Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → A Brief Retreat
By jakob-willforss and Hatten
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 299 | 3.50 | 28 | |
| Fun | 154 | 3.61 | 28 | |
| Innovation | 271 | 3.34 | 28 | |
| Theme | 227 | 3.73 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 561 | 2.92 | 28 | |
| Audio | 3.50 | 4 | ||
| Humor | 410 | 2.50 | 26 | |
| Mood | 166 | 3.70 | 26 |
Very good game, I'd recommend not reading the notes, all they do it stress you out, like your father shouting down your ear about how you're wasting your life. sometimes I couldn't repair the ship even though I had time and the resources to do so, but I just took to repairing the ship in the morning.
Nice little game. Quiet and entertaining. Time and resources are tight, you can not be misled.
Wow, you managed to get a lot of functionality in there! That was also quite a relaxing game. It would be better with some anitations (digging/chopping) - but obviously that would have resulted in less content. Still, I really enjoyed this!
I liked the setting, and the sort of turn-based mechanic. Certainly could use some work, but I liked it!
Those washed up notes are brutal!
I found the management in this game quite fun, and the day-by-day process of building up your ship does a good job of keeping you invested.
I appreciate that you use the hunger as a vital mechanic, rather than just a number, gradually ticking down, that you keep having to replenish.
I feel like a way to show exactly how much of your hunger bar an action will take would make the experience slightly less frustrating at times. I often thought I had enough hunger left to build the boat, only to have building it end me.
Very relaxing game with a lot of features well implemented. Good job!! I guess what would be good, if you try to decide on one kind of pixel resolution for all the pixel art. FunFact: You can still craft after you died :D
Interesting game. It could use some more indication that it takes multiple rounds of work to fix the boat. I guess it would be too easy otherwise.
The time management mechanics made the game interesting to play. Some more animation and sounds would help a lot with feedback.
The notes were neat.
I didn't find my tropical island vacation very relaxing. Something about the being so tight on time and resources. I did enjoy working out the correct course of action, and managed to escape on day 6 of my first attempt.
I focused on eating single berry a day and fixing my boat. The game lasted 4 days. I never got to fishing or digging, only tool I needed was my axe. I liked the game and what you tried to with it but you should be careful about such obvious dominant strategies or the players will miss the depth of your game. It was a short but fun experience nevertheless. Thank you for creating this game!
The graphics style is nice, but it took me some time to figure out what objects are there (the empty hole looked like a basket to me :-) Game seems to be not very forgiving - at my first try, I immediatly starved to death. At my second try, I mastered to get food and tried to solve some of the puzzles (like building an axe.. but I never got mine done)
Nice little survival/puzzle game. I think with more recipes, more islands (each one getting more difficult), and maybe more of a warning before you die of hunger, this could be a great little game.
Very relaxing game with a lot of features well implemented. Well done. How you manage the time and all mechanics made the game interesting to play. Quiet and entertaining ++
Really great game, the resources are tight enough that you will fail if you dont think carefully, but half the fun is figuring out what to do and how to do things differently each time to win. The ocean sounds are perfect, and the game is just overall an absolute peach! well done, really well made :smiley:
Nice job! It took me a few tries to get the priorities straight, but I really enjoyed learning to strategize which activities were important and when.
Nice game, fun to play, great job !
I died of hunger. Quite a few times. But my record time I both managed to get fishing and axing but still died of hunger. The first couple of times I just didn't understand what to do, which was because the crafting-button was outside the window when playing defined resolution on itch, but when I fullscreened it I got it in view (though quite obvious there were some layout issues), and after resuming normal size the UI worked as expected. I liked the game premise and concept, first couple of rounds though it would have been nice/realistic to know how hungry you were and how much time you therefore should spend on gathering food. Then I saw the health bar. Might have been outside screen too! Still with it there, it was really unfair to not say somewhere that you had to leave before eighth day (and there was no reason why in game world). I think it would make more sense to make the player run out of food over the days so that it becomes impossible not to leave on the seventh day, if there's a real reason to force the player to leave by that time. Nice game in general though.
Nice small game. Some improvements could be made: movement across the island should take some time. Some message should be displayed when the boat is being repaired (I don't understand, were first repairs failed, or do you need to repair boat more than once?). Day-night change would be nice. Eating is good, but drinking would be even more necessary.
Good luck!
Wow. This was a great game! It was quite intuitive. Good job!
Good game, I've managed to complete it on the last day. I liked the fact that every day required some planning.
I've found out one issue that can be corrected - after dying it is still possible to complete the game - after positioning yourself at the part of the screen with ship, bonfire, woods and bushes before dying, you can keep selecting no on the restart popup and gather resources, sleep and repair the ship.
Really cool, so much packed in there, and was really fun, really wanted to complete the game and survive, and did.
Really well done!
A nice game with a good progression. There seems to be a minor bug that sometimes I'd have the time and material to fix the boat but couldn't, but it would work after I slept.
Excellent! I died, but I enjoyed it!
Real nice small game. Defo lots of room for improvement but great little game, real nice entry. Love the graphics too haha :)
Nice. I liked this little survival game. For such a small little sandbox and such a short development window, you packed a good amount of options and variety into the little world. Good job.