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Bearly Alive by bjeaurn

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made by bjeaurn for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

Bearly Alive

LD45 - Start with nothing

You are a bear cub, alone and lost in a big forest. Winter is coming upon you soon, and you need to survive. Will you find mommy bear again?

Tools used

  • VSCode
  • Gine V4 (https://github.com/bjeaurn/gine - it's on NPM)
  • Aseprite
  • Redbull, apples, mandarines, coffee, tea, some snacks and a few beers.

Controls:

  • WSAD: Movement
  • Space: Attack and eat (when carrying something)
  • E: Pick up/Drop/Use/Skip text

Screenshot 2019-10-06 at 19.34.00.png

By @Bjeaurn - https://twitter.com/Bjeaurn - https://twitch.tv/Bjeaurn

Twitch VODs for all development:

  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/490451708
  • https://www.twitch.tv/videos/490939252
Youtube https://github.com/Bjeaurn/ld45
Youtube https://bjeaurn.com/ld45/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/bearly-alive

Ratings

Overall 399th 3.092⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 414th 2.75⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 352th 2.946⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Theme 378th 2.986⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 425th 2.662⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Humor 346th 2.059⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 285th 3.069⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 57🗨️

Feedback

iozsaygi
06. Oct 2019 · 19:40 UTC
It was hard for me to see where i am at the start of game. But dude Wolf AI is amazing it stole my sheep and it was perfect detail in my opinion. Controls are great for simple game. Nice job!
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 19:58 UTC
Thank you so much!
horus90
06. Oct 2019 · 21:02 UTC
Maybe little more fluid motion. Looks cool ;)
Fictions
06. Oct 2019 · 21:05 UTC
That's such a cute game... And I instantly felt sorry for the bear :) Great job!
Gaz_Ireland
06. Oct 2019 · 21:13 UTC
Really enjoyed it :smile:
Odeyalko
06. Oct 2019 · 21:14 UTC
Very cool game, I liked that you can carry food. And these wolves are incredible
Kanonix
06. Oct 2019 · 21:31 UTC
Original idea and easy to play. A great job for such a short time !
bobotast
06. Oct 2019 · 21:38 UTC
Nice game! I was terrified of wolves at first, I didn't know I could fight them. Just ran away until there were several on my tail and I was out of energy. But now they're dead and I'm alive.
simXple
06. Oct 2019 · 21:40 UTC
Nice Game. Enjoyed playing it!
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 21:41 UTC
@bobotast What an amazing story. Thanks for sharing!

And appreciate all the comments lads! Lovely to see, including the feedback on what to improve!
Locomule
06. Oct 2019 · 21:58 UTC
I got a little confused at first because I forgot to use space but on my second try I found Mom. Cute and fun :)
geoff.nagy
06. Oct 2019 · 22:01 UTC
This was fun, although I didn't immediately work out that you had to be carrying a kill (with E) to eat it first. What I really liked was that you had to balance the energy level of your cub with the desire to keep catching food. The addition of the trees made it interesting because they slowed you down.
Stefanie Leitch
06. Oct 2019 · 22:07 UTC
Original idea! Loved that when I died the wolf picked me up and walked away with my body XD.
Cethin
06. Oct 2019 · 22:08 UTC
Nice job. Everything works and graphics are stylistic and nice! I had two issues though. Stuff on the edge of the screen seems to deload early on, I guess, unsupported screen sizes and eating wasn't intuitive at first. The "E" prompt over a corpse was hard to see and there is no notification to press "Space" to eat. Overall pretty good and functional. The end screen is great!
JediNeeson
06. Oct 2019 · 22:10 UTC
Very nice job! It's immersive and it look good! Would have been greater with SFX but GG, well done my friend!
TwinTurboDouche
06. Oct 2019 · 22:11 UTC
Are you going to expand this game?
pfeyffer
06. Oct 2019 · 22:16 UTC
A wolf killed me and carried my dead body away! Good job on the ai and details. The controls need some polishing. Acceleration helps a lot with movement that feels more natural.
kuviman
06. Oct 2019 · 22:17 UTC
Oh no, I left the tab with your game open for a while and now there is a pile of dead bodies and mommy wandering around.
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 22:17 UTC
Thanks @cethin I will take that into consideration, fantastic feedback it is really appreciated.

@twinturbodouche I have no plans for now, but if you have ideas or would like to see certain things; I'd be happy to hear about those ideas. I wonder why you ask it! The game engine behind it will receive plenty of love.
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 22:19 UTC
@pfeyffer @kuviman Oh yes, I'm aware of that bug. It's a problem with the engine honestly as of now.

