality said: Not sure. That grandfather clock looks pretty old...

That game took you less than 10 minutes didn't it. Edit: these games give me flashbacks of being stuck in vietnam as a child. Did I say Vietnam? I meant one of those old Myst games.

cybereality

I probably played it for around 1 hour. Really solid. Did get lost once though in the basement.

WavveN

@Erich_L said: Edit: Oh, I found it, didn't like that part.

I suppose it can appear to be a dead end since you kind of need to complete the other branch of the main puzzle before you get a hint of where to use the Old Key. Good insight! Is there anything else that made you dislike this particular part? :)

Erich_L

I suppose it can appear to be a dead end since you kind of need to complete the other branch of the main puzzle before you get a hint of where to use the Old Key. Good insight! Is there anything else that made you dislike this particular part? :)

Oh I didn't like that part because, after 15 minutes of going through the house feeling like an idiot, I thought my job was to run around just trying to use the key on everything. Didn't see a hint. But that's unavoidable in these types of games right? Different players are just not going to think to click on a certain thing for ... a time period up to when they give up.

My favorite part was the time taken to put in multiple text lines for most if not all objects.

cybereality

The only part I got confused at was in the basement. I thought I had to pick up a golf club, and I kept clicking it but it wasn't working. Then I went all around the house twice, finally back to the basement and noticed there was something else in the bag. But you really had to click exactly on the pixel. Not a huge deal but it was somewhat confusing.

WavveN

@Erich_L said:

I suppose it can appear to be a dead end since you kind of need to complete the other branch of the main puzzle before you get a hint of where to use the Old Key. Good insight! Is there anything else that made you dislike this particular part? :)

Oh I didn't like that part because, after 15 minutes of going through the house feeling like an idiot, I thought my job was to run around just trying to use the key on everything. Didn't see a hint. But that's unavoidable in these types of games right? Different players are just not going to think to click on a certain thing for ... a time period up to when they give up.

My favorite part was the time taken to put in multiple text lines for most if not all objects.

Yeah, I guess that's point and click-games for you :P Thanks for the feedback. We're probably going to update it so getting to know were and why people get stuck is exactly what I want to hear Glad you appreciated the game even though you had to spend some time on beating it

@cybereality said: The only part I got confused at was in the basement. I thought I had to pick up a golf club, and I kept clicking it but it wasn't working. Then I went all around the house twice, finally back to the basement and noticed there was something else in the bag. But you really had to click exactly on the pixel. Not a huge deal but it was somewhat confusing.

Most people get stuck there it seems :P