Perdita Creaturae by R1tz

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made by R1tz for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

A set of lost tiny creatures need to work together to find a way to make it back to their den. Play as a Hare, Fox and Bear using each of their unique talents to guide them through puzzling terrain leading them home.

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Special thanks to: Leohpaz - 12 Player Movement SFX TinyWorlds - Forest Ambience Peter Eastman - Peaceful Scene Coloritmic - Darkwood Forest Pixel Art Asset LYaSeek -MiniFolks Forest Animals

Ratings

Overall 241th 3.87⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 218th 3.786⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 345th 3.537⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 483th 3.75⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 359th 3.946⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 550th 3.096⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 748th 2.64⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 288th 3.833⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 4🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

Fractal Flower Girl
08. Oct 2024 · 00:20 UTC
I love how you animated the animals. I got stuck a few times, but overall I really enjoyed it. Great job!
gYziger
08. Oct 2024 · 01:00 UTC
I loved this game - great work on the puzzles, I never got into a situation where I was "stuck" because I explored the wrong way. Great work!!
hubol
08. Oct 2024 · 01:05 UTC
I like the art. Interestingly, the rock sprite is my favorite.
The puzzles are quite easy, but still cute. I liked when I had to stack the animals in silly ways!
DougT
08. Oct 2024 · 01:15 UTC
I wish it was designed such that it was impossible to soft-lock yourself and restart.
The second to last level my characters fell off the right side of the end, and I had to re-do it
It was a very well put together cohesive game! I was totally worried I just dropped a rock on my bunny and killed it.
Also by the starting image, I was convinced I would have to figure out which animals to put on a boat one at a time so they didn't eat eachother :)
But FR, good game. I like how the sizes and jumping abilities of each character fit well.

Only additions I would put in are of course more levels and mechanics, and something that would show you which door was opened when you sat on a button.
DoubleMintBen
08. Oct 2024 · 01:29 UTC
cute game, and I love the concept. Only 2 real complaints, one is what other people spoke on, the issue of soft lock, but the other one is that with it full screen and how the whole background moves when you jump or move lent itself to making me very motion sick, I couldn't play it as long as I would have liked to. if it had an option for windowed, or if the movement wasn't so fast and hard it probably would have been a little easier for me, but I'm sure this is also partially a me problem. reminded me almost of a single player ibb and obb, where each character has a job to do to let everyone get to the end, would be fun to see where you could take this.
Radjax
08. Oct 2024 · 01:33 UTC
I love the use of the theme! This reminded me a lot of a woodsy-Trine and it was really fun to figure out the combinations to get through a level. I'm pretty sure I brute forced one or two when I forgot burrows were a thing, but I had a great time!
Sviborg
08. Oct 2024 · 13:44 UTC
Very cute and fun game! 🐰🦊 The puzzles were a pleasant surprise, I especially liked how you need to use the abilities of different animals to complete the levels. 🌲 I liked the cute animations of the animals and the funny moments when you had to stack them on top of each other in a funny way. 😄 Overall, a great experience! 👏
Mitsukoy
08. Oct 2024 · 13:45 UTC
Really cute game!
LDJam user 262142
10. Oct 2024 · 14:19 UTC
I accidentally pushed one of the rocks to the left instead and ended up soft-locking but the reset button at least made it not tedious to restart the whole game. I like that puzzles include stacking them in different order too because I was just playing with the idea of hare and fox carrying the bear around.
Veeti Sundqvist
10. Oct 2024 · 22:48 UTC
I really like the game! It would be great if you could have the two other characters start to follow you if you hold down Q or something when at the end of the levels they have to walk to the end :smile: The game is very intuitive and the idea is simple yet effective :)
CatZP
10. Oct 2024 · 23:55 UTC
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I like the game a lot! Lots of hilarious moments when the bear step on the other two hahaha. Definitely have a lot of potentials, would love to see more of the levels in the future!

One suggestions would be that when changing characters it seems can only loop around. Change the controls into switch back and force could be much smoother.

Also there are several bugs regarding the tutorial resolution, but the interactable tutorial itself is dope!

Overall a great great game and I enjoyed it a lot!
The Quinnzite Mushroom
11. Oct 2024 · 18:47 UTC
This could defiantly make a full on leveled puzzle game! But the pixels being different sizes for tiles, creatures and background makes the game a little weird
Frostbeak
11. Oct 2024 · 18:52 UTC
Hey I really liked the level design, the one thing I felt was needed was a 1-2-3 control scheme to change between the animals. Good job!
Lachlan James
12. Oct 2024 · 03:02 UTC
Hey, cool entry! Puzzles were well designed and while you could soft lock, easy resets were a winner. Agree on a 1-2-3 control scheme as per @frostbeak's suggestion.

I also would have loved to be able to move my little forest crew around on the back of my bear for travelling to the end etc, but that's okay :( I was sure I was going to be able to based on the screenshots.
zSharpFire
12. Oct 2024 · 08:23 UTC
Really nice and immersive puzzle game, I liked it. The soft locking is a bit frustrating though.
Tudvari
12. Oct 2024 · 17:00 UTC
Awesome game, it would be amazing with some atmospheric, "Animal Well"-like sounds and background music. :) For the first few levels it felt a bit too easy, then I immediately got stuck, haha, what I wished for ^^ Soft locking was a bit annoying, had to restart a few times, but when I realised that the bear can jump on the other two, it was great :) Thanks for the game, keep up the good work!
Edit: Ahh, nevermind, there is sound, it was just very low. Now it's perfect! :)
She Wrote
12. Oct 2024 · 19:24 UTC
The atmosphere is well done. The abilities fit well with each animal, and I like how different they are from each other. It made me terrified to see the poor bunny being trampled by the bear, but thank God their cuteness was still intact! I didn’t quite like the pressing plate puzzles, not because they’re bad, but because I can’t imagine a puzzle like that existing in a forest. That usually wouldn’t be a problem, but the atmosphere is so good that it feels out of place. But overall, it’s a cute and atmospheric game with some decent and challanging puzzles. Well done!