Zima by Stefan0198
The freezing cold of winter rages on your farm. On top of this there’s just you and your humble cottage with one tiny oven. Hurry and burn everything you can find on your ground to generate enough heat! How many days can you survive?
Story
It is the 31 December 1817. You are a poor little peasant with a small farm in the middle of nowhere. In the coming weeks, temperatures are expected to drop to -70 degrees Celsius, and to make things worse, the totalitarian government can only provide aid in a month's time when the temperature has dropped. Now while you listen to the latest weather reports on your radio every day, you have to do everything to survive.
Gameplay
The most important instrument to survive is your oven. You can only survive within its range. By burning wood and clothes you can increase the range of your oven and enter new areas of the map. You have to sleep every night while the stove burns out. The amount lost depends on the temperature of the night and the amount of wood in the oven. And don’t forget to still your hunger!
Turn on sound, for the best experience.
| Youtube | https://misterjbro.itch.io/zuma |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/zima |
Ratings
| Overall | 1525th | 3.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1984th | 2.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1691th | 3.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 640th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 379th | 4.217⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 293th | 3.857⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 918th | 3.119⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 340th | 3.905⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
The intro you added is really nice, actual 3d cutscenes are pretty slick.
I like the radio announcer, and I was starting to get into the gameplay, but I think I ran into a bug? My hunger seems to be permanently maxed, but I can just go to bed repeatedly to advance the days. I can't do anything else because my hunger is maxed, and I can't eat because I have no food.
When I did still have some food the problem was that I could harvest a turnip, but that made me hungry. It made me more hungry than eating it refilled me :p
Let me know if I'm justb doing it wrong or if it's a bug. If it's a bug and you post a fixed version I'd try again.
thanks for the tip, i changed it. And yeah, we ran into some problem with our hunger system, so we changed it.
I uploaded an updated version, where we fixed some of our biggest problems. Check it out if you like.
Excellent work!
It feels a bit repetitive at times because there is really not much variety of activities - but I guess that is also somewhat of a point. And the hunger system works well now.
Honestly it could probably be "survive a week" and you would get 90% of the same experience without the IRL toil.
Also, I think the word you're looking for is "satiated", not "saturated".
The subtitles at the beginning (after you wake up) mention, that you need to fill the bar in order to have enough heat for the night. But you are right, probably this is not clear enough. Especially because it's probably very common to look around at the beginning (and don't look too much at the subtitles). We will think of a way improve this :D
Unfortunately some Bugs and often there was no clear hint why I died.
Froze to Death with Full Oven...
But a very good Start. The Graphics are pretty nice, the Sounds and Music are excellent. Well Done.