A VERY WARM FIRE

An arcade survival game in a hostile forest.
Stay warm, don't get lost, and survive as long as you can.

This was featured on the website for WPI's Interactive Media and Game Development Booth at PAX East 2018.

Released: January 2018
Developed: January 2018
Team: Joseph Henry Stadolnik IV
Tools: PICO-8
Programming Language: Lua

My Role: Solo Developer
I made the entirety of this game by myself.
My achievements on this project included:

• Designing a streamlined game loop around scavenging wood to warm up by a dying fire.
• Implementing a system to make the forest subtly shift when off-screen, interfering with players' abilities to make mental maps.
• Designing a variety of enemies with different types of threats and strategies for survival.
• Designing fairy circles, a risk/reward mechanic that heal the player and boost their score but raise the difficulty in a variety of different ways.
• Drawing all visual assets using PICO-8's editor.
• Creating all audio assets using PICO-8's editor.

About:
This game was made from January 1, 2018 to January 7, 2018 for the WPI Winter Break Jam (with a small visual tweak after release). The jam theme was "very warm."

Articles:
"In This Cold, Your Only Hope Is Staying Close to the Fire" (Waypoint 1/8/2018)

Links:
PICO-8 Forum Post
itch.io