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A jam submission

Spirit of the ForestView game page

Made for GameDev.tv GameJam 2020
Submitted by Karhal, jilkos27, FoxyExi — 6 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#463.5003.500
Visuals#593.6883.688
Overall#783.3593.359
Mood#803.2813.281
Gameplay#1062.9692.969

Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Engine

Unity

Source
https://github.com/Karhalll/GameDev.tv-Jam

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Comments

(+1)

One of my favorites so far! The magic stuff is really nice, the character is great and the music choice was a nice fit! Good job!

Developer(+1)

Than you very much., we appreciate it:)

Submitted(+1)

Wow, I loved this idea! This has a great potential to make some nice levels! Keep up!

Just some tips, the camera always following the character is not so good in a platformer. You cant make it have an offset and follow only after you move the correpond amount. 

Some sfx and visual transitions would be apretiated.

For a game jam is great, nice one! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! :)
I appreciate your advice, adjusting the camera could help the game a lot to improve the experience from playing

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice music and unique visuals. I played this on a MacBook Pro in Safari and it was unplayable (maybe <10 FPS and glow effects didn't show up). I tried in Chrome and got a better frame rate but in both browsers my MBP felt like it was about to take off and/or catch fire!

I am curious how you made it launch into full screen when I clicked Run Game! That's something I couldn't make mine do.

Developer

Thanks for playing:)
I don't know where is problem, because on my small notebook to school (4GB ram and 4c Pentium), I can get to 40-50 FPS in Chrome

Submitted (1 edit)

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. The FPS was fine in Chrome, it was just Safari that had the glow and FPS issues. Both browsers nearly melted my Mac though haha

How’d you launch to full screen? Was it a Build Setting or a script?

Developer

It was not a full screen, but the game has a basic resolution of 1920x1080 and then it is just adjusted according to the player's monitor

Submitted(+1)

Nice! It worked well, I wish I’d done something like that for mine. 

Submitted(+1)

Stunning visuals and soothing music made this a very relaxing game experience :) Well made! Took me a little while understanding I had to press F twice to use magic. But after that I had a great time playing this! I was a little sad the game ended after the first level - I wanted to keep playing! :D 

Developer

Thanks for playing!:)
There was no time to finish the next level :C

Submitted

You're welcome :)

How many levels would you have made if you had the time? 

Developer

We don't know,  we would definitely expand this level to underground and add more puzzles. :)
And do this game someting like Seasons After Fall.

Submitted(+1)

Really liked the visuals, and was a relaxing game to play :)

Developer

Thank you for playing! :)
I'm glad you liked our game

(+1)

Really nice peaceful game! I'm not sure if I beat it or not, because once I got all 4 orbs the camera panned up to the sky and then stayed there for a while, but I had fun! Liked the interpretation of the time thing a lot!

Developer

Thank you for playing! :)
Yeah, you beat the game, level is really short.

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game. I'd have liked to see a few more options for time periods for different things, possibly adding a bit more of a puzzle element, whereas everything just seemed to be quite easy, if something lit up that means you need to change it. I loved the art though, and I love a bit of parallax scrolling!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! 
We had plan to add undergroud part, where we had some plan with mushroom puzzle. But 1 month is short, especially when we drew everything ourselves. 

Underground

Submitted(+1)

Hi there, cute platformer game, a nice little mechanic too :) I think it wasn't super obvious when I played that I couldn't grow out the roots of the tree without further upgrading my staff. Also the ending needs a bit of love as someone said, since I wasn't sure if the game froze or I had finished :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! :)
Add love to this game will improve gameplay. 

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

I have a real love/hate relationship with this game.
I love the idea and how you have done it.
I love the music, I love the art.

What I didn't like was how I often felt like I failed a part of the gameplay because it wasn't intuitive.
I mean that I felt that I had to redo things because they didn't work the way I expected them to.
One example is that for some of the jumps after you jump up you can't see where to land. Climbing the ladder just didn't seem to be obvious either. Perhaps after the ladder is made you show a little up arrow? Not sure.

