Fire Keeper by Taroleon

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made by Taroleon for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

You are the Fire Keeper.

These woods have gotten completely engulfed in thick fog! Get some lumber, light the 5 fires and keep them lit to cleanse the forest. Use your trusty Fire-finder if you forgot where they are.

Playable with keyboard or controller.

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How to play?

You have three items at your disposal:

The 🏮 lantern can be used to light the fires & or "activated" to whoosh away the fog.
The 🪓 axe can be used to cut down trees
The 📱 trusty fire-finder can be used to find those camp fires places in this dense fog...

Can you keep all 5 camp fires lit at the same time?

⌨️ - Keyboard Controls

Wander through the misty forest with the WASD or arrow keys.
Take out your 🏮 lantern with the "1" key on your keyboard.
Take out your 🪓 axe with the "2" key on your keyboard and go to a tree.
Take out your 📱 trusty fire-finder with the "3" key on your keyboard.

Now, go and cut down some trees and light some fires!

🎮 - Gamepad Controls

You can also discover the misty forest with a gamepad!

Take out your 🏮 lantern with the "X" key on your gamepad.
Take out your 🪓 axe with the "Y" key on your gamepad and go to a tree.
Take out your 📱 trusty fire-finder with the "B" key on your gamepad.

Now, go and cut down some trees and light some fires!

Ratings

Overall 265th 3.95⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1056th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1244th 3.275⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 838th 3.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 258th 4.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 109th 4.125⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 130th 4.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 7🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

Team-on
21. Apr 2020 · 01:42 UTC
Graphics and especially fog looks really cool, but that all that I can say.
You definitely need to give some explanation how to play, it's hard to understand how to light fire, why fog appear or how to chop tree
jeroenpx
21. Apr 2020 · 02:23 UTC
@team-on Added some instructions in the description. Also, it is simply a very foggy forest. :smirk:
AlbionBrown
02. May 2020 · 12:11 UTC
Cool game! I thought I was going to struggle to keep all the fires lit before I lit all 5 of them but I managed it! Graphics were nicely done, I love the look of the character, trees and fog. The only thing that annoyed me was when I pressed the wrong key for an item, it feels like it takes forever to change. Enjoyed it, thanks for posting!
alexbljack
02. May 2020 · 12:26 UTC
Enjoyed graphics and overall atmosphere - a feeling of danger and loneliness. BTW too long animations ruin flow a bit. Anyway great job!
Omickron
02. May 2020 · 15:02 UTC
Very atmospheric, the fog is cool. Always waiting for something. Finding a fire is difficult. Interesting to play.
jeroenpx
09. May 2020 · 09:21 UTC
@albionbrown @alexbljack @omickron Thanks for the great feedback!

The fog really helps a lot with the atmosphere we were going for, danger and loneliness was indeed part of that original idea. It is interesting to hear that you can actually feel this. I wasn't sure whether we succeeded there.

Any you are right. The animations should indeed have been a lot faster. Oh, well, something for next time...
doodlebrisk
09. May 2020 · 15:45 UTC
Very well polished and nice. Great atmosphere and graphics. I sort of wish I could have gotten a view of the whole forest once I lit all of the fires. Well done :)
Nathan Dimmer
09. May 2020 · 15:46 UTC
Amazing game! I love the effort you put into animation and sound design. The end result is really polished!
blaster391
09. May 2020 · 15:48 UTC
The really fog effects are really cool! And the animations are great. I love the ambience of this game
jaybaus
09. May 2020 · 15:51 UTC
This game has a lovely atmosphere to it with the ambient noise, sound effects, graphics and music. A really nice, chill game and the fog effects looked impressive, I liked how it cleared as you ran through it and lit the fires. The animation for swapping items could be a bit faster, it was frustratingly slow but that wasn't too much of an issue with the pace of the game. I played with a controller and I expected "A" to be the interact button for everything (chopping, picking up, lighting, placing logs etc.), currently RB is used for some things but this isn't communicated in the UI. I'm nit-picking though, it's a really really nice game overall and one you should be proud of :) Great job!
Honest Dan
12. May 2020 · 19:28 UTC
Some really good things in this: The animations, the cute fog, the 3d models and their style, and the concept. I enjoyed the fire-finding device. I think the main drawbacks for me was the speed of changing between items and also I felt a little lost and so the idea of running around to find the fires again to ensure they stay alight was tempting. Would have been nice if the fire sound could have been a little more accurate so you could use it as a guide too.
Voidsay
12. May 2020 · 19:54 UTC
realy cool fog effects nice animation

didn't have enough time to play throu :sob:

hob you can get 20 rating would be a shame if you don't
good.enough
12. May 2020 · 19:56 UTC
Although I would say that this is more of an experience than a game, it was very enjoyable for me, and I thought the tree chopping animation/sound effect combo was quite a nice touch. Some atmospheric music would have been nice, but overall, this is a great thing you have made!