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A Small Fable

By snufkinshat, quantumsno and hiddentavern

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5493.6222
Fun9113.1722
Innovation7123.3022
Theme5803.7522
Graphics4813.9022
Humor4623.3320
Mood4583.7022

Comments

arthur-mairs 2022-04-05 17:56

A lot of fun, found myself yelling at the birds to get off my crops, like a real farmer! I love narrative games, this was short but enjoyable. Well done!

kaljal 2022-04-05 17:57

Simple but effective idea guys, but maybe character speed can be a little bit faster or animations maybe a little bit smoother. Overall I had fun, good job guys :)

roughskin 2022-04-05 17:58

Simple and nice game, maybe I would have liked a little more variety in the movement. But a good game nonetheless!

roruke 2022-04-05 17:58

I really liked the art and the setting, great work!

conduit-games 2022-04-05 17:59

This is a beautifully crafted short experience. The palette fits in quite well and the graphics are retro/stunning. The audio design is great and the book experience makes this an engaging experience.

michaell 2022-04-05 18:00

Super fun aesthetic and pretty satisfying gameplay too!

cedric86 2022-04-05 18:00

Almost repelled all those birds. :-) Cute game. Nice pixelart and enjoyable story. Good work! Keep it up.

jerryberry 2022-04-05 18:03

Lovely game, nice variant on the falling fruit/basket gameplay (not sure what to call them). Interesting how the slow scarecrow movement forced you to prioritize crows instead of getting them all. I liked the twist on the theme reveal at the end, I definitely felt like I could protect that wheat forever. The art and sound effects gave that slow, farm life feel, reminiscent of walking out of your house on a Stardew Valley morning.

greenphox 2022-04-05 18:04

Incredible story telling! Loved the artwork! It was a game worth finishing! Amazing job, well done!

kristinamay 2022-04-05 18:04

Great vibes, lots of polish, loved the silly sun passing by each day. Great work!

kickononnell 2022-04-05 18:14

An elegant game with cute art. The audio wasn't very memorable, however. But still a good game!

justagamedev 2022-04-05 18:16

Cool game but i believe it could have been better. The character speed is a bit slow while there are no exported versions to work with windows/mac/linux. The music is relaxing by the way :-).

inappropriatename 2022-04-05 18:18

Nice setting and story telling, move speed is just slow enough to stress you out about the incoming crows and where they're headed haha, All round great entry, Good Job Team!

vitor-milioni 2022-04-05 18:35

Now, i want to start by saying i wasn't a big fan of the gameplay itself, it really does feel like i'm just walking left and right. I wanted to start with that because i don't want it to take away from all the things i liked here, the style choices were great, the pixel art, the book presentation, the little twist at the end, all the sound effects were on point, the amount of menu-ing available... not the most fun game, but certainly one of the most well executed ones, it really blows my mind cause these little executions are the hardest part of gamedev for me and here it's just superb, great entry for sure!

jzucc12 2022-04-06 01:44

Level 1: This isn't too bad. Not a lot of crows Level 2: A few more, okay Level 3: SO MANY CROWS!

I enjoyed it. It was satisfying to see the mass amount of crows flee in the 3rd level.

fifut 2022-04-06 15:45

My first reaction was to try to shoot the birds like on NES game Duck Hunt.

Nice execution!

itzemii 2022-04-06 21:06

Fantastic! Such a complete, nice, innovative, wholesome, enjoyable game! Very well implemented, nice controls (thx for including controller!). Very nice fitting graphics! Scary fable. Horrific birds - it felt like Hitchcock's "The Birds" towards the end. And cool you decided to end it! Felt like I wanted to play again. Probably, if it would just have continued I would have stopped. Overall a very holistic game! Congratulations!

connor-magson 2022-04-06 23:07

I loved the art style and the menu designs! Grandma is so mean tho :( I'm glad it didn't overstay its welcome, more hopping with more crows would've gotten boring eventually. Most submissions seem to have gone the route of 'game ends when you die', so this is a welcome change! Overall, this is a great submission, and it feels really polished. I hope you had fun making it, cuz I had fun playin! Congrats :D

the-fazzo 2022-04-07 00:49

Really good game. The art is great and the menu is suuuuper cool. It would be great to have music and to have power ups, like speeding up. But its a very good entry, congrats!