Press E = place items when you are clear of harvestable items
F = Cycle through the selected inventory item to place
C = Crafting menu
Crafting = Mouse over the item to see the required inputs and click it to craft one.
This was my second jam ever, and I think I bit off more than I can chew for a 48 hour jam. Unfortunately I didn't have time for any audio, and the animations are a bit strange. But the core mechanics are there. Enjoy chasing some ducks!
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I don't seem to be able to harvest items by pressing E (I haven't rated yet but will go back to it if there's a solution to this!!)
@bubblewandgames You'll need to get really close to the items and hold E to harvest them. You should see a red progress wheel right on top of Mama Llama. The other thing is that you need to scare away the ducks before you can harvest anything (yay collider search order bug!). They have a tendency to interrupt the harvest cycle. Hope that helps. It is a bit of a buggy mess. I worked on the mechanics before I added sprites. Then when I got the sprites to work, the mechanics were broken. So everything turned out a bit janky. Thanks for being willing to give it a second shot!
@ogre "It's not a bug. It's a feature!" :wink: A not intentional feature. But I guess that's to be expected when you're over ambitious for a 48 hour period and don't have time to play test :laughing:
@wubbaduck I went up to stuff and spammed E but nothing was happening, so I ran into everything and spammed every button and still nothing was happening, I think. (Now that I'm reading comments, I guess I had to hold E, woops!)
This is a fun start. I had some trouble with dropping things when I was trying to pick stuff up, but I liked the little ducks chasing me around. I could see this being turned into a full game!
The game is very unclear. I have no goal, and ducks are trying to forbid me to get any object in the map. I succeed crafting 1 object after 5 minutes of games... That's long!
I think having the ducks kinda circle the player would allow players more ease when trying to learn the crafting mechanics of the game. Nice effort though, very cute.
the idea is very cute, the little ducks running around made me smile and i like that the sprites of things you put down are different than the ones you pick up! it is a bit clunky, though, with so many ducks pushing you around and keeping you from collecting items, especially stones that take forever. was a while til i could put up a pen. maybe if the ducks didn't drop SO MANY EGGS SO FAST and, of course, if they gave the poor llama some space to breathe, the game would flow better. i suppose being a new mother of 20+ couldn't be easy, though, right? haha!
@allera Great feedback! Thanks! I really didn't have much time to play test it. So I didn't realize that the balance of crafting values and egg timing was so off until it was too late :laughing: But I'm taking notes and will keep this input in mind if I develop this game more.
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The little ducks are cute. I'm not sure what I'm doing, there seem to be more and more whether I do things or not!
Nice entry, cute graphics. A bit grindy, but so were a lot of games this event.
(Now that I'm reading comments, I guess I had to hold E, woops!)