Dehydrated
Dehydrated
The heat is unbearable. With hurting eyes and cracked lips you stand motionlessly and listen to the wind. Oh, how you miss the ocean. You force yourself to walk again, craving for water.
Gameplay
Your goal is to find water. However to actually locate it you will require a dedicated tool - a portable seismic thumper with unlimited charges.
- Use arrow keys to move the character.
- Press Z key to use the tool
- Press Alt-F4 to leave the character for certain death
About
Dehydrated was made for Pico-1k 2022 jam with particular requirement of game being compressed into at most 1kb.
Source code along with detailed comments is available here.
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p8 file, possible?
it's right there
I beg, someone, I've tried everything. the map does not help, neither does source code. What Do I Do???
OK. The tool looks like letter T
i beat the game. now i will slowly turn into a tree as my body stays still in the hydrating water. never moving out of the pool.
Pls help, I cant find the tool anywhere ;^;
I FOUND IT!!! FINALLY!!!
I really liked this game it was fun even when I couldn't find the tool (I dont even know how I found it, I thought it was a tree at first) it's very simplistic and the image of the little man enjoying the water made me smile.
well done
well done
i found the tool. but i can't find any water
Cool game! I struggled a bit as I couldn't find the tool lol. I don't know how you programmed or animated that desert wind but it looks great! Hope you don't mind if I made a vid!
Glad you liked Dehydrated! Wonder why you went straight into the desert - nothing's there. This reminds me of Herzog's nihilist penguin
Wait where was I supposed to go? lol whoops. Lol I am a crazy penguin, enough of society I just need desert. Also I forgot to mention but I thought it was super cool how you added other features like the other control options.
You captured a barren landscape full of subtle detail. Great entry!
Edit: The commented source is a fantastic addition. It makes me guilty for not commenting mine 😅
Thanks! You can still create commented source and link it from the game page.
Completed it & loved it. 😍
Won't spoil the surprise here, but finally found the tool! 🥳
(For a second there, I really started doubting myself whether there really was a tool, but instead just a social experiment/commentary/art - but indeed there was! 😅)
This is such a great entry. Very impressive that you managed to make an attractive + engaging Walking Simulator with only 1K of code.
Really appreciated all the little details, like the swaying trees and blowing sand.
Also, extra props (+thanks) for providing full code commenting! 👏
You've raised the bar there! 😅
Great stuff 👍
Thanks! Initially I wanted the whole area to be either endless or a looping map with the water place be picked randomly and available only after certain time/distance travelled. However I thought this would be somehow frustrating since if player chose the wrong direction at the beginning it would take too much time to get to the place. So now the map and all locations are hardcoded. And, yes, the tool is actually there and it is main purpose it to make the gameplay little longer.
Please spoil the surprise, I am so stuck and feel like im looking too much into aspects that don't matter
I won't give you precise directions but can provide an iso map of the area. https://twitter.com/von_rostock/status/1570448791328759810