Orchard Archer

by icxon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.38

-- *"Apples..."* he whispered. Why the heck they need so *many* apples? As if like they are making hard cider after all the holid..

-- Apple pies! Everyone loves Apple Pies!

-- Nooo. This could not be right. These are not those regular apples for you baking hobby. These are *low-poly* apples, they explode, summon gods and who knows what else!

-- *Sigh...*

-- Well, there is only one way to find out. Bring me *The Bow*. I will make him talk.

#### GAMEPLAY:
Follow merchant quests, harvest apples and get rewards! Yes, you can kill enemies.

Do not rush if you find the game hard to play. I forgot to add godmode this time.

The game is made in 72 hours by me. The rest of the team is working on other awesome projects but will be back!
Good luck and have fun!

#### CONTROLS:
- Mouse, WSAD - shoot, move
- Space - jump
- R - restart
- no controller support (sorry :cry:)

#### TOOLS:
- Unity 2021.3.15f1 URP
- Audiotool + freesound.org
- Blender 2.8 (just for the apple model)
- Fredoka Font

Tags: #apple, #archer, #archery, #bow, #low-poly, #minimalist

Genres: platformer, shooter

Tools: Audiotool, Blender, Unity

Comments34

moonlightbomber9 Jan 2023, 23:02

This is a great pick-up-and-play game; you just need to know how to fire those arrows. This is not Contra or Metal Slug.

jaonewguy9 Jan 2023, 23:04

It was super satisfying to shoot around with the arrows. For me, it was the combination of gameplay + sound FX/animation.

I was a bit lost at the beginning wondering what to do after the first objective. I checked the first NPC out of curiosity to get the key. Perhaps I missed it or I'm just terrible at reading instructions, but I could imagine a lesser-experienced gamer getting stuck longer.

Great game!

TheGhostofTommy10 Jan 2023, 01:44

Your sprites and technical art are cool, well done

oillen10 Jan 2023, 02:43

I had a blast playing Orchard Archer at 3:00 AM ... the game's physic based archery is welldone and shows how much 'joy of use' can be the focus of a game. :dvd:

The game allows you to do some nonsense

It is hard (O.K. I had to go afk, then this happenend :smile: )

Finishing isn't trivial solving all quests need to be celebrated

There are a lot of Secrets, from figuring out how to step over the spikes without harm, to returning to the game after getting to the final 'screen'

Staying in the fight is the true challange and worth a risk.

:dvd: :dvd: :dvd: :dvd: :dvd:

icxonauthor10 Jan 2023, 04:31

@oillen I absolutely love your screenshots! :smile: Thanks!

There are many things on the list I wish I had time to add. Such as:
- detach yellow apples when 2-3 arrows already stuck in them

- secret boss fight with merchant :eyes:
- hp bar
- purple bow w twin shots
- some foliage
- apple-eating enemies
- couple more "rooms"

kromeboy10 Jan 2023, 10:42

That is a really good archery game. The control and the aiming are very responsive and easy to use

Aendawyn10 Jan 2023, 17:02

Very good archery game. I was looking for your game since your first game jam post !
Awesome game

NvrSkipGameDay10 Jan 2023, 17:28

Once I got the silver bow the shooting became so snappy and enjoyable - it felt like a really nice upgrade from the first one. The platforming controls floated a bit for my taste, but that's just personal preference and I really liked the game overall!

Wouter5210 Jan 2023, 20:02

Ok, I don't know what is worse. The fact that I shot the merchant right away after opening the game, or the fact that you anticipated folks like me and made it say thing like "ouch" and "please stop" hahahaha

Love your game! I like how you get introduced in an environment that is not hazardous, and then get dropped in a room with spikes and projectiles.

This game could have benefitted from a littlebit of music. A basic loop (that is not irritating) could have been enough. I used Beepbox.co for that, it is so simple, that even I could use it!

asfdfdfd10 Jan 2023, 20:41

Feeling of bow shooting is VERY satisfying.

Ani10 Jan 2023, 22:35

This was fun! I did find the movement acceleration a bit too soft but maybe it's part of the challenge. The feedback of drawing the bow is good and feels nice to get solid hits on the apples.

Galvanized Toadstool11 Jan 2023, 01:25

This game was really fun, it took me a bit to really notice that the quest was in the top right so I kept going back to the quest giver when I thought I had enough... I never did :) lol. I did find it very difficult, every time I got the the gold apple quest I would go over and there would be at least 5 guys chasing me, and I couldn't take them out before dying. Speaking of, it would be nice to see what my health was, and maybe eating certain apples heal...Just a thought.

