The Last Guardian

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The Last Guardian

Game created for Ludum Dare 46.

In “The Last Guardian” you are tasked with keeping the last Tree of Life alive. Keep tree watered by manipulating weather, protect it by fighting invading monsters and growing friends. Rain clouds have various effects in this game. The better you take care of your tree, the better it takes care of you. Controls are explained in-game (gamepad recommended). Game takes around 7 minutes to finish, if you prevail ;)

In “The Last Guardian”, you will be doing your best to keep the last Tree of Life, well, alive.

• Your only tree is brown and sad? Sing a song to the clouds!
• Overrun by monsters? Smash them with your staff!
• Somewhat overwhelmed or lonely? Why not grow some friends!
• Hungry and hurt? Just remember what does not fall far from the tree!

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Controls

• WASD or ↑↓← → to move
• SPACE to attack
• Q (hold) to summon nearby clouds to your position.
• E to plant a Cactus, pick up an Acorn, pick up Seed, pick up an Apple.

Gamepad Controls

• Left Thumbstick to move
• X to attack
• Y (hold) to summon nearby clouds to your position.
• A or B to plant a Cactus, pick up an Acorn, pick up Seed, pick up an Apple.

Gamepad recommended! It's just... more comfortable.

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Tools

Made with Godot 3.2 engine.

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Credits

This is our second Ludum Dare entry. Everything made from scratch by the two of us, except for the music track. Music track is by Jason Shaw and is called “Hoedown”. Check Jason out at: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw

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A full game in the works!

Huge thanks to everyone for great feedback and reception! We decided to develop “The Last Guardian” into a full-blown game. It will need a new name before it is done, as the current name is trademarked (who knew?!). You can stay updated about our progress at itch.io https://limboofwonders.itch.io/the-last-guardian-full-game or on our newly-created twitter http://twitter.com/limboofwonders.

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Post-Jam version released. Please use original version for rating (version 1.0)!

Changes in 1.1:

• Harder difficulty available (optional)
• Illustrated cutscene
• Increased movement speed
• Tree drops seeds which you now need to plant cacti
• Improves attack and stagger animations
• Added options and pause menu
• Game win condition is more clear now
• Added simple screen fading on scene transitions
• Druid comments when tree is in danger

Changes in 1.1.1:

• Ram now stops when he hits an obstacle like a tree
• Fixed a bug where player was suddenly granted a victory if  12 seeds were accumulated instead of acorns

Changes in 1.1.2:

- Reduced rate at which cactus seeds are dropped - Moved water pools slightly away from the tree - Added easy difficulty level - Added support for non-16:9 aspect ratios - Ram AI improved - Tweaks to collision shapes of trees and rocks