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Bonfire 🔥 by Rigolus

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made by Rigolus for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Bonfire is a small puzzle game about a fire sprite wanting to find a cosy home. Help us keep it alive ❤

About the team

  • Colin Bellino: programming, art, design (https://twitter.com/colinbellino)
  • Romain Huc: programming, audio, design ( huc.romain@gmail.com)

Words from us

  • Romain Huc: Third Ludum Dare and second finished game !! Hourray ! I was a pleasure to make Bonfire. Great idea, some fancy music experience ( yeah testing Computer/Ai generated music was something ), good visuals, and burning (lot of) trees has something oddly satisfying. I'm fine with the result, it exceed my expectations !
  • Colin Bellino: This was felt good from the beginning. I had fun with the theme and the art and we had time for a polish phase at the end because the gameplay loop was so simple. I wish we had time to make more levels though :o

Screenshots

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Tools used

  • Unity (game engine): https://unity3d.com/
  • Aseprite (pixel art): https://www.aseprite.org/
  • Streamlab (streaming): https://streamlabs.com/
  • SFRX (sound effects generator): http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
  • Odin inpector (inspector tool for unity): https://odininspector.com/
  • Stateless (state machine c#): https://github.com/dotnet-state-machine/stateless
  • Wolfram (music): http://tones.wolfram.com
  • BitPotion (font): https://joebrogers.itch.io/bitpotion

Releases

  • v1.0.0: Initial release.
  • v1.0.1: Remove placeholder audio clips that were used by mistake.
  • v1.0.2: Fix mobile touch inputs (still not stable).
Youtube https://colinbellino.itch.io/bonfire
Youtube https://github.com/colinbellino/ludum-dare-46
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Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/bonfire-2

Ratings

Overall 860th 3.64⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Fun 897th 3.477⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1073th 3.36⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Theme 946th 3.779⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 902th 3.849⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1102th 3.154⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1775th 2.306⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1444th 3.276⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

