Embark on a journey in the ancient world of WONKS. Where will you be taken when the WONKS calls you? what will you do? Explore those ideas and not much more in this thrilling* adventure
*Farming
Please note that the game is unfortunately Unfinished, feel free to explore the farming area and discover some different dialogue and whatnot, but (spoilers) I was unfortunately not able to add anything after the farm. One day I hope you'll be able to leave by that gate, but until then you're just stuck messing around with seeds forever, never finding the one.
Ah poop I also forgot to remove a little debug number on the screen. Oh Well.
My Focus this jam was to really use audio. In the past audio has always been an afterthought but I made sure to implement it from the very beginning, and I hope that has had the intended effect of creating a better sense of place and atmosphere.
I wasn't sure what I was doing (since I never read notes first). The audio was great. I liked the overall feel. My wife walked in and thought it looked like a "cute Waterworld Wall-e".
This is a VERY artsy entry. My highest scores are for Theme and Mood for that reason.. I would rate it higher if the game was finished but keep up the good work!
I kept seeing your progress on the irc chan and I was very curious to try your game. Now it's done ! Wonderful work on the audio. I love how natural the controls feel, event if a little explanation on them would have be nice. Not sure what to do once I'm stuck in the room because i must sleep. After trying to hit every key looks like R allows me to exit this state, but it looks like more that it entirely restarts the level. Maybe if you can explain a bit, I'd like to play your game more ;)
@Strike and anyone else who might be having trouble with the sleeping, there is a bit of a bug going on with that, but hopefully you can find solace in the fact that sleeping was the last feature I had time to implement!
In case you haven't run into the bug, you can attempt to sleep by clicking the wall that the rug/bed thing is up against. I think in the future I will make it more evidently a bed as to reduce confusion.
This was probably the most awesome athmosphere so far! I instantly felt like I'd love playing a game that felt like this, and even though this was not completed, I enjoyed it quite a bit! Please, do a full-length adventure game with the same mood and humor and you'll be a millionaire. :D
I liked the mood and the audio of this game. Exploring was nice because of the background audio and the captions which created an atmosphere. The sound effects were very funny, and improved the mood of the game.
It would have been helpful if you put in notes of what the controls are, and what the player should do, (I read the main thread, and the captions in the game, but neither were very helpful). Edit: I went and looked at some of your update posts and learned how to use the Seed Analyzer. Maybe you want to include information about that on this page?
"Cute Waterworld Wall-e" - yeah, exactly my thoughts too. Graphics are pretty, but I really like the audio design, I think it's the best part of the game - these cute noises when you interact with drawings...
There is nothing after the "sleep" segment, right?
You focused on the audio, and you did a superb job with it! The atmosphere is quite relaxing (once you get out of the WONKS dream sequence thing--terrifying! :P), and the sound effects are all delicious candy to my ears.
I like to click things a lot because those clicky clackers just sound so addicting. Unfortunately, I end up queuing up a bunch of lines of dialog, and I can't activate the bed until they all go away... Keeping myself by awake talking to myself, haha!
I also found a bug where I put more than just 5 seeds in the seedalyzer in a day, and then press the button to multiples at once. It runs through the dialog for 5 of them, but after that, I get stuck because the door is locked, and trying the bed only says that I'm "almost done."
I also like the art style. Nice details with the ripples in the water too. Please do finish this game. I really wanna try the farming. Really well done so far!
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In case you haven't run into the bug, you can attempt to sleep by clicking the wall that the rug/bed thing is up against. I think in the future I will make it more evidently a bed as to reduce confusion.
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
It would have been helpful if you put in notes of what the controls are, and what the player should do, (I read the main thread, and the captions in the game, but neither were very helpful). Edit: I went and looked at some of your update posts and learned how to use the Seed Analyzer. Maybe you want to include information about that on this page?
Graphics are pretty, but I really like the audio design, I think it's the best part of the game - these cute noises when you interact with drawings...
There is nothing after the "sleep" segment, right?
Nice mood to this game, and the audio is really nice. I didn't realize the game wasn't finished so I just ran around picking up seeds for 5 minutes ;)
I like to click things a lot because those clicky clackers just sound so addicting. Unfortunately, I end up queuing up a bunch of lines of dialog, and I can't activate the bed until they all go away... Keeping myself by awake talking to myself, haha!
I also found a bug where I put more than just 5 seeds in the seedalyzer in a day, and then press the button to multiples at once. It runs through the dialog for 5 of them, but after that, I get stuck because the door is locked, and trying the bed only says that I'm "almost done."
I also like the art style. Nice details with the ripples in the water too. Please do finish this game. I really wanna try the farming. Really well done so far!
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