jiri-one 2023-10-02 21:48
Very relaxing game :relaxed:. The audio and visuals really add to the mood. The building was also really fun as you want to create a nice house but also get points. Really enjoyed it! :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Seagull Island | L'île aux Goélands
By seb-degraff, KayaCarlton, navenka and QuentinVLF
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 33 | 4.28 | 141 | |
| Fun | 93 | 4.07 | 139 | |
| Innovation | 250 | 3.75 | 138 | |
| Theme | 79 | 4.39 | 140 | |
| Graphics | 66 | 4.48 | 139 | |
| Audio | 27 | 4.26 | 134 | |
| Humor | 573 | 2.86 | 117 | |
| Mood | 10 | 4.52 | 139 |
Very relaxing game :relaxed:. The audio and visuals really add to the mood. The building was also really fun as you want to create a nice house but also get points. Really enjoyed it! :)
Hey, this is really neat! The art got me interested, and the strategy had me playing over and over. It fit the theme well. I like the little animations and the audio, the atmosphere is great. My only thought is that the game could tell you when it is impossible to continue. Loved it!
The art and animation is incredible! Lovely colors. This is such a cute little game, the music is perfect. I played a little bit and it relaxed me after these busy last days. Here is a screenshot of my lovely little island, and when I saw the boat coming it was so cute LileauxGoelands.png
Also impressive that this was a custom engine :) Great job!
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Really enjoyed the game! it had some really good vibes and really drew me into trying to create the biggest thing possible. it was really relaxing and fun, and the audio was amazing.
I very much enjoyed this game! I could easily see it having a "daily challenge" mode with a set building list. The only complaint I had was occasionally having a run ended early by getting a very tough list of buildings to use, but overall I don't think that was a detriment. Excellent, excellent work!
I really like it! the music and atmosphere are so cool. The game is very relaxing.
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My highest was 40.
This was very relaxing with high replay value. Definitely got me keep trying. Very good entry and fitting to theme!
Couldn't get past 45. Too bad the camera does not follow the height of the builds, I could have gone higher :/
I love relaxing game like this, it reminds me of Townscaper but with an actual goal. And the art and music are :ok_hand: :ok_hand: :ok_hand:
This is so chill! I love the idea. With some polish, this could be very well done. I'm thinking in general, in the list that is given of items, there probably should be checks to make sure you have X amount of items, and then maybe sometimes have "challenge" turn, where those checks are not present, that way game has push and pull between chill, flow, and challenge! Would love to also see some synergy between buildings, colors, etc. Love it, great entry!
It's been a real pleasure to play this game. Cozy, relaxing, beautiful, but make you think at the same time. This one has a potential, good luck with that!
Enjoyable and relaxing. The design, the sound are just right. It was not obvious how the scoring system worked though. Very cool, congratulations!
Un bon jeu style ASMR !! Une belle petite équipe pour avoir fait un jeu de cette qualité avec un concept innovant qui donne envie de faire un meilleur score. ça peu aller sur steam ! facile !
oh wow!!! gorgeous gorgeous game, really love the mood of this. Played very nicely and it had so many surprising fun animations! can't believe this was made in 3 days!
like srsly, such a pleasure to play omg
Such a comfortable little game.
Very nice! The only issues I have are that the reset button is triggered when the mouse is released. This means if I was trying to place a building near the button, it would sometimes trigger and reset the game :(. This is very interesting idea. I think with different shaped bases or perhaps different levels with obstructions on the sides and more bonuses this could be even better than it already is.
High score of 77. I think I just got lucky lol. image_2023-10-02_191742134.png
5 stars all the way, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS GAME, the lovely little music and all the simple but beautiful tiles. No pressure just relaxing and making pretty pixel art. Well done, favourite so far.
I really liked it! Simple and effective! The relaxing theme music goes very well with the game. Great job!
Best Game
Omg I love this game, my favorite so far. It's very chill to play with pleasant graphics and accompanying music. It's a nice balance between puzzling and just zoning out. Great job, 5/5
Great game! I tried playing it on my phone and it worked like a charm!
Too bad the camera doesn't span or zoom out to allow us to build event higher.
