{"author_link":"\/author\/adsilcott\/","author_name":"adsilcott","author_uid":"49637","comments":[{"author_name":"Lancelot Gao","author_uid":"3035","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:26am","epoch":1461032460,"text":"Very fun. The graphics are beautiful. Great work!I like the music so much\uff01"},{"author_name":"EthanBierlein","author_uid":"91234","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:50am","epoch":1461037500,"text":"Neat concept! I enjoyed the music very much."},{"author_name":"hellojed","author_uid":"3400","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:47am","epoch":1461044520,"text":"Kinda looks and feels a bit like Black And White. Good music and art."},{"author_name":"Fumiko","author_uid":"38848","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:52am","epoch":1461055620,"text":"The graphics are beautiful for a jam game. I really like the animal meshes. Even with the lack of gameplay the game gets its message through - I think it would've been a very enjoyable experience, if finished. Still well done. :)"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1461078840,"text":"Music really fit and bring nice ambiance to the game. Well done!"},{"author_name":"pokipsy","author_uid":"56863","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1461079320,"text":"Great work on art and music. The post-Jam features you planned to implement sound promising :)"},{"author_name":"Trickman","author_uid":"90469","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1461083400,"text":"Beautiful graphics and music! I hope you can pull this game through and finish it, looks promising!"},{"author_name":"pixel_maniacs","author_uid":"52509","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1461083460,"text":"Wow, nice artwork, onderful animations. I like it. Nice entry!"},{"author_name":"RealityCheck","author_uid":"44504","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:46pm","epoch":1461084060,"text":"Graphics were gorgeous... especially the main menu screen which I really liked. I also enjoyed running around as a deer collecting villagers. Too bad there were things (obviously) missing, but the potential is there for a very interesting game. Good effort!"},{"author_name":"AceyT","author_uid":"64129","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1461084900,"text":"I liked the experienced, really nice and pleasant scene even unfinished\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think I encountered a bug, sometimes my UI would glitch when I was too far away, and then, once I was back at the sanctuary, my counter of saved villager would go infinitely up\r<br\/>\r<br\/>https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/12976475\/Hart.png\r<br\/>https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/12976475\/Hart2.png"},{"author_name":"tomdeal","author_uid":"35919","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1461085680,"text":"Great music, graphics and animations. Also a good concept, I'd like to see more of it in the future :-)"},{"author_name":"adsilcott","author_uid":"49637","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1461085740,"text":"@AceyT Thanks for the bug report, I appreciate that! I noticed the villager score bug too and I hope to fix that soon. Not sure about the other one but I'll check it out. Thanks!"},{"author_name":"Sir Magic","author_uid":"60076","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1461088320,"text":"I really like this, the shapeshifting mechanic is used extremely well and I like how the villagers follow the human and run from the wolf. However, there was a slight bug with the counter as a villager got stuck in a stone and the counter kept getting higher (up to 100 and then went back to 90)"},{"author_name":"luckyy","author_uid":"92337","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1461088440,"text":"Kind of confusing in the beginning, but its looking quite cool :)"},{"author_name":"Ken Ichi","author_uid":"27522","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:39pm","epoch":1461108840,"text":"Awesome game!"},{"author_name":"PowerSpark","author_uid":"38755","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1461109380,"text":"Great graphics! Good luck with completing it."},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1461109860,"text":"Maybe it needs a bit more of gameplay, but it is good anyways. Graphics and audio are awesome."},{"author_name":"Stechas","author_uid":"44644","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1461110040,"text":"Beautifully crafted game that is also pretty inside in sense of mechanics. I think that the effort you have put into this game was worth it."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:04am","epoch":1461110340,"text":"Nice game, I can imagine what it could become with time, it's great :)"},{"author_name":"OU GDA","author_uid":"93144","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:30am","epoch":1461111900,"text":"I think your art and music is very impressive for a game jam. Well done, but the game mechanics themselves need to be fleshed out some more."