@pfeyffer What would you like to see on the controls improvement? More smooth animation? Cause right now I chose for this "wonky" 8 options of degrees animation on the character for artistic reasons.
someoneman
06. Oct 2019 · 22:37 UTC
Cute, but it should explain better that to eat, you first need to press E to grab a corpse, and then press spacebar.
pfeyffer
06. Oct 2019 · 22:38 UTC
It's not so much the animation - that works. But it does not feel like the character has any mass and just floats if it does not accelerate.
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 22:40 UTC
Got it @pfeyffer Thanks for your feedback. Did you notice the slowdown when you picked up a kill and walked with it?

But disregarding that, good feedback; I'll keep it in mind to give my character some more "mass" I guess, to make it feel like a being in the world it inhabits. Thank you.
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 22:41 UTC
@someoneman Thanks for the feedback, this response was the one I was most worried about. You're right, and I knew it. I'm sorry; I hope the game was fun to play besides that!
Abacus
06. Oct 2019 · 23:03 UTC
Nice job finishing your game! The hunger and stamina bars are pretty and creative! The game had few animations, but it was still nice to play.
Inventivum Games
06. Oct 2019 · 23:10 UTC
Nice game the notification to say I'd won didn't show for me, after I'd found the mummy bear I wasn't sure what to do
Bocodillo
06. Oct 2019 · 23:12 UTC
I liked the balance of eating to moving, I was constantly trying to edge along minimum energy. The animations are neat and the meat/bear UI was very cool. Definitely the sort of thing I could idly play for a while when listening to a podcast or something.
Kazatan
06. Oct 2019 · 23:12 UTC
I found mom! :grin: I enjoyed playing your game. It seemed a bit strange to eat the polar bears! I liked the Winter progression :thumbsup:
🎤 bjeaurn
06. Oct 2019 · 23:19 UTC
@inventivum-games Press E on mom to win.

@bocodillo Thank you, that means so much. Art isn't my strong suit and I'm happy people appreciate that work.

@kazatan Haha, we didn't eat polar bears; wolves attacked us. But I like your interpretation. Thanks for your comment and for playing the game!
ChristopheBessette
07. Oct 2019 · 01:18 UTC
Hey, good job. I noticed I could walk faster if i attacked, which is kinda a nice discovery. I like the progression
Bagenzo
07. Oct 2019 · 01:59 UTC
I won! The ending screen is very cute. Overall I liked it, it's a good take on the theme.
NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 02:03 UTC
Fun game man,def worth it's score
6smith
07. Oct 2019 · 02:57 UTC
A thrilling story
AntarcticRuler
07. Oct 2019 · 10:58 UTC
The best part of the game is that you can eat the wolves. I quite enjoyed being a bear who seeks out sheep and wolves for consumption. :ok_hand: The art style is quite cute as well!
squimmy
07. Oct 2019 · 15:06 UTC
I like the effect of the changing seasons. It's such an efficient way of showing the passage of time.

Some parts were a little confusing, like the way you have to pick up dead animals before you can eat them, or that you have to stop moving to restore energy, but these issues only detracted from the game in the most trivial way.

This is such a sweet little story. For such a simple game, you really empathize with the little bear by the end of it.
bazld
07. Oct 2019 · 19:08 UTC
Hey @bjeaurn,
A survival game I can actually complete, yay! The win screen was cool to reach. Relaxing and brutal at the same time. The food vs energy balance is nicely done, and works really well.
A simple change would be to up the movement speed a little (+someone above mentioned inertia/momentum).
Evannex
07. Oct 2019 · 20:08 UTC
This is adorable! Really well done entry!
ryzy27
08. Oct 2019 · 15:48 UTC
Good game. Would be much better If you managed to add a couple sounds to it. At first I wasn't sure what this other 'bear' bar meant, but I guess it's has something to to with the mom bear?

Great story and idea! Cheers!
🎤 bjeaurn
08. Oct 2019 · 17:16 UTC
Thank you @ryzy27 - how far did you get into the game? The bear bar is stamina, the other is hunger.
ogre
09. Oct 2019 · 07:17 UTC
Adorable. It didn't seem like anything else was happening after mom showed up, so I just quit it. I guess I missed something and there was a win condition after that? She was just kind of wandering and it didn't seem like she had any interactions. Oh well, it was nice few minutes!
🎤 bjeaurn
09. Oct 2019 · 14:55 UTC
My bad, there was no E indicator on mom indeed; hoped most people would figure that out. Mom randomly wandered off before my initial update, a tip from a viewer was to change that so mom actively searched for you too. Hope that explains it a bit! Thanks for playing!
Taddl
12. Oct 2019 · 11:01 UTC
A really nice game.
Hcursino
14. Oct 2019 · 06:26 UTC
After a while I got bored from how slow that bear moves. Other than that it was a challenging game. Good job!
fashionbatman
24. Oct 2019 · 18:38 UTC
Aww, this was so sweet! The wolves were great enemies. Good job overall!