nabo369 2021-04-27 12:26
This is honestly a pretty good game! The art is good, the controls are pretty straight forward and the constant tips in the top left corner of the screen made things a lot easier. So really well done on making this game
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Deep Dark Deadly Forest
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 617 | 3.68 | 37 | |
| Fun | 653 | 3.50 | 37 | |
| Innovation | 598 | 3.48 | 37 | |
| Theme | 662 | 3.82 | 37 | |
| Graphics | 822 | 3.75 | 38 | |
| Audio | 640 | 3.51 | 37 | |
| Humor | 430 | 3.32 | 37 | |
| Mood | 713 | 3.63 | 38 |
This is honestly a pretty good game! The art is good, the controls are pretty straight forward and the constant tips in the top left corner of the screen made things a lot easier. So really well done on making this game
@nabo369 Thanks. There is a major bug that needs to be fixed.
great idea ! i liked the art. the game name is 10/10 xD
Good step with the in-game tutorial. Gameplay is simple and the graphics decent. I really like the camera look after clicking on a character, but I wouldn't be angry at all if he waited a while before I gave him a task. In sum, good entry. And maybe it would be wiser to prepare a ZIP file for easier game downloads :slight_smile:
Good game. Keep it up
Hi! Visually it's excellent even if I find the readability a bit complicated at some points but I still had a great time.
The customization of the villagers is very interesting, I liked renaming some of them with names of people I don't like and making them do dangerous tasks 👿
And I'm of the same opinion as @mira, putting the game in a ZIP file wouldn't have been too much. By the way there are platforms like Itchio, kongregate and so many others, which allow to manage the download and even play games made with Unity directly in the browser :3
Neat graphic style, really unique and gives it a creepy folklore-ish feel that really lends itself to the mood. The ability to add name villagers is a little touch that makes the village feel personal. The first time I rang the bell it wouldn't stop ringing and I had to restart unfortunately.
@mira @bnmkt Thanks for playing. I will definitely put it in a zip. Totally forgot about doing that.
@bnmkt I had the same idea for naming them. That's why I put in naming. :)
@fizzbark Thanks for your comment and feedback. Did you click the bell again to stop it?
Ooo, the forest! I must say really enjoyed the voice lines and sound effects. However, it was quite difficult for me to play because I did not know how many resources I need to do each upgrade/to craft each weapon, I'd be nice if the message also mentioned how much of what is missing. Also camera movement using A/D or arrow keys would have been nice. After having many villagers it would have been also helpful to distinguish who does what at the moment by maybe giving the villagers some icons, or simply coloring them but this way it emphasised the "random villagers with low attention span" vibe :)
Anyways, good job!
@pavel-smejkal Thanks for the feedback. We wanted to out those in, but just ran out of time. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed this. I like your choice of an offbeat retro color palette. The gameplay was pretty cute and fun once I figured out how to encourage them to make weapons and pitchforks. Awesome interpretation of the theme. Keep making fun games. :)
really neat sort of game! one thing is that it took me a good long while to figure out how to actually craft/build things. wasnt super clear that i needed to manually assign the little dudes to do particular tasks by clicking on them individually. but overall an interesting idea, and nicely implemented!
Nice game, pretty fun! Love that strategic stuff of gathering resources, managing them and building infrastructure
Nice game, i liked the idea behind it and the graphic. After a little bit the distance to travel to gather the resources was too long and i used a little trick. Switch a chatacter from gather to another state (i used idle since it stops him from retourning to the village) and then switch it back to gather made him transport back home multiple resorces with a single trip! An example: https://gifyu.com/image/ty3n
Was funny to explore the map to the end a build up my village. Good job!
@viperux lol You know that was bad programming on my part. The state machine for the villagers doesnt check if it already has resource to put it in the store house. Thanks for finding that.
