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BeastBound by pranav.cl

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made by pranav.cl for Ludum Dare 57 (JAM)

Backstory 📖

FIGHT! ⚔ī¸ EXPLORE! 🌍 CRAFT! 🔨

In BeastBound, you play as a young tribal child separated from your community. As you try to reunite with them, you navigate through difficult environments encountering new mobs and building materials to craft with. You craft better weapons to protect yourself and become unstoppable.

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Controls 🕹ī¸

  • WASD keys: Walk
  • Shift + WASD keys: Run/Sprint
  • Mouse to aim, LMB to shoot
  • Numeric keys 1-6: Switch weapons
  • E: Craft at the workshop

Tools Used 🛠ī¸

  • This game was created in HTML5 using the p5.js JavaScript library (https://p5js.org/) in the Glitch collaborative environment (https://glitch.com/).
  • All art was created in LibreSprite (https://libresprite.github.io/).
  • The game's background music was synthesized using Bosca Ceoil (https://boscaceoil.net/).
  • All the sound effects were synthesized using sfxr (https://sfxr.me/).

Strategies?? 🧩🤔

The game does not restrict the player to follow any set path, you can walk straight to the Underworld (hardest region) at the start of the game. But we recommend you finish the Plains first -> then Desert -> then Forest (top-right) -> then Tundra (top-left) and finally the Underworld (below). Focus on crafting superior weapons so you can quickly decimate a large number of enemies.

While the Rock Minigun is the best weapon, it is heavy and slows down your movement. You can alternate between a slingshot or hands (1/2/3) and the Rock Minigun when you're moving and shooting respectively.

Credits ⭐

Programming by pranavcl Artwork, sound effects and background music by VJ031206

Link https://glitch.com/~cypress-small-snowplow
Link https://cypress-small-snowplow.glitch.me/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/beastbound

Ratings

Overall 710th 3.13⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Fun 544th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Innovation 657th 2.913⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Theme 837th 2.413⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Graphics 660th 3.13⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Audio 437th 3.174⭐ 25🧑‍⚖ī¸
Mood 598th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖ī¸
Given 20đŸ—ŗī¸ 30🗨ī¸

Feedback

TimeLost
08. Apr 2025 ¡ 15:21 UTC
The game feels like a good io game. The audio is broken and is not playing for me. The gameplay loop is fun. The workshop is a bit hard to relocate its position.
Prepe
08. Apr 2025 ¡ 17:08 UTC
I have masive problems playing as the game runs really slow for some reason. It took me over 1 minute of pressing W to reach the first bush right on top of the starting area
OnlinE_Play
08. Apr 2025 ¡ 18:50 UTC
I enjoyed playing this game. Had some troubles with finding resources but asides that really enjoyable game. Well done1
ditam
18. Apr 2025 ¡ 15:53 UTC
Wow this is quite hard to get started - timber and leaves seem rare enough to begin with, but I also need XP to craft? Those wild monkeys are no joke when all you have is rocks.
JAMESDEV
19. Apr 2025 ¡ 21:26 UTC
I found it a little difficult to find time to make new items. Between looking for resources and killing the enemies, the time to craft stuff it very small. Also the music seems to layer itself and play twice when the scene restarts.
JamesGames1000
21. Apr 2025 ¡ 15:34 UTC
Fun little game but was hard to navigate back to the workbench maybe add an arrow that points back and maybe add a map as well. Great job :)
Samuel Hollywood-Summers
21. Apr 2025 ¡ 17:01 UTC
I had fun playing this, but it felt like it was harder than it was meant to be. It is always a good idea to lean on the easier side for jam games, so that your players experience all or most of what you have made. Limiting the number of enemies in active pursuit would be a good idea. Also, highlighting which resources you still need when attempting to craft items would be helpful. I managed to get to the point where I needed leather to make an improved slingshot. It seemed like I wasn't going to find any in the starting area, so I went further afield. I didn't find any leather, but did find a jaguar I was unequipped to battle and died very quickly. Giving some sort of indication where to go to find the next required resource would be helpful, as I'm guessing I went in the wrong direction? Thanks for sharing.
Color and Form
21. Apr 2025 ¡ 18:31 UTC
Good game! Try making a perfect pixel next time
ImNotVegan
21. Apr 2025 ¡ 19:11 UTC
at one point the crafting stopped working, I pressed E and nothing happened, I had enough resources
Anton Florey
21. Apr 2025 ¡ 20:35 UTC
I like the sense of progression while playing :)
However, the sparsity of items (especially ammo sometimes) makes this game a bit boring after playing for some time. Oh and you seem to be faster when moving diagonally, a common bug for topdown games.
ViraPyon
22. Apr 2025 ¡ 11:06 UTC
That was fun! Kinda wish the projectiles were a bit bigger, but that's just a nitpick
Prvaak
22. Apr 2025 ¡ 11:31 UTC
Nice game. Had performance issues in firefox, worked fine in chrome.

At the beginning I was constantly running out of ammo while being chased by large group of monkeys. Second upgrade of slingshot does 33 damage which is a bit frustrating because you still need four shots to kill a monkey :) I had a hard time finding advanced materials, I have found just a single rope during three playthroughs.

After some time the music started to glitch and eventually stopped.
Phasmantic
23. Apr 2025 ¡ 06:05 UTC
Cool game! I played for a good 10 minutes until I got killed by a jaguar. I liked the gameplay of searching for resources to get upgrades, though it seemed a bit hard to find them sometimes. The music was very catchy! Overall nice job!
Mamboman
24. Apr 2025 ¡ 19:54 UTC
well done. I would have liked an idicator to the crafting hut.