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Soilbound's itch.io pageTeam members and roles
Orkfaeller
DeagleDryan
How did you interpret the themes?
Combining RTS with Farming. In Soilbound you have to seed your units and after watering and harvesting send them to battle.
What are you entering?
Game only
Engine and tools used?
Dev&Programming: Unity 6, VS2022, Bezi
Art: Photoshop
Audio: Audacity
Music: Royalityfree Music by Kevin Macleod
Road to GDC
Yes
Consider my game for the Road to GDC prize
Bezi Challenge
Yes
We used Bezi and want to enter the Bezi Challenge
Synty Challenge
N/A
I am not entering this prize track
Which Synty assets did you use?
N/A
CrazyGames Challenge
Yes
Enter my game in the CrazyGames Challenge
Fan Art Artist
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Fan Art Process Video
N/A
Where can we find your Fan Art?
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Submission Confirmation
I have read the Bezi Mega Jam rules
This submission was created during the jam period
All team members and contributors are listed
Third-party assets are credited where applicable
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Comments
Such a nice RTS! This time the evil is fairy and you command the goblin. Bring me memories when you can play as the horde in warcraft for the first time. This game is so special because of the arts and those are animated too! Hope in the future polish, you can fix the unit clicking. When i click one unit and then click another, the previous unit will move to that new unit. Nice submission, man and nice job!
PS. I finished chapter 2.
Great job! I think a lot of people struggled with it because the enemy spawners all sent their units at the same time, which was an oversight on my part.
Thanks a lot for putting the time and effort in,
by all accounts it didn't turn out to be something that's easy to pick up,
much appreciated <3
Thanks a lot for playing and commenting! It means a lot to us!
This isn't the first game we've made where we flipped the script and swapped the "good" and "evil" sides. Seeing everything from another perspective instantly makes things so much more interesting.
The bug is fixed, but the patch isn't live yet—it was an issue with A-moving units to attack-move them.
Once again, thanks for playing our game!
Fantastic art - an incredible amount of work clearly went into this. I completely understand the challenge with the tutorial, as we ran into the same issue ourselves, but aside from that, the game is wonderful. One of the strongest entries in this jam
Thanks a lot for playing our little entry and giving us feedback!
Even after a couple of games, making tutorials is still pretty hard. You know the game so well and every detail makes sense. In the end, it's so hard to imagine what isn't common knowledge in your game and what you actually need to explain!
Thanks again for the kind words!
Really well made art but it is quite the task to figure out what you gotta do..
Other than that, amazing artstyle, very creative game, i love it! Please keep updating this, i wanna play this again.
Glad you liked the art.
The little guide in the lower right corner should talk you through every step of the tutorial, but feedback universally has been that's its not enough. We aim to redo the tutorial, and adress some control issues, once the jam is over and we're allowed to push updates again.
alright!
The art is really well made. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into that, but I had no idea what I was doing lol. I was trying all sorts of things in Chapter 1, but I had no idea what the goal was. The map seemed to cover part of the menu too. I really hoped to see what the game was about, and any help to get started would be great so I can judge it properly.
May I ask you that you upload a screenshot here in the comments? Its not a bug any of us have encountered during development and I'd love to figure out what might have caused that. You'd be doing me a BIG favour. Also, what ratio of monitor do you have if I may ask? 16:9, 16:10, 4:3 etc?
Thank you tons. We only tested this on 16:9, I assume this causes the problem then.
Appreciate the support <3
Well, first things first, you're ment to take your starting unit - the snail - and capture the Grub nest just to your right. Grubs are turned into your primary resource at your base allowing you to build an army.
It's all layed out by the tutorial Goblin in the bottom right, but maybe he was bugged out or obscured due to the same issue that messed up the rest of your interface ?
I love the art/drawings of the individual assets, i do feel there is some aspects of visual cohesion that hurt the game a bit, such as elements of the environment i am confusing with actual units, as the treatment is almost identical. For instance a random flower in the scenery had more detail and more of a unique design, than one of the basic controllable units.
The tutorial focusses on things like camera control and basic things that are intuitive to RTS players, but there was no real description of a goal, or what or how to build units, or even any indication that the tutorial had ended?
I then tried level 2, where I could actually play the game, but i was just lost, as i had no idea if i was meant to be building an economy, drone units, or what the deal with the resources even are. It did not help that in fullscreen, half of the UI is hidden behind the map, making it next to impossible to build certain units.
I also have to be honest, and say that I feel like most RTSs already have some element of farming in them already?
It is a very impressive achievement to put this together, and I really do love a lot of the art, but I feel like as a game that functions in response to the theme, priority might have been focussed on the wrong areas.
But overall I think this is a really great thing, I dont mean to be harsh or have this come off as negative review. just my honest opinions
I very much appreciate the lengthy comment!
