Discover the fate of an ancient order of mages
A short exploration adventure game.
Explore the ancient ruins of an abandoned island. Can you discover what happened to the order of mages, that once resided here?
The Lothae Expedition is a tile-based adventure game. It was made in Java, using the LibGDX framework.
The art was made using Aseprite. The music was made using LMMS.
Java 8 (or above) is required to run the Java build. I've also provided an experimental web-build
Nice, gentle game of exploration. There's no pressure to do things within a given time frame, so I simply explored the entire island at my leisure. The island is rather empty, but the writing carries a lot of the game and allows the imagination to fill some of those gaps. There's not really any challenge but it was enjoyable nevertheless.
This is the first game I played (and that includes my own) that really takes the "ruins" part of the theme seriously and not just the "ancient" part.
Ooh adventure! It would have been nice to have some more sense of danger/tension and the island was pretty plain. I liked how the path through the mountains is revealed, instead of magically letting the mountain disappear. I went back to check whether I could secretly walk through it before collecting the symbols :-P
Short and sweet, I enjoyed uncovering the story here. I'd have liked a little more, it ended just as I was really getting interested, but that's the nature of gamejams. I'm giving this top marks for theme, even though the gameplay was simple i felt i was actually searching some ancient ruins and really had no idea what to expect, great work!