There is some real talent here, but a couple of arggh moments also.
I hope this helps.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing our game! :) 
You're right. I think this will help us a lot:)

Submitted(+1)

Nice fun game! The art is really nice!

Developer(+1)
Thank you!
Submitted (2 edits) (+2)

Really great looking art. The mechanic where you make a specific part go to a different time is quite nice.

The ending though, I believe there should have been something to indicate that was the end (like a big text fading in saying THE END and a bit of story telling what the end was about), and have the crystals HUD disappear. I mean it is of course obvious that it is the end, but in the beginning I thought it was a transition to a new level, until I realized nothing else happened :-)

Fantastic work though! Short but great :-)

Developer

Thank you! :)
The game was still in need of a lot of polishing and level expansion. 
Unfortunately, there was no time to finish the game. The game deserves more work on it.

Submitted(+1)

Great job Karhal. I like the art and visuals with combination of music. Firstly I was confused by the tree part when you can just stay next to it, but afterwhile it was pretty smooth. It would be nice to have longer version of the game with more story :)

Developer

Thank you!:)
Adding a story directly in the game would be great, also an extension of the level.
Make a better background that is more recognizable from the playground and creates a better atmosphere. Apply the blur effect and play with the light. 
There was a plan to make the underground, I also have drawn mushrooms in it, but we had to leave it..

Submitted(+1)

Awesome visuals and ambiance with the audio! Please tell me what to do next, I'm stuck at the top of the very tall tree after the Ladder! I want to keep playing! :)

Developer (1 edit) (+1)
Thank you!
Try to go through the roots of big tree :)
Submitted(+1)

YES! I managed to finish the game finally! I love it :)

Submitted(+1)

Really beautiful game, art work and music were really good in this! The game itself was a basic platformer, but I liked the twist with the magic happening. Ending was a bit of a let down, maybe like a small beautiful text story in the end telling you have done something, but otherwise good job! :) 

Developer

Thank you! :)
Adding a story right in the game would be great,  also an extension of the level.

Submitted(+1)

Nice work! As others mentioned, the movement was dizzying. I wonder if it would be better if you applied acceleration/deceleration? Also jumping could help with that as well. There were a couple times where I missed the next platform because I jumped high, really fast. Otherwise, really awesome job! I liked the atmosphere and the timing element. The ending camera shot was really cool too! Only needed "The End" text lol.

Developer

Thank you for playing! :)
You right, game needs a bit of work on it. 

Submitted(+1)

As some other people already mentioned, the movement was unusually dizzy, which made jumping from one place to another harder. But apart from controls and camera, the art style and idea are on point! AND especially I loved the music! I think you need to continue working on the game, it seems it can become a really good game after polishing. But for now, still a good job!

Developer(+1)

I cant figure out what is happening. To fast movement for parallax effect? Some race conditions in code? Was working on the for few days and i still dont know what is happening... :/ thx for playing and feedback tho :)

Submitted

Hope you will able to find the solution for a problem because apart from that, the game looks cool

Submitted

There is potential and i like the style , but the moment was really jerky   made it hard to play.

Developer

Yeah. Cant figure out the jerkyness. Was working on the pass few days... :/ thx for playing anyway.

Submitted

Hey, I wasn't able to hear any audio in your game in the HTML version. And to me, the camera felt really dizzy.

I read the description and the story seems cool, and this game has potential. It could use a lot of polish after the jam.

Developer

Audio was off for testing. Its on now. THX for that :D

Submitted

Hey, I wasn't able to hear any audio in your game in the HTML version. And to me, the camera felt really dizzy.

I read the description and the story seems cool, and this game has potential. It could use a lot of polish after the jam.

Submitted

Hello,

Check the video

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing man. There is description under the game on itch.io page. No time to add in game tutorial.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I liked  the art .I also changed my rating when I played the game again.