Forgive

Have you ever wanted to make your friends mad? Do you want to get back at them for that burger they never paid you back for? Or do you think you can overcome any anger you have with your friends, and work with them to beat this game!

Forgive is a prototype idea that I had worked on for a personal game jam that I held for myself, I did it in about 4 and a half days of total work, so there's plenty of bugs you could potentially run into, but for the most part, it should get you through a full playthrough!

The main idea of this game is that you work with your friends to obtain the collectibles spread throughout the map,  with a tinge of atmospheric dread around you. The catch, is that you're allowed to push your friends into a ragdoll, and if you're being chased by a monster...well, lets just say that that monster likes an easier prey. 

You also have a slim chance of stunning the monster, so your friends should help with that too! If you aim the head of the flashlight directly up towards the monster's face before he attacks, you can stun him, and you and your friends can get out scott free!

If the general concept is fun, I plan on pursuing it with these changes (subject to adjustment):

• Characters
• Animation Polishing
• Story theme (Reason why you're out there)
• More Items
• Different monsters
• Different maps
• UI
• Difficulty scaling based on player count
• Earnings for escaping with collectables
• An Art style
• Much more polishing and other ideas to come!

I'm looking for feedback, on if you have fun or just completely think its boring, either way, I'd appreciate it! I'll leave some notes below!

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||         How to Win/Lose

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-To win, collect all the collectables, and all players must return where they spanwed in.
-To Lose, everyone is caught by the monsters, and become stuck.

YOU CANNOT DIE IN THIS GAME, instead, if you are captured you are put into a mist prison, where your friends have to come find you, and push you (Left click/Left Face button) a certain amount of times. It will be below 10 pushes.

-IMPORTANT: If you have a monster chasing you, and you push your friend, then the monster will chase your friend.

-IMPORTANT 2: You have a small window of time when turning on your flashlight to 'parry' the monster's grab. The flashlight must be directly pointed at their face, and before they attack, you must flash the flashlight on (E/Right Shoulder Button) to stun them.

Work with your friends to get past these monsters and get these invaluable rabbits back! Don't be mad when your friends get greedy and push you out of the way for the glory...

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If you want to change the graphic settings, you can go to the folder where the .exe is, and go to Forgive->Saved->Config->Windows->GameUserSettings.ini

3 is the highest quality, and 0 is the lowest quality.

You can also change the resolution from the command line, by clicking the ` (which is the tilde) key and typing the command:

r.SetRes ZxYf

And press enter. Z would be the width and Y would be the height. Higher is harder to run. (Example: r.SetRes 1920x1080f)

If the game is hard to run on your computer, you can also try the command:

r.ScreenPercentage X

X would be the percentage number, where 100 is full resolution, and anything below is that percentage of the resolution. Higher is harder to run. (Example: r.ScreenPercentage 85)

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||         CONTROLS !

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WASD/Left Analog Stick - Movement

Mouse/Right Analog Stick - Camera Movement/Flashlight Movement

E/Right Shoulder Button (R1/RB) - Flashlight on/off

Left Click/Left Face Button (Square/X) - Push

Spacebar/Bottom Face Button (Cross/A) - Jump

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||         DO THIS FIRST !

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RUN THE '(RUN FIRST!)UEPrereqSetup_x64.exe' file FIRST, and MAKE SURE that steam is open in the background.

NOTE: When you Find A Match, you might see other users, sometimes that won't be related to this game as it's using a shared dev app ID, so just find your friends and get going!

When you join a lobby, make sure to SELECT A CHARACTER first! Then the host can start the game!

If your friends cannot join:

-First make sure that your steam accounts are not in different regions. Steam in dev mode is region locked.

-There is a possibility that you have to port forward port 7777.
-Try remaking the lobby or letting your friend host.

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Enjoy!