Critter Season

by trezark

co-authored: @arasander, @ascalem, @norah, @palalalite

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.84

:hammer_pick: Our jam version is the download version "critter-season-1.zip", rate this one but it's not really playable. The Web version and the "critter-season-3.zip" are post-jam versions :hammer_pick:

+ #### 12/10 - Bugfixes, + door animation, game balancing
+ #### 10/10 - + WebGL version, Bugfixes, game balancing, + music, + sound effects, + FX, + house building, + credit screen, UI update

Itch.io (post-jam) --> https://badroulboudour.itch.io/critter-season
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A tiny village prepares carefully against the harsh season...

During summer, help the villagers gather resources such as food and construction materials! Build turrets to defend the village against the winter predators! When summer ends, everyone takes shelter against the cold... Will there be enough food for everyone? Will the defenses hold up? Will the village survive Critter Season...?

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How to play

- Use the __mouse__ to navigate the menu and the game map.
- During the game, you can move the camera by bringing the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen.

- __Hold left-click__ on the animal and __drag__ to where you'd like it to work. You can :
- :tomato: Collect berries
- :ear_of_rice: Collect brushwoods
- :new_moon: Collect stones
- :construction: Build turrets
- :house: Build new houses to welcome new villagers

(If you want to know the cost of a building you must have selected a villager)
- When every villager dies, the game is over.

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A game by...

:frog: Sylvain Boisel

:lizard: Mathilde Durand

:mouse: Norah Fery

:rabbit: Elsa Macé

:bird: Nathalie Nguyen

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The :sparkles: Dream Team :sparkles:

Tags: #3d, #animals, #cute, #forest, #no ai, #spiders, #tower defense, #unity

Genres: strategy, survival

Tools: Unity

Comments25

Iaroslavik8 Oct 2024, 09:42

Oh, funny, I like it❤️

WiNic8 Oct 2024, 09:46

I cant seem to place any turrets, also it seems you can only place them when winter starts so my guys mine and gather the whole summer and are then terrorized by the spiders for eternity :(
The environment is beautiful and i like the cute tiny creatures.

LDJam user 2627668 Oct 2024, 13:52

Funny and beautiful well done

Cam Moore8 Oct 2024, 14:58

I like the art to this game :)

Kama8 Oct 2024, 19:26

you have very cool art, i like it! good job

Winter22778 Oct 2024, 22:33

Hey there! I ran the game and I'm a bit confused as to whether it's running properly. First I have no audio, then when I start I have a message saying one of my guy is dead:

That didn't prevent me from dragging my guys onto their jobs. They worked all summer and then winter came, they all went inside their house. A bunch of spiders arrived but then when winter stopped the spiders never left and the workers never came back:

I was pretty much stuck in this state. The description refers to a menu and game map? How to open them?

Those difficulties aside, the animations looked cute and the graphics were quite nice. I'm sure it's just broken on my PC.

Jared Saizdelamora9 Oct 2024, 00:48

I was far to emotionally invested in my peasants before nightfall. I now understand my mistake. Great work!

kanity9 Oct 2024, 17:33

Well I wouldn't say it's unplayable, because I could in fact play it, but yes, would love to try again after the bug fixes :) I really like the visuals and the lighting, it looks cute and inviting, nice to look at.

My villagers worked hard and got a lot of resources, so they survived the winter, but enemies stayed outside even in summer and villagers couldn't come out, I suppose. So that's basically when game ended for me :')

Also, didn't hear any audio at all. Is it one of the known bugs?

