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Lumberjack

By dak001, stin and shrain

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10773.2019
Fun13292.5019
Innovation10612.8820
Theme7473.6120
Graphics2204.2321
Audio5213.4420
Humor1.504
Mood4953.6620

Comments

beebster-games 2022-04-06 11:34

Sounds like a good game, but it just sent me to a github. Are we supposed to compile it and play it?

dak001 2022-04-07 00:13

@beebster-games sorry about that. You should try it now :)

cakts 2022-04-07 16:39

Great concept, I loved the graphics and audio. There were a few typos but I didn't punish your score for that as I assume English is not your first language. I think having only one tree makes the game a bit easy, maybe if it was a forest of trees being burned down by the ghosts and you had to manage 100 trees instead of 1 then it could definitely be a very stressful/strategic game. Great entry! Good Job :smile:

pwnofprophecy 2022-04-07 16:41

Beautiful game, the artstyle and background really set the mood. I played to the point that the background music stopped playing, I'd recommend having that on a loop. The game was a bit on the easy side, I never felt especially pressured once I'd gotten into a groove of keeping the meters full. I'd recommend the ghosts start taking more hits to kill later on in addition to the tree needing more attention. Great work overall!

his-games 2022-04-07 16:46

Sorry dude, it isn't working for me. I installed via the itch.io app, and it just said this: stats1.png stat2.png

shigor 2022-04-07 16:53

Audio/video and mood is very good, but the gameplay is a bit too simplistic to be fun.

dak001 2022-04-07 17:09

@his-games you have to download .rar archive, unpack it, and run the binary

stin 2022-04-07 17:10

@cakts Thanks for feedback. Game shouldn't be hard it is main idea of it

antonsem 2022-04-07 17:12

A great scope/polish balance :D feels very polished, has great visuals and sound. I wish the difficulty would increase with time though. It feels like I can go forever, and I had to wait for the ghost to see the fire effect. But I liked it overall!

Quick tip: don't use rar, Itch app doesn't seem to like it :D use zip instead :)

PS: I'm tweeting about the games I play during this jam. Here is yours: https://twitter.com/TheAntonSem/status/1512115269778481157

mekuri 2022-04-07 17:16

Beautiful artstyle, and nice backstory. After playing a couple of rounds, I got the hang of it, to the point were I felt I could probably gone on for as long as I wanted. The few times I died was because of lack of water and/or fertilizer, but as I said, once I got the hang of it, it was fairly easy to maintain. I never had a ghost set the tree on fire (Although I allowed it to happen, when I decided to quit, as I wanted to see how it worked). Although the gameplay was simple, it captured me long enough to try and get 'good enough' at it. All in all I think this was a quite good submissions - Well done.

Thanks for sharing your game :-)

stin 2022-04-07 17:23

@pwnofprophecy Thanks for feedback.

stin 2022-04-07 17:25

@shigor Thanks for feedback. Gameplay shouldn't be hard

uboretsky 2022-04-07 17:25

It makes my GPU 100%, but otherwise the game looks pretty good. Fancy pixelart graphics and music works together and it's impressive \o/

jojopalambas 2022-04-07 17:57

Very pretty game! Really loved the aesthetics, except maybe for the particle effects which were not quite as good as the rest...

Also, I played for a while, but the game didn't appear to get harder... Is that normal? Maybe making the ghosts appear more and more frequently would make the death of the tree truly inevitable.

bytomancer 2022-04-07 18:07

Incredible work for an engineless game, and I really appreciate the repo link! I'm going to have to read through that later :heart_exclamation:

Love the graphics, especially the mouse-aware parallax effect. The music fits the mood well. Great job on a well-scoped game on point with the theme.

dmitrygalias 2022-04-07 18:10

Unfortunately the game is crashing. Screenshot_3.jpg

mantsje 2022-04-07 18:57

Fun game, great atmosphere! Difficulty curve feels a little slow and some hotkeys for swapping the tools would be great. Otherwise the sound and graphics and gameplay over all are very good!

etrealjunior 2022-04-07 19:33

Congratulations for the game, I had difficulties with the commands not giving the player feedback whether or not he was adjusting some actions, if I click on the maximize box, the mouse control is misaligned, the idea of the game is very good, but I believe that if making it more dynamic can become more fun, I hope I helped, a big hug.

yerkwell 2022-04-07 20:28

A game fully on Rust? Wow!

I really liked the visuals and atmosphere, good job :)

dak001 2022-04-08 05:34

@yerkwell and also plain OpenGL 😮‍💨

dak001 2022-04-08 05:36

@uboretsky gpu load 100%.. seems like vsync is turned off

dak001 2022-04-08 08:44

@dmitrygalias seems like an OpenGL issue

wouter52 2022-04-09 16:45

Great game! The graphics are outstanding and the controls are easy to pickup. A view thoughts:

- The text was a bit hard to read in the beginning because the "T" has a unique stile, which I like btw! I just needed to get used to it - I did not really know what the colored bars at the top where about and if it is good or bad that they depleted. I was expecting the game to tell me - The story is very sad and makes you even more motivated to keep the tree, and thus a bit of dad, alive, well done! - The game could have been packed with a regular ZIP, instead of RAR. Not everyone can afford WinRAR :laughing:

john-llyod-apolo 2022-04-10 10:17

Good gameplay and art. Maybe put some Text under the colored bar to indicate what they are. but other than that great submission.

watermelonandme 2022-04-10 12:41

Awesome game! Really love that parallax and art. As some features to add: - Tree would grow up - Hotkeys for instruments (for example Z - sword, X - fire extinguisher) - Аfter you lost, would like to see time I survived

And you should definitely add fullscreen mode

seng 2022-04-11 06:34

Interesting game. Huge fan of parallax effect. I also like the fact that you used Rust and OpenGL. Soundtrack is very fitting. Gameplay became a little bit repetitive after a while.

I noticed lots of single textures while going through the game data. Switching textures in OpenGL can be quite expensive. That's why people usually pack all of their sprites in one huge texture and select subtextures from them. Probably doesn't matter for this case but maybe something to consider for future projects :smile:

Anyway still a good entry with a nice idea. Keep it up!

rinta 2022-04-12 10:43

First of all let me say that the art is absolutely gorgeous.

However I seem to lose very fast (which is, perhaps, skill-related). A little bit of rebalancing could do wonders, along with more "stages" - perhaps, the tree grows, and with its growth the watering/fertilizing requitements and the activity of the ghosts changes, making you have to adjust... Well this is all idle musing, for 3 days this is definitely a solid game with beginning, end, and even a menu.

Good luck with your further creations!

sleepystudios 2022-04-12 12:03

Intresting perspective for the gameplay. I like being able to move the camera around with the mouse while managing the tree. Could've done with a timer or something for me to benchmark my progress but it kept me entertained for a while especially as the difficulty ramped up. After the credits and playing the game again it started stuttering really hard and the sounds started going crazy (maybe a memory leak?). Overall though nice work!