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Bearly Alive

By bjeaurn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3993.0940
Fun4142.7538
Innovation3522.9439
Theme3782.9839
Graphics4252.6639
Humor3462.0519
Mood2853.0638

Comments

iozsaygi 2019-10-06 19:40

It was hard for me to see where i am at the start of game. But dude Wolf AI is amazing it stole my sheep and it was perfect detail in my opinion. Controls are great for simple game. Nice job!

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 19:58

Thank you so much!

2019-10-06 21:02

Maybe little more fluid motion. Looks cool ;)

fictions 2019-10-06 21:05

That's such a cute game... And I instantly felt sorry for the bear :) Great job!

gaz-ireland 2019-10-06 21:13

Really enjoyed it :smile:

odeyalko 2019-10-06 21:14

Very cool game, I liked that you can carry food. And these wolves are incredible

kanonix 2019-10-06 21:31

Original idea and easy to play. A great job for such a short time !

bobotast 2019-10-06 21:38

Nice game! I was terrified of wolves at first, I didn't know I could fight them. Just ran away until there were several on my tail and I was out of energy. But now they're dead and I'm alive.

simxple 2019-10-06 21:40

Nice Game. Enjoyed playing it!

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 21:41

@bobotast What an amazing story. Thanks for sharing!

And appreciate all the comments lads! Lovely to see, including the feedback on what to improve!

locomule 2019-10-06 21:58

I got a little confused at first because I forgot to use space but on my second try I found Mom. Cute and fun :)

geoff-nagy 2019-10-06 22:01

This was fun, although I didn't immediately work out that you had to be carrying a kill (with E) to eat it first. What I really liked was that you had to balance the energy level of your cub with the desire to keep catching food. The addition of the trees made it interesting because they slowed you down.

stefanie-leitch 2019-10-06 22:07

Original idea! Loved that when I died the wolf picked me up and walked away with my body XD.

cethin 2019-10-06 22:08

Nice job. Everything works and graphics are stylistic and nice! I had two issues though. Stuff on the edge of the screen seems to deload early on, I guess, unsupported screen sizes and eating wasn't intuitive at first. The "E" prompt over a corpse was hard to see and there is no notification to press "Space" to eat. Overall pretty good and functional. The end screen is great!

jedineeson 2019-10-06 22:10

Very nice job! It's immersive and it look good! Would have been greater with SFX but GG, well done my friend!

twinturbodouche 2019-10-06 22:11

Are you going to expand this game?

pfeyffer 2019-10-06 22:16

A wolf killed me and carried my dead body away! Good job on the ai and details. The controls need some polishing. Acceleration helps a lot with movement that feels more natural.

kuviman 2019-10-06 22:17

Oh no, I left the tab with your game open for a while and now there is a pile of dead bodies and mommy wandering around.

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 22:17

Thanks @cethin I will take that into consideration, fantastic feedback it is really appreciated.

@twinturbodouche I have no plans for now, but if you have ideas or would like to see certain things; I'd be happy to hear about those ideas. I wonder why you ask it! The game engine behind it will receive plenty of love.

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 22:19

@pfeyffer @kuviman Oh yes, I'm aware of that bug. It's a problem with the engine honestly as of now.

@pfeyffer What would you like to see on the controls improvement? More smooth animation? Cause right now I chose for this "wonky" 8 options of degrees animation on the character for artistic reasons.

someoneman 2019-10-06 22:37

Cute, but it should explain better that to eat, you first need to press E to grab a corpse, and then press spacebar.

pfeyffer 2019-10-06 22:38

It's not so much the animation - that works. But it does not feel like the character has any mass and just floats if it does not accelerate.

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 22:40

Got it @pfeyffer Thanks for your feedback. Did you notice the slowdown when you picked up a kill and walked with it?

But disregarding that, good feedback; I'll keep it in mind to give my character some more "mass" I guess, to make it feel like a being in the world it inhabits. Thank you.

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 22:41

@someoneman Thanks for the feedback, this response was the one I was most worried about. You're right, and I knew it. I'm sorry; I hope the game was fun to play besides that!

abacus 2019-10-06 23:03

Nice job finishing your game! The hunger and stamina bars are pretty and creative! The game had few animations, but it was still nice to play.

inventivum-games 2019-10-06 23:10

Nice game the notification to say I'd won didn't show for me, after I'd found the mummy bear I wasn't sure what to do

bocodillo 2019-10-06 23:12

I liked the balance of eating to moving, I was constantly trying to edge along minimum energy. The animations are neat and the meat/bear UI was very cool. Definitely the sort of thing I could idly play for a while when listening to a podcast or something.

kazatan 2019-10-06 23:12

I found mom! :grin: I enjoyed playing your game. It seemed a bit strange to eat the polar bears! I liked the Winter progression :thumbsup:

bjeaurn 2019-10-06 23:19

@inventivum-games Press E on mom to win.

@bocodillo Thank you, that means so much. Art isn't my strong suit and I'm happy people appreciate that work.

@kazatan Haha, we didn't eat polar bears; wolves attacked us. But I like your interpretation. Thanks for your comment and for playing the game!

christophebessette 2019-10-07 01:18

Hey, good job. I noticed I could walk faster if i attacked, which is kinda a nice discovery. I like the progression

bagenzo 2019-10-07 01:59

I won! The ending screen is very cute. Overall I liked it, it's a good take on the theme.

nachtwitch 2019-10-07 02:03

Fun game man,def worth it's score

6smith 2019-10-07 02:57

A thrilling story

antarcticruler 2019-10-07 10:58

The best part of the game is that you can eat the wolves. I quite enjoyed being a bear who seeks out sheep and wolves for consumption. :ok_hand: The art style is quite cute as well!

squimmy 2019-10-07 15:06

I like the effect of the changing seasons. It's such an efficient way of showing the passage of time.

Some parts were a little confusing, like the way you have to pick up dead animals before you can eat them, or that you have to stop moving to restore energy, but these issues only detracted from the game in the most trivial way.

This is such a sweet little story. For such a simple game, you really empathize with the little bear by the end of it.

bazld 2019-10-07 19:08

Hey @bjeaurn, A survival game I can actually complete, yay! The win screen was cool to reach. Relaxing and brutal at the same time. The food vs energy balance is nicely done, and works really well. A simple change would be to up the movement speed a little (+someone above mentioned inertia/momentum).

evannex 2019-10-07 20:08

This is adorable! Really well done entry!

ryzy27 2019-10-08 15:48

Good game. Would be much better If you managed to add a couple sounds to it. At first I wasn't sure what this other 'bear' bar meant, but I guess it's has something to to with the mom bear?

Great story and idea! Cheers!

bjeaurn 2019-10-08 17:16

Thank you @ryzy27 - how far did you get into the game? The bear bar is stamina, the other is hunger.

ogre 2019-10-09 07:17

Adorable. It didn't seem like anything else was happening after mom showed up, so I just quit it. I guess I missed something and there was a win condition after that? She was just kind of wandering and it didn't seem like she had any interactions. Oh well, it was nice few minutes!

bjeaurn 2019-10-09 14:55

My bad, there was no E indicator on mom indeed; hoped most people would figure that out. Mom randomly wandered off before my initial update, a tip from a viewer was to change that so mom actively searched for you too. Hope that explains it a bit! Thanks for playing!

taddl 2019-10-12 11:01

A really nice game.

hcursino 2019-10-14 06:26

After a while I got bored from how slow that bear moves. Other than that it was a challenging game. Good job!

fashionbatman 2019-10-24 18:38

Aww, this was so sweet! The wolves were great enemies. Good job overall!