mark-smith 2018-08-13 01:38
Please post a link to the game. The thumbnail looks great and I would love to play and rate it.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Will Survive
By Thomas Lessa, foxserranu, Inudenis and Kleber
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 450 | 3.52 | 180 | |
| Fun | 906 | 2.90 | 182 | |
| Innovation | 921 | 2.85 | 182 | |
| Theme | 497 | 3.60 | 182 | |
| Graphics | 41 | 4.48 | 185 | |
| Audio | 101 | 3.84 | 183 | |
| Humor | 693 | 2.39 | 156 | |
| Mood | 136 | 3.75 | 180 |
Please post a link to the game. The thumbnail looks great and I would love to play and rate it.
i REALLY want to play this, but there is no link
@denneledoe We are finishing the build. Until the end of the day we will post the link for you to play <3
Cant wait to play this one. I have a good hunch this one is going to win in the jam, lol
Is this ongoing or published? Please provide a link. Artwork seems quite nice!
@akemala Sorry, it's ongoing. We will post the link in a few hours. Thank you for the feedback
Really well made. The music is great, as is the art. My only complaint is that it isn't all that much fun just chopping trees. Are there supposed to be monsters? I never saw any.
Great work, guys.
So, let's start.
Graphics are incredibly polished. Awesome animation and pixelart, as well as the introductive drawings. The halo effect on loading bar and the pixel font are absolute aestethism.
Sound effects are nice, but music is something repetitive and it breaks the mood (I was expecting some of dark and moody rather than a piano loop)
The gameplay mechanic is fairly simple, and after a bit it becomes flat, but it's ok for a jam game.
The theme is fitted with the game idea.
THINGS THIS GAME NEEDS
1. A pause button
2. Actually spot the enemy that are lurking in the darkness (even some evil eyes)
3. A little variation to gameplay (maybe collect apples and eat or cook, or take water from a lake and boil it to drink)
4. An exit button on the win screen (i was stucked and I needed to ALT+F4)
In the overall this is a pretty nice game, surely a 4 star overall.
Have a nice day!
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Very awsome game, i love the idea behind it and how it implements the theme. And of course teh ar tstyle is amazing !
The music and art were awesome
The mood, the music, the pixel art and even the barebone animatic at the beginning were fantastic but the gameplay suffers in comparison, it's flat and there is no variations. And i don't seem to understand where the theme relates (is it because the light is shrinking). Don't take my critics to seriously, there is a lot of work in this and i can see it, you did a very good job ! very well done.
Loved the Feel of the pixel art, very neat vibe. good use of theme but there didnt seem to be much to actually do besides cut trees and stay alive? my attention span didnt last too long but i tried. Great game i can tell you and your team worked very hard!
This is pretty fun and looks great too, clearly a lot of effort went into this
Loved the atmosphere, the art, the music, you can really see a lot of work was put into this.
The graphics were amazing, but it wasn't to fun chopping trees. If there was something that required skill it might be more fun such as you have to time when hitting a tree.
sorry I spam clicked to publish it.
The art is amazing. The pixel art is clean and tasty, the light system is awesome. Concerning the Gameplay, the idea is basic but good (Tree punching is always good). The progress bar of the campfire is a little frustrating. I would like to have some secondary objectives, obstacles or maybe enemies that could sometimes run from the shadow area near you toward the campfire to extinguish is.
The theme is respected. Good work !
Really liked the graphics, music and intro! One of the more polished games I've played so far. Not sure I understand what the challenge was though. I chopped a bunch of trees and eventually survived until 6am. Did I miss something?
Not much to it gameplay wise but music and visuals were stunning. Nice entry
Nice work! I loved the intro, although the gameplay was a little repetitive.
The theme fits perfectly just because it isint actual space doesnt mean it doesnt fit the theme :b the theme is there for people to be creative around an idea not just make 300 different boxes that fit into spaces game :b:
Now for my opinions on the game, the art style, sound design and in general most of the visual stuff is amazing. enough to keep me playing for 6 minutes. however the gameplay needs a bit of work. But still everything felt tight in that department, the controls were extremely well made. no floatyness of the charcether. So overall an amazing feat for such a small amount of time.
Nice game, I really love the graphics and the story overall, although I think that the gameplay is too repetitive, I guess that you guys didn't had enough time to add the monsters, but that's OK.
Artwork and music sooo awesome!
