It is high noon and your time is limited. Harvesting crops replenishes lost time and helps you survive longer. However, demons want it back. Kill them and get healing rowan berries.
Fun game! The simple pixel art style is great. I really like the presentation overall and brings back fond memories of older games- makes me want to know more about the game's lore and what exactly is going on! I did find that if I just focused on one direction, I could go that way indefinitely while continuously ignoring enemies.
I'm aware that you can kinda cheese the game by going constantly to the one direction. But when I tried this I made a mistake after some time and died anyway and given the time constraint I decided to leave it as it is, since the additional balancing required to completely fix that could be time consuming. I hope it won't be too game breaking.
There's a lot of scythe, soul harvesting games, but I think this does a lot right. I love the depleting health which forces us to scramble for resources, and it takes the concept/theme beyond just harvesting souls.
Very cool, the graphical style is nice and idea is neat(considered doing something like that myself). Something about movement doesn't feel great though, I feel like I keep getting stuck against things.
Cute game. I like the idea, but the controls are not very convenient. JKL are okay, but there's a problem with WASD, I wish I would be able to press two buttons simultaneously to move diagonal
I really liked the pixel art, and the gameplay is simple but effective, the font was cool but a little hard to read, a suggestion would be to use the fancy font for the title but a more clearer font for the instructions. Nice Work!
Nice little game. It's funny that demons look the same as you but pale :smile: Gave me Noonwraith from The Witcher 3 vibes. Berries seems unnecessary as long as you replenish your health from harvesting. Also collision with crops feels odd. Maybe it would be better without it.
@n-feofentov I'm not surprised that it gives such vibes, because the enemies are inspired by exactly the same folk creature.
Yeah, I didn't have time to balance the berries and harvesting better. As for the collisions, I think it would feel better if there was some depth rendering system implemented, again unfortunately I ran out of time and wasn't able to do that :(
Got a score of 364 after a few tries. I liked that the declining timebar contrasted with your movement going forward. Movement was a bit iffy, getting stuck at several times, but the dash felt solid. Simple art aesthetic gets the job done, could have used a bit more atmosphere.
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I did find that if I just focused on one direction, I could go that way indefinitely while continuously ignoring enemies.
I'm aware that you can kinda cheese the game by going constantly to the one direction. But when I tried this I made a mistake after some time and died anyway and given the time constraint I decided to leave it as it is, since the additional balancing required to completely fix that could be time consuming. I hope it won't be too game breaking.
Something about movement doesn't feel great though, I feel like I keep getting stuck against things.
Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I didn't have time to balance the berries and harvesting better. As for the collisions, I think it would feel better if there was some depth rendering system implemented, again unfortunately I ran out of time and wasn't able to do that :(