RADIO
October 22, 2018.
A short, horror-atmospheric-survival game. Made for a game jam with the theme "radio", in the time of three days.
You play as someone lost in a dark forest filled with invisible evil spirits, and your only hope of survival is your radio. Unfortunately, it is broken, and can only receive signals, not transmit them. The three pieces required to repair the radio are scattered around the forest. You must find them in order to fix the radio and call for help, while managing your radio's battery life and avoiding spirits.
The radio has three channels: the first (low frequency) can detect nearby spirits. The second (medium frequency) plays some music. The third (high frequency) can detect batteries (indicated by higher pitched beeps) and radio pieces (indicated by lower pitched beeps). Using the radio and listening to any of these channels drains its battery, which is indicated by a colored light. Batteries can be found around the woods, similar to the pieces.
Made using Java's built-in graphics library (so it does rendering on the CPU and is pretty slow), but I managed to make it somewhat efficient with some optimizations.
Controls
• WASD: movement
• SPACE: turn radio on/off
• R: change radio's channel
Credits
"TinySound" audio engine Copyright (c) 2012 Finn Kuusisto.
Sound effects from Freesound.
Music and sounds made and manipulated with Ableton Live.
8-bit Operator+ font Copyright (c) 2009 - 2014 Grand Chaos Productions.