FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD46 → Leafy Hero

Leafy Hero

By guilb, AmigoPadilha, Naya Rangel, Pedro Miranda and Kebo

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5513.7848
Fun9163.4648
Innovation2723.8348
Theme3214.1048
Graphics3264.2648
Audio3353.8148
Humor9063.1246
Mood6213.7146

Comments

matijat 2020-04-21 01:24

Very fun game i like it :)

solah 2020-04-22 12:01

Very cute game! But it is quite hard, one caterpillar and I can't manage it, all my roots and leaves get eaten.

Great entry, well done!

naughtybird 2020-04-22 12:54

The grapichs is cute, and the tutorial design is really awesome! For me it was very hard to understand what I have to do with the worms. Maybe it was mention in the tutorial, but it was a lot of text there so maybe I didn't catch it.

maqo12 2020-04-22 12:56

Really cute game and smart idea!

notapixelstudio 2020-04-22 13:09

Nooo, why only the windows build? Not even the web version? How do I play this game?

Maybe a video gameplay?

amigopadilha 2020-04-22 13:48

@notapixelstudio We had a problem with shaders on the web build, but we're fixing it! Soon you'll be able to play =)

pedro-miranda 2020-04-22 13:52

@naughtybird Thanks! Yeah, we kinda left the worms out of the tutorial for a little "twist" as the little cell says "heal from what?" there. Maybe we should mention it somewhere, but the ideia is that it goes back and forth randomly eating up chunks of your plant and you have to manage it by healing chomped pieces.

pedro-miranda 2020-04-22 13:55

@solah Thanks, glad you liked it! We're thinking ways to tweak the difficult of the game, just didn't had time on the jam

pedro-miranda 2020-04-22 13:56

@matijat @maqo12 Thanks, glad you guys enjoyed it!

sophiemae0 2020-04-22 17:09

Soooo cute! I love the faces hand how the cells move. Also very fun but most importantly cute, congratulations on a lovely game!

sachawitto 2020-04-22 17:14

Nice :) Enjoyed the global mood of the game. Good music. But i was blocked because had no sun to make my flower grow, didn't understand :'(

primalshadow 2020-04-22 17:14

Nice!

squid 2020-04-22 17:15

Wow this is a pretty game. Took a little bit to figure out how to rotate the nodes. Waiting for endless mode!

marmeron 2020-04-22 17:16

very high quality! the audio and graphics are great and the game is really uniuqe, although it was a little diffuclt. great job!

bitpokit 2020-04-22 17:16

One of my favorite Ludum Dare entries so far! The art and sound and gameplay is so fun and satisfying! Such a cute and awesome game that made me smile irl. Please make into a full version! :smile:

legolaz 2020-04-22 17:21

A pretty beautiful game! It is really addictive mechanics. Well done!

codechomper 2020-04-22 17:21

Wow what a cool unique game. I really enjoyed playing and thought the game would be awesome on mobile!!! You should be proud of this one. It is very complete easy to play and hard to master.

elektropapst 2020-04-22 17:27

Although it's very challenging with those annoying larva, I really enjoyed playing your game. Great job :thumbsup:

kregames 2020-04-22 17:29

So far this is the best I played with! Full experience with the music, the atrstyle. I like how the music is repeating, but not get on my nerves. Amusing work, delightful gameplay.

forging-foxes 2020-04-22 17:30

Love this a lot! The graphics and the simple gameplay loop! I'd like to see a longer version. Really well done

coolo2o 2020-04-22 17:30

Really great job guys!

tybau 2020-04-22 17:30

Really cool system, this is a "feeling good" game.