The vibe of your game is really good. The art and the music goes really well together, event though the music loop get a little bit boring after a while. A longer loop would have been awesome.
The gameplay is really simple yet fun and challenging. A great entry!
*P.S. My highest was only 47... :cry:*
Nice :D I really enjoyed it. I guess it was an intentional choice to not let players scroll upwards to fit more stuff on top?
This feels a lot like Dorfromantik with a challenge, and I mean that in the best possible way. It's an interesting puzzle and beautiful to look at.
this is a warm little game
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I had a lot of fun with this! It is very fun to play!
@themejmun Kind of! To manage the scope of the game we generally try to keep everything in a single screen, with the camera fixed. But maybe here it would have been a good call to allow scrolling up
Congratulations @turquoise-moon it's amazing !!
@peacememories Thank you, this is a very flattering comparaison! Other inspiration sources where Townscaper and Islanders.
@furano Thank you! Great to hear it worked on your phone, it doesn't fit the screen on mine :)
@turquoise-moon Wow! Seems like the score counter needs to widened :smile:
I like this game. It's a fun little puzzle? rouge like? I guess. It has a lot of luck for what buildings you get here is my score.Screenshot 2023-10-03 105953.png the extra five points are from a small mart that is out the top of the screen. got lucky and that was my last draw.
I love the music and the art it makes it a lovely homey vibe, it was fun to learn what all the combos for buildings where. still not sure I saw them all but it was an enjoyable game.
All in all wonderful game. Thanks for the share. Have a good day.
This game is simple, beautiful and easy to understand. Really nice entry!
oh wow @tristan-doell !! 🤯 Every new high score is quickly beaten, but I think this one will be harder to defeat!
@navenka Yeah, you got to do some of that out of bounds speedrun stuff.
Cute game, love the retro pixel art and the music is nice and relaxing
I guess I'm not the architech for seagull island.
Was about to reach a count of 30 additions.
Great game, glad to see people get together to ultimately put a ton of personality and passion into this one.
Je me permets d'écrire en français pour être un peu plus à l'aise sur les retours mais... BRAVO c'est magnifique, l'ambiance est tellement bien réussie entre les graphismes trop jolis, les petites animations, les bateaux, les nuages, les sons de mer et de mouettes. C'est vraiment hyper bien, un petit town scaper en 2D avec la contrainte du thème, bien joué !!
Viiibes mannn... I love the graphics, the puzzle elements, the mellow atmosphere, the way it allows you to build something beautiful within seconds. Even without a clear objective I had a lot of fun playing this! I got a score of 73, might try again later ;)
It's very nice! I got greedy and tried to drag a piece below the Reset button and when I released the button, the Reset triggered. That's what you get for flying too close to the sun I guess.
Really great atmosphere and very fun to play multiple times. Lovely, delicate, inspiring. I like it a lot ⭐
The gameplay is incredibly addictive, and I can't put it down.
Lovely mood, makes you want to go and live there once you have built your little village.
So sweet and lovely! It's adorable and the mechanics are so clear and clean. The artstyle is precious and I could listen to the music track forever. well done!
Great use of the theme! It is such a lovely game with lovely graphics. I enjoyed playing it a lot. 5/5
This was ENCHANTING. I played this so many times. The addition of more music (not sure if it was from the satellite?) was so charming and unexpected. The graphics, the music, the waves, figuring out the strategy, it all came together so beautifully.
What more can i say that hasnt been said- wow, this game is so meditative and shows indeed less is more- love the look, pace and strategy to try to keep building UP but not a competition per say. Kudos on the sound too- fits perfectly!
This is just so beautiful. It almost makes me tear-eyed. The art and the sound first made me think of Fez, one of my all-time favorite games. And it's very reminiscent of Townscaper, except this also has a gameplay element beyond "toy" (not that I mind toy, but this just captures me more).
Thank you for this experience <3
(update: ohhh wow !spoiler!! the extra musical layer with the parabola <3 <3 omg I got goosebumps <3)
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I love the music and sound. I had trouble where I just kept getting a ton of roof toppers and no buildings.
