grotto
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Take your watering can all the way up an old tower to water a flower. Scale impossible structures, befriend birds, and find good fruit.
Features
- 5 Items to find and collect
- A challenging Tower to climb and platform
- A bird to befriend
Controls
- Move - Left Stick / WASD
- Camera - Right Stick / Arrows
- Jump / Pickup Item - South Button / Space
- Climb - HOLD Right Trigger / Left Shift
- Cycle Inventory into Hand - Right Button / F
- Drop Item in Hand - Left Button / E
- Pause - Start / Escape
Very Important Movement Options
- While climbing, if you jump while holding up you will do a climbing jump up.
- In any state while looking at a wall, you will do a wall jump.
- These can be combined in order to get a lot of height.
This was created over the course of a week and a half ~10 days for the Great Spring Jam hosted by Firith Studios check em out they are pretty sweet.
I made everything from scratch during the time, besides some bits and bobs of code, and the rain and hawk sound fx, which I got from freesound.org.
Hope you enjoy the game!
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are there more item interactions than watering the plant above?
Hey miguel, there are not any more, the rest are just collectable. the game was made in one week and I spent most of the time on the art / atmosphere haha. Sorry!
it's fine, i was just curious, took me a few hours to beat it, i really like the art direction
thank you!
I have only just begun playing your game and so far, the atmosphere is stellar!! I like what I am seeing. keep it up!!
yo thank you!
I really enjoyed your game, the aesthetics is so appealing to me. Is it inconvenient if i ask you how you gave this ps1 look to the game? Or what engine you used to make this game?
Hey thanks for playing it! I used unity and got the pixelated look by rendering the camera to an image texture at a low resolution like 640 by 360 (still 16:9 aspect ratio), and then I just used some post processing to get the grain and adjust colors to try and make it look moodier or older haha.
if you want to do a ps1 style super in depth, the ps1 had a thing where it averaged the position of each vertex so it gave it a wobbly effect and the effect could be reproduced in a shader in any engine. I didn't do this for this game but I want to try it in the future!
Thanks!!!! You're amazing bro honestly, keep up the amazing work
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!
I liked the game, the atmosphere, the graphics. There are a few quibbles:
- Controlling both the player and the camera at the same time - it's difficult, it's more customary to bind the camera to the character, so it will be more casual.
- The music would be a little more varied.
- Selected and unselected items are difficult to distinguish in the menu.
- I managed to climb the thin white pillars like vines, whether I recognize a bug or not.
All is cool! =)
yo thanks for the feedback, super helpful. The pillar climbing is not a bug, but I could add better visuals so that it is clearer for sure! If I ever update it this is all on the list, thanks!
This game is super adorable but I definitely ragequit shortly after riding the bird
thanks haha yea the end is pretty challenging
This was an awesome game. Looks, controls and everything were awesome. I really enjoyed each aspect of the gameloop. This was amazingly well done.
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! glad you enjoyed it
Hi, looks gordeous! Is there anyway to invert camera rotation?
Hey thanks! there isn't right now but if people like the game I may consider adding to it or making a more expansive version so its on my list thanks for the feedback
Played it a bit, and loved the whole aesthetics and feel, really nice work congrats. My only advice is working on the controls, they can feel a bit finicky (and needing reverse camera haha). Well done overall, superb work :)
Yea for sure! Thank you!
Lovely game with a great sense of atmosphere! I really enjoyed it!
thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!
This is so cool! Amazing work :)
thanks so much!
very cool! I love the design of the ground area :D
thank you!
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COOL BUT THINK NEED FIX BUG
Hey, there aren't any bugs in this video, you just have to rotate the camera and use the vines to climb up the wall.