I basically agree with what Memel06 said. After that beautiful animated short at the beginning I was really hoping for something after 6 long minutes of surviving. Also had to alt+F4 out.
The starting history is absolutely well done, pretty cool drawings btw. The game was very pretty and with nice effects, also the music was very nice and fits the game a lot, i just missed more elements like some of the enemies on the shadows or picking other itens. Still, very well and nice polished for a jam. The sensation of the darkness coming was pretty dense. Keep up the good work!
Everything that makes up this game is really good from the art, to the music, and theme implementation. With an exception for the main game loop. It feels as if it's missing something. A few quality of life things could also be added such as a main menu and a way to leave the game. But over all amazing job.
Realy cool game, I did finished and I think that the graphics and atmosfere of the game verry good. But I think that the gameplay needs more content if you want to continue the development.
Enjoyed the gameplay, seemed to be well balanced so that I always had to be chopping. Loved the music and the cinematic intro. The graphics are done really well as well!
I really liked the use of the campfire as a ticking clock, it worked visually and thematically. Audio gameplay and visual have such good cohesion. My only real gripe is that sometimes its hard to judge whether you are in range to interact with something. A highlight on the objects you are about to itneract with would solve the issue, but other than that, great project!
**Thanks everyone for the feedbacks.** We suffered with some schedules so the gameplay was not what we expected. But still, we will make it better and unique ``` Thanks <3 ```
Brilliant graphics and audio! The gameplay was very good for the theme but it was getting very repetitive by the end! Overall 4/5
**Everyone, thank you all for your feedback. We are aware that the gameplay is a little simple and flat, we had some time issues that affected this. We'll work on new upgrades and mechanics to make gameplay more fun. Thank you for your support <3**
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Great graphics and sounds! But the game could use more mechanics. Good enough for a game made in 3 days!
This was a really fun game to play! Awesome job on the graphics and audio, very impressive. Simple idea yet it works very well. Really great job!
I love the graphics and the sound! I couldn't chop the trees that spawned near the campfire.
Incredible game! I absolutely loved the animated intro in the beginning of the game! The graphics were good, the gameplay was fun, and the mood was on point! The only real complaint I have is that it felt like it was being dragged on for a little too long. As time went on, things got kinda repetative. Overall, great job!
Found the page!
Lovely pixel art and sound effects. But like everyone else has mentioned, gameplay definitely falls short. I didn't see all the screenshots on this page so I thought the game would go on forever; I gave up after 4+ minutes because I felt I was doing the same things over and over. Maybe even have stumps blocking the player would make the game feel less repetitive and more skill-based (and add to the theme). Nevertheless, great game! Good job :D
Loved the art and sounds! I enjoyed playing it to the end. It could've been a tiny bit shorter but it was relaxing. :)
Very nice game. Love the graphics. The intro scene has amazing quality for a game jam.
The art in the intro is amazing, really beautiful. Nice music, however, was slightly repetitive, I think shortening the time till 6:00 would help that.
The visuals of this game are pretty good. I like the little chibi pixel art lumber jack character. The opening cutscene was also well done, and the music was fitting. The obvious complaint would be with the basic, repetitive gameplay. If the gameplay doesn't have much variety, it would probably make sense to lower the time limit, as 6 minutes was a bit too long to be doing the same cycle. Still, this is a pretty solid entry with a lot of visual polish. Good work!
I pretty much have to echo @memel06 's comments as they summed it up pretty well. Amazing art! I like the music, but it doesn't feel like it fits the game. I am frantically trying to cut wood to throw into the fire, but the chill piano make me feel like I need to be sitting and roasting marshmallows. I made it to 3:43 before I died.
the intro cutscene was amazing, the visuals are nice, but music doesn't fit very well and the game gets boring really fast, maybe implement more things to do, like cutting the wood in 2 pieces (maybe a button smashing mechanic) before putting it on the fire to get a higher fuel boost, killing monsters trying to put out the fire (with this a health bar and another mechanic to regenerate health like picking up food), etc.
It's very good for a 3 day game, good job :)
Really cool artstyle, I love how it looked. The gameplay was fun but challenging. Nice work!
I agree with the others...great graphics, nice intro, good music and great mood. Sadly not fittig the theme in any way and needs more variation in gameplay to be fun. Exit button in game and in victory screen would be nice, also a button to skip the intro for people playing multiple times.
The graphics were fantastic, especially the intro cut-scene. Ideally, there would be some more varied gameplay, but it 's a fantastic submission overall.
