Critter Season by Trezark
:hammerpick: Our jam version is the download version "critter-season-1.zip", rate this one but it's not really playable. The Web version and the "critter-season-3.zip" are post-jam versions :hammerpick:
- #### 12/10 - Bugfixes, + door animation, game balancing
- #### 10/10 - + WebGL version, Bugfixes, game balancing, + music, + sound effects, + FX, + house building, + credit screen, UI update
Itch.io (post-jam) --> https://badroulboudour.itch.io/critter-season
A tiny village prepares carefully against the harsh season...
During summer, help the villagers gather resources such as food and construction materials! Build turrets to defend the village against the winter predators! When summer ends, everyone takes shelter against the cold... Will there be enough food for everyone? Will the defenses hold up? Will the village survive Critter Season...?
How to play
- Use the mouse to navigate the menu and the game map.
During the game, you can move the camera by bringing the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen.
Hold left-click on the animal and drag to where you'd like it to work. You can :
- :tomato: Collect berries
- :earofrice: Collect brushwoods
- :new_moon: Collect stones
- :construction: Build turrets
- :house: Build new houses to welcome new villagers
(If you want to know the cost of a building you must have selected a villager) - When every villager dies, the game is over.
A game by...
:frog: Sylvain Boisel
:lizard: Mathilde Durand
:mouse: Norah Fery
:rabbit: Elsa Macé
:bird: Nathalie Nguyen
The :sparkles: Dream Team :sparkles:
| Itch.io | https://badroulboudour.itch.io/critter-season |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/critter-season |
Ratings
| Overall | 388th | 3.694⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 619th | 3.306⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 460th | 3.406⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 177th | 4.129⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 188th | 4.25⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 540th | 3.111⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 449th | 3.196⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 284th | 3.839⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
The environment is beautiful and i like the cute **tiny creatures**.
That didn't prevent me from dragging my guys onto their jobs. They worked all summer and then winter came, they all went inside their house. A bunch of spiders arrived but then when winter stopped the spiders never left and the workers never came back:
I was pretty much stuck in this state. The description refers to a menu and game map? How to open them?
Those difficulties aside, the animations looked cute and the graphics were quite nice. I'm sure it's just broken on my PC.
My villagers worked hard and got a lot of resources, so they survived the winter, but enemies stayed outside even in summer and villagers couldn't come out, I suppose. So that's basically when game ended for me :')
Also, didn't hear any audio at all. Is it one of the known bugs?
Overall, I think it's a cute idea. I liked games made by some members of your team during previous jams a lot, and this one it quite different in atmosphere and general feeling, but I like it too. Hopefully you'll polish it so we can try the game how it was intended <3
We just posted a new **post-jam** version if you want to give it a try even if it still far from perfect :frog:
@kanity thank you very much, it's such a pleasure to see you play all our games !! :heart: Yes we were more ambitious for this one, and we tried to create something different from usual, it was a bit difficult for us. We didn't have time to put the audio during the jam unfortunately, but you can try the post-jam version :musical_score:
Edit: Finally it's fucking easy lol
All that is very fixable in a post-jam build though! Overall a very good submission!
Great work!
I liked the tower defense gameplay and this is a pretty creative way to contextualize it, there was a point where the game got too hard and the towers weren't enough to defend from the enemies anymore
great entry!