The Last Tree

by team-wala

co-authored: @jelfe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.60

How to play

Collect water and refine it at the ship by clicking auto craft and then use it on the plant. Similarly you have to collect metal and sand and click auto craft to create fencing and glass casing to use it on the plant. Every 1 min you get a crystal from the tree which you need to craft at the ship which can be used to either heal the plant, upgrade bot which actually unlocks one inventory or upgrade ship which unlocks another crafting block so that you can craft 2 items at once. Also click at the animals to shoo them away as they attack your plant or the fencing. Your goal is to keep the plant alive.

Story

Once upon a time in a galaxy unknown there lived a peaceful and advanced species that lived a beautiful life.

Don't worry the species still exist but the youngest son of the leaders family (we call him the "Tin Can") idiotically crashed his ship on an unknown planet.

The life source which powers the ship among everything else on the planet including the species themselves are a crystallized fruit (aka crystals) that grows on their sacred trees.

Tin Can had run out of the crystals but he still had the plant on the hip which if it grows can give him the crystals he needs. So his only mission now is to " Keep it alive" so that he can repair the ship and fly away!!

Tasks:

1. Find water source and purify it
2. Find metal to craft a fencing to keep animals away from the plant
3. Find sand to craft a glass casing to prevent in from the unstable environment of the planet.

That's it! Now go do your bit an keep the damn plant alive!!

Programmer:
Utkarsh

Artist:
Rajat

VFX:
Suresh

Comments23

phantom-lab21 Apr 2020, 12:42

Those gosh dang animals keep eating my plant!

Kupnu421 Apr 2020, 22:00

My laptop is not that fancy, but I'm getting 3-5 fps in your game for some reason (for example fallout NV runs smoothly). The game looks beautiful though and the idea is pretty solid.

Team Walaauthor23 Apr 2020, 06:49

@phantom-lab ah Sorry about that!! :)

@kupnu4 Thanks for your review. Will check the FPS issue. It's most likely due to HDRP pipeline.

pomelouncia23 Apr 2020, 06:51

Fancy graphic, nice design. but I need more instructions ie I do not know how to unlock my inventory and I do not know the usage of each items.

Pushkan23 Apr 2020, 07:08

Interresting idea, good graphics, but so small icon, blur ui and zero understanding, which my goal, how to play in this?! and yeah, crazy fps issue

Team Walaauthor23 Apr 2020, 07:46

@pomelouncia and @pushkan collect water and refine it at the ship by clicking auto craft. Similarly you have to collect metal and sand and click auto craft to create fencing and glass casing. Every 1 min you get a crystal from the tree which you need to craft at the ship which can be used to either heal the plant, upgrade bot which actually unlocks one inventory or upgrade ship which unlocks another crafting block so that you can craft 2 items at once. Also click at the animals to shoo them away as they attack your plant or the fencing. Your goal is to keep the plant alive.

Sorry about the fps issue. Tried HDRP pipeline with this. Also, there is some motion blur which we could not fix and hence takes time to focus on the UI.

Thank you for playing our game and the valuable feedback. Hopefully my reply helps and you are able to enjoy the game. :)

bobost223 Apr 2020, 07:55

I like the graphics, but the movement controls on the robot could be WASD, instead of clicking, because it's little bit annoying the robot delaying 5 sec because instead of stopping the robot is drifting. Love the game, but the movement could be better :D

Team Walaauthor23 Apr 2020, 07:58

@bobost2 Thank you for your feedback and liking our games. We were aiming for top down clicker game and hence didn't go for WASD controls. Also, sorry for the drifting that is because of nav mesh problem which we couldn't fix in the given time

pkenney23 Apr 2020, 23:48

Hey, wow, what graphics, and the sound is music is really atmospheric. I was excited to see where it went, unfortunately the game maxed out my laptop's GPU, so everything moved in ultra-slow-mo with a lot of stutter and lag dominating the feel. I felt like I could not really play the actual intended experience so I just left ratings on the graphics and mood, sorry I can't offer feedback on more!

ahistyap24 Apr 2020, 07:29

Seems very beautiful game, I played it a little bit but the game ran very slowly in my low-end laptop. I can't give much comment about the gameplay, but as for the graphics, they're beautiful! Nicely done!

brokenVectors24 Apr 2020, 13:52

Great game, great music, great graphics, cool concept! I love it.

