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Survivor

By jpatrick

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vaiaphraim 2016-08-29 14:24

What a cool game! It reminds me a bit of Notch's 'Minicraft' in an earlier LD. I love to punch trees and animals for resources ^_^

The levels appear to be randomly / procedurally generated, which is very cool - I think I didn't find any wood the first two tries, but then again, I kept punching pigs, so I didn't really walk far... Exploring the map is fun either way :)

I found a small error in your item menu - in the weapons tab, the "iron sword" is labelled "iron pick" in the menu :)

The easy controls are positive for me, what I'd improve would be adding some sort of "feedback" if you are actually hitting a tile / entity.. Even making it blink would be sufficient. I sometimes seemed not to be able to fell a tree while standing really close (maybe not close enough, though)

Also, knowing how mining/combat actually works would be great - do I just stand on a tile, and I hit all the tiles in a 3x3 radius upon clicking? (It seems like I killed a pig while felling a tree at the same time)

lcmw_spud 2016-08-29 15:22

Good to see another slick2D game :) It does run a bit slowly but that is to be expected from something with so much going on, great game

cptbubbles 2016-08-29 16:36

Very cool game! I died a few times due to hunger because I didn't notice I was starving but I'm definitely impressed, especially since this is basically my entry with 50 times the effort put into it haha

green_cafe 2016-08-29 22:29

I really enjoyed this game! I'm impressed by what was done in the time you had!

jpatrick 2016-08-31 13:50

Hi guys :) Thanks for the feedback

Vaiaphraim: Combat damage is dealt in a radius around you while mining is only directed to the tile you are "facing", which is the less direction you pressed(WASD). Unfortunately I didn't have time to add different player sprites for each direction so it's not obvious which way you are facing.

jpatrick 2016-08-31 13:50

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