Very cool game! I'm very impressed that this wasn't created in the typical Godot/Unity duopoly, inspiring! Lots of good mechanics here, and I was blown away the first time I opened the shop to see the vast number of upgrades available.
Well done for such a short amount of time!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #1 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Audio | #4 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.708 | 3.708 |
| Gameplay | #4 | 3.536 | 3.536 |
| Fun Factor | #9 | 3.464 | 3.464 |
| Special Object Implementation | #17 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Theme Implementation | #28 | 3.464 | 3.464 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How is your game related to the Theme and Special Object?
Farm by chopping wood, mining ores and crafting chairs
What tools and 3rd party assets did you use?
Three.js / React / TypeScript / Blender / Aseprite
How did you use generative AI? (If you did)
No, all the 3D assets and sprites were made from scratch during the jam.
Comments
thanks a lot for your feedback and playing!
yeah, systems were focuses first to be flexible enough allow to add a lot of content quickly without being a pain (adding an achievement or upgrades takes like 5 mins now without being a pain)
we tried godot / unity in our first jams but I couldn't like them (unity compilation time / and godot gdscript & way of things), so went for a much more closer solution to 3D engine (without being a game engine) but still compatible with web, it was quite a blast to develop in ! :D
I'll maybe try bevy & rust next time then export to wasm for web support, we'll see
I can imagine! I used three.js ages ago and it was really cool but definitely a challenge!
I was using Chrome. In full-screen, the comrade upgrade screen is missing the scroll bar so endurance gets cut off. The shop screen has a scroll bar but the first one or two items are cut off. If you exit full screen, the scroll bars appear and you can see the full lists.
thanks a lot for your feedback ! yeah whistle sounded like a nice addition in order to control team from far away, testing would be quite a pain otherwise, glad players likes it too !
about the art pipeline, we modelized everything (all assets were made during game jam time frame) into blender, then the idea was to rig and animate models to export a spritesheet then draw on top of it to have a hand made style, but it already took a lot of time to modelize and animate stuff, so we went full 3D and rendered assets from blender, imported into aseprite, added a white outline for interactable elements and exported as sprite (webp for better perf / compression) and spritesheets
at the end I realized I could gain some perfs using sprites atlases (did it for trees / grass variants)
was quite a challenge and rush but somehow got a satisfying game 🙏
I really enjoyed the resulting art style! This is also the submission I played the longest (so far).
It sounds like you had a static camera in Blender, line up the model, render an image, and then stitched the sprite-sheets together from that?
I haven’t done sprite atlases before - I usually work in 3D so this was my first 2D game and I still have a lot of 2D stuff to learn!
5 days ago(+1)
('3D guy' answering here) - I'm glad you liked both the game and the art, and that you gave him a chance despite being really slow at the begginning ! :D
Yes as my friend said it was all on blender and not painted on top of it, I was sad at the beginning but I got surprised by the result and happy for finding this 'style' in the end. UVs and Texturing were kinda rushed because this workflow doesn't need to think about texture weight or exporting as 3d object, Texturing was made with the free layer add-on Ucupaint, I used some pbr to work faster and draw on top of it with a tablet. Did the animation with fast & simple/custom rigs, used the free add-on stop mo to have a fast preview of the step I needed for the 2D/drawing style, then ajusted the step in the render setting, and exported as multiple frame. For the rendering, yes I used perhaps 5/6 different camera (in orthographic view) depending the items and angle (same for grease pencil), this number gave a better control and non destructive workflow.
Aseprite was used just for trimming, fast quality check and exporting quickly as spritesheet.
Hope it will give you all the information you needed :p ! Thanks again
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