Super Natural Habitat Destroyer by _Rilem

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made by _Rilem for LD25 (JAM)
Super Natural Habitat Destroyer is a game in which you control an angry lumberjack who is trying to gather as much wood as possible. However there are some beavers that live in the forest, and they won't let you destroy their habitat without a fight.

Controls:
The whole game is mouse controlled. Hold your mouse to move the character, move over enemies or trees to chop them.

Chopping down trees gives you logs, which can be used to upgrade your character. Beware though, chopping down trees will also spawn beavers at the beaver den.

The purpose of each level is destroying the beaver den. Levels ramp up in difficulty quick, so you might want to 'farm' and redo some levels to get stronger with upgrades.

3 days wasn't enough to finish the game, but it makes a nice prototype.

Art by Ziryf, Programming by Rilem


spacebar haz magic

Ratings

Coolness 39% 867
Overall(Jam) 3.86 18
Audio(Jam) 3.57 43
Fun(Jam) 4.00 5
Graphics(Jam) 4.39 18
Humor(Jam) 3.96 9
Innovation(Jam) 3.39 67
Mood(Jam) 3.63 27
Theme(Jam) 3.89 48

Feedback

SanctuaryInteractive
18. Dec 2012 · 04:11 UTC
Really fun the controls need some tweaking and the 4th level unlocks but the sprite remains a lock.
GreenPixelDev
18. Dec 2012 · 04:12 UTC
Awesome job! The graphics are great and having an upgrade shop added some depth :D Looooved the muscle beavers! Hilarious!
Gravity Games
18. Dec 2012 · 04:16 UTC
I really liked this one! The tree chopping is fun, the upgrades are fun, this game is just a lot of fun in my honest opinion. The graphics are really cool, and the catchy son in the background is nice too. All in all, its a great game, and it would be nice to see more than 5 stages. I hope you work more with this.
jeroen
18. Dec 2012 · 10:10 UTC
This has to be the best gameover screen I've seen so far. Great art, and intersting concept.
rujo
18. Dec 2012 · 10:33 UTC
haha.. similar to my idea.. :) very nice graphics and gameplay
diggersworld
18. Dec 2012 · 13:52 UTC
I really like the presentation of this one. The controls need a bit of work. But it was fun!
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
18. Dec 2012 · 21:00 UTC
Lovely work you guys!!! I lol'd at the ripped beavers
uncade
19. Dec 2012 · 02:56 UTC
Loved the art in this, especially the opening menu.
Cthu
19. Dec 2012 · 13:56 UTC
Almost flawless, great work!
Wan & Manu
19. Dec 2012 · 16:14 UTC
Impressive entry, with nice graphics and animations, a funny take on the theme, and a classic but solid gameplay. I almost gave it the perfect mark on every category!

While the controls might feel a bit annoying when fighting large groups of beavers, you soon realize that with some skill you can actually avoid getting hurt by moving away just after you land a hit. The game's still a bit hard given that each beaver needs several hits to die, but overall it remains very fun to play.

Congrats!
Ludonaut
19. Dec 2012 · 17:08 UTC
Very immpressive and very fun. Suddenly, muscle beavers.
mmorphinee
19. Dec 2012 · 20:08 UTC
very fun but very hard ! And you can spawn tree with the spacebar, I think it was for debug purpose and wasn't removed
Maple
19. Dec 2012 · 20:19 UTC
I don't really know what to knock about this game. It feels pretty solid, other than the art perhaps needing a little touching up to fit the level of polish the rest of your game has. I think something I didn't like was having to walk into enemies as I killed them -- Might have been better to make a single click attack, and hold click to move. Otherwise, without adding more features to the game, this feels nice. Also, the music complimented the game.
gnx
20. Dec 2012 · 21:14 UTC
Excellent character design, the title screen looks very attractive and interesting. Gameplay has some problems, the mouse control just makes you want this to be a keyboard/gamepad controlled game and the combat also feels less than what it could be.

With some gameplay rethinks and balances there are assets here to make a very nice game :)
CappaGames
21. Dec 2012 · 01:31 UTC
I was surprised how much fun I had with this, and that game over screen is hilarious (and kinda creepy). It too bad I could figure out how to get past level 4 (game wouldn't move on to next level)....I wanted to play more.
Andrey Pradun
21. Dec 2012 · 02:43 UTC
Awesome game! Very funny game over screen.
BrothersT
22. Dec 2012 · 17:56 UTC
Hey, he does look similar! I really liked this game. The only problem was I got stuck on level 3 when I destroyed the dam/home and nothing happened :(
superscratcher
01. Jan 2013 · 03:29 UTC
Very fun!
fishbrain
01. Jan 2013 · 11:20 UTC
Superb job! Great graphics, tunes, and good fun!
Dining Philosopher
01. Jan 2013 · 14:37 UTC
Most fun game so far! Too bad there's no ending (people seem to get stuck after level 4 or so). Also it took me some time to notice the shop, but that's probably just me :-P
CireNeikual
01. Jan 2013 · 14:48 UTC
Fun game, very polished! It was difficult until I figured out that I can spawn trees with space!
voidstar69
03. Jan 2013 · 21:35 UTC
Brilliant!