Simple but sweet mechanic. Perfect for this theme! :) Love the art style, it's beautiful. :)
The animations of the effects were also really nice.

Great game, nice art style. Good job!

Very nice, I found a little bug though, I threw my arrow to far to the right, and then when I went to pick it up and shoot again, the character was stuck repeating the firing animation, but firing to the right.
Still very nice. Amazing what can be done in less than 3 days

Genial, tiene una pinta tremenda.

amazing really fun and great art. I also ran into the character looping of loading the arrow

cool

Great!
The visuals are fantastic. The artist did a superb job. It reminds me of Tiny Thief. ..I wonder if 5elephants is 5ants... or is that just a coincidence?
Anyway, nice colours, animations and visual cues. All goes towards a fairly intuitive experience.

Not introducing the double jump at the start meant that I never found it until coming back and reading the controls again. Odd choice, perhaps just mentioning it at level 3 could fix that (unless you did and I didn't notice).

The arrow pull back was a tad slow, compounded by the fact that there's no way to cancel once you start to charge it. I'd ditch the bow setup animation and have it start pulling back the bow immediately. Then you could have the option to release early and fire a weaker but arcing shot. Then I could fire over things, opening up my choices a bit.

great game! clever mechanic

Amazing graphics, but the jumping physics are bad :(

The visual style of this game is so awesome, great job! Wow, i was totally sucked in just be the screenshot. the game play feels really nice

Nice one! I like the graphics and the game mechanic. The level seems a little small though.

Fun game. Great art style and animations. The jumping was non-responsive most of the time however and it would be cool if the arrows could pass through the vertical platforms.

Excellent. Beautiful graphics, great implementation. Good idea for the theme.

smooth and beautiful. perfectly fits the theme. kudos!

Hi, Miguel (programmer) here! I'm feeling a bit disappointed after reading a couple of complaints about the jumping... This is my first platformer but I tried really hard to get the jumping right! :(

Can you give more details about it? Perhaps you didn't notice that you can control the length of the jump by keeping the up key pressed? You can also double jump after the first wave.

Fantastic art, reminds me of Adventure Time. The game is pretty fun. Only thing I would change is the jumping... it feels like the gravity is too hard and you don't stay in the air for very long.

GOOD : Very beautiful and smooth. I like the little time needed to "load" the bow.
LESS GOOD : Too much waves in the level. I wanted to see more level art !
BUG : At the bottom left, there is problem : I get stuck sometimes. When I get out of the screen, I can't get back.
IDEA : Introduce special arrows in some levels : auto returning arrow, auto aim arrow, ...
CONCLUSION : Very good :)

Great job. Artwork is just perfect.

Love it, fantastic art, colours and animation. Great playability as well, really responsive and can get quite challenging. Great job!

really nice game, the art is awesome and the gameplay is smoth good job

Gud for gaem to plai.

Very very very fluid controls. Core mechanic is nearly flawless. Graphics are AMAZING. Animation of movement and idle is great and the death of enemies with the leaf burst is wonderful. Sound is a bit lacking, but it's a very small complain on an otherwise stellar entry.

YOU SHOULD FEEL PROUD!

Very good game, challenging, art is great. I like it a lot.

Really solid controls, loved it. Beautiful art. Only a fine piece of music would've made this better.

Amazing. The audio is lacking a bit (music), which really is the last peace to make this even more shining.

Visually stunning. 5 stars for graphics!

I love the gameplay on this. I wish time before I could fire my arrow was reduced a bit, but that's the only complaint I could think of. Great art, great presentation all around. Good work!

@neekobus Nice comment! I'm adopting your comment style.

@5elephants
AWESOME! - The graphic style is very beautiful. I also liked the windy background sound. It suits the game perfectly.

NOT SO GOOD - I couldn't figure out how to keep my character from aiming to the right. I wish I didn't have to wait so long before shooting an arrow.

BUG - I didn't encounter any.

IDEA - I think there should be more enemies in each wave. I'd also like the character to fire arrows faster.

CONCLUSION - A very good game.

Wow, very nice art! Controls were a bit weird at times, but nothing too bad. Could do with a little happy music though! Either, way, I really liked it :D

Wow! What a sexy lady! Every man's dream. Very solid controls & fx - liked it very much!

Looks gorgeous!
I found a bug, though: if you're try to aim while falling (falling of a platform. Not jumping off) you can just stand in the air for a while.

This game gets 7 stars for graphics. wowzers what a beautiful and nice playing game!

Very well presented! The audio could've been vamped, but otherwise it was nice. I think it would've been better if you could move while you were aiming.

I held down left click through getting hit by an enemy and recovering, and you can then run around and shoot the arrow (to where you were aiming when you got hit if I recall correctly). Experimenting with that bug somehow made me get stuck in the reloading animation, which allowed me to wait out the timer and see the ending, which was funny.
Also, on another play through, when I was running after one of the guys, he went through the wall and I couldn't shoot him anymore! Which reminds me -- I'd have liked to have been able to pick up my arrow after getting it stuck in a wall close-by, instead of having to walk away and then walk back. Otherwise, great job!