The awesome intro cut-scene is not only one of the best grabs I've seen in a while, but along with the music, it helps setting a mood and an atmosphere the complements the limited but largely fun and serviceable gameplay. Great job !
Great presentation! Gameplay could use some elements to break the routine. Music pretty good, though sounded a little too classical.
This game looks, sounds and feels amazing. They all contribute to conveying this creepy mood that kind of builds up from the intro. Sadly, the gameplay gets really grindy and the payoff... where, there is none. If this was a work in progress I'd stick to it, could turn into something really cool.
This game is all looks... This isn't bad but I kind of got tired of hitting trees over and over again. Great job on the graphics though, I really appreciate all the detail and thought that was put into it. The lighting, sprites, and introduction were amazing! Outstanding aesthetics, meh gameplay. The music was great, but seemed unrelated or out of place with the gameplay.
The game looks amazing,but there is just nothing to do, just chop chop chop chop, the game is easy because of that. Surviving till 6AM is just so boring. Maybe you collect food or do something different with wood. Good Luck!
I really like the graphics on this they remind me of stuff like Nuclear Throne and Enter the Gungeon. The addition of the into animation also added a lot to the setup and atmosphere which is not something usual for a Jam game. The music while nice, doesn't quite fit the dark mood in my opinion. The gameplay is rather simple, but for a Jam game that is excusable. I would like a bit more polish (such as stopping trees from spawning on top of the campfire/tent) and some more content. Overall though, good work!
Really nice pixel art, not going to go on about the gameplay since everyone else has already commented on that. The amazing intro animation makes up for it though!
I like how tight the game is around the basic idea of building a fire. I think it works great as it is, but it really misses some bigger purpose to reach overall, otherwise just fighting against the clock isn't very engaging. I think some sort of bonus system or skill system would have made it more engaging. There were also a handful of minor bugs, for example the fire appearing on top of the trees in front of it, but they were all minor. Good job!
Really cool game ! the art and audio are great, really good looking intro, the gameplay is smart and i really enjoyed it ! Only lacks a menu, had to F4, but minor issue ! Nice work !
Fun game, the artwork is great and it looks quite good. The music does not fit the rather dark mood and in the (very nice) intro I would have wished for something more dramatic. Overall there are missing some more things you could do to add some replay-value. It was no problem to survive ;)
Really nice graphics. Sound is nice too. Gameplay is too minimalist but do the job so good job guys :)
Really nice game ! I manage to survive until 6:00 but it the darkness was really close ^^
The music reminded me of "over the garden wall" animated series music. Great job! Cool submission, and soundtracking!
Great style, control doesn't feel very responsive maybe we should be able to cut trees from further. Oh, and I fell in love with the "cinematic" at the beginning.
Very Good entry, congratulations !
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We did not expect the game to get too dark and we wanted to bring some of the survival experience to you with a touch of character derpness for the game's music. We have many plans to improve the game that we could not implement these days but soon we will work on it! Again, thanks to everyone for the great feedbacks, we take them all into account. ** <3 **
Hello there mate! I really liked the game! Especially the art style!However the game play is very boring and underwhelming.... But in the the time given its a pretty good game! One Of the bests so far! 10/10
Cute game, the art alone will put you in top 20! the whole thing is cohesive
The game is cute! The actually gameplay was a bit shallow. Nice job!
Graphics and audio on 100. Very smooth gameplay. If this game had any amount of additional mechanics it would be the best thing I've played yet.
I wish I could make such a good game in th future in quick time like that
@skyrex This is our second attempt. Our first game did not go very well either. Keep going as well, I'm sure your next game will be better.
I've survived! *flex* .. hum .. everything was been already said, so well done! :)
:stars: The art is cute and colorful which really suits the game! Well done!
Art is beautiful and it's really pleasant to play. The light effect is so great. The music is really nice and helps so much to the mood. Well done :)
Glad to see a great game made by a team with some brazilians!
Funny thing, we thought about the same concept at first too, but in a 3D game (somewhat borrowed from don't starve mechanic). But since we would probably use free assets, it would look like any generic survivor horror game. But you guys did it in 2D, well drawn, with some cool introduction and the experience fits together really nicely! Charming game.
I do agree that it doesn't pay off to win. It would be cool some ending scene too. But great game!
Art and music are beyond amazing!
Very cool liked it !
Loved the atmosphere of the game, the art was really good! I just felt the gameplay was a little bit repetitive.
