As you said in your Post: The atmossphere is really good. I like the 2 states (outdoor/indoor). But as SimonHutchinson said: I first off didn't knew where to click. When i got it the game got to easy. But i think that this is okay. Because the game lives from its atmossphere. Thanks!
The art is lovely, however, I was very confused about the game. After a few play through I kind of get the idea that i need to get enough hey and fish to survive the winter. However, I still don't understand the usage of cloth because they don't really decrease in number? Also the game didn't seem to get harder or easier? Looks like it has potential it just need more polish and explanation. Well done though!
Love the art. I was confused about the gameplay itself, but finally got things to progress. I still don't get the point of certain things like what to eat or get.
The art, what ther eis of it is pretty good, but the gameplay kinda feels like filler? once you know what the algorithm is you can just tap it out in 2 seconds
The game is fundamentally broken and confusing. I have no idea how each part affects the other. I believe if you sacrifice all your sheep then fish only take one wool away. So the only way to survive I've found is to just sacrifice all your sheep in the beginning so you can eat all the fish, then just got only fish at that point and wool when you need it.
summer: 2 wool, rest fish. winter: If first day, sacrifice 11 sheep. Put the rest into fish.
With this strategy you will never lose. The art though is nice, but like I said, the game is fundamentally broken.
I agree with you. Now wool is accumulated solely for the score points. There are no penalties for low rate of production - so you can't sit on the same fish. Thank you all for the feedback, I'm working on learning first. As soon as the game becomes clear. I will start to complicate the game loop.
The art is absolutely beautiful and the sound effects really add to the experience. As others have said the game is a bit confusing but still a really lovely art style and feel.
Nice atmosphere, but I didn't really understand the game play. I was able to collect fish and hay, but not sure what to do with sheep. then I made it to winter and got through a winter. It needs a quick tutorial.
I love the look of this game, and really want to play it. However, when I try to play the game in my browser (Safari 9.1.3 under OSX), I get this error: "An error occured running the Unity content on this page. See your browser's JavaScript console for more info. The error was: NotFoundError: DOM IDBDatabase Exception 8: An operation failed because the requested database object could not be found."
This game looks really interesting, though - reminds me of King of Dragon Pass. Bookmarking for later.
Really enjoyed the game, it put me in a very zen-like mood. At this point though, surviving is doing some simple calculations, which is not quite satisfying, perhaps there should be a reward other than score for successful felting. However, as you said, I understand the need to find the core before you add all the polish. Great entry!
@AODQ I noticed there is a way to get more felt each season up to a point, w/o sacrificing all your sheep. Each sheep eats 1 hay per day, People eat 1 fish/meat per day. so it's best to fish almost to the max(24) and then use the rest of your clicks for hay, sacrifice a few sheep each year. Get fat felt, become viking god.
Additionally, it would be nice if you could keep food/hay season after season. This would really help so that you don't cap out at 22 sheep each year. Also, unless there will be more to it, such as a kind of trade game or something beyond the farm, the whole, "A farm without sheeps is doomed" thing seems arbitrary, and you could otherwise subsist off of fish alone. A thought for the future, perhaps either, a successfully survived winter, or having excess food at the end of winter, could result in a population increase, adding both mouths to feed, and hands to work. Totally extrapolating at this point, but I'm really into the idea of this game. It would be so cool if the game was about not just surviving nature, but other people as well, perhaps raiders? You could grow your farm to the point where you start investing, such as in guards to defend from attackers, and extra land to make more felts. I could see a Kingdom-esque game coming out of this. I love this game, please keep up the hard work!
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Danae1233 Sep 2016, 21:10
Gorgeous graphics. I enjoyed it, played it a few times to get a high score. More mechanics could be introduced to make the gameplay more complex.
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Molpe5 Sep 2016, 15:07
Beautiful images, it was hard to figure out what the game wants from me, after that it's got very very easy.
Like the concept of the game. I think the game would benefit from being more "readable". Maybe a visual representation of the goods other than numbers. While the art ist nice (though somewhat static), i think the screens could be more structured, so the player knows where to interact. Keep it up!
I think I need some more instructions (on where to click, etc).