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Nia is finding her way back home, but some bastards won't let her go. But good thing is, she can destroy them with magic seeds, which grow into powerful mushroom.
Press arrow to move, Left Ctrl to fire, and spacebar to jump. Don't touch those bastards, you will get killed.
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Hey guys, thank you so much for your comments and advice. My wife just gave birth to our son, and I was so busy last week.
I just fixed some bugs, now Nia will jump and throw more smoothly. Do you think "throwing" is a good idea? Or I should give her a gun?
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Nia now can throw seed while running/ jumping; and she also can see further. With these changes, this game run a little better; but I think I should add more enemies.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #486 | Humor(Jam) | 2.69 |
| #525 | Mood(Jam) | 3.20 |
| #754 | Fun(Jam) | 2.87 |
| #879 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.55 |
| #910 | Overall(Jam) | 2.84 |
| #990 | Theme(Jam) | 2.80 |
Comments
@Haokarlos: sorry, I don't have a Mac right now for testing (built directly from Unity). I will check it later. Thank you.
Weel, I'm not sure why you don't want such a gorgeous looking game to not be rated for its graphics. It really is that dood looking. The idea itself is good, but the execution could be further improved into a post compo version. I like the idea of throwing the growing mushrooms, but I feel like it's hard to use that properly. But for a 72 hours game, this is not a huge issue, especially when it's so well presented.
I always die because she attack only stop.But the game is very cool!
While the controls and physics could use some work, the charm and derpy humor kept me playing for way longer than I expected,
Minor nitpick here, but a lot of people don't read several lines into a description, so try and provide the controls for your game in the game itself.
More generally speaking, the game's rather pretty but the mushrooms seem to fall on their side whenever I throw them. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but it looks a bit glitchy. Since you're working in unity, I think a better approach would be to disable the physics on the mushroom once it's planted (mushroomObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().SetActive(false);), and just keep the collider as a trigger so any baddies that walk into it get killed. (make sure it's only a trigger so Nia can walk past it and it doesn't get knocked over - trigger colliders don't have physics)
The idea is great but the throw mechanic is too long :(
Great and colorfull 3D graphic :)
Graphics and audio are great. I really can't say much about the theme... This uses 4 button controls and the only growing I see is the mushroom. I do have a minor complaint about the escape key not exiting the game. That being said, the game is very well put together, and the concept feels uniform in all aspects. I feel like this was done well. Thank you!
Great graphics and overall polish! I'm always amazed at the level level of quality that some developers can pull off in such short periods of time. Great Job!
Very beautiful game but the bastards are coming too fast she doesn't have time to throw her mushrooms.
If you get an error on OSX: Open terminal
type "cd", drag the main.app, add "/Content/MacOSX"
Now chmod +x main
Good to go.
Very interesting gameplay, the mushroom is quite funny, lol. Great graphics, love the atmosphere!
As soon as the game loads, my character immediately runs to the left and falls off the world. Looks nice, from what I can see before I die.
i assume you got the graphics on the unity asset store, thus the missing category - the mechanics were not polished and it was difficult know when enemies were coming - good effort
Fun concept, but difficult to play due to the slow mushroom throw. I'm also not a big fan of the one hit kill mechanics.
Nice game! Really pretty even if you didn't do the art. I think a bigger version with other kinds of mushrooms would be a fun game!
I do wish I could change direction mid-air while jumping. But it's not a big deal. :P Good job!
Really wanted to give it a try but doesn't work on Mac OS 10.10
very interesting weapon haha, fun game :), great looking game for that matter
Atmosphere was cool, and the graphics were great (would have rated them highly!). SFX could use some rethinking, but it was a charming little game nonetheless!
Wow Guys! Nice atmosphere you have here. Some magic you have done in 72 hours. Good job!
Haha I love how it glitches in most funny way for example when you jump on mushroom and the situation when mobs are running after you :)
This has the potential to become a full game. Keep it up.
Hey guys... you should have allowed to rate the very cool graphics... +1 for that... with some gameplay (control) polishing this would be a good project for a post-compo version... Good job..
Hey guys, thank you so much for your comments and advice. My wife just gave birth to our son, and I was so busy last week.
I just fixed some bugs, now Nia will jump and throw more smoothly. Do you think "throwing" is a good idea? Or I should give her a gun?
Great graphics. Without reading the description, I was confused at first since I wanted to bop enemies on the head. :D Pretty neat otherwise, the music is very relaxing.
Nice game guys, good photos, nice graphics, nice music, congrats! (:
Themeing isn't amazingly strong to either growing or 2 buttons, feels like the throw system needs some speeding up and tweaking. It's definitely promising, and way more ambitious than most LD titles, so that gets my vote for sure. Would vote for graphics and audio but there's no options for that. I think the throwing mechanic is fine as a basis, it needs some refining. Giving her a gun would drop some of the charm and make it a little more generic in my own opinion. If you're going to expand the game outside of the jam, maybe have vials or some kind of combination mechanic to compliment the throwing? Either way, interesting to see such an ambitious looking title show up in LD. Looking forward to seeing more in the future :).
Nia now can throw seed while running/ jumping; and she also can see further. With these changes, this game run a little better; but I think I should add more enemies.
Thanks, of course I do, man. I'm just spend some free time on this :D
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This was a really fun game! I loved the graphics but didn't like how long it took to throw the mushroom at first. It was fun after I got used to it though