I developed this game solo for a local Game Jam in Germany under the subject: 'Lot'. Now, in german language, you'd usually associate the term with a mathematic procedure or a tool used to determine the line of gravity for building measures. Instead, I took the biblical figure Lot from the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah and, inspired by the "Bible Games" video from the AngryVideoGameNerd on YouTube, made him into the protagonist for a simple puzzle game.
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'Lot's Salty Wife' takes place immediately after Lot's wife turned into a salt pillar because she looked back at the destruction of Sodom despite the angel's warnings. Instead of just leaving her there as in the original story though, Lot decides to take her with him, which isn't exactly an easy task in her state. Now, Lot must make his way to his daughters waiting for him and their saltified mother by pushing and shoving his wife through a set of puzzle levels on their way to the mountains.
Due to the game's nature as a tile-based puzzle game, this was the first time I had to work with tilemaps, and it shows. The game has a LOT of rough edges on the visual side of things, but I'm still proud of what I managed to achieve in the short amount of time I was given. Not only have I crafted a system that can distinguish between walkable ground, walls and slides based on the given tile, but I also managed to add depth to it by stacking multiple tilemaps on top each other with on offset and height index, which became a key element in the puzzles of the game in the form of climbing, falling and stacking movable objects on top of each other.
Thy lord commands: Thou shalt play this game thyself!
If you view this website on desktop, you can try playing it right now. Help Lot taking his beloved petrified wife with him on his journey!
Disclaimer: Due to the game being an entry for a local german event, all text is in german language.
Controls:
WASD - Move | Space Bar - Climb | LShift / RShift - Hold onto objects | R - Hold to restart level
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