Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Natura
By dzejpi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 262 | 3.29 | 31 | |
| Fun | 267 | 3.13 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 313 | 2.82 | 31 | |
| Theme | 288 | 3.13 | 31 | |
| Graphics | 235 | 3.27 | 31 | |
| Audio | 2.32 | 16 | ||
| Mood | 201 | 3.24 | 31 |
It's a pretty fun game but it was a bit hard to understand exactly what to do and there was quite a lot to remember with the controls, I had to constantly come back to see what something did, the only suggestion I have would be just some sort of relaxing background music, it was a little boring just sitting there in silence. Other than that you guys did a good job!
Bold idea! if you have more time to make more element,it could become an interesting survival game
This was really fun! It was satisfying to watch the bees go to all the flowers, and I like that most things I built interacted with everything else in some way.
That shelter definitely had limited space
I made a little house :) house.png
This game was very confusing at first, I needed to refer to the instructions manual several times to get an idea of what I had to do. It also took me a while to realize that my objective was to breed 100 bees. I guess I suck cause I spent more than 10 minutes on this and I've still made little progress. I think the game could use some more visual or audio feedback to reinforce worthwhile actions, I honestly had no clue what I was doing, lol. That aside, this is good entry. I like the visual style that you were going for, the combination of the simple pixel art on 3D meshes creates an interesting look that I think could be expanded into something more. Good luck in the jam!
it was fun learning what you can harvest while managing the quickly changing seasons. I didn't see the items menu at first because I had my browser minimized. Overall was a good time planting flowers and building structures.
Nice cute ugly graphics, I love it, but the axe in the game is not used to cut down trees, but to collect planks and other things that confused me for a while (you can only collect things while holding the axe), but it's still a good idea
Nooo, I placed the fireplace in front of my shelter, so I couldn't enter. Darn it! Okay, the shelter is for butterflies, so it's probably fine.
I managed to breed 100 bees in 303 seconds, but I guess it could be faster as I made the mistake to place the flowers far away from the bee hives.
That's quite a game! Lot's of things to do and I was surprised that there was even a goal with an ending. Well done! I assume icons on the 1,2,3,4.. buttons was a planned thing? Would have made some understanding at the beginning a bit easier. Other than that it all works. I guess the house is a bit useless but I felt happy having one :-)
Fun to play, just under 5 minutes (286 seconds) to finish the game, the change of season brings something interesting. Well done for the work!
Hey! Sorry for the later response, got too much work today, but I am here now. Thank you ALL for playing!
@congeesetador I can understand how controls can be overwhelming a little bit. And this is after simplifying them, actually! I totally agree with you about the music; I wanted to create it, but I was unfortunately desperately running out of time. Thank you for the review!
@forewillow glad you liked it, I am actually considering making a full feature game out of this, as I think this has a lot of potential, so thank you for motivating me further!
@huga true, perhaps shelter should have been a little bit bigger, I am taking notes!
@scolondev you're definitely right with the game not communicating well enough, I will keep that in mind. And I am glad that you liked the graphics style, I was inspired by Proteus. :)
@rena you mean your browser was too small? True that perhaps 1600 x 900 was a little big. Glad you had a good time still!
@foreyes nice cute ugly graphics, I need to print that somewhere, haha! Yeah, it's definitely confusing, I was planning to implement cutting down trees, but I was short on time, and was concerned about implementing the beehive removal logic too, if it would be a part of cut down tree. Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be terribly hard.
@godsboss oh no, yeah, that's true, those colliders can... collide. Anyway, that's still pretty fast, well done!
@bernhard yeah, I was planning icons, but ran out of time a little bit, whoops! Yeah, shelter is a little bit useless (or more like, it is allowing butterflies to survive in the winter, but butterflies are actually not doing much), but glad it at least brought some happiness, haha!
@pierre-marie thank you, glad you liked the season change! Fun fact - winter is twice as fast as other seasons.
I rated every single game back, and thank you all for amazing feedback! I am taking notes, since those are all great ideas!
An interesting game, the topic is well disclosed. Thanks!
The only complain i would have is that the seasons go by too quick!
Achei bem bonito :D
I had fun. The axe confused me at first, I kept trying to cut down the trees, but after re-reading the instructions I made sense of it. I liked the art style, but felt that some lighting/shadows would have helped my brain make sense of the 3D objects. I wasn't sure if the shelter provided any benefit in-game, but it was cute!
Most of the things are logical so are easy to understand. But I still don't understand the use of the fire places and the shelter. During the party I just need to eat one time (the honey I collect at the beginning of the game in a tree), maybe it is too little ? I think it will be nice to have a pointer because most of the time I didn't know if I was pointing in the wrong place or if there was nothing to point. Nevertheless the game was very fun to discover. Good job!
