Arcane Forest

If there's supposed to be some sort of hint in the game as to the path you're meant to take, it's too subtle for me to notice. I gave up after wandering around for a while without making any progress that I could discern.

I came across a few different pumpkins, and I think I managed to progress a little, but I couldn't be sure, I'm not getting enough feedback to really know.

Nice game though

The music was interesting and good for the environment that you're trying to setup.

Good luck and well done.

I finished the game without using a pen and paper, but it was close! Really cool mood. The art and music fit really well together. Nice take on theme too. Well done ;-)

@zachary-barbanell Thanks for playing and for your input! The pumpkins (at the bottom of the screen with text) are the hint. Each new zone has a pumpkin with a new quote. I ran out of time to draw all the individual pumpkins though, so I had to reuse the first three. If you take a wrong path, you're back at the beginning and have to start the same sequence of paths over.

@tolmera Thank you for playing! I figured part of the "puzzle" would be to figure out how to progress with the small hints given rather than explain how to play it. Do you think I should include more details in the game description?

@spacemonkey Oh, cool! Congrats on finishing it! Thank you for playing!

I ditto @spacemonkey with pen and paper. I knew you would do what you've done in the last "room", but I didn't think the end will happen this soon. All in all, it was a good memory exercise and I enjoyed it. :)

Nice work on the atmosphere! I love the art, and the music is fitting. And you've got cool kickable pumpkins, which is a nice little touch. ^_^

@yngvarr Kickable pumpkins? Oh dear... I mean- Yes! Yes, totally planned! Thanks for playing!

I beath this. Beath the WHOLE thing. I got away!! AH hAHHAHHAHAHHAHA cute little person animation.

I made my way through to the end. I appreciated the last direction required. Fitting music, cute animation and art, nicely done, it was a fun memory game :)

Nicely done! The graphics are nice, the music is fitting, the pumpkins are sufficiently self-aware. I did get out, but I wrote my moves down :)

Very cool! I almost wish the way out was a bit longer, it was quite satisfying to extend the path once you figured out what's going on. It reminds me of The Stanley Parable a bit, where entering the same room twice you might find different things. Every room looking identical here makes it fit the theme well, congrats!

@patrickjr's game was quite similar in theme, and my jam entry was also about exploring some woods. Go Team Forest!

@ditam Thanks! It was essentially a straight ripoff of the lost woods in Zelda OoT where everything looks the exact same, but the sequence is what gets you through. I actually already had multiple difficulties coded (this was easy) so if I had a few more hours, you would have seen longer ones too lol. Thanks for playing!

The rooms look exactly the same except for a few which have different pumpkin placement. More elements like rocks and mushrooms and birds would make this much better. Even just moving the tree and grass placement would help. Adding landmarks to make certain rooms stand out would be good. I also wish the player moved faster. I like the dialogue with the pumpkin and the music is decent.

Nice game!

I finished the game! I think the pumpkin was supposed to be a hint, pushing it would show you the direction you're supposed to go, but it seemed to allow me to push it the wrong way in at least some of the screens. I liked the pumpkin's expressions and dialogue, and the character and her animations were cute.

It was fairly frustrating to get reset without a firm understanding of how the pumpkin hint system worked. I understand that you're trying to make it a puzzle to figure out how to get out, but if the interaction of the hint doesn't give me a reliable answer, then I feel like I can't trust it, and am more inclined to just give up, rather than painstakingly exhaust all possibilities and memorize the solution.

Cool Game and idea

Good Job Well Done

If you want to use music that you didn't make yourself, you should upload your game as part of the jam, not as part of the compo. Please respect the rules of the compo.

I was somewhat confused by the pumpkin, but I just tried all possible ways and managed to escape :)

@fractal I believe that in compo, you are allowed to use free assets. The music was made prior to the jam and is free to use in projects. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Also, thanks for playing! The small pumpkins were just supposed to represent the one talking at the bottom of the screen, which were the hints :)

@sakura-magika Being able to push the pumpkins was actually a glitch, they were supposed to be immovable. The pumpkins speech at the bottom of the screen was actually the hint. Thanks for playing!

@ladymistleaf No, you are not allowed to use free assets in the compo, only in the jam. The idea of the compo is that you do everything yourself in 48 hours. There are a few exceptions for fonts for instance, but definitely not for music. Look at the rules here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules

@fractal Duly noted! Apologies for mislabeling. I will keep that in mind for the next jam.