Cloud Express (Tech Demo, d2jam #1)

What to do during a train ride, when you are bored and all your electronic gadgets are dead? Look outside and use your imagination! What can you see?

Originally intended to be a game driven by visual story telling about a teenage girl having to face her fears during a train ride, the scope had to be reduced during the game jam to a Tech Demo due to technical issues and not having enough time/contributors. The game as it was originally intended will be published post-jam here.

UPDATES POST-JAM

General

Right now there is only one object to paint available. But if you stick around in the game for long enough, you are treated with a multi-variation soundtrack that is over three minutes long!

2025-03-25, 11:00 UTC

Due to a bug which can potentially freeze the machine one is playing the game on, the downloads are temporarily disabled.

2025-03-25, 14:30 UTC

Added a version that (hopefully) fixed the critical freezing bug and updated known issues

Controls

The game is entirely played with the mouse.

Draw: Mouse Movement
Interact: Left Click (LMB)

Auxillary Controls

Fullscreen: F
Menu/Cancel: ESC, BACKSPACE, Right Click (RMB)

Known Issues

Although it is theoretical possible, it is not recommended to play the game in the browser. Especially if you try to do so on lower-power hardware or tablets.

• When starting the game, the default user settings are loaded instead of the ones specified by the user
• Going back to the Main Menu breaks the sound playing capabilities.
• High computational load in general and especially in web browser
• Web browser (sometimes also MacOS): Changing from Main Menu to Game causes window size and control glitches

Theme Interpretation

The D2Jam #1 theme "Train" was interpreted in two ways:

• Train (Noun): The majority of the game takes place during a train ride
• train (verb): How to train your brain to enjoy being bored/imaginative

Contributors

Faltysian: Original Idea

dsacre:

• Original Idea
• Programming
• Art
• Animation
• Visual Effects
• UI Design
• Testing Linux

gmpl4yer:

• Sound Design
• Testing Windows

Drativi (rui17):

• Lead Composer
• Testing MacOS

Used Assets

A list of all the used assets can be found in the game's Main Menu under "Credits"