The River
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
*Made for The Road Trip Game Jam 2025*
About:
A story-driven adventure/atmospheric experience following William on a *quiet* camping trip by the river—until everything changes.
My Tools (All free and open source (<:) ):
|> Godot Engine V4.4 (The Game Engine)
|> Krita ( For Drawing )
|> Kdenlive ( For Video Editing )
|> Blender ( For 3D Modeling )
|> Audacity ( For Audio Editing )
|> ME ( KHLAD THABIT <: )
|> Early feedback from my friend Nawaf (@emiukabe)
Known Issues:
|> Sometimes the car get stuck on the guardrail
|> Performance Issue on some part of the game
|> Sometimes when entering the car, you can't rotate the camera horizontally
Assets Used:
Staircase Angled by Jarlan Perez [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza
Low Poly Household Item-Pack by LowPolyAssets via itch.io Toolbox by Jesus Navas Aller [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza
Workbench by sirkitree [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza
Low Poly Pine Trees by TheTeaGuns via itch.io
Low Poly Simple Nature Pack by JustCreate3D via itch.io
Washer & Dryer by Ashley Alicea [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/justin-lapoint/24-hour-gas-station
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Great short-ish game, I played on Linux with no errors. Love the aesthetic, I would like to see a longer game covering some of the same ideas. The car was really well done, turning at low speeds is frustrating but otherwise I really liked the feel. In a longer game being able to manually shift gears (at least as an option) would be a cool addition. The sound design was awesome in general and deserves a shout-out.
Thank you for playing <:
It was made in Linux (Arch, btw)—well, like 75% of the time anyway. And yeah… the car’s slow steering is definitely frustrating. I kinda got lazy/bored and wanted to work on other projects, so I overlooked it… my bad ):
Glad you liked the vibes and the sound design though! A longer version with manual shifting sounds pretty headache-y, but not out of the realm of possibility. Actually… it's a really interesting idea.
If I ever do something similar again or build on this, I might even throw in a simple combat system. something like The Long Dark, if you’ve played that. It was originally part of the plan, but I scratched it, worried the scope would be too ambitious for the time I had.
What are you supposed to do when you get to the block of a bunch of cars before the tunnel in the last level
I figured it out. that was the most beautiful and unique game i think ive ever played
Thank you so much ! and I'll probably add an objective when you get there to make it clearer * I wanted it to be MUST IMMERSIVE in the final chapter (: *
of course! absolutely incredible
Nice this was absolutely great game and the story was also really great I liked it very much and the music I liked them also just the though was happen to Liam that is my question anyway but this was really great game well done keep it up!
Thank you so much for the feedback <: remember Liam was with Lilian (his mother) before... you know >: (hope it clarifies it).