Fairy Snares by ElllaDee
A little boy, running after a beautiful firefly, finds himself in an creepy forest, where he meets different creatures. They are look friendly, but everything turns out to be not so simple.рпр
Night Lights Team:
Programmer: RodgerChu and BigBluePie
Art Lead, 2D Artist: K.I.R. (background, way objects) discord: quitch#8919 artstation.com/quitch
2D Artist: Alice (characters, finalise way objects) discord: Nolofinwe#2573 artstation.com/summeralice
Animation: Zix-ex
Sound Design: alexandr pavlov
Game Design: ElllaDee



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppqENdpBDhw
| Fairy Snares | https://ellladee.itch.io/fairy-snares |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/fairy-snares |
Ratings
| Overall | 1578th | 3.071⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1784th | 2.5⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1743th | 2.484⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1539th | 3.071⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 211th | 4.314⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 546th | 3.6⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 606th | 3.714⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 73🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
Got stuck after freeing the rabbit and falling into the pit. I could not die or reset, the escape menu wasn't of any help. Tried 4 more times to go through but nothing :(.
Congratulations on your entry tho !
Yes, unfortunately we had some problems with time management (my bad), but still, we wanted to show you something and we 100% will finish this beautiful game.
Artists: https://www.artstation.com/quitch and Discord quitch#8919/ https://www.artstation.com/summeralice and Discord Nolofinwe#2573 and Twitter https://twitter.com/SummerAlice10
The bugs I encountered:
- The absense of bugs in the firefly catching quest. I mean literally - there were no fireflies or any other bugs present so I had to return to the Fairy girl empty handed. Still she reacted as if I did everything right.
- A pit hidden at the left side of the level. You can fall into it and the game will get soft locked.
- When you do fall into a pit the game does not end or restart. It just gets stuck. Apparently somewhere down there the character still exists and can walk left and right (as camera will pan the main level to follow).
Отдельный плюс игре за русскоязычные тексты. Хотя в паре мест, в шрифте не нашлось кирилической буквы и в тексте показался квадратик. В общем, я представляю что такое делать локализуемую игру, и поздравляю с тем что вы смогли осилить механику локализации в рамках Джема.
@dimonoider @hilvon вам спасибо) и отдельное спасибо за список багов, мы их все записываем и скоро садимся доделывать игру
Got stuck when I avoided the giant rabbit and then fell in the pit. Had to reload the game.
Apart from this, really enjoyed it ! Thanks for the experience !
Sadly there is no complete ending to the story but it's still very charming and a nice experience.
The background for the textbox seems a bit too large. There are usually only a few lines of text but yet it still covers half the screen, hiding all the beautiful art.
The first time I played I fell into the first pit and I think there is no way to get out or restart the game when that happens. So I had to force quit the app and launch it again. The second time the same happens. On my third attempt I figured out that there is a double jump :P
The atmosphere is really great which is what kept me restarting the app until I reached "the end" (at least I think I managed to get to the end).
These are the issues I would attempt to prioritize to fix:
- restart the player when they fall into a pit
- the esc menu doesn't seem to work at all. I could have used that to manually reset my player.
- add some sort of non-verbal tutorial to teach the player that a double jump exists. Without letting them jump into the pit until they figure it out. Check out this video about how mario levels are built in 4 steps. The first step is what I am talking about: https://bit.ly/3eAjJCR
- the animation states seem to be a bit broken. The character is "falling" even though he stands on flat ground.
Thank you very much for sharing your game. It was interesting to look at the art while listening to the very fitting music :)
Good work!
@okamit Thank you for playing!
@eugenik Thank you!
Sadly, I too couldn't get past the first hole until I read Noel Widmer's thorough comment. So I gave it another try and discovered a few gorgeous art pieces more.
The fact you fall deeper and deeper without end is, while fitting to this LDs theme, a frustrating experience. With a fix to that alone, the game would be a lot more enjoyable!
/edit: Oh, while it doesn't concern me, I really like the extra time you put into a localization to Russian!
to the whole team.
The graphics are just gorgeous!
I sadly got stuck after the rabbit trap.
After restarting the game, I managed to go further but didn't understand what to do with the big dark bunny. ^^'
I'd be curious to see more of this game!
I can't pass further after the first pit.