Wonderful game <3
Simple and relaxing game with chilling music
Fantastic game with clean artwork and intoxicating gameloop! Amazing work!
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I did encounter a bit of an exploit letting me place infinite grocery stores just outside the game screen. XD
@mascoll Wow haha! :smile: I fixed the exploit of building outside the game screen at the top an hour ago or so. I guess you had discovered it before that! I also saw your comment on my post about the bug :)
Wow, I am blown away! I think I enjoyed this game a little too much. I played it for half an hour straight and never got tired of the graphics, gameplay or music. That is a great achievement! The game was very intuitive to learn, and after a couple of tries, I got kinda good at it. I could see myself kicking back after a long day at work playing this game. Some VERY nitpicky problems I found were that you couldn't really place anything behind the restart button (well, I mean, it limited the space even more, so it fit the theme XD ). Also, there were a couple of times when I could've gone on if the screen had moved up. It would make for some crazy builds, but I understand that you probably prioritized more important aspects of the game in that short timeframe. But besides these points, I have no complaints. It's just an absolute banger of a game!
Oh and here is my high score, I know we can go further: Screenshot 2023-10-03 230152.png
@farouchelark and @nevyn Thanks for the kind comments, and glad you enjoyed the game! As you mentionned, you can unlock the full music track by first placing the radio and then the parabola to get rid of the static noise, allowing the radio to tune itself to the song :)
@amygeddon Thank you for your comment, it's quite heartwarming! Indeed I could see an infinitely scrolling up version of this game working, maybe with a background changing with altitude, cloud layers, starts etc. And when you're finally stuck it could scroll back down slowly showing you your tower... As you said, for the jam we wanted to keep it simple and in a limited space. Maybe we should try it a post-jam version!
@amygeddon Great score by the way!
Was meaning to give it a five minute try, ended up spending nearly an hour, transfixed, building a beautiful little port town. Excellent game.
Cool idea, I like the chill music and the gameplay is very relaxing.
Extremely comfy, love how relaxed an experience it is
overall, i really like this game: it's very chill and makes me want to create villages for hours. i don't even care about points, i just want to make beautiful places, and thank you for that, the art is lovely. music is superb (maybe a bit too repetitive until you place a satellite dish, but oh my god, when you place it the music is just incredible! thank you very much for this experience!
Hey, what a wonderful experience! I'm not much of a cosy gamer, but I think the points element added just enough to push it into strategy territory for me. Love the ukulele as well. I wish it would detect for me when my tower was "stuck", I ended up with a lot of situations where I felt like I could keep going but all the options were X'd when I tried.
Grate game! I enjoyed this one aaaaa looot! Spend several hours playing and just couldn't let go! Amazing
Exellent art！I'm confused about the score rule.I want some more instructions.
I've spent quite a bit of time playing this game and it's really immersive! Although my score is not high, I really hope that there will be a version of this game in the future with more content!
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Great and very relaxing game! Well done!
It's a beautiful and relaxing game that you can get immersed in for a long time. The graphics and sound are pleasant. It would even be great to have a sandbox like that where you can delete elements and just let your imagination run wild. Excellent work!
Hello @rigel! Thanks for the compliment! As for the scoring system, I'm not going to give it all away, as it's the whole point of the game to figure out how it works, but here's a tip: - All the pink, yellow and orange buildings are residential modules, and they earn points when they're next to, on top of or under a "special" module (like the flower store, or the museum, for example), and depending on the characteristics of each special module, you'll get some points :) Good luck !
Surprisingly addictive.
Veeeery relaxing game, I've loved it, cool art and sound, I'm very impressed :)
Super relaxing game! Sometimes you get stuck though. Maybe the game could tell me if it's impossible for me to place another block so I could reset. I got until 38 but after some improvements on smoothness, I could easily lost myself in this game :smile:
Wow, this game is beautiful. Very relaxing and incredibly enjoyable. I really love the attention to detail in this. Like the little seagulls landing on buildings, the grocer making a fruit and veg ship arrive, and my favourite that I found at the end of my last playthrough, the satellite dish adding more depth to the music.
