Me And My Horse by Manderxan
A game about a man and his loyal steed.

Made using Clickteam Fusion 2.5, Aseprite, beepbox.co, and JFXR.
Some notes on the controls - they were chosen to allow a few different hand positions. Personally I prefer WASD + Shift & Spacebar. You could also use Arrows + Z, X, C, V. Ctrl to pick up is just awkward though, but it's there. :stuckouttonguewinkingeye:
- Note to Linux users: I was able to run this via steam using proton 4.11 with no launch options.
- I will add an HTML5 version if I can figure out how to fix it, but it's looking like it won't happen.
- There's a duplicate D-key in the controls graphic that I forgot to remove. Will fix if I have to fix any other serious bugs.
| Youtube | https://manderxan.itch.io/ld46-me-and-my-horse |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/me-and-my-horse |
Ratings
| Overall | 331th | 3.905⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 94th | 4.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 709th | 3.548⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 111th | 4.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 773th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 398th | 3.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 10th | 4.476⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 674th | 3.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
The only thing I can say is that I won't recommend you to put the controls like that in one screen, at first sight it seems very complicated.
Also, I like the plot twist, great job!
I love the characters ! Pretty hard to play though inputs are a little unatural ^^
I realize there isn't much you could do about this, but I found the physics-heavy nature of the game to be unpredictable and really annoying. To be honest, I didn't think the humorous animation was that great of a pay-off for the frustration I felt trying to get the horse fly high enough for the game to think the rope was being hit. The game is otherwise pretty fun, with silly rigidbody physics everywhere.
I didn't have any problems with controls, but the intro screen confused me for a bit because of all the arrows on the picture; but I thought I'd figure it out on the fly and I did.
Nice entry!