Thanks for this light moment.

maskrosen 2020-04-22 17:31

Good looking and cute graphics and I like the music and sound effects. Quite challenging as well. Good job!

mads 2020-04-22 17:32

Nice game, nice innovation and fits the theme nice! The controls are quite difficult, i don't think the spinning mechanic works with a mouse. But i guess it is ment for mobile where i think it will work great. It is a bit weird that sometimes there is nothing one can do to proceed, no resources that can be collected. If an in game explenation of the controls is build go straigt to appstore :)

teto 2020-04-22 17:32

Real cool and original concept which is actually more dofficult than I thought it would be! Really loved the cute graphics and sound as well. Great game! Well done!

julienlussiez 2020-04-22 17:34

Nice experience ! It took me some time to understant what I was suppose to do bu after that I got the concept and it works well. I like the mood, it's nice and cosy.

generictoast 2020-04-22 17:35

I really liked the graphics of the game! The audio was also really well made. The only problem i had was not knowing what to do with the larva. Still a really fun game!

le-slo 2020-04-22 17:35

Hey! Nice idea! Pretty original, but too difficult to be honest, caterpillars and worms are just brutal or probably, If you have bad luck you can lose immediatly, I think there should be a way to defend yourself (some ideas: I way to defend yourself, a circle when a cell is in a catterpillar spot to stun the catterpillar for a bit, healing broken leafs or roots being cheaper, whenever your plant grows, it grows from above and below, the roots are specially a weak spot in this version). I actually managed to win after a couple of tries, and my plant didn't grow any other leaf, I guess I was lucky? There is definitely potential here to do a great game, the concept is awesome, the graphics very cute and the music fitting and manages to don't be repetitive. Keep the good work!

donitz 2020-04-22 17:42

Very relaxing, to be a flower.

mmmcgill1232 2020-04-22 17:44

Beautiful game and the audio fit really well. I was able to beat it after a few tries but it felt like it was mostly up to luck with the caterpillars. Sometimes they would eat way faster than I was able to keep up with but the time I won I barely had any damage to deal with on the final stage. I'd love to play a longer version with some balance tweaks. Nice Job!

decrementedpalindrome 2020-04-22 17:48

I really like the style of the game, the graphics, sound, and animations are all good and work well together and the tutorial is cute! The hitboxes were a bit small for my liking and I often missed the little blobs by a few pixels when trying to move them. Overall I think it's a good, well polished game. (Though I do have one _bug_ report, you can both lose and win at the same time if you win during the losing animation)

laurari 2020-04-22 19:30

This game is so cute!! I find larvas a little unfair, as there is no way to control them, or at least none that I found... but I really enjoyed playing :smile:

tom-stephenson 2020-04-23 13:17

Nice game! The graphics are really cute! The audio was nice and I like the animations! A really nice game overall, well done ! :)

khud0 2020-04-23 13:19

Very challenging game with a lot of concepts to grasp. I can see how it can be enjoyable, but maybe ideas could be introduced one by one?

rexagon 2020-04-24 14:14

So cute and stylish) Great!

greon 2020-04-24 14:14

That's a cute game you have there, the... everything is lovely. The larva guys eating the plant were a little too harsh, they made the game get way more challenging than i tought it would be. Nice work from all you guys!

stefan-jovanovic 2020-04-24 14:34

Cutest game I've come across so far! Nice presentation with great art and music. Keep up the good work!

daxic 2020-04-24 16:30

Amazing graphics and music! But it was harder to understand what to do.

erikvdb 2020-04-24 17:15

Lovely game, I really like the mechanics even though they were a bit confusing at first. I'm glad the difficulty wasn't too hard so I could just have a nice relaxing time enjoying the cute artstyle and music!

regisclaus 2020-04-25 19:13

Nice game! Congratulations! I'm been stuck a little, but ok, the art and sounds is very good!

gustavo-christino 2020-04-27 13:05

Tentando novamente...

Retrying...

~~PS: No seu encarte diz "H2O Oxigen" (não vi alguém apontando isso antes). ~~PS: In your booklet it says "H2O Oxigen" (I haven't seen anyone pointing this out before).~~

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gustavo-christino 2020-04-27 13:25

Consegui! \o

I did it! o/

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pedro-miranda 2020-04-27 13:35

@gustavo-christino

Thanks for the heads up, we've already fixed it on the LDJam page (will fix ingame tutorial later)

There you go! Thanks for playing it till the end! We hope you've enjoyed it

gustavo-christino 2020-04-27 13:42

Análise...

