Celestial Panda

by lucavazz

co-authored: @laurawilkinson, @momo-hunter

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.91

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.98

_You wake up, in a place that you've never seen before. What is going on? Who summoned you to this place?_

Save yourself and your red panda friends by summoning floating islands to open a portal back to reality.
But first, you need to find your friends, they somehow got spread through space and time.
Use the power of star constellations and sacrifices to the island gods to solve this mystery.

Controls:
✨ _W_ / _A_ / _S_ / _D_ to move
✨ Move mouse to look around
✨ _E_ to interact
✨ _Spacebar_ to advance dialogue and your thoughts
✨ _Q_ to open your inventory
✨ Hold _Shift_ to sprint while moving
✴️ _R_ to reset your panda in case you got stuck in the environment

With original music by Losch and Jade Kain Coffi.

Made with:
Godot 4, MagicaVoxel, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape and Fruity Loops

Post Jam Bug Fixes:
✴️ fix typos in helper panda texts
✴️ fix display of day number
✴️ hide broken save button from pause menu
✴️ fix wrong name of the helper panda
✴️ add button R to reset your position in case you get stuck
✴️ fix missing tree collision box
✴️ add bigger cylinder collision shape to bees

Genres: adventure

Tools: Blender, FL Studio, GIMP, Godot, Inkscape, MagicaVoxel

Comments21

nox28216 Apr 2024, 02:11

Red pandas and drugs. A lot of drugs

Mcgank16 Apr 2024, 02:13

Really fun art style, also loved the wave effect on the text, it went really well with the music. I was a bit confused at first on how to play the game but it was fun to explore. Good job!

Bug: Volume slider did not work in the itch.io web version

voraciti16 Apr 2024, 02:17

Wait this game is so relaxing...also red panda is my favorite animal! Love the music. This was perfect chill after a long game jam. Thanks :)

Tyler Law16 Apr 2024, 02:58

Well done! I loved the vibes! The puzzle was fun to solve. You had some clever and funny dialogue when chatting with the red pandas and balanced having to discover things and not crossing into frustration. I loved seeing the new islands come in, made me happy every time!

Whysguy5216 Apr 2024, 03:01

this was great! that first island coming down really intrigued me. got stuck on the second island but i did finish it! not entirely sure about resetting the items and inventory but it wasn't bad.

NaPlz9816 Apr 2024, 03:52

Love the red panda. Also the puzzles are really interesting! Great game guys!

frozenfire9217 Apr 2024, 23:59

What a cozy game with a nice atmosphere. I'm glad you added the reset because I got stuck a few times. There was one tree/bumble bee I could climb and fly off on :joy: Keep on making games!

Jaxah18 Apr 2024, 19:33

This is a game with chill vibes, and extra kudos for including red pandas (because they're awesome).
Voxel art was beautiful and clean, the audio was chill but slightly repetative. It's a great puzzle and deciphering game to work out the fruits to the symbols, and tickled my code cracker fancies.
Great work, well done!

cheesepencil19 Apr 2024, 02:09

I wasn't able to summon anything, but goodness the art is adorable and I really identify with "Equally Confused Panda"!

LDJam user 39058419 Apr 2024, 06:29

I quite enjoyed exploring and scooping up adorable little voxel items, but I am a sucker for voxels. I was hoping to play some games that used them! So I love what you did for the models and environment, skybox, everything set a grand mood. Reminded me a bit of Katamari Damacy meets Minecraft meets Mario :stuck_out_tongue: The auto-aim selection makes everything quite easy to interact with and I love that you've included a sprint.

The premise was unique; great work on the overall concept, there was a fair bit of dialogue which was well written too. The main drawback was the opacity of the task, I wasn't able to get any islands to summon even after a few days of trying. I think considering all the work that went into the assets and vibe, it would have been good to have some smaller, bite sized tasks that train the player and then increase complexity from there.

LucaVazzauthor19 Apr 2024, 07:38

Thank you everyone for the kind feedback so far, the red pandas loved to hear it ✨

@labcatgames @cheesepencil Sorry to hear that you you got stuck at the beginning. Are you sure that you collected all collectible items? The first constellation is rock and moss, as indicated by the grey line in the star view :)

LDJam user 39058419 Apr 2024, 15:16

Definitely had rock and moss, connected the constellation two different ways without any luck. There seemed to be some core aspect to the puzzle I am not grasping.

cheesepencil19 Apr 2024, 16:24

I think I grabbed all or most collectibles above ground and then whatever I clicked on the summoning screen just didn't work. I don't remember any audio or visual queues that I "did it wrong" it just went to the next day 🤷

shaneshanekavanagh19 Apr 2024, 16:29

Great job guys. The music and art fit well together. Has a load of personality. Nice one!

FunnyPumpkin19 Apr 2024, 17:20

Cool visuals! But, in your web version, there is no collusion on one of the mountains on the rock island

LucaVazzauthor19 Apr 2024, 20:25

@labcatgames @cheesepencil That's odd - so after you clicked and dragged to form a connection between item stars and clicked on the blue "Confirm Constellation" button at the bottom nothing happend?
There should be an animation of the cave wall to show you if the constellation was correct (runes sketch lights up white) or not (runes sketch flashes red).

zimny1120 Apr 2024, 17:42

Nice, chill game :) Really like the art-style! It was fun to try it out, I just wish figuring constellation was a bigger puzzle. Some inventory would also be nice, to know what player grabbed and what is missing. Besides that well done!

hatmajaster25 Apr 2024, 16:47

The game feels a bit unnecessarily hard, but this amazing music puts you in the correct vibe to do it;) Seriously

The most wacky part for me were the icons on the map: you pick up the 3d models of something, in inventory there are some icons, but on map they are scaled down and I confused them a lot. I think items should just be 2d, like in minecraft, or - all have distinct colors.

Went through portal, nice game and the prize was learing about magicavoxel. Moving on... ;p

buloz27 Apr 2024, 14:11

Really chill, loved the submission.
Controls are a bit messy but it's cute and fun and bugfree, I stayed a while into those cute island, really nice

LDJam user 2736263 May 2024, 12:42

Very cute entry!!! The music seemed a bit staticy on itch, and it was difficult to figure out what to do for the third island. I was sure I had everything! Eitherway, super cute and I'm going to have to show it to my friend who loves red pandas!