The effects are interesting, the pixel art style of the game is cute. And the gameplay is also very complex. But I didn't manage to play through it. Good game!
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Light Keeper's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #422 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Game Design | #491 | 3.115 | 3.115 |
| Theme | #525 | 3.038 | 3.038 |
| Overall | #583 | 2.968 | 2.968 |
| Audio | #636 | 2.808 | 2.808 |
| Graphics | #665 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #697 | 2.769 | 2.769 |
Ranked from 26 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?
You are a light house keeper who has to clean up the sea during the calm to get upgrades to fight the deadly sea creatures who are attacking the lighthouse when the storm comes
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
everything except the music
Comments
This is a fun game! I could collect resources like this all day and be happy. Like some others said, I wasn't able to make it past the 7th level. I think my only note is that the controls took some getting used to. With a boat like this I was expecting "tank controls" where you push up to go forward no matter what direction you are facing, and the left and right arrow keys to turn. Overall, I had fun playing this game!
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Dog Gone With The Windvery cool game! i loved the graphics, really well made :)
wanna check out my game as well? https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-12/rate/2970980
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Feast of GodsCool little game. Controls felt good and lots of upgrades to choose from.
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Kalm Before The StormThe artstyle looks so chill and mini ( in a great way ). I like the boat mechanics. You implemented the features and the upgrade system on point. Overall a Nice Work and Good Luck!
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Villagers vs. GodsAwesome game mechanics. I couldn't get past wave 7, but I enjoyed collecting resources and upgrading the tower. Figuring out how many resources I can take back in time was great. I found myself being too greedy and not getting back in time. Great job! Also love the game icon art.
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A Boat's Journeythank you. I apologize that you couldn’t get past wave 7. That was my fault as I hadn’t got in time to balance the shop upgrades and such. I myself can’t get past wave 8 haha. wave 10 was supposed to be the final round. I feel like if I can get the balance right between shop upgrades and the weight of objects that it could be a lot better. thanks for playing and I’m glad you had fun
I loved this game! gj man, cool mechanics and aesthetics, had a lot of fun playing it
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Valentina's AdventureVery impressive work to develop this in a week, had a lot of fun playing this :)
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The InternThe art in-game looks really good, and the mechanic with collecting resources (that slows your boat so you have to be careful), the different upgrade options, strategy, and the battle with the lighthouse are done pretty well.
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Cloud SurvivalThrows me off with the arrow keys going horizontally across the screen, I think the game should have been set vertically, but still a fantastic entry, loved the art!
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Silent HarborI like the loop and art, though it's definitely too hard and you move WAY too slowly. Its a bit confusing. Gave it a fair shot but after barely getting through round 1 after like 15 minutes of trying I gave up. A lot of it is really good though and it has potential with some tweaking. I think the ship + mining mechanic was enough for this gamejam and it could have done without the lighthouse stuff.
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SINGULARITYyeah I didn’t get much time to test or balance things b/c I took so long getting the mechanics together trying to make a game haha.
I had way more plans for this game b/c normally I’ve done 2-3 day game jams and never did a week long one, but forgetting that a week long doesn’t mean a week long of game dev due to a job haha.
I wanted to add a thing where you can fish under water for treasures. And I wanted to add buoys that could have things like a lightning rod to strike the enemies attacking the lighthouse and such. Keeping the scope of the game limited would have helped a lot I agree. thanks for playing
It was a trippy game but I wish there was more information in the end I was just going around suuuper slow and dropping all my things with space, but still no more speed, and the stage never ended even though the weather got worse. I'm a bit confused overall, changing your description on your games page to more informative would help a lot!
I want to see the lighthouse! Tell me how!
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An elder's quiet daythank you for the feedback. yeah unfortunately I didn't really get everything together until last minute so I didn't get to balance things
i made so many things to slow you down but not enough upgrades increase to give you more capacity properly or the proper amount of resources. so far I haven't been able to make it past round 8. round 10 is supposed to be the final round. Thanks for playin
oh I’m sorry. I’m updating the page for more instructions
this is the loop essentially
- go out to sea mine resources
- return them to the spot that says GO HERE
- while on the GO HERE there are instructions on the bottom. you can press SPACE to enter the lighthouse for battle, you’ll notice if you hold down space a beam shoots from the lighthouse and you can use arrow keys to change direction of the beam.
- to exit the lighthouse you press the Q key
- another option when on the GO HERE if you press SHIFT you can go into and purchase upgrades, the space key lets you do that. To exit you press the Q key, so you should be able to defeat the enemies during the storm and then that advances to the next round/wave. unfortunately, I didn’t get to balance the game or even play it in it’s full intended way until after the game jam was over and I can’t make it to the final round myself. i made it to round 8 so far. I might have made the game too difficult to actually beat sadly
your game is fun itself. it wasnt super clear how to get upgrades or enter lighthouse mode, but i figured it out. things could do with better signposting, but you've got a good loop.
stuffing your page with AI art was not great, though. not a fan of that at all.
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Divine Diningthank you for playing. I didn’t get to balance it very well since I didn’t really play the game as intended until after the jam. Yeah ai art , I figured since it’s a game jam game and it’s just the itch page and not actual art in the game, it wouldn’t be too bad but I understand your dislike. I also figured it would be obvious and the cover art/banner stuff shouldn’t ever be used for the rating of a game. I never intended that to be part of the game just wanted to make the page look cool.
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