Scout 1.0

Scout is an unusual low poly game made for a recent game jam where you play as a lone scout who has lost the rest of his troop and also has no cell phone signal and limited battery so the search begins for a place where you can get enough reception to contact your scout leader or even perhaps come across your troop itself.

Some of the rendering in the game looks absolutely fantastic but aside from this there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed in Scout, of course some of the cut corners are likely a product of this game being made within a limited amount of time.

The controls can feel very off rather than walking around the scout he shows an animation of walking yet seems to move at lightning pace and at one point we walked the scout in to the sea and he seemed to be stuck there for all of eternity! The speed of the scout walking not really in keeping with the game, the developers have stated that the reason it’s such a desolate place is to give you a real sense of being lost which is understandable however walking so quickly takes away a lot of the realism.

This is certainly an interesting and unique concept but needs a lot of improvement.

You can download Scout here for free.