It's a really cool concept! And cute! It obviously needs finishing, but I really like the idea. And you can build berry bush ladders!
Win in 409 seconds and I never ate a single thing XD
I love the bees they are very cute. Lots of personality with minimalist design, nice!
Took me a hot minute to understand how to play but it was great once I figured it out. Didn't really realize there was an end condition and right when I was about to finish setting up my bee farm it ended and said I won by raising a hundred bees so I couldn't complete it ðŸ˜
It was fun to run around the island and collect stuff and build houses and beehives and plant trees :) I'm not really sure if there was a purpose to the fire place and the house but I built them anyway. I think if there was one thing I'd change I'd either make there be some visual feedback when you collect an item
Interesting game! I expected it to be a pretty slow paced and chill experience, and it turned out into a rather panicky simulator of trying to collect all food before winter came. :D Honestly, if you're planning to develop this more, I think either way would work, though if you want this to be more relaxed I think the seasons could be somewhat longer.
The bees are really cute, and it's quite fun just sitting and watching them fly around.
I found two small bugs with the colliders. One is that there is something invisible I keep colliding with near one of the starting trees. Somewhere around this place:
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there is something like an invisible tree - running forward just makes me run in place unless I move sideways to pass it.
Another bug is the ability to place stuff on top of other things - which felt weird when I accidentally placed a tree in another tree so high I couldn't get the apples, but felt great when I realized I could create Sky Hives:
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Thank you all for your reviews and comments!
@danielshershnev2game1 glad you liked the game!
@n3k noted. I was thinking about making autumn much longer, because there is not much to do the other seasons, when you think about it.
@jozgames muito obrigado!
@squiggelsquirrel true with the axe, I wanted to implement cutting trees down, but was out of time, unfortunately, so it had to work at least like that so it wasn't completely useless. :) Good point with shadows. I was trying to emulate a certain look, but you're right that it would help with that, will keep in mind!
@limichou good point with pointer, that would actually be a good idea. I was thinking about it, but then forgot. And it would be such an easy improvement! You're right that fireplace has no usage, and shelter is only for hosting butterflies in the winter, so... pretty much useless too, haha.
@thelastslowpoke thank you, I will be finishing this after the jam, or rather, make a whole game out of this! Stacking is pretty fun, but I know why it happens - because those items have colliders and it didn't occur to me that colliders would let the player stack things on it, good stuff. I work as a QA, so I should have caught that, lol!
@cheesepencil glad you liked the bees and had iron stomach, I didn't have time to balance that out, so I rather played it safe there.
@technonugget glad you enjoyed walking on the island. You're right that there was not really any purpose in fireplace. Visual feedback is a great idea, thank you for that!
@lcstark yea, for a full game, those seasons would have to be definitely much longer. I noticed the invisible collider in the middle of the island, but I was not able to figure it out... I had nothing in that place in the editor, and even outputting the name of the collider into console didn't return anything, so that is truly haunted, but good thinking about stacking things on it, actually! And good point with stacking overall, didn't realise that since those items had colliders, it would be possible to place things on them, haha!
Thank you once again to your awesome feedback! I rated all of your games back, if not rated already. Love the feedback and amazing ideas you all have!
I read the instructions before reading the description, so I wasn't quite sure what the house or fireplace did. Biggest suggestion for a full game would be some a tutorial + in-game descriptions you can read while you're playing.
Visually it's super unique. Not sure if you plan to keep the solid-color shading, but it felt a little awkward on the ground, since you can't actually see the terrain. I wonder if you could add additional layers (kind of like the sand next to the water).
Once you add music and some more features, I could see this being a really relaxing experience.
Finished in 518 seconds :)
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The game looks simple yet beautiful. It reminds me of the graphics Unturned has. It would have been nicer if there was some background music and a better tutorial. The mechanic of changing seasons is very nice.
Nice little survival game. Very simple, but looks nice. I enjoyed it.
GG.
Cool game with a gorgeous aesthetic. The main gameplay fits with the theme. Nice little survival game with cute bees. A solid entry. Thank you for this experience ++
Thank you all for your comments and reviews!
@sudocoffee yeah, that is a very good idea, it indeed makes the terrain invisible. I am already thinking about how to make it, great idea!
@kris3 indeed, unfortunately, I ran out of time for music. I had some tutorial planned too, but I ran out of time too. Glad you liked the season change!
@hakro & @geckoo1337 I'm super glad that you enjoyed this!
Rated all your games back, if not already!