Considerate Inferno by AidanBacon
Play as mother nature and use a variety of different abilities to figure out how to start fires and burn down the woods. But watch out! Humans have moved in and they're putting out too many fires - are you clever enough to outsmart them and help usher in new growth?
Occasional small to mid-sized forest fires are natural and ecologically beneficial for forests and other ecosystems. In this game you'll get to see that effect play out and help encourage environmental rebirth.
(The 'limited space' in this game is in reference to the small size of the board and the generally limited amount of forest as a result of deforestation)
CONTROLS: Use WASD to pan camera, mouse wheel to zoom, and hold right click to rotate your view. Select abilities with left click and activate them by clicking on a tile. Press R to reset or rotate (wind ability only), and press I to see more detailed instructions:
The itch.io page is the best place to play this game. Thanks for playing and rating!
*note: the fire having a slower frame rate and looking a bit choppy is intentional - we were going for a stop-motion kind of look, sorry for any confusion! *
| Itch.io | https://aidanbacon.itch.io/considerate-inferno |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/considerate-inferno |
Ratings
| Overall | 212th | 3.935⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 291th | 3.774⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 72th | 4.161⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1029th | 2.823⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 351th | 3.984⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 586th | 2.845⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 175th | 4.017⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
Also hope people won't fire forests intentionally after playing it:)
- Framerate of fire (maybe add setting to remove some animations and make simulations easier)
- Duration of fire animations (would like some increase speed button)
P.S. framerate does not affect actual gameplay, so nothing very critical, excellent work)
... out of jokes, this was a good experience!! congrats for this! ^^ The forest growing at the same time that extra fire can eat all the life on it. This was a very interesting idea! ;)
Nevertheless this game is really good game and everyone who complains about the framerate are probably annoying PC gamers who haven't played EDF. Although I wish the fire spread a bit faster, but that's because I'm an impatient little shit.
Good job!
A solid foundation to build off of, would be interested in a full release. Has some great potential.
Nerdy side note: Did you take a Cellular Automata approach for the cells and firespread?
And uhhh not exactly - To check if fire is going to spread, each cell that has fire on it will attempt to spread to all four of its neighboring cells (or those 4 + more in one direction if there's wind) and based on stats about the fire (mainly temp and age) as compared to information about those other cells and what's on them (amount of fuel, minimum temp, moisture content, maximum temp), the chance for fire to spread will be higher or lower, then it rolls to check.
the temp of a fire also effects how quickly it burns through the fuel on the tile its on. As you can imagine there was a lot of tweaking to get everything to feel right and behave more or less like fire.
Cool game, and some cool tech behind it
Funny humans. It was anxiously to watch at first level with them how fire going closer and closer. But after realizing thats all humans are in safe - funny to watch their behav.
I noticed that the Depth of Field was quite a bit intense for my liking, which really made the zoom not that functional (I wanted to see the forest burn from above, but that didn't really work in my opinion.
I also noticed that the wind gust which happens just as you click (just the effect, not the wind itself) is placed in the wrong orientation. It rotates with the camera but in the opposite direction it seems like. Additionally I only found out really late that you can rotate the wind, so I got stuck on the final level for some time.
I do however love the whole dialog before the level and seeing the vegetation grow after the level. Amazing job overall!
_That human is really good at extinguishing flames, all alone, with his hands_