Lumberjack
- ## The game about lumberjack and his dead father's tree.🌳
> Once apon a time lumberjack father and lumberjack son
were leaving in the woods. They were protecting their forest from
ghosts and were keeping alive plants.
But suddenly father was taken by death. Lumberjack son was very sad, because his
father was the dearest person to him.
The year before lumberjack father and lumberjack son planted a tree in their
backyard. Now this tree was only reminder to lumberjack son about his father.
Help lumberjack to save his father's tree... or at least make your best.
- ## How to play?🤨
> You must water and fertilize the tree so it doesn't die.
Also you should defend the tree from ghosts, which are trying to burn it down.
In order to do all of it you should distribute your stamina.
> - Red bar is HP❤️
> - Green bar is fertilizer🌿
> - Blue bar is water💧
> - Yellow bar is stamina⚡
This game was created for Ludum Dare 50 using Rust and plain OpenGL.🙃
> Once apon a time lumberjack father and lumberjack son
were leaving in the woods. They were protecting their forest from
ghosts and were keeping alive plants.
But suddenly father was taken by death. Lumberjack son was very sad, because his
father was the dearest person to him.
The year before lumberjack father and lumberjack son planted a tree in their
backyard. Now this tree was only reminder to lumberjack son about his father.
Help lumberjack to save his father's tree... or at least make your best.
- ## How to play?🤨
> You must water and fertilize the tree so it doesn't die.
Also you should defend the tree from ghosts, which are trying to burn it down.
In order to do all of it you should distribute your stamina.
> - Red bar is HP❤️
> - Green bar is fertilizer🌿
> - Blue bar is water💧
> - Yellow bar is stamina⚡
This game was created for Ludum Dare 50 using Rust and plain OpenGL.🙃
Comments28
Quick tip: don't use rar, Itch app doesn't seem to like it :D use zip instead :)
PS: I'm tweeting about the games I play during this jam. Here is yours: https://twitter.com/TheAntonSem/status/1512115269778481157
After playing a couple of rounds, I got the hang of it, to the point were I felt I could probably gone on for as long as I wanted. The few times I died was because of lack of water and/or fertilizer, but as I said, once I got the hang of it, it was fairly easy to maintain.
I never had a ghost set the tree on fire (Although I allowed it to happen, when I decided to quit, as I wanted to see how it worked).
Although the gameplay was simple, it captured me long enough to try and get 'good enough' at it.
All in all I think this was a quite good submissions - Well done.
Thanks for sharing your game :-)
Also, I played for a while, but the game didn't appear to get harder... Is that normal? Maybe making the ghosts appear more and more frequently would make the death of the tree truly inevitable.
Love the graphics, especially the mouse-aware parallax effect. The music fits the mood well. Great job on a well-scoped game on point with the theme.
I really liked the visuals and atmosphere, good job :)
- The text was a bit hard to read in the beginning because the "T" has a unique stile, which I like btw! I just needed to get used to it
- I did not really know what the colored bars at the top where about and if it is good or bad that they depleted. I was expecting the game to tell me
- The story is very sad and makes you even more motivated to keep the tree, and thus a bit of dad, alive, well done!
- The game could have been packed with a regular ZIP, instead of RAR. Not everyone can afford WinRAR :laughing:
As some features to add:
- Tree would grow up
- Hotkeys for instruments (for example Z - sword, X - fire extinguisher)
- Аfter you lost, would like to see time I survived
And you should definitely add fullscreen mode
I noticed lots of single textures while going through the game data. Switching textures in OpenGL can be quite expensive. That's why people usually pack all of their sprites in one huge texture and select subtextures from them. Probably doesn't matter for this case but maybe something to consider for future projects :smile:
Anyway still a good entry with a nice idea. Keep it up!
However I seem to lose very fast (which is, perhaps, skill-related).
A little bit of rebalancing could do wonders, along with more "stages" - perhaps, the tree grows, and with its growth the watering/fertilizing requitements and the activity of the ghosts changes, making you have to adjust...
Well this is all idle musing, for 3 days this is definitely a solid game with beginning, end, and even a menu.
Good luck with your further creations!