Looks like you've lost your friend during the hike on this arctic mountain. You have arrived to the last recorded location of your friend's GPS. Explore the environment to look for clues for the whereabouts of your friend.

Lost Hiker is an exploratory game where you, the hiker, is lost on an arctic mountain landscape and looking for clues for your missing friend. Several factors that were considered to make the exploratory experience more interesting and enjoyable were:

  • Sounds of wind
  • Snow falling
  • First person perspective
  • Walking penguins!
  • Missing friend
  • Friend distance indicator
  • Outdoor environment vs. indoor setting

This is a group project by Brittany, Heli, and Yoonjin.

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Lost Hiker Windows.zip 202 MB

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I love the athentic and background setting of this game, you guys really made good use of the assets, the whole scene looks really complete! And i like the theme of looking for a missing friend in the snow world, which reminds me a novle i read in the past. 

I love penguins! Hope you can add more ways of how the penguin moves because in the real world they can slide , swim and walk.

I like the concept of the game and the environment of the game really attractive. One suggestion is I think you guys can spend more time with ui design maybe change the font.

I love this game! It was kind of hard to move around, but I guess thats the point so you really feel like a penguin. super fun and cool game to play

I like the landscape and the sound of the wind. Talking penguins are interesting too. I wonder what the healthbar does. I didn't die after it reaches zero. I notice I can add it back, but I fail to understand why...

I really like the environment you set up which is composed of both indoor and outdoor scene. I like how the player can navigate from indoor to outdoor, it really gives the feeling of exploring. I think the theme about lost hiker is also really thoughtful. The only thing is that I'm having some problems navigating in the cabin both because of the collider which can make me stuck, and it's also a little hard to figure out where to start for the clue. Other than this, I really like your game.

The concept of reunion with friend is so heart warming! And actually I'm not against the idea that penguins and polar bear appearing in the same world, and penguins and TV talking to the player lol

I like the 3d sound of the snow and the walking penguins are so cute! I wanted to go with them first :’D And then I realized it’s the wrong way. I found my friend hooray! This snowy place looks so lonely and it makes you feel that you are missing someone and trying to find this person. 

Something to consider for future development might be: making the colliders a bit smaller so you are not stuck in them and maybe increase the player’s height? Also when you are going out of the house music and snowflakes are gone. I wish there were more penguins! I also like the hints and the distance indicator.