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WoodAndStuff

By jcmonkey

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5933.2130
Fun5503.1129
Innovation7112.6829
Theme6013.3729
Graphics5023.4130
Audio3333.2729
Humor3702.9628
Mood3623.5129

Comments

she-wrote 2023-01-09 05:06

I like the sound effects, and it's satisfying to chop down the trees. Nice game!

xlores-liang 2023-01-09 06:21

Liked the environment.

I kind of expected to get some Stanley's Parable ish feedbacks, thus I tried rush across the woods into the fog, take down as many trees as I can, or sit waiting the fire going out. But nothing happened, which fits the best with the lonely environment.

kiv 2023-01-09 13:41

i like the fog and lightning, but my favourite part is defenetely the falling tree sound!

hayricakir 2023-01-10 05:10

I like the atmosphere

steffo 2023-01-10 08:39

Well done for a game developed in... half a Sunday? :deciduous_tree:

Score

I survived 213 seconds!

Feedback

Game

The atmosphere for the game was good, especially with the fire slowly running out: maybe next time consider **using a floating point value for the fire**, so that it runs out smoothly!

Since chopping an unit of wood takes 1 second, and the fire consumes 1 unit per second, you're **doomed to run out of wood after some time**: is that intended?

The **falling tree sound made me laugh** quite a bit!

More

This reminds me of a game I made for a previous Ludum Dare: [**The Cold Night**](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-cold-night)!

jcmonkey 2023-01-10 14:15

@xlores-liang OMG i totally should have put some voice overs and hidden easter eggs. ill have to remember this for next time :D @kiv yeah that tree sound was me knocking on my mouse pad a bit, then crumpling my herseys bag, that a boom sound with my mouth haha. and the axe sound was me knocking on my desk. @steffo yeah admittingly i overlooked the floating point thing, and i will remember to make sure i dont have the chop and fire at same time if i decide to architect a game around this mechanic

thanks for the feed back and plays, i played and rated your guys games and they are pretty fun, nice job!

thuglife 2023-01-10 17:52

I really like the atmosphere of the game! The idea of it getting darker while your fire is slowly dying with no other source of light, good job.

Although I expected some kind of way to get the fire back to full potential if you are collecting wood, since you are going to run out of wood anyway as the trees are getting further away.

jcmonkey 2023-01-10 17:59

@thuglife yeah that was an oversight on my part. definitely going to prioritze balancing the mechanic next time. thanks for playing

itzemii 2023-01-10 22:29

Fantastic mood/ atmosphere of the game! Overall very consistent feel of the "whole". I did not survive long. Now I fear of going into the woods. Nice game!

mactinite 2023-01-11 03:05

Environment was very moody, but the sound effects made me chuckle. Nice entry!

jujus 2023-01-11 19:29

The atmosphere feels very nice :)

kostas-nik 2023-01-11 19:32

I liked the feeling of not finding the bonfire and suddenly becoming lost when the timer run out. well done for the little time you had.

truechips 2023-01-11 19:54

Pretty cool for a game made in like, 12 hours? Like seriously that's a bigger achievement than anything XD. Extremely good job on this game.

maytch 2023-01-12 00:45

Good job for the limited time. I reached 224 in the my first try, then wondered how far someone could get in it. I think I might have the highest score :wink:. I reckon the max you could probably get is 1000.

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I noticed that some trees don't fall down if you harvest them at maximum range, so you can keep going for a long time.

I would stick with the brightness being an integer actually, I liked seeing it tick down in darkness, sort of gave it a flickering effect that a fire has.

iskra 2023-01-12 22:11

Nice game :smile:

evilscotsman 2023-01-13 02:42

Hmm, you could probably take an enviromental message from this. Good job on this entry!

alfacarp 2023-01-13 20:40

Interesting entry. I played around in the world for a while... I walked away as far as I could, beyond the trees... It got darker. I thought about the world I had left, and the world I had entered. I had removed the scourge of myself and my axe from the forest, but there was nothing I could do to prevent a slow, cold death. The game was certainly thought provoking. I look forward to seeing what you make in the future, very poingant.

cat-lab 2023-01-26 23:00

Love the sound effects and the visuals. It's fun to stand below a tree as it falls down around you. Clean and simple!