},{"author_name":"Mase","author_uid":"18575","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:44am","epoch":1461112740,"text":"I tried to shepherd some blighted invaders into the circle but they didn't seem interested. :(\r<br\/>More variety in the scenery would be good...  it needs some rocks and streams to break up the intense green-ness. The animations and textures are nice though."},{"author_name":"aCoupleGames","author_uid":"92795","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:27am","epoch":1461115320,"text":"nice work guys :) the mood is really interesting."},{"author_name":"Odyssey","author_uid":"58620","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:28am","epoch":1461115380,"text":"Great concept, graphics are great"},{"author_name":"SantiHisteria","author_uid":"59433","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:48am","epoch":1461152580,"text":"Wow... GREAT work in this game."},{"author_name":"zzapp","author_uid":"55441","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:16pm","epoch":1461161460,"text":"The graphics and audio were nice and idea is good, its a shame you weren't able fully implement your concepts."},{"author_name":"Nexus64","author_uid":"60199","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1461182280,"text":"The music and graphics are pretty good.\r<br\/>The problem is the really basic gamplay. Also... What is the point of the human form?, is slower than the deer and can't scare like the bear."},{"author_name":"Matzigon","author_uid":"56958","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1461184380,"text":"Nice game, looks really good, too bad it's not finished as it should be. Keep working! :)"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 5:12am","epoch":1461215220,"text":"The aesthetic is beautiful for a jam game. Also I enjoyed the music. Well done - Nice game which could become with time a great project ++"},{"author_name":"mkghoster","author_uid":"92669","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1461268740,"text":"Nice little game with chill ambient music."},{"author_name":"jakass","author_uid":"50879","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1461345480,"text":"Very fun! I like to play the game :D"},{"author_name":"siryakko","author_uid":"49920","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 11:09am","epoch":1461409440,"text":"The art direction is so beautiful, the concept is good to. Great job"},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 4:59pm","epoch":1461516840,"text":"This game is beautiful in absolutely every way and the amount of work that must have gone in to those models,textures and animations, and that music, is staggering. Well done indeed! This concept definitely deserves to be made into a full game."},{"author_name":"BubuIIC","author_uid":"11335","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1461597840,"text":"It's a pity, it's not quite finished. It looks really cool and the overall mood is just right for the theme. But it lacks in gameplay at this stage. \r<br\/>But nevertheless it is really well done!"},{"author_name":"LeoM","author_uid":"43978","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1461606480,"text":"Nice graphics and animations.\r<br\/>Waiting for the finished version now. ;)"},{"author_name":"ekkiiiii","author_uid":"50154","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1461613740,"text":"Graphics are beautiful and controls work well. You can tell that the game is unfinished. But I get the idea of what you want to achieve. \r<br\/>Nice attempt! Can't wait to play the more finished version."},{"author_name":"kaovhmf","author_uid":"93192","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1461622320,"text":"This game is quite promising! Quite a shame that the scope was maybe a bit too big for a jam, but both the art and the music are neat. The lack of bugs is also impressive, even though the gameplay is clearly unfinished."},{"author_name":"Farelle","author_uid":"63831","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 9:42am","epoch":1461749820,"text":"that was enjoyable :D I really liked the music and I liked how combining the forms abilities was feeling so fluent :) I just had no idea if there will be an end to collecting villagers so I stopped at 23."},{"author_name":"medidog","author_uid":"89905","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 5:12am","epoch":1462079220,"text":"Gorgeous game! I also like some of the concepts that you have not yet to be include in the jam version,like the idea of villagers who are corrupted. But I am glad you did not finish some of the ideas,like including bow and arrows in this. I think that can ruin the game's peaceful mood, and killing can change the game completely."