humble fungal by jelch
Harvest mushrooms to save your grandpa.
| Link | https://widdlemedia.itch.io/humblefungal |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/humble-fungal |
Ratings
| Overall | 384th | 3.525⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 477th | 3.25⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 271th | 3.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 104th | 4.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 240th | 3.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 202th | 3.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 565th | 2.472⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 58th | 4.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
Great music and idea though! I love the concept, it was quite relaxing, just wish I could finish the game
Thought I'd try finding water based on sound but it was surprisingly difficult, luckily happened to see it from atop a cliff.
Realizing that adding more than one of same type of mushroom probably won't hurt and the game never says you need them all was neat.

And oh yeah, I did have a brief confusion about how to add mushrooms but realizing that just dropping them on top of the pot would work was quite nice.
I like the story and what you made out of it. But it was a bit hard for me to follow the instructions, because I'm not a native speaker. Poor grandpa :sweat_smile:
Anyway, good job!
The 3-shelves mushroom near the cave entrance is fake, the real one is hidden within a bush)
The green-moss one with the redeye & black pupil is found in a low altitude dead end surrounded by 3 walls, next to a boulder)
All in all it was quite nice and I genuinely enjoyed playing it! maybe some birdsong would make it more immersive!

Awesome game ^~^
The controllers are awkward; the pop-ups are helping a lot, but still UI feels sluggish. Increasing the animation speed may help.
I killed the grandpa, but I blame the manual, it does not have pictures.
I couldn't find any of the last three types, except one that could not be clicked on attached to a tree.
The first five were correct, though not enough to save grandpa.
I really enjoyed the identification of the correct variants from the notes, not so much the endless hunting. It was fun to explore but it got a bit tedious after a long time of not finding anything. Perhaps more fungi around would have been better.
If you open the notes before the help text appears, the help never goes away.
It was also not clear how to put the collected fungi into the pot to make the potion. I figured it out eventually but my first potion ended up being just water.