zoglu
21. Apr 2020 · 12:55 UTC
Cute little game with nice graphics & audio. Really easy to pick up, the difficulty level is kept very low but it's still enjoyable. Good entry !
helenejeanbon
21. Apr 2020 · 12:55 UTC
really good job!
more difficult puzzles would be cool :)
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 12:56 UTC
When you work 3 days straight, you tend to finish with weird commit names like this :o
![commits.png](///raw/2b6/2/z/31819.png)
Ben Newington
21. Apr 2020 · 12:59 UTC
I love this game. The art style is cute and distinct. The sound effects are fun, and given the limited time you did an awesome job exploring the different consequences of the puzzle mechanic. I also love the interpretation of the theme! Burning down huge chunks of forest is super satisfying so I'd love to see a score at the end of each level based on how many trees you burned down to encourage players to do so. Excellent job 5 stars
Tyrael
21. Apr 2020 · 13:14 UTC
It was a really nice experience and overall a great game. It wasn't very challenging, but that's fine i guess.
Sami
21. Apr 2020 · 13:25 UTC
Really clean and simple puzzler. A few more levels with a bit of a higher difficulty level would be a welcome addition! Slightly unsure if the SFX/Music are yours as I can't tell as you posted links to where you got some but you've kept yourself open to judgement on Audio? Let me know so I can adjust rating accordingly.
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 13:38 UTC
@sami i think that's fair, we should opt out of the audio category since we used some premade bits. I'll update that.
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 13:40 UTC
@tyrael @helenejeanbon @zoglu Thanks for the feedback <3 We definitely wanted to add more levels with a better difficulty curve. We are looking into adding more levels in the following days (i need to check the rules to see to what extend we can do this).
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 13:42 UTC
@ben-newington Glad you liked it! You are not the first one thinking this game could use a scoring system, it's going into our [backlog](https://trello.com/c/JpKSJcJT) :)
Andrew Hoyer
21. Apr 2020 · 15:56 UTC
Really enjoyed this entry. Played through every level and was disappointed when there wasn't more...
nightlight
21. Apr 2020 · 16:35 UTC
Great introduction of the game. Need more puzzles and a level editor ;).
Artyom Volkov
21. Apr 2020 · 16:55 UTC
This entry is simple, but well done. Core gameplay is easy to understand. But there isn't any distinctive indication of trees you have placed in the level.
GrizzliusMaximus
21. Apr 2020 · 17:31 UTC
The game is super clean and neat. Loved every level. Like as many pointed out, wished there was more. I had an idea of having trees with different burn rates to create more complex levels
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 17:33 UTC
@artyom-volkov The selected cell changes color when you hover a tree you have placed (from red to blue), but the change is way to subtle i think, you are right :( Thanks for the feedback!
Lucidus
21. Apr 2020 · 17:47 UTC
Absolutely great game! You should publish it on mobiles! Really!!
Started following on twitter ;)
Sanguis
21. Apr 2020 · 18:38 UTC
Nice, puzzle game. I Had one level where I got stuck for a while :) Nice entry
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 20:03 UTC
@grizzliusmaximus) Thanks ! We wanted to start with flowers that burnt quicker than trees but had to cut [that feature](https://trello.com/c/CYxtWX6P) to focus on the core and polish. But if we make this into a fully featured game that's definitely something we will add :)
🎤 Rigolus
21. Apr 2020 · 20:06 UTC
@lucidus Oh, great idea. I think this build could work on mobile with some minor tweaking, i'll look into it \o/
Thanks for the follow too <3.
ZerohBeat
21. Apr 2020 · 22:15 UTC
It feels really complete and polished. Was a bit hard to know which trees I have placed or not (eventually I figured it out by the blue / green line). Thank you for the game, really enjoyed it.
TheNumberYellow
21. Apr 2020 · 22:21 UTC
Nice relaxing game, pretty straight forward but you could probably make some pretty hard puzzles with some more mechanics and work. Graphics are also nice and clear!
Daxic
21. Apr 2020 · 22:23 UTC
Nice concept and execution. Levels are well thought through but quite easy which is understandable in a LD game. One mechanic that comes to mind is to lead the fire to its destination but avoiding burning some other object. Even as it is it's a great game though!
somethang123
21. Apr 2020 · 22:40 UTC
I really liked the puzzles, even though some of them were a bit too easy. Hopefully you keep working on this!
alpharock6
21. Apr 2020 · 22:41 UTC
Very fun concept and really well polished! With a few more mechanics explored over additional levels this would be a solid standalone game!
vulgaris
22. Apr 2020 · 00:20 UTC
nice and polished game with a lot of projection and it can scale very nicely. it was cool to see the patern burn.
🎤 Rigolus
22. Apr 2020 · 01:10 UTC
@daxic Ha yes, that's a good idea for advanced gameplay if we can add it later down the line. Thanks :)
koemeterion
22. Apr 2020 · 16:32 UTC
Simple idea, clean graphics and a few thrown in sounds (not in a bad way of course). Very solid entry. Its missing some challenging levels though
VersatileSponge
22. Apr 2020 · 17:11 UTC
Really nice game here guys, I like the mood of it, it's kind of soothing. It looks very finished too. I would have liked more complicated challenges.

Here is a suggestion: add a second type of tree that takes 2 ticks to burn. Add goals that need more that one flame at the same time
rob1221dev
22. Apr 2020 · 18:38 UTC
Could use more levels and extra challenge as others have said, but it's still a nice puzzle game.
🎤 Rigolus
22. Apr 2020 · 19:51 UTC
Thanks everyone for your feedback! We definitely wanted to add more challenging levels and mechanics but something had to be cut to make the deadline :D
Anyways, this is really encouraging and we will be thinking about making this into a commercial game later down the line. <3
ropedog
22. Apr 2020 · 23:42 UTC
Fun puzzle game! I like the simplicity of this game - it makes it a little more laid back and enjoyable. The puzzles ramped up in difficulty, but it never got to a point where it was 'difficult.' I'm sure that's something you'd implement if you had more time for the jam.
The music and sound effects were a little quiet, and I really wanted to hear more!
stevenjmiller
23. Apr 2020 · 01:41 UTC
Great game, my only suggestion would be to make the trees you can place look slightly different from the pre-placed ones (I think it would help readability, especially if you are planning on some more complex levels down the line). I also love the effect for the trees growing in, it was a very nice touch.
🎤 Rigolus
23. Apr 2020 · 16:52 UTC
@stevenjmiller thanks for the feedbacks ! Thats absolutely something that we want to fix later down the line :)
01010111
23. Apr 2020 · 17:55 UTC
Cool game! I imagine you could probably extend this in all kinds of ways like adding water, animals, villages, etc. It'd be cool to extrapolate all the systems working together :)
levlaj
25. Apr 2020 · 13:52 UTC
I really liked it, it was fun and easy to pick up! Would have loved to see more levels, more complicated ones, and more mechanics (for example, explosive barrel that "teleports" the fire to all squares 1 square away). When the game ended I had a literal "awwww... :(" reaction! :D
Infinite
25. Apr 2020 · 22:39 UTC
Nice Game ! i love the simple and clean art style. The levels are a bit to easy but anyway i had fun with it :)
Francisco Lucas
26. Apr 2020 · 01:33 UTC
In fact, the levels were very easy, but it doesn't take the merit out of your game! Interesting choice of theme! Good job!
hey if possible, play our game! He's kind of crazy :DD
🎤 Rigolus
26. Apr 2020 · 12:13 UTC
@01010111 Thanks ! We have a lot of mechanics ideas to extend the game if we go turn this into a full game and are exciting people liked what little we had to show for LD :D
🎤 Rigolus
26. Apr 2020 · 12:14 UTC
@levlaj Haha, reading your comment really made my day, thanks so much <3
renrok
26. Apr 2020 · 16:43 UTC
A pretty little puzzle game! Was very enjoyable.

