A way home by Ambear

A game where u need to help penguin Toru get home to his parents! Unstable is weather! Enjoy!
Controls: WASD / Arrows - move.
There is no sounds or music in game, unfortunately, so you can turn on your music and play with it!
2D graphics - yanvel (instagram - @yanvel) Programmer - ambear1337 (instagram - @ambear1337)
| Portable | https://ambear1337.itch.io/a-way-home |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/a-way-home |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
A bit bored after a while ahah, is there and end ?
GG for the work :)
However it is just too easy! I just cheesed the game by putting myself in the top left corner and got hit only once from the sea to the end, but even before that dodging was just easy! Maybe it lack of differents enemies / obstacles; or technical difficulties with the plane? I really felt like i had nothing to do
Other than that, i like the idea of the weather changes for the theme, but not only it was only a visual change, but there was also a clear pattern: new scene -> nothing -> storm -> nothing -> new scene that does not fit the theme well. Maybe break the pattern and had control problems while in storms (the transitions were top notch)
Also it might lack of a pause button, and of course music but i saw you are aware of the later!
Keep up the good work! ^^
But the gameplay is kinda dull, and the game doesn't become any more challenging over time. Which is unfortunate, becaule I was really excited for the said thunderclouds, thinking they are the new obstacles I need to avoid.
All in all, a really solid game, that just needs a little more work on the gameplay part.
However the game is way to easy, it's possible to basically almost to do nothing and just fly in the middle. I feel that a lot of focus was spent of looks, engaging gameplay is missing.
Making it so you have to avoid more things than the birds would be good, for example also avoid the clouds.
Another thing was if you made us pick up things, it would give the player a motivation to move around and not just stay still.
@Magic_mike Thank you) Yes, we thought about making weather difficulties on brainstorm stage, but ehhhhh. no time(
@juanlu I will add it now, check)
@raphael-g Thank you! Maybe I will update it out of a jam
@oneiromancer thank you)
@stoffe good idea with pickuping things! maybe I will make it soon out of a jam) thanks!
Thank you everyone for feedback)