Cactus's friend by Nghia Lam

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made by Nghia Lam for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

The lonely cactus finally found a friend in the large jungle. However, there are some threats out there and they are very dangerous. Cactus must protect his friend until he can be a great treeeeeee.Screenshot at Oct 07 23-42-39.png

Control:

Arrow Keys/WASD: Move around

F: Pickup (seed, bucket)

Spacebar: Action (attack, plant seed, get water ...)

Cactus Tips: Plant as much carrot as you can cuz human is really dangerous. Dont fight alone

Postmortem, why not!

Things I used: - Haxe & Heaps: A powerful multiplatform coding language. I would like to give my huge thanks to @deepnight, his works inspire me a lot. I also use his libraries in this project - Aseprite & Tiled: Pixel art & map editor - VSC - Some coffee .....

What went right:

  • I MADE A GAME. It's my first game and my first LD entry, its so much funnnn
  • It's multiplatform. Thanks to Haxe & Heaps, I can easily deploy it to Windows, Mac, HTML.

What could be improved: - No UI, no tutorials :( - No sound. :((( - Its so buggy and somewhat unplayable. Honestly, my code is a mess. Hopefully I can fix it in the post LD version later.

Conclusion

It's my first LD ever and I learn so muchhhhhhhhh from this event. Sure, I need to learn a lot but I enjoy every minutes in the jam. See you guys in LD46 ;)

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ItsBamboo
09. Oct 2019 · 03:37 UTC
To be honest I didn't really know what to do. I could pick up the bucket looking thing and the heart (?), but didn't know what to do with them. I finally ended up falling into the water, and that was the end of me. Nice work on the art though! I think there is potential, given more time!
🎤 Nghia Lam
09. Oct 2019 · 16:16 UTC
Thanks, actually you can plant the heart by pressing SPACEBAR and pick the bucket to get some water for them. Yep, the game is lacking a lot of elements which confused the player a lot. :( I will work on a more polish version this weekend. ;) Thank you very much. I will give a much more better product in the next LD