Eden Harvest by KeichiTS
Edit 01/12/2023: Bug fix, the game was ending after delivering one flower, sorry
Some people can't continue the great journey when they die. Their soul withers and loses all color. Death created a gardener to bring some color back to them, regrowth them, and harvest them to the next step.
As the gardener, use WASD to move and spacebar to talk to the souls/deliver the flower.
BG music: FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD from BLACK ROSE (EP) by Rainy Days for Ghosts, bought in a humble bundle.
| Link | https://keichits.itch.io/eden-harvest |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/eden-harvest |
Ratings
| Overall | 768th | 2.741⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 813th | 2.111⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 717th | 2.667⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 746th | 2.875⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 470th | 3.464⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 680th | 1.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 288th | 3.648⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 35🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
I would love to see this game finished :)
I liked the art and the music, however you opted out of audio ;-;
@maartene, the light that we put on game ends up reflecting in the flower, because it, everything looks white. It's a game fix we gonna make when the jam's over. But when you go far away from the flowers, you can see the right color. Our bad for it =(.
@shp, just catch a colored flower on ground and deliver to the NPCs =).
After all, thanks for playing! We hope you enjoyed it!
The few dialogs are enough to catch the feeling of each character, making me both amused and melancolic
Great job !
Definitely a great entry, nevertheless!
- I did not like the epic introduction text at the beginning at all. This is not an epic movie ...
- I like the mood, graphics and music. Fits very well.
- I did first not understand, but after a bit of "talking" I understood.
- Then I delivered a rose, but the colors changed to white
- Then I thought, cool. The color is only visible when far away - THATS actually cool, even it seems you consider it as a bug
- Then I delivered everything, but the game did not end. I put the roses close to the people asking for them ... I think right colors, but no end. Frustrated
Overall:
A special experience. A nice game. An artwork. Cryptic. Romantic. Frustrating not to know if a rose was correctly delivered.
Congratulations! For me the most emotional game: content wise, and unfortunately as well on the meta level, as written above.
The use of color was really cool, desaturating the flower colors unless I walked far away from them. My brain can't connect why it made the gameplay more engaging, but it certainly did add something.
Selfish question: what was the main font you used for the text? I really liked it and might want to save that for future projects.