Like most people have said, and they're right: The pixel art and animations in this game are fantastic. The music, colours and mood are all perfect. It feels lika a well made game when you play it, but however: The intro fades after you've played it. After surviving through the night I forgot that there were monsters or hallucinations or anything at all. I think it would need something more than just keeping the dark abay. It is a really nice game though, you've done a great job :)
Firstly I must I am impressed by the quality of graphics and sounds. Both are aesthetic and gorgeous. Super well done! The gameplay is simple and crystal clear, very easy t o follow. I miss a better UI to situate the player in game (the timer could be hours with "am" to keep extra clear of what it's stands for) and to control the experience (like a pause, a jump cutscene and a exit buttons). Nevertheless, your game is fantastic and beautiful to just be in. Great work and I'm curious to look out for more games from you guys. Keep the good work! :)
Awesome! The graphics are high tier, the sound, you even made an intro! I really wish it had a little more gameplay in it. It would be my winner for sure <3
This is a very well made game. Like seriously, the 4 people that worked on this really put a lot of work in and I can really appreciate that. Really shows the dedication. A liked the art and music but i wish there was a but more to the game, its very pretty but gets boring the more it goes on, but still had fun
The game is well done. The graphics, the sound design, the mood it creates is just awesome. But the fun was a bit lacking for me. But for the rest I really loved it. Great Job!
Hey! I liked the graphics (nice pixel art!) and the music too. Well done for the gameplay. But is it possible to survive? Have a look at our game too ;) Great job.
Beautiful looking art, I really love the pixel art aesthetic mixed with real lighting in engine! Congrats :) @thomas-lessa
@alex-brull yes, it is possible haha I played your chicken game. Really cool graphics and sound. I enjoyed the idea as well :)
well done with the game! I enjoyed the look of it and has so much potential!
This reminds me a little bit of Don't Starve, thank god I don't have to keep tab on my hunger and sanity meter. hahaha. Love the graphics and the intro is a nice touch, especially for a game jam. But the game gets kinda repetitive after a couple of minutes.
Very good graphics, I enjoyed the cutscene at the start. I had some trouble positioning the character in the right place to chop down some of the trees and I couldn't chop down the ones really close to the campfire at all. I like the idea, although the gameplay is quite repetitive. I would enjoy seeing a more developed version in the future.
Thanks everyone, we apologize for the short experience ingame. We had some problems with time between our team, but for sure we will keep updating the game adding a lot of new mechanics and challenges. (Don't starve pixel art?) Who knows :)
Even though it looks very simple, you always feel a bit of stress as if you won't make it back in time with your collected wood, it kept my attention. I did have a problem with the fact that trees can spawn on top of your campfire, this can make for some irritating moments where you're trying to deposit your logs but can't cus there's a tree in the way (what a sentence) Anyway, i had fun and in the end, that's what counts. Good Job!
Hey there, i think @memel06 wrapped it up quite nicely. I want to add that your narrative is simple but very effective. You could make a story out of it, if you can invent some more game mechanics like hunting and/or cooking, building defense and so on :slight_smile:
Looks lovely, very cute style. The intro frames were beautiful as well. The animation was great too. The whole aesthetic was wonderful and a great idea on the theme. Unfortunately, the game became boring quite quickly and I was a little bit disappointed cause I loved the style. Screw the darkness, I want to go on an adventure with our little lumberjack! You have something here, take it further post jam!
Very cute game made with a lot of work. I think everyone will tell you what is good about your game, so let’s talk about what you can improve.
I think you can easily port this game to mobile because the control do not need good reaction and the game overall it’s very meditative. Health bar of any kind because getting oneshotet with no warning it’s not fun at all. The character could be faster because the game territory its already big enough, no need to make game tedious. Different wood for different effects or enemies, I sincerely think this feature alone can skyrocket your game for several steps.
The list can go on forever, but I know from proper experience how destructive the perfectionism is so I will stop right now.
Overall, very good game and one of smoothest and most polished game ive seen on the moment, good job.
The game looks great, but unfortunately the experience is a bit shallow. More challenges and mechanics, like having hallucinations that reduced the player's space over time, forcing them to take alternate routes, would go a long way to add to the experience.
The game is really beautiful, the cutscene is a nice touch (though it is very disconnected from the art style of the gameplay part). Unfortunately the mechanics lack depth and it seems to be a very obvious take on the theme. If you can bring a twist to the overused "survive the night" genre in a postjam version, it would be great to play, you already have a very pretty creation!