},{"author_name":"bogdan.tana","author_uid":"17418","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1462829100,"text":"Really content-rich concept. I definitely want to see more of this."},{"author_name":"Asturk","author_uid":"54658","time":"May 10, 2016 @ 12:48am","epoch":1462840980,"text":"Thats a very good game, and i really enjoyed so much this music, on of the best musics i found so far on this Jam. I just got somehow confused with the game goals there, but i really like the touch you gave there. Nice Job!"}],"images":["ld35\/49637-e49478b7d9fb9f3567a4007ee806e5aa.jpg","ld35\/49637-2d862e2d91a5099b42531cc63b5ebc71.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/2nddoorstudio.com\/LD35\/builds\/WebGL\/0.6\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/2nddoorstudio.com\/LD35\/builds\/Windows\/LD35_HotF_0.6_Win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/2nddoorstudio.com\/LD35\/builds\/Mac\/LD35_HotW_0.6_Mac.app.zip","text":"OS\/X"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4148","g_author":"49637","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"4149","g_title":"Hart of the Forest","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"300","g_commentcount":"40","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/49637-shot0-1461031464.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/49637-shot1-1461032414.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Please note: this is a very unfinished entry. \r\n\r\nPlay as a Druid using his shapeshifting powers to save your villagers.\r\nBring them to the Sacred Circle sanctuary in the center of the map.\r\nUse A S D to change to a Human, Stag, or Bear.\r\n\r\n---------\r\n\r\n*About this Game: a Mini-Postmortem*\r\n\r\nThis game still needs a lot of work to realize the ideas we set out to create.  The goal, over the next short while, is to add the remaining features to a post-jam version that will get this the rest of the way.\r\n\r\nAs imagined, this will be a game that asks you to venture out from a safe place at the center of a map, to find friendly villagers that are lost in the woods.  Although the villagers will follow you when you come near, they (and you) are under attack from a forest full of enemies that will shoot at you and your people.\r\n\r\nAs a Druid, you will be able to shapeshift into the mythological White Hart, able to move swiftly through the forest, heal your villagers, and detect hidden enemies who look like your people.  (A number of the villagers are corrupted, and will try to follow you back to the Sacred Grove, causing you to lose the game.)\r\n\r\nTo protect yourself, you will have a bow and arrow -- useful against an attacker or two, maybe, but when you get overrun, you are forced to assume your second form: the fearsome Dark Bear, who can both give and take tremendous damage, but causes your gathered villagers to flee in terror.\r\n\r\nThe goal is to create a fast-paced game that forces you to think strategically about how best to protect your people and defeat your enemies, and that gives you both a feeling of power and a sense of the consequences of tapping into it.\r\n\r\nWe ran into an unbelievable amount of technical hurdles in developing this game, but we're hopeful that the post-Jam version will let us fill out the remaining features soon.\r\n\r\nWe hope it's worth noting that everything here was developed for the jam: 3D models, textures, animations, scripts, interface graphics and features, and music.  It was an ambitious project, but we've learned a lot, and are looking forward to putting the rest together soon.\r\n\r\nWe hope this description helps give some context to the Jam version, and we'd love feedback about the post-Jam features as they arrive.  Thanks, all!\r\n\r\n---------\r\n\r\n\r\n*Hart of the Forest*\r\n\r\n\r\nAs darkness falls upon the sacred forest, your people call in desperation upon the sacred spirit of the forest to deliver them from the blight that has fallen upon your ancestral homeland.  And though your Druid blood longs to answer their cries, your guardianship hides a terrible secret.\r\n\r\nFor although you indeed carry the sacred blood of legendary White Hart \u2014 ancestral protector of the forest \u2014 so too does your blood begin to run black with the first signs of the terrible blight.\r\n\r\nFind and save your people \u2014 deliver them from the menace of the blight-corrupted invaders of your woods, back to the safety of the Sacred Grove.  Call upon the Druidic magic of your animal form \u2014 the fleet White Hart \u2014 to race to their aid.\r\n\r\nBut do not let them see the other animal magic that now grows within you \u2014 the fearsome spirit of the Dark Bear, vicious warrior spirit feared by all who dwell in these woods \u2014 lest your people realize that you now rapidly become the very thing you must protect them from.\r\n\r\nCan you save your people before the corruption claims them all?\r\n\t\r\n","title":"Hart of the Forest"}