First, I thought I heard samples from Worms. But then there were some cute lines (however could be more and sitcom like, maybe with the text shown over the villagers' heads). Apart from sounds this game has very nice design and the strategy/survival idea is intriguing. UI felt confusing a bit. Maybe, it's just me, but it's easier to get resources up the screen, while tutorial - at the bottom. Cool touch with managing every single villager (even re-naming them), though this process would be much easier if put in UI (say, right top corner): click villager, get the top corner schematics, click what to do, click another villager, etc. Yet, had a cool time with that, thanks!
@ardorugus Thanks for playing. Designing ui can be tricky. We originally had the resources at the top. We felt that since your eyes are mostly at the bottom to put the resources there too. Really, the game needs a proper tutorial and icons and color for the resources.
Great graphics, first cute than spooky entering the forest. The voice lines gives the villagers an personality, great touch. The Menues for build and smith need some work, it's difficult to smith a sword without building a stick accidantly first. Also some ressources are not gathered by my villagers. But after all a nice management game.
@todward Thanks for playing. That was an issue with smithing. Didn't have time to change it. We would just ring the ring and then pick the commands.
Really liked the Audio and Graphics. The management system was very well implemented, the only issue i had was by managing the task directly from the villagers i had to check each one all the time to see what i had assigned the tasks to them and ensure that i was doing enough of each. When one died collecting stone for example i had to go through and see which other i had also assigned to it to worr out how many i had sent to their deaths :P. As someone already mentioned maybe a UI section to see how many are assigned to what task would be handy but i like the idea of the bell to call them all back.
It would also be noce to see what resources are required for things as i tried to upgrade my storehouse a few time s but could not wokr out what resources i needed or maybe i messed it :P
Gorgeous art style and the mood is just perfect!
@oramun Thanks for the feedback. Some of those issues were fixed in the update version.
@gnevesdev Thanks for the comments.
This is a cool one! Although I couldn't get very far. First of all, it'd be nice to have some sort of indicator for how many resources you need to upgrade a thing. If there is one, I didn't see it. The tutorial was also boring and long, just text on the screen, and it somehow never ended, it just kept looping and going back to the first text. I got stuck tho, because (I'm pretty sure that's what happened at least) my storage got filled up with stone, and I think I needed wood to upgrade things, but I couldn't collect any since the storage was full. But, it's a *really* cool take on the theme, I like it a lot. The audio is also really fun, it reminds me of old flash games. I also really like the art, except maybe the background, those beige lines in the blue sky look a little off. It has tons of potential, it's just a bit messy at the moment. Gj!
@cripsybun Did you try the update version? Some of the issues were fixed.
Nice job.
Amazing game I had much fun. I don't not why, the graphics look weird but i loved the style it's pretty unique. The voice lines were really fun like they were having fun "uuuuh the forest" then they went to the forest and a monster hand slaped them in the neck and died. I loved it. The problem i found was the resource managment I couldn't teel how much the builds costed, and the smith mechanic, i had to manually tell one of the villagers everytime i wanted something that they were smiths and what they had to build but overall really nice game. Good job!
@re-lo Thanks for the feedback. The management aspect of the game needs some work.
This is a really cute game you have here! I particularly enjoyed the little voice snippets that the villagers say throughout it, that was what really sold this game to me! Fantastic job all in all!
@borderdestroyer Thanks. It's also fun to name the villagers.
The art and sound was amazing! Overall, the only improvement I'd suggest is letting the player know how much a building upgrade would be, but besides that it's an amazing game. I absolutely loved the voice lines.
@ndhr-productions Thanks for playing. The game does need like a context menu.
Graphic very strange but plaing in this was fun
This game has actually a bit more depth than you first think. Somehow I'm not very good at managing my people and it's hard to tell, how to improve. Maybe the gameplay stresses me out a bit? It's like you are given all the tools you need at once, but you don't know how to effectively use them...
On the other hand I like that you gave those small villagers a bit of personality. The sound effects get old after a while ("Ewww the forest"), but the graphics really have some life.
Thanks for the game!
@zubspace Thanks for playing. If you ring the bell all the villagers will come and it's a little easier to manage them.