Coat Collector
The planet's getting way too cold for anyone to survive. Anyone...except YOU!
Gameplay
In this puzzle-platformer, each level lasts only a few seconds. In those few seconds, you have to find enough sweatshirts and furcoats to warm up sufficiently.
- Furcoat
- Sweatshirt
If you don't, you freeze to death.
BUT if you're too warm with too many sweatshirts and/or furcoats, you'll instead die of heat stroke!
Controls
A & D/Left Arrow and Right Arrow: Move
W/Space: Jump
E: Collect Item
Left Click on Inventory: Drop Item
Soundtrack
The game's soundtrack is available on
and more!
Download
Install instructions
Step 1: Click Download.
Step 2: Using your archiver of choice, right click on the file.
Step 3: Select "Extract here" (or anything along those lines)
Step 4: Open the new folder.
Step 5: Click CoatCollector.exe and enjoy!
Comments
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Amazing game! Art looks great, music is cool, and idea of the game is pretty original and unique. Overall, I liked the game a lot :)
Thanks for your kind words! :D
Great Game! :D the art is lovely and the music is splendid! The idea of having to pick up coats to stay warm, if not you die is really cool! The character is cute and the user interface is nice and clean!
Just it would’ve been a bit easier if you ran into a coat like a collectible and it put it on for you since this is a timed game and every second counts. Also, those snowmen are quite tricky… I would jump over them and they would still get me.
The levels are pretty good too I like the ice, just I have a few suggestions. Not sure if it was intentional but those bridges were raised off the ground a bit and not connected to it so I had to jump over the bridge instead of walking on it.
Also, I didn’t know that on some levels there’s another layer below so some arrows or making them more visible would’ve help
Lastly, I’m also not sure if it was intended to be this hard but I feel like the freeze death timer was too harsh, if you make one mistake you’re screwed!
But I understand I’ve been in a 72-hour game jam before and when you’re under that kinda pressure you don’t/can’t really think all about these tiny extra things. Overall the game was a bit tricky at times but it’s a pretty fun game a decent 6.5/10.
This is kinda a bruh moment but I just released a new playtesting demo thingy for my upcoming game and I desperately need playtesters or at least feedback. I would really really appreciate it if you can check it out and leave me some feedback :D https://recrafted-studios.itch.io/pinguino
Thanks for this in-depth review!
I agree on the art and music. If Cannoli and Karpo didn't join in, this game wouldn't have turned out nearly as good.
I intentionally had the player press a separate button to collect because there are some times where you don't want to actually collect anything because you'll get heat stroke if you do. So if you're, say, dancing with the right temperature and you accidentally touch a coat, you'd be toast. Minor inconvenience but ultimately I did it for the benefit of the player.
The Snowmen enemies aren't meant to be jumped over. You're meant to trick them by going near them, waiting for the animation to start, then going back. I probably should've offered an explanation to the player, which I didn't do because I wanted the player to figure it out on their own. That's definitely my bad.
The bridges being raised was just a result of how I used the tilemap system, both to place the bridges themselves and the bigger platforms. I didn't think of it as too big of an issue during development, but sorry if that was even slightly hindering.
The timer was made harsh because I didn't want to give the player too much free time. That would make some levels way easier and it would also be awkward when you get the right temperature and just wait it out. Although, I could definitely solve the latter by ending the level automatically when you get the right temperature.
I always love getting feedback or criticism on what I'm doing both because it reveals that people took issue to some things I didn't think about and so that I know not to make similar mistakes in future!