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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #6 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Overall | #26 | 3.840 | 3.840 |
| Theme Use | #28 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Originality | #32 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Gameplay | #34 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Fun | #36 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What was the theme you used for your entry?
Forest, Tower Defense, Survival
What was the most challenging part of making your entry?
Figuring out how to balance the two genres fairly
What was the most fun part?
Seeing it all come together
Anything else to add? (important controls, assets used, special mentions, etc)
I did everything all by myself (But the sound) and I had a lot of fun!
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Liked the look of the art the gathering was slow but wasn't to slow. I couldn't seem to figure out how to eat my fish when I was trying to cook them. But good.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I want to make an improved version soon so I appreciate all the feedback :)
np. I'll follow you so I get notified of changes in the future.
thank you! That’s so kind of you. I hope you enjoy the final version
This was cool! I really liked the artwork, it looked really nice! The atmosphere with the sound effects was really great especially in the gathering resources phase. I couldn't really work out how to place things in the tower defence section but the enemies seemed to keep thing anyway so I managed to survive the night :D Nice work!
Thank you so much! I did my best :) I know the tower defence needs more polish and I want to fix it in the future. Do you have any suggestions on how I can make things more clear for the player?
And thank you so much for hosting this jam!
Not a big fan of being patient, but artwork is very cute and nice concept. Got spooked when I first tried it.
Thank you for playing! Do you have any suggestions for how to make the resource gathering more interactive? It’s something I’m working on for an improved version for after the jam
The graphics are amazing! The water effect, the lighting at night, the oil painting look to the game. All of it really solid stuff!
I wish there was more gameplay too it (totally wasn't expecting the night part btw) but otherwise fantastic!
thank you so much for your kind words. I wanted to add more gameplay to the game but I work on the weekends so I couldn’t :) I do plan to make a feature complete version in the future.
Really good idea and graphics, the gameplay is really cool as well, idk how to eat but the game still awesome :D
congrats on finishing it
Thank you for playing! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I’m hoping to make an improved version in the future with better feedback for the player
Amazing game and good art, water was amazing! I love it. Idk how to eat fish though
thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the game. I hope to make an improved version after the jam
cool
Awesome that you did everything by yourself in this short amount of time. I read that you wanted to keep instructions to a minimum and I think it worked out really well, because as a player you tried several things to figure out how to survive. It would have been great if there'd be a bit more feedback, especially with the fish at night (was it possible to eat it? My player always said he was hungry) and the enemies.
Also the water shader was really cool!
Thank you for the feedback! I want to make a feature complete version in the future based off of the feedback. And I looked into the player always saying they’re hungry thing and it seems to be that the threshold for the character complaining might be too early so I will definitely tweak that. In the future I’d like the game to provide more auditory and visual feedback to the player.
I’m happy you liked my shader. It honestly took me more time than I should have let it but I thought it would be really cool :)
I really liked your little game. Expèecially the art style but the mechanic was nice too.. even tho I didn't understand how to eat the fish xD
If possible I would like to ask you how did you create that water effect, if you're willing we can talk about it on Discord :)
Thank you for playing! Ya feedback for actions is something I was forced to sacrifice due to time since I work on the weekends. After the jam rating is done I plan to make a feature complete version of this game based on feedback and my cut ideas. (I initially wanted a large resource collection map with randomized locations)
And I’d absolutely love to share how the shader works!
Awesome :) I'm not that good on Discord so I don't really know how to contact you.. but I am Svalinn85 on the discord server too :)
really liked the artstyle but wasn't sure how to play the game.
Thank you for the feedback. I tried to keep instructions to a minimal for the survival aspect. But I didn’t want in to be confusing. Sorry. How would you suggest improving for the future?
i think one of the easiest ways is to make sure that there is a clear difference in feedback between when the player does something right and wrong
I will keep that in mind
I really liked artstyle! And water is gorgeous!
Thank you! I spent a lot of time on it so I'm glad you noticed :) I'm hoping to make an even better water shader in the future! Would you be willing to give me feedback on the gameplay? It was my fist time making a game for either of those genres and I'd appreciate hearing about how I can improve :)
It was fun to light up torches to protect shelter. But I didn't understand how to eat fish and it would be nice to have more feedback for other actions. So the main idea is great, but gathering resources is repetitive and can be boring. I think it would be better to make a big map with randomly spawned resources.
That was the original plan actually. A large random map. But since I work on the weekends I wasn’t able to achieve half of what I wanted. But thank you for your feedback. I’d love to make a feature complete version of this game in the future so it’s nice to know others think the main idea is good :)
Good Luck!
Thanks!
thank you so much!