I think adding some distinction between the trees player places and ones that were already on the map would be useful. Forgot, where I placed my trees on one level and had to hover over a bunch and look around for the blue square.
Jin9310
27. Apr 2020 · 19:19 UTC
Really neat little idea and new approach to the theme. The mood is really calm and relaxing and I had really nice time with your game. Although I would love to see bit few chalenging levels, but I can imagine how balancing this can be hard in such a short time of a game jam, so this is hardly a complaint. Overall very good job, I liked it a lot! Thank you
🎤 Rigolus
02. May 2020 · 22:23 UTC
@wavewava we had some feedbacks about this, we are fixing it in the next version :) Thanks for playing out game.
🎤 Rigolus
02. May 2020 · 22:25 UTC
@jin9310 thanks for the kind words ! I'm currently working on a full game based on this prototype, and we will have way more levels and interesting mechanics this time around :D
Jin9310
03. May 2020 · 10:05 UTC
@colinbellino Awesome! I'll definitely stick around to see it! Good luck
GameOverMexico
08. May 2020 · 00:36 UTC
very nice Job!
Kaisean Games
08. May 2020 · 08:10 UTC
This game has very little gameplay, but it feels like a good basis for some nice mechanics. I've read your post about wanting to turn this into a commercial game. Good luck.

In any case, well done with this work. Despite not a lot of gameplay, everything seems rather polished. Keep up the good work.
Trigueiro
08. May 2020 · 14:29 UTC
Very enjoyable. I really liked it but it seemed to be very easy/small.
invader
08. May 2020 · 17:04 UTC
Nice little game. I love that pixel-art style.

I think tutorial should be more intrusive... At the moment the instructions are small text and on the side - kind'a hard to notice. You can make it bigger and blinking.. Or maybe place it in the middle of the screen just to make sure the player knows the basics.

Also, when you have right-mouse click involved, it makes sense to introduce an alternative with left click + alt/meta/ctrl. That way, players with touchpads are also will be able to play.
elysiagriffin
09. May 2020 · 19:07 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615928274?t=6h18m13s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
sztrovacsek
10. May 2020 · 13:42 UTC
Smart little game, too bad you only had time for only a few levels, this game would be a nice time killer on a phone. :thumbsup:
🎤 Rigolus
10. May 2020 · 21:43 UTC
@sztrovacsek thanks for the feedback, i'm working on adding more levels soon-ish :D

@elysiagriffin no, thank you ! It was a blast seing you play it on stream :)

@kaisean-games hehe yeah we prioritized the polish over the level quantity for the jam version. Will definitely be fixed in the full release ! Thanks for the encouragements.
🎤 Rigolus
10. May 2020 · 21:48 UTC
@invader the instructions were added as a last minute fix hehe. We were not sure if players would understand the main mechanics, most people did though.
I'm not a big fan of text tutorials and i generally go for a more hands off approach. I like to let people play around with the game in easy/tutorial levels so they understand the mechanics by them self.
It's absolutely someone i'm adding to our feedbacks list though.

For the right click, that's a really good point, not everyone can right click on their touch pad. That's an accessibility problem i'm going to fix in the full release for sure !

Thanks a lot for the feedbacks.
Ellian
12. May 2020 · 18:32 UTC
That was really cute, but definitely too easy ahah. A bummer - I feel like there would have been potential for trying to find the best way to light the bonfire - like using the minimal amount of resources, or trying to burn down the entire island in the process. Or the opposite, burning the least trees.

Either way, it feels polished and working well! You could easily expand on this!
🎤 Rigolus
12. May 2020 · 22:00 UTC
@ellian thanks for the feedback ! This is exactly the kind of things i'm working on to expand the game into a full commercial release <3