FULLSCREEN recommended if you have a mouse lag or fps issues (press "F" ingame)!
Theme: Not-game Controls: wasd/arrows + left mouse button
Project was started before the Mini LD officially started. So it has some already made stuff like a golden statue, skybox, frog with AI and animation, grass texture, bricks, rock and a simple lighting. Other stuff was made in 48hours.
This is meant to be a relaxing experience. You can carry stuff and design your own garden or do what ever else you want. You can interact with frogs in many ways. Find a mysterious object and figure out what you can do with it. Put your headphones on, play fullscreen and relax!
Nice little experience! I was about to ask what I'm supposed to do, but yeah, it's not a game :P I would add more interactivity with the environment. And more "life" to the garden. In a type of game like this, the little details are very valuable. For example, make some ants that go in line to a piece of food.
This was fun! even though its not a game, it was fun wandering around and discovering things. I think to take this further it would be great to see tons and tons of different things that you can interact with, so that it seems like there is always something more to discover or explore
- Picked things should not be draggable through the ground - I used the rocks to built a small hill so I could jump over the trees which mark the barrier and are not pickable. - Placing the red floor elements is nice done, but the grass under it should be removed so it's not shown on top of the floor element.
I hope you progress on and add more elements and ground-textures for a deeper visual experience.
(I have an miniLD-entry too, if you want to have a look)
I liked it. I made a little curvy path out of square tiles, and one time a frog sat on the one I was carrying for a moment. I found the hidden... bug statue thing. I moved bushes. I had the statue set on the hill to watch over it all. It's good and relaxing. For some reason I could not move rocks.
Great! There's something special about just running around green fields under a blue sky, it's like some universal Nice Thing. Like others suggested the next step for me would be more interactivity.
It is a lot of fun to pick up a frog and start hitting trees and other objects. If you do it right they go flying, it's funny. I never heard any sound though. do I have to turn it way up? Any way nice job.
A very pleasant experience! Good choice of colors and atmospheric sounds.
And with Buddha in my hands, I can push everything away! ;-)
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Futsuu7 Oct 2012, 02:15
Very nice. A bit of warning though, never ride that statue. You'll get blasted into the sky. I fell back down after a while, but now I'm just in a wide, grass plane.
I would add more interactivity with the environment. And more "life" to the garden. In a type of game like this, the little details are very valuable. For example, make some ants that go in line to a piece of food.