Timukin Explorers by Thoastbot
Quick Tutorial:

Start as Timu, the Default Creature
Meet Timu, a curious little creature who's ready to explore the magical world. Timu may seem small, but with your help, they’ll grow stronger and discover their true potential!
Collect Items from Plants and Monsters
The world is full of mysterious plants and playful (or not-so-playful) monsters. By interacting with plants or defeating monsters, you can collect valuable items. These items hold special powers and will give Timu new abilities. With every item Timu finds, they’ll become more capable and ready to face even greater challenges!
Use Abilities to Overcome Obstacles
Each item gives Timu special abilities, like the power to cut through tricky plants or take on tough monsters. Use these abilities wisely! Some plants can only be harvested with specific skills, and certain monsters will need special strategies to defeat. But don't worry—Timu is clever, and with your help, every success will bring new rewards!
Discover the Hidden Fairies
Try to find the hidden Fairies, they trade you a gem for 3 of your Timu, get 5 Gems to win the Game!
Hidden Tipp: Use WASD and Mousemovement to run! ;D
Code: Js only
Art: AI edited in canva, Aseprite and Paint.net
Musik: FLStudio
Sound: SFXR
| Link | https://ld56.kimrubendavid.com/LD56.zip |
| Link | https://ld56.kimrubendavid.com |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/timukin-explorers |
Ratings
| Overall | 249th | 3.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 289th | 2.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 197th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 232th | 3.25⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 149th | 3.614⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 123th | 3.409⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 211th | 2.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 172th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
Art is amazing, you are a cool artist!
Has some problems with controls, thanks you has guide kinda
When i saw description of items, i wanted to press them, but my Timus just walked over here(
I had a positive experience overall. :grin:
While it's kinda my fault for not paying closer attention to the LD page, I think you should include some sort of instructions in the game itself to help players out. Like it isn't obvious that the water(?) spray is an attack since it won't have any effect on any entity other than a couple specific items. It's also unclear that you have to press a button to pick up items since you can pick up eggs and interact with fairies by just walking up to them. My first run through the game I thought it was just glitched or unfinished since you didn't specify the controls on the page.
Once I saw the instructions it all made more sense though.
I enjoyed discovering new creature types and trying to kill different enemies to get new items. One thing I didn't like was that it seemed like everything was just placed randomly around the map. I think you could have created biomes of related creatures and plants and had the player branch out to new areas to give a sense of exploration.
The game was an enjoyable experience overall though (once I learned how to play). I think some more content and polish and this could turn into a sold time killer