Absolutely incredible entry to the game jam! Really impressive <3
Best game played ever
I have been neglecting all my other responsibilities to play this instead. Completely addictive.
Edit: Finally squeaked past 120. I've played a bunch of great games this Ludum Dare, but this is the one I keep coming back to.
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Plsss, I probably played this for over an hour and only managed to get 52 point skfsdkf (I'm crying I just saw the comment above mine with 120 POINTS!??!?! Crying village.png
The game is absolutely addicting. I wish there was a way you can scrap some parts that can be offered on the left every now and then, but I definitely enjoy strategizing with my buildings and such. The art style, especially the colour scheme is absolutely beautiful. The music is also so calming and truly contributes to the cozy atmosphere.
Amazing job!!
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Very cute, I especially like the music/audio and how well it fits with the game. My only suggestion would be to automatically detect when there are no more moves - or I'm very bad at finding moves, I did three runs trying to lock myself in and couldn't trigger a "no more moves".
Very cozy game! I enjoyed just building an aesthetically pleasing town :)
this was such a lovely entry, I played for many many times and aimed to build aesthetic towns rather than scoring high! I felt like the art and audio and the game play fit each other perfectly, I especially enjoyed how the music changes as you start to get a higher score. In some runs the rng was reaaaally bad and I had only a few buildable pieces. But in some other runs I felt like I was always getting the ones I wanted haha. It felt a little bad that I had to restart and it would destroy my little town, I wish there was a way to collect them in a little archive :D
Great mood! Very cosy! Congrats!
Very cool and relaxing game. Well done. I'm just sad I couldn't zoom out and keep going Screenshot 2023-10-05 180426.png
I really love this game, music and sound design are awesome, it's so chill. It would be a fantastic mobil game. I totally can see you as one of the winners of this ld jam.
Cute little game. Very relaxing
Really nice game, I loved it very much! I liked how the music changes with the progress and the graphics is very satisfying. My personal best is 88 and it's kinda shame that there is an upper limit, I'd like to continue building to infinity :)
super cute and well done! I enjoyed the stacking mechanics, its a very calming game.
Love this game, so relaxing and fun! Can't stop playing :D
This is definitely one of my favourite games this LD, and probably the highest rated one from my end, getting *this* close to 8 5's across the board. Graphic is beautiful yet cozy. Replayability is virtually endless.
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The colors are really pleasing to the eyes. 截屏2023-10-07 12.50.40.png
perfect game !!!! l cant love this game more must be all five stars Snipaste_2023-10-07_14-30-56.png
Really cozy, love the relaxing atmosphere. Great art, sound and music. One improvement could be to have the blocks snap to the center of the cursor when dragging them, so the grid snapping is consistent when moving over the buildings to add the piece. I found that if I started dragging while clicking on a corner of the piece, the snappning felt off and inconsistent. Really lovely game!
I will just join everyone to say that this game is incredible. I loved the relaxing feel of this game. All parts contribute to it: the gameplay, the wonderful art, the soothing music and the nice ambient noises such as seagulls in the background. Even the fact that a boat comes by to visit at somepoint feels really nice. It feels like a really wholesome game to me.
Have you ever heard of the game 'townscraper'? Your game really reminds of that, but with more interesting gameplay. Really amazingly well done! I absolutely loved it :D
Really unique and relaxing atmosphere. The art and sound design complement each other nicely. I had a hard time figuring out some rules of placement (it seems sometimes I was able to place parts over existing ones and replacing them, and sometimes I just couldn't) and the random draw was a bit frustrating on some runs, but it's so addictive I just kept on playing for more. Congrats!
Very original idea, suitable music, balanced graphics. A good entry
Beautiful game, love it! Chill, but challenging. Kept me playing for quite some time to get higher scores.
Tried to launch it on my phone, but it is stuck on loading screen(
Would you consider building an apk? This game seems like fun time-killer, which I would love to have in my pocket :heart:
easter egg achieved
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I have been watching and playing a lot of vertically expanding/stacking games lately and it was such a pleasant thing to see one on this jam. I had a good half an hour run, couldn't do more than 60, unfortunately had bad rolls of rooftops and terraces and not much expandy tiles but had fun nonetheless.
