Your game made the 2nd place in my personal rating with 28 total, one tiny point difference, congrats!
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My Friendly Little Island's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #3 | 4.273 | 4.273 |
| Theme | #3 | 4.394 | 4.394 |
| Graphics | #3 | 4.485 | 4.485 |
| Overall | #3 | 4.232 | 4.232 |
| Innovation / Originality | #4 | 4.182 | 4.182 |
| Gameplay / Fun | #4 | 4.091 | 4.091 |
| Sound / Music | #11 | 3.970 | 3.970 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
"My Friendly Little Island" is about making friends, helping others and personal growth. Everyone is friendly. No enemies or death. + Cute graphics :) (GBC only)
Did you use any assets?
Used: GB Studio standard font + palm tree image for logo
Comments
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback! This helps a lot. Yes, there is still quite a lot that needs work. I am going to fix the most important things now after the jam. I also plan to expand quite a bit on what is already there with additional islands. Once all of that is done, I am going to revisit the controls, incase I need to make additional adjustments. Very glad you liked the game overall 😊
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Glad you liked the game overall :)
Yeah, I know the beginning is pretty slow. I thought about changing it, to make sure people don't get frustrated and leave before the game actually becomes interesting. But I decided against it to make the consecutive upgrades feel more meaningful and rewarding. Probably not the best decision in order to win a game jam 😅
Anyways, I'm glad you made it past the beginning 😊
341 days ago(+2)
I'm really glad you liked the game 🤗
The trick with the high coconut trees is rather simple - the treetops are just actors, which are aligned with the trunks of the background image.
This is also the original reason, why the higher coconuts are white. Because I had only one color to work with for the sprites and wanted to keep the palm leafs in the same color as the rest of the trees (I did not know about layering sprites yet).
To make sure this different color actually makes sense to the player, I made the white coconuts give you 3 instead of just 1 coconut. This way getting the harder-to-reach coconuts is more rewarding and makes collecting coconuts faster when you need more towards the end of the game. Plus the white coconuts give the player something to strive for from the very beginning.
341 days ago(+1)
Haha, you are very welcome 🤗
Looking forward to seeing this in one of your future games 😊
343 days ago(+1)
Thanks a lot for taking your time to play the game until the end. Very glad you liked it 😊
Thank you so much 🙏
I thought about adding more islands after the jam, which should add a lot more exploration. I will probably keep the first island linear so that the new skills can be introduced one by one to avoid overwhelming the players right away. Plus this gives me more freedom in the design of the later islands, as I can assume a minimum jump height and don't have to worry as much about players softlocking themselves accidentally.
345 days ago(+1)
Thank you soooooo much! Also thanks a lot for your in-stream feedback. Very helpful 🙏
I am disgusted I tried to upgrade all my capabilities to the maximum I am stuck on the text that displays continuously, snif, I had the key, and I was going to open the door, what frustration after so much time playing!!!
Otherwise the game is very good, peaceful, we understand quite easily what to do, even if the character is really slow at the beginning, which may put off more than one :p . bravo anyway (except for the blocking bug :s )
347 days ago(+1)
Very sorry to hear you got affected by the bug. I have added a warning on the top of the game's page, but maybe too late for you.
None of my playtesters ever upgraded everything to max before seeing the ending credits, so this bug unfortunately slipped through.
But I am glad to hear you enjoyed the game until then 😊
347 days ago (+1)
The short answer is pretty much yes. The door is very close to the end of the game.
If you want to try the game again, you might want to try to beat it with the least amount of upgrades possible or to beat it in as little ingame days as possible (you will be told how many days and hours it took you at the end). Then it might be more of an interesting challenge to replay the game.
For more spoilers read below 😉
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SPOILERS BELOW
After you open the door you reach the mountain and can climb it in a slightly more demanding and longer platforming section. On top of the mountain you get the final villager. And then there's a little surprise at the very end 😊
347 days ago(+1)
Thanks a lot for your comment. Glad you like the game 😊
True, collecting coconuts can be a bit grindy. However I have also had playtesters, who were always like 10 coconuts ahead of what they actually needed. So I guess it depends on the individual play style. Pretty hard to find the perfect balance for everyone 😅
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