The Glimmering Woods by Kyrio

Summary
On a tiny island off the coast of Great Buttern
Lay the town of Pattyport and its starchy mansions
Good-natured were its people, but at an odd they'd turn
To mistrust, gossip and superstition.
Among those villagers was a lad of little fear
Who one day wandered into the woods up north
With wit and courage, yet he would not go forth
For a wounded creature was soon to appear.
Take care of a mysterious blue-eyed creature that might just make your fellow villagers lose patience, in this top-down adventure by comic book artists NoTruche and Pekolio, animator Un ornithorynque dans la piscine and programmer Kyrio.
All graphics, designs and code were created during the Jam, with the help of the BitPotion font by Joeb Rogers and music by Jason Shaw.
We used such awesome software as Godot, Aseprite and Tilesetter.
Controls
- Arrow keys: Move your character
- Space: Interact (talk, progress in dialogue, etc.)
| Youtube | https://kyrio.itch.io/the-glimmering-woods |
| Youtube | https://kyrio.itch.io/the-glimmering-woods |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-glimmering-woods |
Ratings
| Overall | 818th | 3.658⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1105th | 3.378⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2144th | 2.764⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1127th | 3.703⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 30th | 4.667⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 499th | 3.514⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 148th | 4.149⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 42🗨️ |
J'ai adoré l'histoire, y a un petit côté Hens ;)
En tout cas j'ai passé un bon moment et j'ai adoré votre conlusion!
Bien joué!! ça mérite un jeu complet ;)
Les graphismes étaient super et la musique très prenant !
It was unfortunate that you guys ran out of time but I really hope I can see more of the story in the future. This game has a lot of potential!
Small details, but when you talk to a NPC, they should face the player, and the player should not be in a walking animation anymore, it would make more sense
You can't note the audio because it's an open source sample. Since we did not created it, we don't want to take credits or point about it. But we are glad people seems to find the music fitting =)
@petrifiedapple the palette was created during the jam :) by Pekolio. We are glad you enjoyed the cuteness of the game.
@keln thank you ! Your gale is cool too :) it’s out of the box and smart! :)
@spawnie Thank you.:) we plan to! The art in your game is cool characters are kinda douchy tho xD
@mrvarren oui je crois qu’on voit le cote Hens dans la palette. Enfin je trouve. Merci bien en tout cas :) Votre jeu avec la plante etait pas evident (surtout quand on passe vite les explication. (Maplanteestjamaissortiedeterre) faut que je le réessaie !
@amkingtrp thank you. I didn.t know Sierra games ! Thank for the ref! And nice puzzle in you game too ;)
@zuezazon thank you ! Yeah we tried and enjoyed it even tho it was kinda tough to put in place, we are happy we have a beginning a middle and a end. Short yeah but its a jam gale so... I saw your gale on pixel joint! Very nice art and i like the mood too.
bojack horseman gave me medecine stuff, I hope I'll not have to cure the creature with wiskey :)
we want to see more :) hope you had the occasion to rest, good job ! :)
From a narrative perspective, I really like the personalities of the town inhabitants——but I felt like many of them could say the same thing in fewer words for a stronger effect.
it made me chilling after a day of work, hope you will develop your game (I would be happy to know if you'll do)
Going from what there was, this seems like a really cute idea. Loved the animations, and the flash of mystery with that foxy creature at the end who was visiting your wounded animal friend in the hut. It looks like you had something pretty definite in mind story wise, so I hope you have time to develop it further.
@notan-lemon Thank you! @un-ornithorynque-dans-la-piscine made those sea tiles. She wouldn't make them static so I had to find a way to integrate animated tiles, but Godot had my back!
@vesper What we had in mind was hard to achieve in three days, as we would soon find out, but we're glad we managed to give you a glimpse with that final animation. Actually, we were almost done with animations for the story, but as we couldn't get gameplay ready for the second part of the game, we had to cut before that. I hope we can go back to it!
@vesper for the reccord the foxy crewture is a fennec. A bit orange tho. And the other one is based on a jerboa (a cute mouse/kangaroo looking creature living in the desert (like the fennec) :))
Stunning game, I look forward to further development.
The story kept me interested, specially as I started talking to the NPCs. After all the fearmongering I was super stoked into going back into the woods :sweat_smile:
There were some collision issues between the characters, but other than that it all felt pretty solid.
I hope you can continue it so you can implement your full vision. Congrats!
@ithildin hahahaha I hope you won’t sleep bad. Nor fear blue eyed animals!
@pee-thief thank youuuu :)))
@pjnovas yeap. It’s not like that in your city?
Yes we rest well, thank you :))
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615952171?t=0h50m00s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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