Good relaxing music and soothing sea vibes. Thanks for the game, well done!
It's just one of my many tries
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I like this gameplay concept a lot. Totally would play a full version of city building like this.
Art is good for this one surely, but if 2d I would love to have something more moody and detailed for a full game. It can be 3d, it can have other mechanics too, sorry for being pushy but this concept really rocks!
It resonates with me a lot so it's all 5
All I'm saying is don't give me a building license :v Love this game, the concept, the audio, the graphics especially. Very cute. Would've loved a tutorial or a full version or some sort of tips on how to achieve the most points / best build. But it was very calming and nice to play, loved it!:D Screenshot 2023-10-11 172346.png
I found myself wishing I had this on my iPhone to pull out on the train, or while standing in line. It's the perfect lightweight game, you should consider building it for that platform! My highscore was 84. There was definitely some strategy in leaving yourself open columns, in trying to get rid of the "embellishment" pieces as much as possible without compromising your build space. But I felt that you were overall pretty dependent on luck. I think that's not such a bad thing, as this is designed to be played quickly and in a relaxed way. Excellent job, would def buy on mobile.
@renrok Glad you enjoyed the game! I just uploaded an apk on itch if you want to give it a try. Tested on only 2 devices so far, I hope it works on most phones. @pen-island-games Thank you! I might try an iOS build when I muster the courage (it's a custom engine, so not as simple as hitting a "build for ios" button, but not that hard either). In the meantime I found that the web version works quite well on my iPhone, it probably will work on yours as well :)
OMG! Sooo relaxing! I could play this the whole day easily! Quite impressive how many different objects you manage to put in the game, the overall atmosphere is just so cozy. Loved the music, the art, the title screen in wonderful! Really liked you game, great work!! :)
@seb-degaff checked the apk, it works! But a bit awkward to play, as the blocks are offset by a lot from where you tap
@renrok good to know it works! The offset when dragging is by design so you can see where you place the blocks. Maybe we could visualize it better
@seb-degraff yeah, I figured it's probably done on purpose. The offset just seemed a bit extreme, but played a bit more and it's defenitely something you can get used to!
Lovely game, really enjoyed it. Would definitely pay for a full game like this - reminds me of games like dorfromantik. The only real downside is how luck-based it feels. It probably needs some tuning in that area but it's a really neat game.
I have no idea what I am doing, but the game seems like fun with all the different combinations. I really like the mood and the audio of the game! This would be really cool with different skins/levels as a casual game. Nice work!Seagull island.JPG
I love your game :) the all mood just makes me feel happy. I loved te touch you added with the load screen and menu screen
Very soothing. I liked it a lot. C: Really pretty to look at and nice to listen to. I quite enjoyed the fact that you couldn't move things around but had to start over and over. Nice touches with the little events making things livelier. Finding all the different pieces is fun. Really well done!
One of the most charming games I played this whole jam. I just want to see my tower grow beautiful.
Somehow I'm really engaged to this, although I still suck at getting a high score. Great piece of work guys!
So cozy and relaxing! It speaks to me on a level I didn't know existed. At first I was obsessively trying to make everything symmetrical but had a few unfortunate dead-ends. Once I abandoned the idea though, the game play really shined for me.
Really nice project, I liked the graphics, and the while game experience is nice and chill. It was sometimes a bit frustrating cause the random generation of objects sometimes caused me to only have a score of 2 and sometimes 46.. Overall still a solide project that I enjoyed very very much ! Gg ! :)
I have dragged the first item, got "ERROR" screen and that was it.
@baturinsky Weird! What device+browser if I may ask?
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Oh I think I see what's wrong, thank you very much for the screenshot. Will fix!
**Hello there, these are notes I took while playing.**
- Calm game, so sound could be even calmer - Add game detection to when you can't add anything anymore? - Remove +2 indication when you can't place element - Have small indications on what does the element need to be placed - Option to shuffle option at the cost of points or even buildings? It would defeat the point, yes, but you would be even more invested in the town - Limited space... oh no I understand