Nords Odyssey is a game about a Viking's ship journey where you must manage three resources: Supplies, Warriors and Morale.

Each day an event will trigger and it's up to you to decide how to solve it.

Warriors eat one supply per day, if they go hungry, morale will go down. If morale is down there's a chance of warriors to desert your ranks. Try to keep the resources balanced and make it until the end of the journey!

Submission for Mini-Jam #35

Authors: dasPanjo & jvolonte

More information

Status	Prototype
Platforms	HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating	Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars (13 total ratings)
Authors	jvolonte, dasPanjo
Genre	Strategy, Adventure, Simulation
Made with	Unity
Tags	2D, Management, Pixel Art, Singleplayer, Unity

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Comments

RetroPixelGames2 years ago

any chance you could open source this? thanks!

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really a very good game, my problem is that my friends and I can not english so well and therefore do not have the full game fun. Would be cool if you could also make a German version (is not a must) greetings.

theswordman4 years ago(+3)

i realy liked this it was very fun!

random user1114 years ago(+2)

yup

Cyberwolf5 years ago(+3)

Kinda late on posting this here (like an entire week) but really anjoyed the game! Hope you enjoy the video!

Also, just noticed there's also an apk version right before posting. I'm mainly at work and it gets pretty boring there, this might be a good way to pass the time!

Kurwabled4 years ago(-9)

Ok wtf?What kind of a person do u have to be to say that you're bored at work?What kind of a job do you do then?Like,jeez

Cyberwolf4 years ago(+4)

A small hobby shop where I mostly work alone and can be there for hours without a single customer

Kurwabled4 years ago(-1)

...Oh.Oops.I meant like ur actual job tho.Or is that your actual job?I'm confused.It doesn't sound like it.Sorry if this comes off as rude,I don't mean it to be.

Cyberwolf4 years ago(+2)(-1)

That is my real job, I'm the manager there

Doggo - SJ2 years ago (1 edit)

where's your shop(I.e state/city, I'm not askin' for an adress, unless your confortable with it.)? I'll buy stuff! well, depending on what your sellin'...

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idlemind5 years ago(+1)

Nice game! Loved the graphics and nordic music. Im not really much into text based stuff but this was uplifting and I enjoyed it. Thanks!

aklgupta5 years ago(+3)

Nice game.

One odd thing I noticed was that even when I had 0 warriors, the events where a warrior wanted to leave their warrior life in pursuit of something else would pop up. This obviously makes no sense as I had no warrior.

Also, I noticed that warriors a bit hard to get by and die too easily. But also, they are the only absolutely non-essential as long as you have some supplies to spare. Maybe have more use for them?

And, when I tried to lose the game, the game over message states that I completed 0% of the journey, which might be a bug.

jvolonte5 years ago

Yup there's no control whatsover on the events. You could think your resources as the ones you can spare.

There are a couple events that can only be solved with warriors. Not too many, so they might not have popped up in your run and since warriors are hard to find and mantain I didn't want to have too many events that could end your journey.

Nice catch on the 0% definitely a bug, will get it fixed for the next update
Thanks for the feedback!

aklgupta5 years ago(+1)

You could keep a track of the resources, and make sure incompatible/non-sensible events don't occur, like the one I pointed out where I was asked to let go of a warrior to pursue some other path in life, but I didn't have any warrior whatsoever, thus making no sense.

spyfox3215 years ago(+2)

Another nice small Indie game.

I few suggestiosn to improving games like this: (Hopefully I don't sound too snobby)

Less Relience on random events would be nice. Some games rely on minigames between events to earn resources, some rely on being able to convert resources between events, simply picking up floating boxes feels a bit lacking to me.
If you're going for a full pixel aesthetic game, match the sizes of the pixels. This might be a personal jib, but I think this is what divides amatur retro-styled games and good ones. Adding Pixel art versions of the event icons could work too.
Right now the resources seem to be made so that Warriors are the most rarest, and supplies the common. A balance between these resources could make the resource balancing part of the game more engaging.

jvolonte5 years ago

Not at all, feedback is always welcome!

I agree on relying less on random events, but couldn't find a way to organize events so they aren't that random while still keeping every journey unique within the jam timeframe. I thought about organizing events by good, neutral and bad and give you those in a certain way so it's satisfying but still challenging. But you know, more stuff to balance and little time to do it ^^

Thank you for playing!

dmoa5 years ago(+2)

awesome game! Really enjoyed playing it!

If you have the time, I would suggest either stopping or slowing down the barrels when a story option pops up.

I know it doesn't make logical sense, but sometimes the moving barrels distract me and I interrupt my reading of the options cards.

Still awesome submission!

jvolonte5 years ago

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

The barrels do slow down a bit and stop spawning when you're reading but I might have to slow them even more if they are so distracting :P

Thank you for your feedback! :)