1 - Mecânicas, Aprendizado e Fluxo: A mecânica é simples e intuitiva, apenas os controles que não funcionam tão bem no mouse (às vezes perco o controle do clique, talvez seja questão de ajuste de sensibilidade no meu mouse em específico). Creio que essa mecânica (ainda mais dada tela verticalizada na versão HTML) seja mais interessante para smartphones (então fica a dica, caso já não seja a intenção). Aprender a jogar foi intuitivo (como mencionado), apenas a parte que seria possível acelerar a extração que me deixou sem ter certeza antes de começar; depois fui aprendendo a lidar. Eu gostaria que tivesse alguma forma de eliminar lagartas (caso o jogo seja estendido para mais flores etc). O fluxo de jogo começa tranquilo (e favorecendo o aprendizado), mas na parte final se torna extremamente difícil (joguei quatro ou cinco vezes para conseguir concluir o estágio). Talvez uma forma de facilitar (mas não muito) seria fazer a lagarta precisar morder duas vezes para "quebrar o lado dela do tronco" (comendo primeiro a folha, depois o tronco), ou fazer um tempo de mordida (permitindo intervir contra ela ou deixar uma "bolinha" impedindo)... Algo que dê mais interações defensivas e tal.

2 - Gráficos, Áudio, Narrativa e Polimento: Os desenhos ficaram muito bonitos, parabéns. O áudio ficou bastante confortável também, parabéns outra vez. A narrativa é simples e direta (a menos que se planeje estender o projeto, creio que esteja muito boa para tempo de game jam).

3 - Cultura: Muitas pessoas amam plantas, então isso permite encontrar interessados no projeto. Na outra via, o projeto pode (caso estendido) ensinar sobre plantas para jogadores (creio que seja interessante).

4 - Monetização: Se o jogo for para smartphones e tiver diversos estágios, customização de plantas e vínculo com redes sociais; acredito que possa monetizar por propaganda e venda de cosméticos (ou de tentativas de jogo). Quem sabe vários modos de jogo (desde os bonsais mais simples até os pés de feijões mais altos, hahahahah).

Novamente, parabéns pela arte. :flag_br:

gustavo-christino 2020-04-27 13:42

Analysis...

1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow: The mechanics are simple and intuitive, just the controls that don't work so well on the mouse (sometimes I lose control of the click, maybe it's a matter of adjusting the sensitivity of my mouse in particular). I believe that this mechanics (even more given the verticalized screen in the HTML version) is more interesting for smartphones (so here's the tip, if it's not already the intention). Learning to play was intuitive (as mentioned), just the part that it would be possible to speed up the extraction that left me unsure before I started; then I started to learn how to cope. I wish there was some way to eliminate caterpillars (if the game is extended to more flowers, etc.). The game flow starts smoothly (and favors learning), but in the end it becomes extremely difficult (I played four or five times to be able to complete the internship). Perhaps a way to facilitate (but not too much) would be to make the caterpillar need to bite twice to "break its side of the trunk" (eating the leaf first, then the trunk), or to make a bite time (allowing to intervene against it or leaving a "ball" preventing) ... Something that gives more defensive interactions and such.

2 - Graphics, Audio, Narrative and Polishment: The drawings were very beautiful, congratulations. The audio was very comfortable too, congratulations again. The narrative is simple and straightforward (unless you plan to extend the project, I think it is very good for game jam time).

3 - Culture: Many people love plants, so that allows you to find people interested in the project. In the other way, the project can (if extended) teach about plants for players (I think it is interesting).

4 - Monetization: If the game is for smartphones and has several stages, customization of plants and link with social networks; I believe it can monetize by advertising and selling cosmetics (or gambling attempts). Maybe several game modes (from the simplest bonsai to the tallest bean feet, hahahahah).

Again, congratulations on the art.

nachodlv 2020-04-27 15:07

Lovely game. I really liked the audio and the art. At first I didn't understand when do you loose on level of the plant maybe it can be added to the tutorial. Overall a good and fun game. Good Job!

yxmx-rsx 2020-05-09 03:49

The game was challenging for me overall nice game