Golden Starfruit

by kamizenki

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.96

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.07

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.59

Made under 72 hours for ludum Dare 58 game jam by one person

Slip into a quiet Vietnamese bamboo lane and chase shining golden starfruit. It’s easy, but then it becomes complicated. Your bag can't hold too much. Go over that limit, and greed will cost you everything. Weave through bamboo and drifting logs, make it home with as much gold as you can carry

Move: A/D or ←/→

Goal: Collect starfruit, avoid obstacles, and don’t exceed 20 gold when your bag is full.

Features:

🎍Calming look and concept inspired by "The Golden Starfruit Tree”, a Vietnamese traditional folklore about greed and fairness.

🪙Easy, pick-up

😇A tiny moral: know when to stop

Application:

Unity: Using Visual Scripting (Bolt).
Blender: For character, decorations.

Tags: #collector, #folklore, #gold, #greedy, #runner, #vietnamesewoman

Tools: Blender, Unity

Comments25

evil236 Oct 2025, 23:46

I like the bamboo walls. A bit disappointing that there's no endless mode.

LRDJJ7 Oct 2025, 03:06

Nice simple game, fits the theme well!

Kamizenkiauthor7 Oct 2025, 03:39

@evil23 Thank you! Regarding the endless mode, I originally planned for the whole game to be endless, with the speed gradually increasing over time. However, since this was my first time using Unity, I didn’t have enough time to make that work. Thanks again for your feedback! :)

@lrdjj Thank you! :) hope you enjoyed it.

MorePixels7 Oct 2025, 04:23

Pretty good for just one person in 72 hours! Well done!

Jcourt7 Oct 2025, 04:51

I like the concept! It took me a couple tries to make it to the end. Since there are so many coins available, I had the best luck ending with exactly 20 coins when I intentionally got too many early on, got cursed, and then spent the second half of the run building them back up again.

pres23007 Oct 2025, 04:51

Nice job putting this together! I found a bug where I could run off screen and the game kept going, but other than that I enjoyed playing it. Good work!

Kamizenkiauthor7 Oct 2025, 05:24

@morepixels Thank you! There’s still a lot to improve, but right now I’m proud of it.

@jcourt Thank you for playing my game, I really appreciate your time and effort :)

@pres2300 Noted! Thank you, and I hope you enjoyed it.

azahara7 Oct 2025, 09:03

Nice little endless runner! Simple but functional, I liked the coin collecting and the overall vibe. With a bit more polish, it could get pretty addictive! Nice job!

Kamizenkiauthor7 Oct 2025, 13:14

@azahara Thanks for your feedback! I’ll keep it in mind and try to improve in my next project :)

B0rdrlin7 Oct 2025, 13:43

Very nice game

Antarktis7 Oct 2025, 13:44

very fun！

beguilint7 Oct 2025, 15:16

Nice game! Kept me on the edge :D Great explanation of what to do!

Mireyu7 Oct 2025, 15:18

Nice game for one person in that time. It's fun to play. I think my character was rotating into the wrong direction (like left) while running forward :sweat_smile:

justking1447 Oct 2025, 15:21

Nice game. Took me a few tries, but eventually I fot to the end

Millie7 Oct 2025, 15:30

Great game, very on theme!

Kamizenkiauthor7 Oct 2025, 16:16

@b0rdrlin @antarktis @beguilint @mireyu @justking144 @millie Thank you for playing my game. It was my first time handling everything so it took me a while to piece it all together. I’ve noted all the bugs and appreciate your time for this and will improve it in the post-jam.

Pimeko7 Oct 2025, 20:18

Cute graphics, kind of reminded me of retro mobile games like Temple Run. Managed to reach the end :)

LukeWaffel8 Oct 2025, 21:14

Loving the PS2 style graphics, not sure if I beat the game or not, but I did get to the end with 20 coins so that's something!

Kamizenkiauthor9 Oct 2025, 03:21

@pimeko I want to bring back some old memories about temple run, it inspired me a lot when making this game :) Thank you for playing.

@lukewaffel Thank you for trying, the game is beaten when you don't lose anything, just bring back as many as you can :)

vidarn9 Oct 2025, 11:16

Great job making the game. It looks good and feels good to play. Above all, I really like the concept, it's a really cool mechanic having to pick exactly the right amount of coins.

Kamizenkiauthor10 Oct 2025, 02:16

@vidarn Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad that you enjoy the game :)

daniel19 Oct 2025, 00:06

Straight forward, but fun and seems to me like feature complete! Gives off the impression that you had a full concept for the game and managed to complete all of it in the time limit. A little bit of audio could add some weight to the gameplay, but otherwise really impressive work for your first time working with Unity.

ruruie20 Oct 2025, 08:28

Obstacles are pretty brutal and I kept thinking I'd missed things. Definitely one of those that could've benefited from even a single sound on collection.