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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #348 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Audio | #362 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Overall | #404 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Graphics | #408 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Fun | #429 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Innovation | #437 | 3.056 | 3.056 |
| Game Design | #494 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
Ranked from 18 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?
We have a gardening phase for the monk which is the calm phase and consists of planting trees, watering them and building shrines each costing actions. In the night phase if the monk's zen is not balanced, it goes into the storm phase where the monk is shooting bullets in 4 directions and out of control. So it is calm before the storm.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes we wrote all code from scratch. The main sprites and animations were made by hand, and for the environment, we used a single tilepack: https://pixivan.itch.io/top-down-forest-tileset and edited it for our use.
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Very nice game! The tutorial at the beggining was very well put together, I didn't have trouble understanding the game. I thinks It can be improved upong with different level designs, since I unded up putting everything on the center to have more reaction time heheh
I only felt the movement was a bit off, maybe too sensitive? But overall you guys did an awesome job!
I liked the zen vibes and the humor! It's great that the player's attack range was long, would've been impossible to get some of those shooting ghosts otherwise. The trees' colliders were too big, I often got stuck when I should have been able to pass them.
Very cool experience, the concept of calming trees, just amazing!
Great submission!
Please make sure to also rate my game!
cool game, just a little thing: UI could have some adjustments
Art and concept are nice. It's fun
Fun game! Love the 2 states of the monk at night, between zen and then going crazy with a machine gun :D Really cool pixel art too. One comment from me would be to make the controls in the fighting phase a little tighter. It's hard to aim and hit the ghosts when going so fast. But over all well done!
Thank you so much for the feedback!
I love games that blend in cultural elements!
This is a nice little game. The concept is great and I can see the fun, the issue is that the player feels very slippery when they are running making it difficult to hit the ghosts when running.
But otherwise the game was good, especially the themeing and graphics.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Movement is on the top of our list to fix right now.
This was really cute and like how i suddenly where shooting ghosts with an AK47 :D
This was really cute and like how i suddenly where shooting ghosts with an AK47 :D
Thank you!
Really liked this one! We had a similar idea but a slightly different take if you fancied checking it out. Good submission, really liked the art style
Thanks for the feedback! Excited to check your game out!
The game is amazing, soundtrack is insane. It was very fun to play.
The movement feels good when you are zooming across but precise movements like going across the bridge is hard.
Amazing work!
Thank you for the feedback and appreciation! Working on a fix for the movement
Really cool idea, one of the more unique ways to interpret the theme I've seen so far
Thank you!
"Very zen would shoot again! It was calm and then stressful, it definitely fits the theme. The animations are also gorgeous" -Maria of the Ribbiting Climb team, no itch account to comment
Thank you, Maria, for your kind words!
Movement was definitely a bit too fast/floaty and I struggled to water the trees after the first night as the cursor placement seemed to have disappeared. A cool design with zen making you more powerful (gun) but closer to losing. Good job!
Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working on fixing the movement mechanics and the cursor placement.
Cool idea and cute art. Really interesting approach to the theme.
I had an issue with movement - it's too fast, but probably it's by design)
Overall, it's really promising, hope you'll continue to improve it. Good job!
Thank you for your feedback and kind words. We will tweak the movement and come out with a fix soon!
Clever idea! Had a chuckle when the rock music starts and you start blasting!
The game invited some thoughtful strategy as you think about where to put trees and shrines to optimize access to enemies while avoiding putting them where you'll shoot them!
Appreciated the clear tutorial at the beginning.
Thank you! We appreciate your time and comments!
This game is Amazing!
Some Notes while playing the game:
-I could move on water, Is that a thing or a bug?
-The game crashed hard, I hit a tree and it crashed my browser.
Things I like:
-The tutorial.
-The animations.
-The music is very interesting.
Some Improvemnt:
-Add more than just planting trees - like flowers, mushrooms, ponds.
-Add terrian like hills (very small but big), rocks, animals!
Please don't take this a must do but you could do.
Thanks :)
Thanks a lot for the feedback. We'll try to recreate the bugs you mentioned and fix them.