Light Carrier by Axkarth

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made by Axkarth for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Graphics and audio made from scratch for the game jam. The only assets that are not ours is the public domain Calligraserif font and the TETRA PULSE pxTone instruments by KiriShimentai used to make the music, which can be found here.

Tools used: - Skype - Unity - Visual Studio - VS Code - Git - GraphicsGale - GIMP - pxTone

Controls

Movement: W, A, S, D H: Collect seedlings, place trees & mushrooms J: Run, cancel placement of tree/mushroom K: Switch bag of seed (green = tree seedlings, yellow = mushroom seedlings) L: Stash seedlings to chest.

Mechanics

Trees and mushrooms will drop seedlings when they die (the particles and color of the mushrooms and trees indicate their status: green = healthy, yellow = low health, red = will son die).

These seedlings can be used to plant more mushrooms and trees. Trees can be planted anywhere, but mushrooms can only be planted where a tree has died (due to a bug it is impossible to collect seeds from a dead mushroom planted by the player, so just gather the generated mushroom seedlings).

The goal of the game is to stash 30 seedlings in total, despite it saying 50 in the beginning of the game.

Known bugs

  • Medium and small trees/mushrooms may overlap with big trees/mushrooms.
  • Big trees/mushrooms may be passable.
  • Action keys not responding when pressed (press twice).
  • Mushrooms seedlings can not be placed in some circumstances.
  • Wrong Z position of the mushroom when is placed.

Gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQfDoFQG9LQ

Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKzpvcCnjZU

Development Timelapse

https://youtu.be/x9H9A82ck-g

Ratings

Overall 2499th 2.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2522th 2.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 2463th 2.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 2493th 2.389⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 2044th 2.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1341th 2.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1060th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

ZerohBeat
21. Apr 2020 · 22:52 UTC
I am not sure I was doing the right thing BUT it was still a great experience. The music is really fitting the style and it felt really lonely yet enjoyable. Thank you for making the game :D
🎤 Axkarth
21. Apr 2020 · 22:54 UTC
@zerohbeat Thank you for your words, le kind stranger :)
colan
21. Apr 2020 · 23:40 UTC
The lights are great .. I really liked the graphics
AdamV
21. Apr 2020 · 23:41 UTC
I had some trouble figuring out the gameplay. When I first started it didn't seem like there was anything nearby. After running a while I eventually did find a tree and what look like maybe areas to plant thing? Besides that, the mood was great and graphics worked pretty well.
Eric Lagergren
21. Apr 2020 · 23:44 UTC
I really like how simple this game is! The graphics and music all fit the mood of the game. It took me a short bit to figure everything out completely but besides that really nice job!
MickeyO
21. Apr 2020 · 23:46 UTC
Sorry, I couldn't really find anything to do
Ale
21. Apr 2020 · 23:49 UTC
I couldn't really figure out what to do on my own, but I DID enjoy the music, graphics, and overall atmosphere. Well done!
LoopyPickleHead
21. Apr 2020 · 23:51 UTC
I love the animation for the main player sprite. Very fluid. Nice work with all of the visuals in general, especially the lighting. The music could use some variety -- maybe a longer track?

I was confused that I didn't encounter any mushrooms. Or enemies. I found myself walking around for a while in search of anything and couldn't find it.

Great work on the art assets! Interested to see if/how this develops!
Amazura
22. Apr 2020 · 15:12 UTC
:thumbsup: good game, love the music and the feel but the map is too big. it took time for me exploring the map until i find that glowy mushroom. i do collect some seed but not much, and i don't really know how to plant them
AlexandrosKap
22. Apr 2020 · 19:26 UTC
too big for me to explore it well but I liked the loneliness theme that comes with this place