Overall, I think it's a cute idea. I liked games made by some members of your team during previous jams a lot, and this one it quite different in atmosphere and general feeling, but I like it too. Hopefully you'll polish it so we can try the game how it was intended

tom_ahawk12 Oct 2024, 01:26

I have no idea how you did it in such a short time. Hats off, guys

Norah12 Oct 2024, 17:57

@iaroslavik @winic @anton4ik-dev @cam-moore @kama @winter2277 @jared-saizdelamora @kanity @tom-ahawk Thank you for all your kind workds !! :blush:

We just posted a new post-jam version if you want to give it a try even if it still far from perfect :frog:

@kanity thank you very much, it's such a pleasure to see you play all our games !! :heart: Yes we were more ambitious for this one, and we tried to create something different from usual, it was a bit difficult for us. We didn't have time to put the audio during the jam unfortunately, but you can try the post-jam version :musical_score:

Ascenial12 Oct 2024, 23:29

The art and characters are so cute!

LDJam user 37902615 Oct 2024, 00:44

Cute concept, would be great if each critter had their own specialization so there was improvements to each assignment. A fast forward option would also be nice as there's a lot of waiting around once you assign a critter.

kokostyrko15 Oct 2024, 17:22

The game is visually charming with beautiful art!

ShisenGumii16 Oct 2024, 16:23

The game is so fun but a little bit hard. Nice job guys !

Edit: Finally it's fucking easy lol

Calitoucourt16 Oct 2024, 16:41

Very good job! Not easy to survive at first, but your game is very cool and fun! I would have liked to see a final boss, but it’s only a detail!

LDJam user 7971616 Oct 2024, 21:53

The game is so good! the visuals, the game design, the music - everything is really good for jam game!

NotExplosive18 Oct 2024, 21:56

There's a lot of cool ideas here! The controls and interface make it difficult to really engage with the mechanics though. I wish I could pan the camera with the keyboard (and turn off edge-scrolling, which didn't work properly on my 2-monitor setup) and I could see the costs of things without having to have a worker dragged in hand.

All that is very fixable in a post-jam build though! Overall a very good submission!

00-madz21 Oct 2024, 14:46

this is such a fun concept! the character designs were the cutest

Snorps22 Oct 2024, 14:20

A fun little resource management game with a lovely atmosphere and visuals. The ending was pretty unsatisfying, it felt like I did everything I could to defend my creatures (built a tower in every space) but they still eventually died anyway. If I was given a score when I eventually failed it would have just felt like an arcade game but in the absence of that it should probably be possible for the player to win if they survive enough rounds. It would also be nice to be able to mouse over the different buildings and find out how much they cost without having to have a villager in your hand.

WeirdBitGames22 Oct 2024, 14:38

really like animations and assets. The transition to winter was instant and took me super by surprise! On day 1 I managed to build a guard tower *just* and had lots of food yet one of my crtters died, sads. Lovely atmosphere and enjoyable gameplay loop though! On the night I lost I had all towers up but still failed. The last 2 of my towers (the first 2 I ever bought) died in 1 or 2 hits. It would be nice if they were repaired at the end of each winter or if there was a way to repair them suring the summer?

Game-mon22 Oct 2024, 15:59

Very neat, love it! Gameplay loop is satisfying, overall visually pleasing, animations and texturing are really nice! a very cozy game!

Hare Software22 Oct 2024, 16:46

Amazing amount of work for the timespan considered. The graphics are of course beautiful and together with the game mechanics they fit the theme really well. Great work!

RuiqianZhang22 Oct 2024, 19:28

I love the setting and the artwork, it looks like a very mature game on the screen! Camera movement and dragging characters sometimes clash and give me the feeling that the picture is dangling, my turret defeated the first round of spiders, but it seems to be over here, looking forward to more content!

Forik23 Oct 2024, 01:57

Interesting interpretation of tower defense and I really like it! At all I think you might add zoomout and speedup options, couz its to slow when you understend how to play.
Great work!

Tetracold24 Oct 2024, 05:25

the presentation is great, I like the designs and I also liked how it sets the mood effectively. The winter feels appropriately harsh especially with the added fact that some villagers may die of starvation,

I liked the tower defense gameplay and this is a pretty creative way to contextualize it, there was a point where the game got too hard and the towers weren't enough to defend from the enemies anymore

great entry!