This game is so cozy, I really like the music, also the grass looks DAMN NICE! I like the screenshake whenever you chop a tree but I think maybe an animation with an axe or a punch would help sell the tree chopping. Everything is very cleanly put together though, super impressive.
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Get Wood's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #327 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Audio | #407 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Overall | #973 | 2.845 | 2.845 |
| Enjoyment | #1043 | 2.786 | 2.786 |
| Gameplay | #1089 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
| Theme | #1271 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
| Innovation | #1487 | 2.071 | 2.071 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The game is about a lumberjack in a forest. The player must chop down trees, but avoid being hit at all costs. There are also endangered species in the tree, and these must not be disturbed. In other words, nothing must go wrong.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
We made everything but the models ourselves. This includes music, audio, code and shaders.
How many people worked on the game?3
Comments
Nice calming little game! I liked the visuals a lot with the shell-shaded colors. I'll one thing that is it gets kinda stale when chopping trees, a minigame would go fine in my opinion but that's just my nitpick. Overall this is a pretty good game i had fun playing and would like to more of! 7/10
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Jetpack SquarePretty nice looking graphics. Did not really understand why I only started on two hearts though. I agree with other comments that it might be a bit unclear when you are hit by a tree.
Gameplay was a bit too short in my opinion. I was missing a bit of an additional incentive to cut down the trees.
I did like the trees falling over and turning into pieces of wood. Good entry to the jam.
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State of OrderOutstanding visuals, I like the peaceful and serene gameplay. I did notice a few times that I took damage before there was much indication which direction the tree was falling, maybe a bug. Nice submission!
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Bard's Big GigThe game looks really cool, I think the concept of chopping trees and upgrading things is a pretty solid game play loop, however it gets a little stale pretty quick. After a little while it is hard to find motivation to keep chopping the wood. The game is missing like the sense of exploration or a bigger goal that motivates the player to keep chopping. Overall, I enjoyed it and think you did a great job!
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DeadlineI couldn’t agree more! If we would have had more time (or maybe started earlier) we would invest some of it into tuning the chop -> buy -> chop loop for sure. Also one of the things we never got to was to vary the forest a little. Maybe some open spots, boulders, occasional rewards to find etc. But yeah a goal would probably be a great if not necessary addition.
Thanks a lot for the feedback ^_^ Hopefully we’ll continue working on it after the jam and can tackle some improvements :)
The art style in this is really nice!! Chopping wood was addicting. Probably one of the most fun games I've played so far.
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Phantasms: DeadlineThe audio and visuals are PHENOMENAL! but as other people have said, the game lacks a tutorial or any way for me to know the controls which makes me unable to play sadly. Also I don't know if this was intentional or not but the game didn't capture my mouse and I couldn't move the camera around.
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Perfectly Safe CheeseThanks for the kind words! I’ve added some instructions on the game page. Hope you’ll give it another try :)
Edit: The camera moves to where necessary for gameplay, but we decided to lock it down to avoid having to model some things :D
Thank you so much! And thanks for the feedback. I added controls and some hints on on the game page! Hope you’ll try again :)
i instantly replayed it once i saw the message! haha! i was actually hoping to get updated on the controls, because the game looks like a lot of fun! So i hope you will keep on working on this game after the game jam :D the music and art like i said earlier are very beautiful and realxing. At the beginning i tried accessing the logs next to the house, becuase i had no idea off the controls and didn't understand that was supposed to be the log shop. I thought i will collect the logs over there to use on the log shop. Also i tried collecting the axe a bunch of times. So i think the axe is just a visual haha and i chop woods with my bare hands! hahaha that is one strong woman! Also, it is a bit irritating when i chop wood and right when i hit it one last time and when i stand very unpleasuntly the tree takes my life away :( right before it actually starts falling.
I rly hope to see more of this game in the future, because it was really fun!
That makes me so happy to hear!
There is definitely some work to be done on the “guiding the player” part. The key hint was a last ditch effort to at least show the player that there was something. And about that axe… We have an animation ready but we ran out of time.
And then the bugs. There are many. If you play enough you might catch them all ;) But that tree thing might be a buggy enough for it to warrant a fix within the 48h fix window. The tree is only supposed to harm you when falling towards you with some decent velocity. But oh well, it’s a game jam after all!
Thanks a bunch!
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