To the Rapids!

Row down the river, by using only 2 buttons! The game is made during (and for) SoloDevJam-4.

This is a relaxing kayak adventure. You will start on a calm part of the river, with weak currents and few rocks. But shall you go further, the faster and more challenging the river will come!

UPDATE: the official end of the game is "The Rock".  The luck is not on my side - several objects are misplaced this way, so they all prevent you from escaping "The Rock".  I will obviously fix it, but the jam version can be called "To the Rock!" (It's both sad and funny 🥺)

For this game, I used only free assets. In general, it's only 3d meshes+textures and sounds. All other things (mechanics, animation, menu and controls) I did myself during the jam. The full asset list can be found below.

Here is a map:

And this is me,  doing some real kayaking!

Actually, this photo is taken several days before my near-death (near drown) experience... So this game serves as a kind of therapy for me!

That is why I tried to polish physics and make as accurate a kayaking experience, as it was possible in these 3 days.  And yes, the boat is supposed to turn around on just one row :D

Here is the list of assets:

Kayak and paddle 3d models - "Boats - PolyPack" by Alstra Infinite

Nature (Trees, rocks, waterfalls) and water shader - "BOKI - Low Poly Nature" by Boki

A set of simple UI buttons - "Simple Button Set 01" by That Witch Design

Sounds by worthahep88 and EpicWizard from freesound.org

Music - "The Fellowship" from weloveindies.com

I've also tested some other assets (like more low-poly rocks), but I think I haven't used them in the final version.

And here is my dev vlog that I recorded during the whole jam!