Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → a Friend of fire

a Friend of fire

By greenduck

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD46Ever
Overall1663.832682.585.8
Fun4853.332653.261.3
Innovation8282.902623.333.5
Theme764.172691.291.6
Graphics334.402693.494.4
Humor6742.412417.828.4
Mood3293.462658.065.5

Comments

trko 2020-04-19 23:38 ♥ 1

Beautiful art!

ruoyu 2020-04-20 07:36 ♥ 2

The art looks very good. I have played 5+ games and have never won. I started to suspect that there was no heart in the map :-)

jonahsenzel 2020-04-20 08:07 ♥ 2

I died so many times! didn't actually finish. Definitely spent a bunch of time on it though so that's a good sign. Awesome art. Fire should die slower

greenduck 2020-04-20 10:29 ♥ 0

@ruoyu, @jonahsenzel, thanks for your feedback! I've added a walkthrough for a better experience!

inka-mcatee 2020-04-20 10:57 ♥ 2

The ArtStyle and the Animations are amazing! Just wow, i love it <3

sacrface 2020-04-20 11:40 ♥ 1

Artwork is fantastic. A couple of layering issues with the resources clipping through trees. Beat it 3rd try once I learned the locations of everything on the second. I took too long and ran out of wood :D

fictions 2020-04-20 11:43 ♥ 2

Amazing Art, but good do I suck at this game xD Nice Job!

pke1029 2020-04-20 11:45 ♥ 1

Really nice and consistent art style. Quickly learned how to keep the fire alive.

siegmayer 2020-04-20 11:46 ♥ 1

Great artwork!

nirose 2020-04-20 11:47 ♥ 1

Fetch quest the game :). But i really liked exploring the tiny world you have created.

hanamigi 2020-04-20 11:57 ♥ 1

Such a beautiful looking game that truly adheres to this jam's theme. I had a problem when trying to pick up the sword because I was not touching the handle. Since the character was not picking it up, I just went around the level... so I suggest to make the sword a pickup as soon as you touch any part of it, not only the handle (even if it is more thematic).

bloham 2020-04-20 12:12 ♥ 1

I read the walkthrough before playing as I though its some sort of tutorial xD was waaaay too easy after that. But it looks very pretty, cute and fun to explore!

scintillae-creations 2020-04-20 12:32 ♥ 1

My only issue is, that picking the sword is not that intuitive.

Otherwise, I loved it.

greenduck 2020-04-20 12:38 ♥ 0

@hanamigi Thanks for so detailed feedback! Yeah, I agree with you, my way of picking sword up doesn't so intuitive . Next time I'll think more about such things)

bereg 2020-04-20 12:44 ♥ 1

I like the main hero, the art is beautiful and the animation is on point. Although, it would be great to have the ability to sprint.

frogravity 2020-04-20 13:01 ♥ 1

A very nice game! The graphics are good, and everything is intuitive and smooth. It was a bit short, but great otherwise.

yonman 2020-04-20 13:01 ♥ 1

Great game! The graphics are very pretty and I liked how the purple monster showed a heart after I went by it when I went back to the fire. Good job!

xeke-death 2020-04-20 13:20 ♥ 1

Loved the basic drawn art style, and the animation of the characters. I liked the exploration, finding items and not knowing their purpose right away was interesting. Simple controls with automatic interactions was good, but it took a couple goes to pick up the sword because I didn't know I could.

Don't tell the wizard I stole back the fire's heart.

baturinsky 2020-04-20 18:00 ♥ 1

Good graphics. Fire burns out maybe a bit too fast (or walking is too slow) for my taste.

dani-desa 2020-04-20 21:21 ♥ 1

I managed to finish it! Good one. The walking seems a bit too slow. I liked the graphics and the colour palette with those pastel tones. Sounds and music it is really missing. The story also is quite interesting. I really loved the idea of putting those little wood pieces into the fire. The animations well done as well. Good job!

fatpenguin 2020-05-05 18:56 ♥ 1

Aww what a cute game! I really liked the animations, gave it a cool "scribbled" look, like out of kid's book :) personally I felt like he could have been a bit faster :3 The gameplay could have been more interesting, but considering you did this all alone in the course of a gamejam You did a very good job! Congrats on finishing your game :) I think music and sound would have also aded much. There is a bunch of cool free sounds online, might wanna check that out :) for sounds, freesounds.com is a good starting point, as for music youtube has a lot of free music where you just have to credit the author :) Again, good job!

akelliona 2020-05-12 11:21 ♥ 1

Cute game. I had a problem in my first run that I didn't realize that you can take branches, so I thought that you needed just do all quests before time is over. But time is annoying anyway because I like exploring ^)