Humble Beginnings

a primitive game about one of humankind's most humble beginnings.
repeatedly press buttons alternating between left shift and right shift
and make fire...

thanks for playing

Comments28

kadexus28 Aug 2016, 17:46
Great art style! This is actually way harder than I thought too, I was only able to get to about 75 percent of the way on my best attempt.
phantomunboxing28 Aug 2016, 18:41
Go into your build settings and turn off developement build. In the web version there is a developement build water mark :P
CalmKai28 Aug 2016, 18:43
Cool game, I like the art style of it!
what.sorceress.thisauthor28 Aug 2016, 19:09
@phantomunboxing I don't have development build checked, and I don't see the watermark either. Maybe it's something to do with the version of the web player plugin you have installed?
Mnemusyne
Mnemusyne28 Aug 2016, 21:00
I like the art but the gameplay is very boring. It's also very hard.
iamevn
iamevn28 Aug 2016, 22:00
I like the style, I'm not entirely convinced it's beatable without cheating though. Fits theme very well.
emmett_shatley29 Aug 2016, 01:12
I love this concept. Simple but great.
tomer_cool29 Aug 2016, 11:10
The game is very fun beautiful art. It's so hard to reach the top.
facelesstheone29 Aug 2016, 13:54
Wow, stunning visuals! Your game looks veeery good and there is one simple yet solid gameplay mechanic. Good job!
zacks29 Aug 2016, 14:11
Great idea and graphics! Nice job!
Geckoo1337
Geckoo133729 Aug 2016, 17:44
I ruined my keyboard - thanks :)
zulman
zulman29 Aug 2016, 18:00
Brilliant work with theme dude :)
steph8830 Aug 2016, 06:29
Hi, nice game and congratulations ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #36. We made the same thing at the previous jam.

Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description.
ValiaP
ValiaP30 Aug 2016, 15:02
I love the graphic, simple but detailed. The idea reminds me of the NDS game "Lost in Blue", where you have to press L and R button alternately to make a fire.
bodsey
bodsey30 Aug 2016, 17:37
Hey just a small note, you don't have to include the pdb files when you release on Windows, it's useless and takes a lot a space :) I like the art and the colors. I'm not a huge fan a key-mashing games though :)
BoltKey30 Aug 2016, 20:58
The art and atmosphere was nice. It was very hard, I gave up and used macro recorder.
mitya123431 Aug 2016, 06:16
One of the most ancient technology. Nice entry. Also has great effect work with particles.
brunurd
brunurd31 Aug 2016, 18:05
great idea, it's hard to finish to me, but I will try later. I miss a better art in the hud
Steven Miller
Steven Miller2 Sep 2016, 03:10
Really great take on the theme, I managed to start a fire without cheating, and can confirm that it is possible (though quite difficult). I guess I had some practice from my own game, which also has an element of trying to ruin your keyboard by alternating keys rapidly.
whatsorceressthisauthor2 Sep 2016, 17:40
@Jupiter_Hadley Thank you very much! By watching you play it, I actually realised there must be a bug affecting some resolutions/browsers making the game more difficult, possibly by not allowing two shift keys work independently. Because I could hear how fast you were tapping the keyboard and you couldn't get past half, it is not that difficult at all on my computer. I'll look into fixing that!
tmpxyz
tmpxyz5 Sep 2016, 07:13
It's very simple to the core, hope to have some more stuff, like throw some drygrass on that?
Omiya Games
Omiya Games7 Sep 2016, 00:42
Welp, that was a very short game. Not sure what else comment, other than I wish life was this simple.
whatsorceressthisauthor7 Sep 2016, 08:36
@Omniya Games Well, I'm glad you found it simple. You're like the only one who didn't think it was too difficult. Thank you very much for playing it on stream even though I couldn't catch it live.
Odefus
Odefus11 Sep 2016, 00:32
Today I learned I am not cut out to be primitive survivalist.
Jacqueslelezard11 Sep 2016, 16:40
Didn't succeeded to make fire but it was fun ^^
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