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A jam submission

65 TreesView game page

A lonely lumberjack thinks in the forest
Submitted by thermaldeveloper — 10 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#2913.3163.316
Theme#4603.1583.158
Innovation#5382.8952.895
Overall#7042.7982.798
Game Design#8512.5262.526
Fun#8622.4212.421
Graphics#9252.4742.474

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
I tried to capture a calming aesthetic of a lumberjack chopping trees and thinking to himself before a storm rolls in.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes

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Comments

Submitted

I love the game as a short, calming experience. The sounds add light humor while not disrupting the tranquility. Your vision is captured well here I feel, so I'm interested in seeing you create something with more interactivity in the future. Best of luck and great first game.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! I'm also looking forward to when I can knock out the basic pieces quicker and get to building more fun elements in future projects.

Submitted

Even with the very simple graphics, you manage to create an atmosphere. I am very impressed by that. Also, I loved the sound effects xd

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much! As it so happens, with my limited game design skills "atmosphere" was pretty much the only thing I had to chase after, and I'm thrilled to hear that it landed. Thank you for playing!

Submitted

Hee-ho. Good sound. Nice game

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

I found the weak tree, my life is now complete!

Developer(+1)

Omg haha Well congratulations! Next game, I'll make a leaderboard for whatever random challenge I throw in at the last moment. Thanks so much for playing my game (over and over probably)

Submitted

This is a great first game! Keep up the good work, I need more breathing in my ears! :D

Developer(+1)

Hahaha I'm happy my amateur audio didn't serve to annoy nearly as much as I expected it to. Thank you very much for trying out my game!

Submitted

Keep up the good work it's a great start! 

Developer

Thank you for checking it out!

Submitted

Awesome first game! I like how the sound effects line up with the animations and how smooth the animations are. Also nice touch with the parallax background!

Developer

Thank you so much! I've been dying to try out parallax effects for months, and that was the top of my wishlist for this project. I'm pretty excited how it played out.

Submitted

Well done!

The sounds are very well done and adds a unique aspect to the game. 

Looks very nice with the parallax effect! :D

Developer(+1)

Thank you for checking it out!

Submitted

very nice first crack at gamedev! Definitely going to parrot Quinten on the aspect ratio thing. I didn't do that for my game either, and it was definitely a regret of mine. 

I read the "Just "enjoy" me breathing into your ear" bit so I have to ask, did you record the sound effects yourself? Very impressive if so! (I've always steered away from that but it's something I'm very interested in doing!)

But yeah, love the vibe you're going for, and I hope to see you continue your gamedev journey!

Developer

That's right! I downloaded Audacity Friday afternoon, took a quick glance at Godot docs which suggested mp3 file format for web games (I knew I wanted to have it embedded in the browser), and then just started grunting and "whoosh"ing and....failing to imitate rain no matter how hard I tried. By the time I landed on the comical tree fall noise, I was feeling pretty lighthearted about it. If I were to do it again, I might just lean full force into the comical sound effects and see what comes out of that.

Thank you so much for your thoughts and your time playing my game! "Every journey begins with a single step. This...is step one."

Submitted(+1)

good game nice audio desent art

Submitted

to echo quinten, this felt kind of like more of a tech-test than a game. which, if this is your first game, makes a lot of sense actually.

when taken as a tech test, its not bad by any means. good job :)

Developer

Thank you for the kind words and for taking the time to play! Goal for next time: come up with something more gamey lol

Submitted

The game less game, felt good chopping some tree's after spending an allnighter working on this jam stressing over bit's & byte's.  For a next project set the window to 720p & enable to full screen button if you can avoids the weird horizontal scrollbars :D

You got a lot of stuff going for a first game, parallax & particles to name a few; hope you learned a lot on the project :)

Good luck on your gamedev journey! :)

Question: Is there any way to avoid the storm? 

Developer(+1)

Ha! I'm happy to provide some brain dead zoning out after the hard work! Good call on the aspect ratio, will take that into consideration. It was definitely a learning experience! And no, there's no way to avoid the storm. I was way too focused on delivering the functionality I initially designed than to come up with anything actually "fun" to do. Next time, look out!