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Gunther Needs a Friend by Lemons

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made by Lemons for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Gunther Needs a Friend 🧟

Gunther Needs a Friend 🧟 is a game about a sad old man named Gunther and his quest to ~~harvest enough body parts to~~ make a friend.

Play as Gunther as he tries to sneak his way through graveyards to harvest enough parts to create his very own friend while avoiding those pesky guards!

Controls

Keyboard
WASD - Control Gunther
E - Interact
Mouse - Use Menus

Controller (Xbox Layout)
Left Stick/D-Pad - Move
A - Interact/Use Menus

Tips

If you're struggling with a level, or think you've harvested enough - you can leave the level at any time to move on!
The guards all move on a loop - learn their patterns.
If you need to make a quick escape, you can cancel your digging by pressing the interact key again. The shops upgrades are VERY helpful.

Fun Facts

  • Gunther has never seen a bird

About

Gunther Needs a Friend 🧟was made by @Mickson (Art, Sound, Design) and @Lemons (Programming, Design) Tools Used: Godot 4, Aseprite, Audacity, Beepbox, Energy Drinks

Screenshots

Godot<em>v4.0-beta10</em>win64<em>27gdDTJAPN.png Godot</em>v4.0-beta10<em>win64</em>CYcfMzztZF.png

Link https://github.com/Lemonszz/LD52
Link https://laserknights.itch.io/guntherneedsafriend
Link https://laserknights.itch.io/guntherneedsafriend
Link https://laserknights.itch.io/guntherneedsafriend
Link https://laserknights.itch.io/guntherneedsafriend
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/gunther-needs-a-friend

Ratings

Overall 52th 4.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 127th 3.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 234th 3.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 251th 3.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 225th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 93th 3.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 103th 3.727⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 145th 3.909⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

Stevie257
09. Jan 2023 · 01:33 UTC
Very nice! Loved the voice acting, and the game feels good to play
Avi
09. Jan 2023 · 22:33 UTC
Looks like a fun and very polished game! Unfortunately, i wasnt able to load it:

![Screen Shot 2023-01-10 at 9.28.07 am.png](///raw/a3d/11/z/55af0.png)

Made chrome crash + stop responding after the progress-bar reached mid-way. Has anyone else had this issue? Otherwise it might just be my 2014 Macbook calling it quits haha


Sidenote: I took a look at your git-repo -- Godot code looks quite clean!
🎤 Lemons
09. Jan 2023 · 23:01 UTC
@avi That's strange. Might be an issue with the Godot 4 beta I'm using. I'll throw up a downloadable build that might work out better.
Ra_sio
10. Jan 2023 · 14:04 UTC
Oh My God....did I harvested dead body? It's awesome idea ever!!!
Eranot
10. Jan 2023 · 21:26 UTC
Great ideia and implementation! Loved the SFX
Christian Zommerfelds
10. Jan 2023 · 21:41 UTC
Haha the game is a bit creepy :)

But I played till the end and enjoyed it!

My main criticism would be that the game is too easy. You can simply walk past the policemen. Also it would be cool if they followed you or turned their heads when they see you.

EDIT: forgot to say the sound and music is great too!
Rakthalekk
10. Jan 2023 · 21:43 UTC
This game was really fun! The premise is great and the voice lines are very entertaining. It took me a minute to get use to the fact that interacting is on release of E instead of on press, but after that it felt good! There were a couple times when an enemy was able to spot me through a wall, and the enemy detection upgrade felt less impactful than the others. The speed upgrades are really fun, watching this old man blast through a cemetery and gleefully dig up body parts. Unfortunately, the game crashed before I was able to buy the friend, after looping through the levels a few times, but it was definitely worth playing!
SgtWeirdo
11. Jan 2023 · 16:32 UTC
Well polished game! Good pacing, managed to make a friend. All the elements came together really well, audio, gameplay, theme were great! Thanks for making this!
Glaupe Cabral
11. Jan 2023 · 16:46 UTC
I don't know if it's my pc, but it kept giving an error and didn't want to open the game, you could see what happened and reload the game on your platform or something, I couldn't play, but from the description I was very interested. Even if you've already made some improvements and want to send it to me so I can test it too. I'm available. Oh, if you have a little time, enter our game and give your review too: https://ldj.am/$318266. I advise you to play the downloaded version, because the Ludum one is not adapting the window correctly!
Flying Dog Fish
12. Jan 2023 · 23:03 UTC
I never thought digging graves could be so much fun. The game looks great and the atmosphere is fantastic, mostly thanks to the music.
I found one minor bug.. the game doesn't reset properly if you play again, so you keep all your powerups. The game doesn't work on Firefox so I had to play on Chrome.
Belonzik
13. Jan 2023 · 15:53 UTC
I was a little bored at first, but once I got to the upgrade screen and went into the next graveyard the whole game clicked for me and was really fun! Nice and simple gameplay loop that I'm sure could be expanded with even more levels and mechanics specific to them. I wish the guards noticed you a little faster at first because I feel like I should've gotten caught multiple times, but didn't. Other than that I liked the music and the graphics are nice and work well. Overall a good game!
BangKerpow
13. Jan 2023 · 23:19 UTC
This is so good. The graphics are great the voice acting is fun. The progression is really cool in that while the first level is a bit tedious you get to re-run it as old man Flash and feel a real sense of progression. Once you have enough upgrades to make it trivial, it's game over. It's a perfect little experience.
Alex de la Cour
13. Jan 2023 · 23:26 UTC
Quality stuff! A fun little play, perfect length for a game jam game - nice pixel art and audio, it gave me some Zombie Ate My Neighbours vibes, and I thought the gameplay and controls felt polished and smooth. I loved Gunther's dialogue!
MightyBanana
13. Jan 2023 · 23:39 UTC
Really solid game! The artstyle is great, main character even has some voice acting. It is also very similar to our entry, but yours, in my opinion is better executed) You inspire me to be better, great entry)
🎤 Lemons
14. Jan 2023 · 04:26 UTC
Thank you everybody for your kind comments!
teenythanos
16. Jan 2023 · 03:58 UTC
I think others have mentioned this, but I got this error when trying to run it on itch.io. The design and story both look lovely, though!!

![gunther-error.png](///raw/04f/93/z/5683b.png)
BlueDingo
16. Jan 2023 · 06:45 UTC
really fun game, love the graphics and voice lines
Richard Vollebregt
17. Jan 2023 · 15:41 UTC
Great game! The graphics look really polished and the sound is great too.
Just one point I would suggest to improve on:
- The difficulty could be a little higher, as it takes a while to get detected by the police. I would suggest to add a mechanic where the police follows you when you're in the flashlight to make it harder to avoid them. And maybe also add proximity detection, as you can just run behind them outside the flashlight range :)

All in all a great fun game, well done!
Pusheeneiro
23. Jan 2023 · 09:47 UTC
Nice concept and great art.
Gossian
23. Jan 2023 · 22:02 UTC
Really enjoyed this! Very polished for a jam game with great visuals, great audio and a really nice balance to the mechanics. The system for buying items was nice and I liked that there was a conflict of buying power-ups vs saving to buy a friend. I was worried what would happen if I hadn't collected enough parts before the levels ran out but it was nice to see that they repeated. All in all a great entry! My favourite so far.