In the marsh lies Trullskoll cave.
A lonely troll lives there.
He is you.
You are the troll.
THIS GAME INVOLVES MURDERING BUNNIES FOR FOOD.
That's a disclaimer.
This is a survival sort of game where you have to gather materials and fight enemies and hunt animals.
The game has simple crafting that allows you to make traps, 3 tiers of armor, and 3 different weapons for you to use against 4 different enemies, as well as innocent animals with delicious meat inside them.
While you are out hunting, you may encounter humans attempting to hunt /you/.
The frequency and difficulty of encounters with humans is based on two values: How much the neighboring town hates you and how much they fear you. The two start out at zero and increase or decrease from various interactions with humans.
Additional Notes: I put off doing music and a title screen for last, but I'm too tired to possibly do those now. Speaking of which, I apologize if this description reads something like "clackle my wizcarbon in the fixy widget, meeeaaahhh." or something nonsensical like that:
I'm so tired.
My everything hurts.
I hope you like my game anyways.
I'll definitely do a post-comp version with more things in it.
Controls:
-Left and Right to walk.
-Up to jump.
-Z to attack.
-X to throw rocks if you have them.
-C to place traps if you have them.
-Space to interact with objects.
-P to pause
-Esc to exit
The tooltips will lead your way.
Compressed source included in the download.
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EDIT: Sorry the pacing is so slow, I didn't really have time to test it. Try hitting humans until they run away until you get at least 1 hatred and you'll be more likely to encounter more. Also, there is a coding error with the totems right now so use them with caution.
EDIT2: The finished game has been uploaded to Gamejolt, for those who are interested in playing it.
http://gamejolt.com/games/trullskoll/96821
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 50% |
| #4 | Graphics | 4.69 |
| #8 | Overall | 4.26 |
| #13 | Theme | 4.33 |
| #31 | Fun | 4.00 |
| #42 | Mood | 3.95 |
| #115 | Innovation | 3.65 |
| #399 | Humor | 2.87 |
| #447 | Audio | 2.76 |
Comments
Very nice and polished. Fun and unique. Would have needed some kind of music or ambience to get more of a forest feel. But I guess you were busy drawing all of that art :)
EXCELLENT game. Brilliant premise, well-executed, great to look at. All around fantastic.
This game is great. If you made a commercial version, I would buy it.
If I didn't trust you (which I do) I'd have a hard time believing that you made this in 48 hours ^^
I am super impressed =D
Best entry I have played so far. Excellent effort for such a short time.
Graphics are the quality of a released game. Sound wasn't the best but in the time used they are still great.
I'd love to see this developed in to a full game. Well done
This is my favorite entry so far! The art is really great. The bone armor looks so cool! I was also really impressed by the number of mechanics in the game, but it seemed to move very slowly. Once I got the spear and bone armor I was able to grind way more resources than I needed, but I still got very few human encounters, and sometimes it seemed like I missed the humans and had to wait another day to hope to see them. I played for a long time and only wound up with 3 metal.
Right on!
This is very, very good. I am with avultima above on not getting it how you got all this to work and play this good in just 48 hours. Maybe you've had some neat base code, eh? ;)
By the way, I liked the game a lot and it had me in for a _long_ time, but for me the most interesting part is the logic behind the reactions of animals. I mean, when they get hit - they run, that's clear. The interesting part is that they react when I do something next to them, but not to them directly: like I hit another animal close to them or I just miss - all that.
Would you care to elaborate on that in some kind of a postmortem? And what are your media channels that I could follow to get notified of a post of some sorts?
Also: throwing rocks just... ROCKS! And the armor is very rad!
Thank you for all your wonderful feedback! By the way, if you want to learn some things from my code, I support that! But be aware that a great many things in there are hastily designed, possibly broken, or made in a very simple way in order to save time.
By your request I have made a post-mortem blog on this site.
nice work, though there're too few human even I have one hatred point.
Wow, nice work! There's a lot of depth to this game, although imo it started to feel somewhat grinding-heavy early on. The graphics and animations are superb, the atmosphere is nice as well, but some form of music or background sound would have been nice.
Crazy ambitious game! :D
Best ive played so far, really cool - troll armour is amazing! Will play again when its possible to get more metal, played for 30 mins and got 1 piece.
Wow! I really like this game. The pixel art is pretty good. I remember playing a Warcraft III map where you controlled a Troll that had to survive. This game has the same vibe. Great game man!
For a 48h game this is very well made. The simple two palette art works great, the sound effects are nice. The controls are responsive and the mechanics are well thought out. Overall, a great entry!
Really good game, very fun, lots of content for 48h and great graphics
Brilliant, the lack of sleep was worth it. I tried to get metal armour, it took me so long I maxed out everything else, but I know you're aware of the pacing issues ;P Best I've played so far!
Excellent !!! Fancy graphics, great ambience, a little to slow progression (30 minutes to have 15 metal) but despite that it's a brilliant game and it's currently the best game I've tested
This is really great. Loads of fun and a fantastic feeling of progression. Great Job!
Not bad! Pretty addictive crafting survival game =) But after 15 min playng it gets kinda boring...
One of the best entries I have played. Amazing visuals, especially for 48 hours. Nice progression and the controls feel tight.
It's a cool game. I liked it, specially the graphics, but I found the gameplay a bit repetitive.
Whoa, good stuff! Pacing a bit slow, but all-in-all very complete.
This game is really fun, but it also really slow and not challenging after the first few minutes. I tried your suggestion and letting humans running away, but it didn't seem to work. :/ Great game otherwise, though! I love the art!
This one is really good! I had a lot of fun in this game and I loved the graphics. The game lacks music though.
Love the graphics and the game is super addictive! Brilliant work for such a short time. But I guess I found a bug because at some point the troll started walking on its own and I couldn't change directions anymore.
Awesome. Quite slow, especially considering there isn't much else to do beside feeding your hunger while you wait for humans. But I still enjoyed it :)
Well-polished, addictive variation of "Don't starve". Great job for 48 hours! Two notes:
Background forest could be more irregular.
Please add confirmation on exit (Escape button). :)
Your game is really fun, charliecarlo! Fantastic job on the pixel art! The lighting in the cave and human torches give a nice effect, and it is so satisfying to hurl a stone after a fleeing human.
Your entry is a perfect example of what Ludum Dare aims to inspire!
Note: A prompt on ESC would be nice.
Amazing!!!! Everything about this is awesome. Obviously pacing is slow but i havent tried the updated version. Theres so many little epic details, from the way the armor gets cooler and cooler to the combat to the subtle lighting effects when you enter the cave. You have a winner right here.
Great graphics! I looks like a survival game. But there is nothing out there. Hard work in the jam!
Really amazing and well polished game. The graphics are fantastic and the gameplay is really nice. My two only complaints would be about the pace that is very slow and the lack of quality audio. Other than that, you did an excellent job for a compo entry, congratulations!
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THIS IS EXCELLENT!
How you did this in 48 hours is beyond me! And you did it with Game Maker, the engine I use. For me, the source is the best thing about this. I will study it and hope to make awesome stuff like this.
Shame there is a lack of audio. Controls are responsive, art is perfect, inventory works great and objects spawn as they are supposed too. I have only played a bit, but this is so impressive.