Amazura24 Apr 2020, 15:53

awesome game.. love the graphic and music. really well implemented game. a lot of things player could do in the game and i think you need some tutorials for it. sometimes people are just lazy to read a quick guide or even didn't read it at all :laughing: anyway, good work on the game :thumbsup:

Talops24 Apr 2020, 20:16

Gameplay loop works really well and the environment looks nice!

The UI could have been rescaled to prevent blurry fonts (There are ways to do that, unity's 3d UI doesn't work too great out of the box :slight_frown: ), the camera movement was a bit on the slow side, and the one main criticism I have is on the very unreliable player movement, being force-based instead of linear velocity which makes reaching resource nodes frustrating.

I managed to make the plant survive. It becomes quite easy once you've grabbed the bot upgrades (which should cost more than one seed, too strong!), but all in all I had a lot of fun playing this! Well done!

joemid25 Apr 2020, 04:36

Amazing graphics and cool soundtrack! I had some frame rate issues- but it ran. The map is huge! After I saved the plant- I went back to explore the landscape- I made it to the edge of the world!!! It was actually really fun to sail the "Tin Can" across the dunes to the music. Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice the plant to do so. :( Thanks for the beautiful game!

NathanT25 Apr 2020, 04:51

Nice shaders! Loved the environment art. Had some confusion with the controls at first. Might want to include a boundary to block the camera from going too far. Creatures fit the theme well. Good job!

SaltFactory Studio26 Apr 2020, 02:39

Really cool graphic you got going here, the art style is very fitting to the music and the environment. The map has plenty to areas to be explored meaning player have much more freedom. I feel like control isn't the most ideal when having to move around with mouse click, and that the game could be optimized a bit further. Other than that, this is a solid entry.

domkonecny26 Apr 2020, 13:41

restarted my computer on startup 10/10

AndideBob26 Apr 2020, 16:01

A really fun little game, though the controls were a bit confusing. I once lost my bot somewhere on the map not knowing how to find him again but wait. The mecanics are solid and the graphics are really pretty for a jam game. I wish there was a win scenario (if there is one I didn't find it I guess). Either way, a really solid game for the jam!

UltraBill2 May 2020, 10:23

The game is looking good and the music is top.
The main gameloop is great and fun. Maybe too much enemies attacking the plant, but it's still enjoyable and not really a problem when we have the fences.

However, the controls are really not enjoyable, and in fact they are the main source of frustration. The character take a long time to reach where we want, his slow turning speed make him drift and his high speed make him exceed the point where we want him to go.

Also I had a problem with the camera not following the character, so i wasn't realy enjoyable to move around the map, and make it even more difficult to find the needed resources.

Anyway, the game is still very good!

Lyrdl2 May 2020, 10:26

Took me a while ti figure out what to do, and the movement control was a bit strange but I think I liked that. You have to plan your little dudes route a little bit because he can't turn fast.

Trexxak6 May 2020, 05:21

Gorgeous models and in-depth gameplay customization it seems. This has great potential!

Pavel Kouril8 May 2020, 07:24

The game looks amazing and is nice to play, but the camera movement (and player movement) felt iffy. Too slow I'd say? I liked the mood, including the post processing and everything. Audio was great as well!

Good job!

Sublustris12 May 2020, 05:23

Графика и цветовая гамма в целом очень приятные. Но тормозит очень сильно на моём ноутбуке. Но всё равно молодцы, так держать!