Hope you wont't mind a lengthy response - I'd love get more feedback, if you got a couple more minutes to spare
I'd love to hear more specifics, if you would, so that I can take a closer look myself.
Any perticular assets you have in mind?
All units have like a bobbing animation when idle to help them not blend into the background (wish I could upload a gif).
Beyond that, if it is accented blue, it's one of yours, if it's red - it's the enemy.
A lot of enviromental assets propably do have a higher density of detail, especially in the textures, than many of the lower tier units.
That's largely an admission to my limitations as an "animator". An enviromental asset only requires a singular sprite, a unit requires at the bare minimum four. So every bit of extra detail quadruples(+) the work load. So fancier details have to be reserved for stuff that doesn't move.
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I'm certainly not entirely happy with the state of the tutorial. It was something implemented very late and I think its inadequate; but I'm not sure I can agree with you on all these points.
I apologize for the wall of images.
The tutorial then ends with the notification that the tutorial has been completed.
The tutorial isn't nearly as elegant, or hand holdy as I wished, and some of the hints are too easy to miss. But it's all in there. I'll gladly walk you through things though, should you feel like giving this another chance.
The goal in chapter two is to destroy the four enemy bases revealed on the map.
Please, PLEASE, PLEASE send us a screenshot of that. Sounds like a major bug that should obviously not be happening. We encountered nothing like what you're describing on our own end during development. What format monitor do you have?
No, please, more of it. We're allways desperate for actual critisim. <3
Okay great, let me read this and play it more, and I can give you more extensive feedback. I appreciate the level that you are going to invite this level of discussion, but I want to give it some time so I can give you more descriptive details. Maybe we can continue the conversation on discord DMs? This comment section probably isn’t great for it
I'm Orkfaeller#0883 over at discord.
Feel free to shoot me a message where/whenever, if you're feeling like it.
Thanks for your in-depth comment on the game! It means a lot that you took so much time to give us feedback on our submission!
Thanks again for your feedback. I can't express how much these kinds of discussions help us refine our skills.
I'm always down for further discussion, and as soon as I have time, I'll gladly take a look at your game to leave some feedback as well—it's the least I can do!
Cheers!
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Thanks bro i like your art very much and your goblin boss nose rember me matel slug 2 2nd male music is relaxing over all great job
The Art style is great. at starting it's hard to realize how to play but i figure out but after that i really enjoy playing it for a half hour XD overall a great entry...
Thank you, greatly appreciated!
well if possible then try my game XD
Thanks for the feedback! It's really humbling to read that you got half an hour of enjoyment out of it!
Okay, quite fun once I realized how to play. I think my biggest note is to improve tutorialization and not let the tutorial dialogs dissapear completely. Once I knew how to grow and send off my units I had a fun time. Nicely done!
Agreed on all points.
Having the tutorial at all was kinda a final hours implementation and I would have pushed for more clarity had the time been there. I think ideally you'd be able to flip back and forth between all tutorial messages at will. I know they are easy to skip in their current state.
Thanks for playing <3
Thanks for playing and leaving feedback! I agree, in hindsight it would have been better to focus a bit more on the tutorial. As the dev, it all makes total sense to me, but seeing how many layers we have, I can completely see why people need more guidance in the beginning.
Thanks again for the comment!
Love the art style!
Thanks, appreciated!
This was a really fun RTS, and the art style is killer! Also the images in the description and background are awesome additions
Thanks lots!
When a jam is over I really enjoy unwinding by just piling game assets into the page and see what I can make from it without much of a plan.
I'm quite happy how it turned out this time.
Very nice game, loved the art syle and everything, and also quite addictive. Still was hard to get what to do at first (I am not accustomed to this genre) but i ended enjoying quite a lot.
By the way the font of my game is indie flower, i had problems with my submission page.
Thanks for both playing and replying.
I don't think you're the only one with issues though,
I've seen a whole number of games have comments disappear, and submission pages purged.
Might be on itch' end.
Thanks for playing and leaving a comment. We learned a lot, that onboarding the player should be more priority the next gamejam!
Artstyle on this is amazing. I am a sucker for RTS games, really enjoyed playing
Thanks, much appreciated! I had a lot of fun illustrating for this.
It was quite a learning experience but I'm quite happy with how things turned out.
Really unique. Don't see alot of RTS style games use stylization very much
Propably not much of an conscious choice; my programmer wanted to do an RTS, and I only know how to doodle cartoons. We're both amateurs of limited range, but we make it work (mostly).
Curious, are you on the discord? would love to chat.
Sure, shoot me a message if you will. Orkfaeller / Orkfaeller#0883
Thanks for playing our game and leaving a comment!