Overall I loved it.

Kosmi11 Jan 2023, 09:47

Very cool game! especially physics of the shot

InitialPosition11 Jan 2023, 09:53

Very nice! Really good idea to make the apples cycle through different colors so you have to plan ahead when to shoot which apple. The arrow physics also feel intuitive and its really satisfying to hit shots from a long range. A lot of fun, good job :)

Sergio Crypto11 Jan 2023, 10:04

Fun little game, good sonud effects!

I feel like it takes a bit to master the trajectories, but overall a fun experience

Zonoxx11 Jan 2023, 10:17

The core mechanics and graphics are really satisfying. Personally, I enjoyed the shooting so much, I would have preferred not to have any enemies in the level but I get why they are there. Really cool game nonetheless!

MooNiZZ11 Jan 2023, 10:19

I really enjoyed the archery part. Which is like the whole game :smile:

A lot of time my fully charged arrows bounced off the pink ones that chased me, and lots of my golden apples just didn't disappear or come down so I had to wait for a single spawn on the far right.

Some background music would have improved the whole experience quite a bit i believe!

The shooting part felt amazingly good. Well done! :)

pndaa11 Jan 2023, 10:36

Fun game. I gave up at the last quest after 4 tries. I had purple fruits that was making my golden apples falls before they being grown. And I didn't manage to kill purples soon enough :(.

It was really really fun.

The only thing is a HP bar could have been helpful.

The bow feels really great. And the purple fruits that become an enemy is a neat idea. Good job !

sammot11 Jan 2023, 12:47

Main problem I had was the game felt like moving through molasses, especially when I jumped. What made me lose was arrows falling down and not dropping the apples which clogged up the sky and made it tedious and difficult to complete quests.

CO5MONAUT11 Jan 2023, 15:11

Nice gameplay, I love this kind of "ballistic" games, nice graphics, but in the second room has already become too difficult for me ahaha The swearing merchant is awesome :D

arron-fowler11 Jan 2023, 22:01

Lovely stuff. I enjoyed it. Sometimes the lack of music made it feel a bit stark against the nice juice you had in the visuals. It was frustrating and rewarding in equal measure to get my harvest on. Nice ideas worth a bit of extra time I'd say. Kudos

Justin_C13 Jan 2023, 07:44

Really fun physics game. The arrow shooting is so satisfying.

I wasn't a huge fan of the enemy that I couldn't do anything about.

And the lack of a health bar meant I died without realizing I was close to death. When the game made me start from the beginning, I just quit. The thought of having to do it all over again from the beginning seemed way too tedious. Maybe add some checkpoints after levels.

HayriCakir13 Jan 2023, 19:34

So fun and satisfyinggggg

NoelOskar13 Jan 2023, 21:03

I really liked the 2.5D graphic, combined with the nice physics, tbh the only thing i found problematic was that when i died, the whole game reseted, instead of resetting my current objective, but i appreciate the tf2 refrence

LDJam user 27785113 Jan 2023, 21:08

Very interesting game, there seems to be a minimum shooting angle making it difficult to hit the purple apples close to the ground.

LDJam user 13966813 Jan 2023, 21:19

Very nice and addictive entry. Enjoyed playing it, and liked the difficulty curve :)

GoldRanger13 Jan 2023, 21:21

solid entry! really good shooting experience, the difficulties level up along the game process which is designed well, would like to have more type of enemy instead of just shoot flying ball but that's how you fit the harvest theme! so that's not really a cons, well done overall!

Charles Lacerda13 Jan 2023, 22:05

simple and well-executed idea, congratulations, I found it very fun, the game seems well balanced

She Wrote13 Jan 2023, 22:33

Really cool game! Solid core mechanic, and super fun! Well done!

Klaus Peter14 Jan 2023, 00:08

Damn had to give up when the pink target apples started flooding in from everywhere :

Ninnec14 Jan 2023, 00:24

The physics of the arrows and apples was really nice. Add on the graphic choices and you get a really cool experience.

sakura_magika14 Jan 2023, 18:33

pretty fun, you hit a nice feel for the archery. i felt pretty frustrated by the purple killer apple, i shot it several times but it didn't seem to be killable.

YuxShaw16 Jan 2023, 06:17

A really fun game. The apple shot performance is really realistic and the design of green->pink->red changing is interesting and increasing the richness of the game.
Really love the straw man!