Reap

___________________________STORY___________________________

your ship breaks up on the rocky shores, but luckily you've made it to the island!

every action drains your energy, but the sleep you get each night revitalizes you

there is plenty of fresh water, but if you don't eat you will quickly starve to death

some of the turnips on board washed up on shore, but they're in limited supply

unless you plant and harvest some of them

when the ship crashed, you watched your treasure map tear and scatter to the wind

_________________________CONTROLS_________________________

play with either KEYBOARD or GAMEPAD

move with WASD or ARROW KEYS (or LEFT STICK), you can move diagonally

control the left hand with X or N (or A or LEFT TRIGGER)

control the right hand with C or M (or B or RIGHT TRIGGER)

tap a key to pick up or drop an item, hold a key down to use an item

each hand can carry one item at a time

___________________________HELP____________________________

the game takes up to a minute to procedurally generate the world, during this

time there are useful instructions on screen, which you can also find above

normal difficulty is much more forgiving, you have more energy to use each day,

the days are longer, and you have twice as much maximum food

you can tell what difficulty you're in by how much food you lose each day,

on normal you lose one sixteenth, on hard you lose one eighth

there are four general stages in Reap,

1. surviving until your first crops are ready for harvest

2. becoming self sufficient on crop growth

3. exploring in search of the treasure map pieces

4. pinpointing and reaching the treasure

please let me know if you have any problems running or playing the game

mac version hopefully coming soon!

___________________________ABOUT___________________________

the game procedurally generates a series of islands with rivers and forests,

using modified perlin noise

it also generates a minimap of the islands which you pick up and carry around

the treasure is randomly buried in a visually interesting area and a treasure map

is generated of the surrounding terrain

it then scatters tools, food, and the four pieces of the treasure map

I originally planned to include a vine monster which slowly grew across the island,

forcing you to spend energy clearing it before it overtook your crops and tools,

but that was too ambitious for me and led to too many ways to die,

so instead I tried to make growing crops interesting and important to the game

Reap uses five colours (that shift as the day progresses)

made using Gamemaker, Photoshop, bfxr and the everlasting adoration of kittens

* fixed a bug that let you dig in the ocean

* fixed a graphical bug when chopping some forests

* fixed the hoe animation not always playing

* added post-compo build with a wider range of difficulties and a better day/night cycle