Great game, love the graphics!
I also encountered the firing animation repeat bug though. But still a great game :)

I've been looking for this entry for a while now. I saw it as a journal entry and just love the aesthetics. Stunning look, fun to play. Congrats!

I looove this one! I can freely say it's my favorite game of the jam. Oh, how lame we all are, thinking that the arrow is going to return to us by itself. Good job on making this!

Super satisfying game play, gorgeous visuals.
Great job!

Amazing visuals and gameplay. Fits perfect to the theme :)

Incredible artwork and gameplay!
Great implementation of the theme!

Incredible work. My favorite Jam Entry so far. Looks great, plays great, just overall extremely well done!

I loved it :D

Fun game and very pretty visuals and atmosphere. I think the difficulty should increase faster. Then, I got stuck in the right screen border after pressing down to fall through one of the trees (couldn't get away from the screen border and had to close the game). Respective the gameplay, I often clicked the shooting button while flying and I expected that my character instantly starts drawing the bow (what she doesn't). Beyond that, did you thought about shooting while being in the air?

Good job! The art is really nice and polished.

One of the best entries in LD28 so far! Congrats on the newground feature!
PS: I wish i could shoot arrows while jumping :D

Heh! At some point you could actually shoot while jumping but we removed it because it broke the balance and looked to glitchy... Perhaps in a post-compo version!

Btw, thanks everyone for your support!

Beautiful art. Fun game.

Lovely art direction and animation. I can easily imagine a larger version of this as an exploration/survival kinda thing.

Astounding visuals and tight controls. The gameplay gets a bit repetitive since there is no kind of progression and there were some bugs (enemies clipped through walls, my arrow got stuck in a place I couldn't reach), but it is one of the best entries I've seen.

This is really awesome! Loved the graphics, especially the day & night cycle. The theme was used really well. The controls are fluid. I don't know about the others but I'm okay with the jump physics when I found out you could double jump.

I encountered the arrow reload loop bug as well, which caused the timer to run out. And yep, that really was a cute way of getting disposed of. :P

Other than that I had fun playing! I hope you continue development for this game, maybe add more enemy types or levels. Keep it up! You guys did a great job overall :)

I'm getting a 502 server error when I go to the link. :(

I really enjoyed playing this game! The leader boards are already filled with players with high scores! D:

Damn controls.
Good addictive game anyway.

Love the animations! Great game!

i had no problem at all with the jumping, it runs smooth and looks great!

Really cool entry.. I like the graphics really much. Audio effects are sweet too, but it's lacking some music.. just wind is too monotonous after a while. I tried If there is double jump in first wave only.. discovering that it's not possible I wasn't trying it in later waves. So there should be some mention when you obtain that ability (only discovered it after playing when I read the description). But good job to all of you, it's really polished entry :-)

Wow, what a great entry! Blown away! :) The graphics look very nice, especially with the added day-night cycle. I loved the idea of only one arrow and you have to go pick it up, though at the start I didn't get it - until the very helpful hint appeared. Nice touch. ;)

Good job well done!

My word, this is gorgeous.

Amazing production values...but a bit repetitive. I barely felt endangered or excited while playing. I like the concept (Hell, I did something very similar) but it really should bring on some sense of tension or excitement.

I got stucked once and I couldn't see the character anymore. Otherwise, the game is awesome and perfectly fit the theme.

Looks really good and fun idea. I played the web version, and the enemies would sometimes leave the screen, so I couldn't shoot them.

Awesome work -- we did a very similar (almost identical save perspective) mechanic, but yours is so purty ;)

Great game, I played it for quite a long time. I was a bit confused about what were platforms though, and I didn't realize until about wave 5 that you could jump up on the branches on the right.

Really nice artwork... so lovely. Controls are not perfect... No problem... you only have to post polish ut for us :D

Really great art, perfectly matchingn colours.

When I got hit by on of the mobs in wave 2, it disappeared and I could not finish it :-(

Amazing game, beautiful art and an amazing idea! :)

Really cool graphics and sfx. The arrow only went straight, would have liked it to be effected by gravity more. But the game is still lots of fun.

This game is just gorgeous... I mean it. Really easy to play, simple and efficient concept respecting the them... green thumb!
Maybe some relaxing music would be a plus!

Amazing graphics.

Doing in a 5 members team really pays out!

One of the best games I rated so far. This is just Amazing, especially for graphics and audio but also for the concept. Congratulations.

Bravo!

Nice art work but I'm agree with Bruno Massa ;)

Excellent visuals and very nice concept using the theme. I did however find a bug: I died while firing and on respawn was unable to move or fire. The counter also counted down from 10 to 0 over and over again.
I just thought I would mentioned in case you'd like to fix it for a future update :)

Really nice game! Beautiful graphisms, easy to play and fun!

Really nice game, simple and fun, well done!

Amazing game, I love it!

Amazing,,, all game is fantastic!!

