My Mother is a Caravan? by Gideonnf
My Mother is a Caravan? A Fantasy Rogue-like in a unique world where your mother got turned into a caravan by a spell from a wizard! Play as the son, protecting your mother, a caravan, from any harm while you earn enough money to turn her back into a human.
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INFORMATION
Caravan - The Caravan has to be with you when you're moving to different rooms. After all, you can't leave your mother behind! - Your mother can't be dropped when it is inside of walls or obstacles but it can be dropped if a monster is inside of it. - Monsters will target your mother, if you aren't close by!
Gameplay - There are some unique items that gives special abilities to the player. - When you reach the end and talk to the wizard, an inventory screen will appear. You have to sell your items to get enough money to help your mother.
Combat - There are two types of attacks. Melee and Range. - There are UI elements to represent how many times you can use them. - You can dash away from enemies or around them, but you cannot dash into them.
Trading
Trading was suppose to be one of the components of our game, where you can trade items up for more better items, etc. However, we had ran out of time near the end because of a lot of unexpected bugs with our map generation, enemies and items.
You are still able to access the trader, however as many have tried, it can be glitched and you can get many items. It is not at the polished state that we targetted. I still hope you enjoy the experience despite that!



| Youtube | https://gideonnf.itch.io/my-mother-is-a-caravan |
| Youtube | https://gideonnf.itch.io/my-mother-is-a-caravan |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/my-mother-is-a-caravan |
Ratings
| Overall | 843th | 3.646⭐ | 207🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1016th | 3.42⭐ | 209🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1260th | 3.267⭐ | 208🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 975th | 3.767⭐ | 208🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 553th | 4.075⭐ | 209🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 695th | 3.502⭐ | 209🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 356th | 3.67⭐ | 199🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1144th | 3.438⭐ | 202🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 111🗳️ | 167🗨️ |
My only quibbles are mostly with the UI. Most things are nonblocking, so you can (for instance) talk to an NPC while picking up the carriage. Or, when navigating a menu, you swing your sword. Some of the collisions were also a little odd. Relatively minor stuff.
The music was nice, but the track was short enough that it got a little repetitive. The SFX were nice (I especially like the wizard's "oho").
Great work for you first Ludum Dare, hope to see you back in the future!
If we had more time I'd have love to fix some of the issues you guys had pointed out.
My team is also really great!
Nice graphics and audio!
Thank you so much for playing our game! We definitely had fun making it and seeing you enjoy our game, be it through the art or the gameplay, really makes us happy! Cheers!
Thank you so much for the generous rating! We will take this experience away and come back stronger! :D
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! We will definitely digest this project and create something better in the future! That being said, Your submission was totally mind-bending! Thank you for stopping by and telling us how you felt about the game, Peace:v:
A big thank you to all of you who stopped by and left a comment! its really nice seeing so many people appreciating something we created and I am very thankful :D
For those of you who liked the art, We are very appreciative and thankful for your support, For our next jam(hopefully), we may be doing a 3D game!
Many of you praised the abundance of mechanics, and without our large team of programmers, that would never have been possible. Thank you all for stopping by and taking some time to leave your thoughts! :smile:
There's a lot to do in the game so I'll definitely be giving it a second go! Well done.
Yes Mama?
Earned enough money to turn me back?
Yes Mama,
Telling lies?
No Mama,
Turn me back then,
Woah Mama!
The control screen also.
I would polish the controls.
Bug: at the two guys on the beginning, you can just get infinitly amount of the 3 items.
Where to is ell the items? are there other merchants?
Maybe the intro would have explained that to me, but atm i don`t really know what to do there...
Love the anime feeling, what's with the title, subject matter and kawaii caravan pictures, haha. Art and sound design are solid too, and the writing was funny!
I'm not too much in love with the combat to be honest. Something between the hitboxes, the general feel to it and the sameness of the enemies, I suppose - it's a bit hard to describe. I appreciate the variety of items, although I'm not quite sure what all of them what they do.
I wish traders in the real world would trade me 1:1 disregarding item quality :P
And it seems nothing even attacked my caravan/mother?
Despite those gripes though, this is a pretty solid and fun game with a surprising scope and number of systems (kudos to your programmer(s)!) for a LD jam. Well done!
@crispy-chicken @spyranteros @iker-diaz @gabrielh @mirsakka Thank you so much!
@randdir @jamesolivermusic Thank you! We'll keep that in mind!
@elk Thank you! We're happy to see that you enjoyed the game!
It was also a bit difficult to understand where my sword was pointing, but no, overall I liked the game. Lovely graphics, good sound, maybe a bit cryptic as to what I was supposed to do, but I liked it.
Overall, I liked the graphics and gameplay, and there was a surprising number of systems implemented for a game made in 3 days. Great job!
@sakiyuuki Thank you very much! Sorry the controls were a bit hard when you used the trackpad, we'll keep that in mind next time!
@tenofold Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I wish we had a bit more time to add more explanation to items
Lots of potential! x
Nice work.
First of all, the game look amazing! And the sound effects and music are great!
The concept is nice, I really like it!
I only actually have one little complaint, it is that when I try to get to a room on the side I can't get there by walking towards it while being near a corner, despite there being no walls
Anyway, nice game, silly lovely story!

The art style is amazing and the gameplay is just so enjoyable!!
It was very fun and just a great game!!
My suggestions would be to actually have the mother targeted (the other commenters addressed it already), have a visible cursor to let me see where I'm targeting the ranged attack, and finally increase stamina regeneration. There's also a tiny oversight: an enemy spawned in the door smoke, unable to move, and the doors remained locked until I figured it out.
@kiln Thank you! We will defintely keep in mind about how we can use camera effects for more visual feedback.
@alaah Thank you for the feedback, we'll keep it in mind.
Music is a bit repetive and boring, but enough for the mood, art is excellent.
And the idea of mother turned into caravan just had to make ma laugh.
@dnich013 We are glad you enjoyed our game! Thanks for the positive words!
All in all, very well thought out little game. Kudos!
@hermeses Thanks for the feedback! Not gonna lie, we actually forgot to increase the boss health haha, it was this low because we were debugging the end of the game.
Also great humour. Actually laughed out loud during the intro sequence
It felt polished and I didn't notice any bugs or strange behavior... at least nothing stranger than my mother being a caravan :laughing:
On the first instruction page the "click to continue" is half covering the border so it looks cut off. When you interact with your mother, picking her up, there is a jump in the animation where you've brought her nearly up to full height then it jumps back to the resting down animation then back up again. If you face your mother when picking her up then turn the other way, the caravan for a single frame jumps to the other side before realising it was in the right place then jumps back again.
I got lucky on my second game that the wizard was just two screens away, within searching a total of four screens I earned enough to turn my mother back to normal again and win. That's just the luck of the RNG gods I presume!
I would say the animations and graphics need some more polish to them but overall it was a fun experience and definitely worth playing.
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@kjscott Thank you for bugtesting! We will be sure to take note of such problems in the future :)
@jupiter-hadley @ursagames @kaafirookie Thank you guys for the showing our games on your social media! You guys are awesome!
This is some of my favorite pixel art/animation I have seen this jam.
Fantastic work.
Love the humour, very cool idea for a game. good execution overall.