Short and sweet — I really liked playing this. I think the fact that it was simple was fine, considering its length, but I was expecting some sort of cutscene at the end where he realises he's been hallucinating or something!
Really well polished, though, so great work! It didn't get dull to me, but I agree about the need for more clarification on where exactly you'll die (but hey, you die once, you know to avoid it again).
This game is awesome, Excellent job! I really enjoed it, so much fun!) Graphics are really cool! I want to see expended version, it was beautiful)
I like the look of it from the screenshots, shame it's saved as a RAR file so I can't play and rate...
@aaranos Sorry for that, uploading a ZIP right now.
fun game, I enjoyed it. mood was great. it became a bit repetitive in the end, I think if you allowed the player to setup other fires by burning trees or when you have enough wood it would make the game much more interesting. also sometimes you die when you think you still are in the light, if you are close to 6am that's pretty frustrating
The game is great. Nice Graphics and audio with a simple but fun gameplay make the game is perfect for the theme. Great work!
It would be really nice if you could mark the download as for windows, it currently says "Not avalible for Windows".
(I managed to download it) The game was pretty fun although a bit repetitive.
Thanks for making a zip version.
I really enjoyed the cutscenes at the start, a lot of time must of gone into the aesthetics as it is very polished visually. The gameplay is okay, as others have already stated it's repetitive since the single focus is on cutting trees and feeding the fire. It has a very "Don't Starve" feel to it.
I did have two play issues. A few times trees would spawn in the fire and I couldn't cut them down. A few other incidents were where a tree would spawn right next to a tree I was cutting which would interrupt me.
sensacional! Adorei o jogo. A arte está linda. o gameplay é simples mas bem gostoso de jogar, além de encaixar perfeitamente no tema da jam. Parabéns a todos pelo ótimo trabalho!
I love the graphics and the animations ! It was fun to play ! I hope you will continur to improve the game and add more features !
You can really see that a lot of passion went into this! My main criticism is that the core gameplay is not diverse enough.
Really like the graphics and music! Nice mood also, lots of Don't Starve feels :> Everything was said in the previous comments, personally I admit it was hard for my poor attention span to hold without fail for 6min with just these mechanics. But you have an interesting concept, I hope you'll continue it postjam! :>
When I chopped down a couple of trees at the edge of the light, I felt tense and clever! If you continue to develop this, when I started chopping, I wasn't sure if I should tap repeatedly or hold down the Space bar. Also when there was a tree near the fire, I wasn't sure which action would occur if I pressed Space. I wanted to chop but I fed the fire instead.
I really loved this little survival game with a very successful visual atmosphere! I think with a little more variety in the gameplay and some additional feedback the game would be even better! Great job!
Very nice game! I love everything in the game. I think you die to fast when you go in the dark.
Grear game, graphics are awesome but gameplay is a little bit flat. Waiting for next versions of the game ! Great job ;)
Wow, that's one fast-burning fire! I liked the graphics, music, and mood. The intro was very good. There's not that much variety to tide me over for six hours, but I guess that's probably what it's actually like in the woods. With more stuff going on, I could see this being a lot of fun! Some bugs: - Stumps can show through trees. An easy way to fix this would be to draw everything sorted by (y + height), which would be the base of the tree, feet of the player, or bottom of the stump. - The timer briefly shows e.g. 01:60 before flipping to 2:00.
Nice art and great presentation, the gameplay was a bit plain and the death screen came so sudden i didnt understand what happened, as the time progressed te fire consumed itself very quickly but as alot of trees spawned near me it wasnt a big deal. Is true that after the sudden death in my second play I was scare of darkness because i didnt know wich level of darknes kill me and because it kills you so fast I was scared. Nice game overall.
Excellent art and sound! The narrative is good too, you even have a nice intro! But the gameplay is very dull and repetitive, you are not challenged by any means and, if you keep the mouse button clicked, you basically have to just walk though the screen.
Really beautiful game. The narrative, the sounds and music were awesome as well. Don't wanna repeat other comments when you're well aware of the core loop issues, but I do agree with a comment I saw about shortening the overall timer - it should be rather easy to change and would mitigate quite a big part of the problem, compared to adding new features and stuff at least. I see you're going to continue working on the project - good luck with that, I'll be glad to try it out when you release it! Well done!
Very stylish!