Absolutely love the concept - like you have an island, but you MUST appease crabs, give them flower crowns and they'll go away! Otherwise they'll eat your island haha, just excellent and very wholesome worldbuilding.
Sadly, the middle scroll button being both the 'scroll in / out' and 'crown crabs' is a bit wonky - might be better to have flowercrown be Left clicking on the crab? Or spacebar perhaps. Also the command for placing land seemed to have a delay before it would actually happen - not sure if that was intentional, but it made the game feel a tad stilted with the land action when scrolling and flower-crowning was always instant.
It also might be fun to have the option to click and drag to pick up a crab and set it further away. That would only delay the inevitable of course - you'd still get mobbed as you frantically try and toss them away, but also in certain instances would allow a few more flowers to grow. Sort of risk vs reward? Just a musing thought though
Nonetheless, a fun game I enjoyed appeasing the crabs hehe. C:
Heya! I tried the game, it looks very fun but I can't for the life of my figure out what the controls are how I'm able to build my island using resources. Maybe adding a small tutorial on the itch page might help! I'd love to give it another go.
Hi! We had some major bugs in our initial release build. All is fixed now and controls were added to the start screen. We look forward to continuing small updates for better game balance and re-playability after the week.
Hi! After you told me you guys fixed the game, I went back and played it. It was very fun! I really liked the concept of an island defender with crabs, and I also like that you don't kill the crabs, but you crown them, that's very cute :) The camera did move a bit quickly though, haha. The new tutorial helped a ton and I finally understood what I had to do. Some parts were still a little unclear and I had to figure those out by trail and error, like what resources were used for what. Overally, I love how the game looks and plays. Good job on finishing a game and thanks for participating in the jam! :)
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Absolutely love the concept - like you have an island, but you MUST appease crabs, give them flower crowns and they'll go away! Otherwise they'll eat your island haha, just excellent and very wholesome worldbuilding.
Sadly, the middle scroll button being both the 'scroll in / out' and 'crown crabs' is a bit wonky - might be better to have flowercrown be Left clicking on the crab? Or spacebar perhaps. Also the command for placing land seemed to have a delay before it would actually happen - not sure if that was intentional, but it made the game feel a tad stilted with the land action when scrolling and flower-crowning was always instant.
It also might be fun to have the option to click and drag to pick up a crab and set it further away. That would only delay the inevitable of course - you'd still get mobbed as you frantically try and toss them away, but also in certain instances would allow a few more flowers to grow. Sort of risk vs reward? Just a musing thought though
Nonetheless, a fun game I enjoyed appeasing the crabs hehe. C:
The pixel art is cute! I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to play, though.
It looks fun! But I'm having trouble playing on my trackpad:/
love the aesthetic and music
Thank you for your game:)
thanks for the kind feedback, we'll have to tweak the controls a bit.
Heya! I tried the game, it looks very fun but I can't for the life of my figure out what the controls are how I'm able to build my island using resources. Maybe adding a small tutorial on the itch page might help! I'd love to give it another go.
Hi! We had some major bugs in our initial release build. All is fixed now and controls were added to the start screen. We look forward to continuing small updates for better game balance and re-playability after the week.
Hi! After you told me you guys fixed the game, I went back and played it. It was very fun! I really liked the concept of an island defender with crabs, and I also like that you don't kill the crabs, but you crown them, that's very cute :) The camera did move a bit quickly though, haha. The new tutorial helped a ton and I finally understood what I had to do. Some parts were still a little unclear and I had to figure those out by trail and error, like what resources were used for what. Overally, I love how the game looks and plays. Good job on finishing a game and thanks for participating in the jam! :)
Thanks for giving it another look! We're definitely going to work on some of the clunkiness. This was a great jam to participate in.