As everyone has said, this game has a gorgeous art style, always great to see flash games that aren't pixel art.

I'm not sure if you're going for some sort of contrast, but the audio doesn't really match the graphic style. And while adding more monsters makes things slightly more complicated, the game doesn't really get that much harder and becomes repetitive after a bit. The game was more tense for me when I thought that touching the monsters would result in instant death, but when I found out that they just knocked you out (and only if you *really* touch them) I didn't really give much caution as I jumped over them to fetch my arrow.

Wonderful game with astonishingly beautiful graphics.

Neat little game, controls feel very smooth and the graphics are great. I also encountered the bug with the looping shoot animation, though.

Cheers, Marcus

Fantastic art, crisp physics. Great work.

Really fantastic art! Visual excellence! The game feels perfect! However, if I could change a thing, it would be to add death upon collision with the enemy (instead of just temporary stun), to make it a bit more challenging. But then you should be able to retry the wave / level, otherwise it would become too hardcore.
Anyway - great game guys, congratulations!

The graphics are really polished and nice, but the score system isn't that interesting, and the difficulty quiet low... I was bored pretty quickly. If you made the difficulty and the score grow faster, it would make the game more entertaining I think! Great job anyway!

Nice entry, I always enjoy bows and arrows in games. I had some problems if my cursor went outside the browser, but otherwise everything worked. The jumping was fine for me, once you got the double-jump it worked well

Spent a lot of time on this; had a lot of fun ;)
Few things bothering me were that the physics are a bit clunky and that that there are too many waves in a level, making the game tedious at some point. I felt like I was grinding and grinding...
If you'd fix those and insert some sick music/sfx, this could be a really amazing game!

Nice Graphics. Well done.

the controls feel so smooth. like to play this.

Hitting two things with one arrow is an awesome feeling, wish the game gave me more visual rewards for doing so.

This might be my favorite implementation of the one arrow mechanic so far, but the game gets repetitive quickly. I feel the double jump is a bit unnecessary, having to jump from platform to platform adds to it in my opinion. Overall, nice work!

One of the best in LD28. Amazing artwork. The ending was really funny.

I think you should let the arrow fly through the ledges. It could be more enjoyable if the main character has more strength to make her really comfortable in controlling the stage, such as jump farther, be able to aim while running...

Nice take on the theme, very good art, beautiful spritesheets, good job!

Great game!

I found another bug though — on the left side, it is possible to jump out of the game area.

Overall an awesome game! I like the beautiful graphics and nice audio.

This is simple but fun,
and I like this graphics :D

I would prefer slower arrow. Very nice game overall.

Smooth! Same concept as my entry, but totally different take on it! :D Really enjoyed this!

Beautiful grapgics and very effective sound design.
The idea is simple, and it works well (although others have had similar ideas for their games).

The movements could be smoother and although the game is fun it gets a bit repetitive after some levels.

Great polish! :)

This would be way greater if the arrow was affected by gravity, though...

One of my favorite ideas to fit the theme, and beautiful art to go with it. The game is fun, but lacking a real sense of urgency (maybe difficulty ramps too slow?) since it doesn't seem like you can die by touching the enemies, and you are only knocked over briefly if they attack you. Timing out was adorable :)

Nice graphics, simple gameplay. I had no problems with the controls.
Getting hit seemed to have very little consequences. You get stunned for a second, but barely matters. It started getting a bit repetitive as there's only two types of enemies, and they weren't very threatening.

Clean and simple gameplay, nice graphics and animations. Would have been nice to have some music. Also, the game got a little boring, I wish it had more enemy types and introduced new types faster. I made it to round 12 or 13, and then I killed all enemies but the timer kept going down and I died. Maybe an enemy went off-screen? Anyways, pretty fun.

Very clean art style! The gameplay fits the theme perfectly. The pace and balancing is also very good. But the game really needs and online highscore :-D ! Best Jam game so far.

Really beautiful game! I thought the game mechanic grew a little old after a few waves. The enemies weren't especially challenging, where the main difficulty was in finding ways to shoot at the enemies. But it's a really great idea, and I loved the idea of having only one arrow to shoot at enemies.

Nice graphics and control. Got a bit tricked by the tree to the far right because I first didn't understand that the branches were platforms. Fun game!

I really enjoyed playing the game until wave 14 (or 15?) when there was a "game-breaking" bug. I killed the last enemy, but no success message came. The time just ran down until timeout

I really love the graphics. And the movement of the character was pretty smooth.

I just feel like you could make each wave harder. Starting wave 8 or so it's not really getting harder any more.

Awesome entry, very polished. Good job!

One hell of an entry. From the graphics to the animations (drawing the bow = reeeeally cool!) to the gameplay - smooth and beautiful.

Once in wave 9 or so there was this level2 monster I couldn't beat with my arrow, no matter how often I tried, so the time ran out. Known hitbox problem?

Very cool !

Great entry! Awesome graphics with a nice choice of colors, smooth animations and a simple gameplay!
But I think the game could be better with more aggressive monsters.