Ludum Dare #38compo

The Village Helpers

by z4f1

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.94

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.80

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What to do?

You go around helping the villagers by doing their quests! The villagers that need help are marked with a Red Arrow. Not only do you get that awesome feeling when helping someone, but you also get shulls (currency).

What to do with shulls?

Walking a bit slow? Buy an upgrade in the shop! With Shulls you can buy and upgrade things! Awesome right? Anyways, you can buy a map to find the mysterous treasure hidden on the island or a spell to run faster!

REMEMBER!

The player spawns in the entrance of the shop.
You can only destroy trees and stones on the other side of the water!
Jumping into water or off the edge, results in death. When you die, you need to pay the hospital bill (30 shulls).

How to Play?

Same movement as in most other First Person games!

* Walking around - WASD
* Jump - Space
* Look around - Move mouse
* Swing your tool - Left mouse button
* Pickup items - F
* Open inventory - Tab
* Trade with villager when in trading area - E
* Open shop when in shop area - B

- Itch.io Game Page: https://z4f1.itch.io/the-village-helpers

Tags: #exploration, #upgrades

Genres: adventure, role playing

Comments16

damnscout23 Apr 2017, 22:27

Oh man, so cool! Found the hidden treasure, and used that money to buy the map, which told me where the treasure was! Awesome work man, amazing!

DrPastoor25 Apr 2017, 21:27

Great fun to explore and play! It's clear you worked hard this weekend and made a great game of "a small world"! ;-) Really impressive and Keep Going!

MezzUK2 May 2017, 17:28

Enjoyed the art style and the sound effects were nice. Would have been good to have a noise for the resource gathering so you know you've hit something but a great small world you've created :)

Connor McGrory2 May 2017, 18:15

Loved the feel of a first person game on a small island!
Great work :D

A few things
- if I try to buy something with EXACTLY enough, it won't let me buy it (probably a > change to a >=)
- if you walk away from the store, you can't close the store window
- audio queues would be nice
- the quest screens always appearing got a little annoying
- if you fulfill a quest, maybe have it disappear
- when you break a rock or tree, it breaks before the swinging animation when it should be after
- maybe put a little "You win!" screen at the end :)

Overall nice job, I had fun!

Cooby2 May 2017, 21:36

My favorite part was buying a ton of speed and flying around the island. Gathering materials definitely needs audio queues and the UI could use some refining. Otherwise, solid start with plenty of room to grow.

shockeye3 May 2017, 12:42

Good game, but I got caught by the store window not closing also ( which also stops mouse look from working) I agree with all of Connor's suggestions, they will add some great polish to the game.

Z4F1author3 May 2017, 13:56

@connor-mcgrory Ty so much for those suggestions, I will try to implement them as fast as possible!

krunoslav6 May 2017, 00:06

Nice graphics. Maybe it is no too innovative, but the mechanics are fluid and I enjoyed the experience.

It is just a personal think, but I would prefer a easier way to cut trees, like *don't starve* that you have just
to keep clicked the mouse bottom instead to click many times, it is a detail, I know :P

bacontree6 May 2017, 17:23

Took me a while to understand that I had more than one tool, even if it said so in the corner. A bit of response that your tool is working when you use it would have made alot of difference. I felt like I finsished the game right as I started understanding it. I think it's a really cool idea, which you could easily make longer by adding things you can buy in the store that make you able to gather other types of materials. It's cool that you came so far in two days. Good job!

I gathered alot of wood and stone and ended up the richest man in the village with super human strength and speed.

Franklins Ghost8 May 2017, 09:44

Liked the look of this and thought it worked nicely in giving the whole game a cute look. Do wish there was a bit of feedback with the tools. Favourite bit was how when you paused it should the whole place, nice touch.

ping7814 May 2017, 18:39

Game looks great. Liked these two islands and the hidden treasure.

I was about to clear all the island but then I understood that trees respawn.

Georg Rottensteiner17 May 2017, 16:23

Really nice!

Encountered a bug, when trading the collected stuff and you press E repeatedly you get lots of Shulls.
Lovely :)

megabrutal17 May 2017, 22:29

At first I didn't realize that I have to hit objects repeatedly to harvest them – there was no effect that would tell me that my tool has hit the object at all and didn't miss. Now I didn't have enough time to finish this game, but maybe later I'll return to it. Thanks for the game, keep up the good work! :)

Spaceman17 May 2017, 23:53

This was pretty cool. It would be a major improvement if there was audio and visual feedback when collecting resources (like a sound effect when you hit a piece of rock).

OccultOne17 May 2017, 23:56

I think feedback when a player hits a target would have been really helpful, it took me a WHILE to cut down things because it felt like nothing was happening. Great job on 3D Art for a Jam Game. Solid entry.

Siridakis18 May 2017, 23:31

Nice game! The graphics are cool and I liked the water flowing sound.
I missed some sound to let you know that you're actually hiting something (like chopping the tree).
I also found a bug for lots of extra cash.
I wish I had found the hidden treasure T-T

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