Play as a little girl who has lost her memory. Strange things are happening so you have to find out what is going on!
Will you get your memories back?

PLAY

Just a Little Story is a short narrative game, through which I wanted to tell a tangled story.

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TEAM:CONTROLS:
This game is a solo school project
so I worked on it alone Move - WASD

Jump - Space
Interact - E

Camera - Mouse axis

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PREPARATIONS

First I had an idea for a story so I thought about it for a while.
Than I thought about mechanics, level design, etc. and than development started.

LEVEL BUILDING

I had a complete storyline planned out so I knew what rooms I needed and what was supposed to be in them.
I built the entire environment based on that .

ASSETS AND CHARACTERS

I created a few simple low poly assets of old looking furniture and characters.


However, due to time limitation, I coundn´t create everything I needed, so I had to use free assets as well.
All credits are in game file on Itch.io.

PLAYER MOVEMENT AND SOUNDS

I created a simple script to allow the player to move.
Another script playes the sound of footsteps when the player is on the ground and moving.

I searched for the sounds on the internet and tried to fit them in the game as best as possible.
There is a combination of many sounds to make the game feel alive.

USER INTERFACE 

The user interface is very minimal. It only includes a few elements, such as the text “Press [key] to do something”
which changes depending on the situation and the dialogue texts.

MECHANICS

The main mechanic is interaction with NPCs, which  trigger dialogues.
Since I´m new to programming, I came up with a creative solution for interactions and dialogs.

Interactions are simply triggers and the player has a long object in the center of their vision.
Said object is the only thing the trigger reacts to.
When the trigger is in contact with the object the player can start an interaction by pressing E.

The most common interaction is a dialogue. Texts gradually disappear and new ones appear,
I created this effect by animating the texts.

ANIMATIONS, SPRITES AND PARTICLES

I animated the movements of the NPCs as well as various movements of objects and doors.
There are also short cutscenes in the game.

I used sprites for paintings on the walls, for the monster that is hiding in the shadows and more.
And the candle flame is a particle.

IMPLEMENTING AND TESTING

There was a lot of testing and every time I implemented something new I tested if it worked as it should.
Sometines it worked right away and sometimes it didn´t, so I searched for a solution many times.