The Great Tree

You are a witch tasked with saving the Great Tree.

A short top-down retro adventure game created for Kenney Jam 2022 (theme: "Growth").

Keyboard controls: "WASD" or arrow keys to move, "e" or "enter" to select.

Important update: The game tells you to press "esc" for "menu" and "back", but don't do it if you're playing in a browser! I'll upload a fix after the game jam is over, but, until then, you won't be missing out on anything but the menu music as you don't actually need to pause. To get out of "journal" and "inventory" screens, you can press "j" or "i" a second time.

For an immersive web experience (and crisper pixel art), click the bottom-right arrows to expand to full screen (may need to click again to regain keyboard focus). Or download the Windows exe below.


Credits

- All art, fonts and most sound effects from Kenney

- Music and stingers from JRPG Collection by Yubatake/OpenGameArt.Org

- "Fire Crackling" from AntumDeluge/OpenGameArt.Org

- "Stream Sounds" from kurt/OpenGameArt.Org

- "Forest Ambience" from TinyWorlds/OpenGameArt.Org 

- Pixel art outline shader from weekend, GDQuest and contributors

- Dialogue and quest-tracking using Ink Engine with paulloz's godot-ink

- Created with Godot



StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Authordandelion dino
GenreAdventure
Made withGodot, Aseprite
Tags2D, 8-Bit, Godot, ink, Pixel Art, Top-Down
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard
AccessibilitySubtitles

Download

Download
The Great Tree (Windows 64-bit executable) 29 MB

Development log

Comments

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A fun little game!

I was pretty motivated to get past the spider, thinking the stairs in the corner would start to climb the tower… but, I was happy to save the forest anyway.

Thanks for the effort making this, and for sharing the code! I’ll be taking a look into the ink integration!

Also, the UI interactions (look and feel, controls, etc) for the dialogue, journal, and inventory were excellent!

So nice of you to comment! Really appreciate the feedback.  You were probably picking up on how much I wanted to do more tower levels but didn't have the time :)

Good peaceful fun. Reminded me of the shareware games from the 90s.

Thanks so much!