Shellborne

For a free game it's actually not bad but it has a few bugs. Sometimes trees are floating. Also you can't pickup items from the turtle when on a bridge.

[h3]A straightforward yet fast-paced and challenging co-op game that requires a degree of coordination that's almost impossible to achieve playing solo.[/h3] You start out inside a protective bubble (which you can exit) with 30 seconds to quick harvest everything in sight before a large purple spirit moves to consume your turtle. From then on you have to do your gathering on the move. The turtle moves forward but will stop if there is an obstacle in your way (thorny bush, stone formation, broken bridge, etc). Unless you specify a map seed, each time you start over the area layout is different. So your first area might have you repairing a bridge while on a different run you might clear three areas without even seeing a bridge. Harvesting can be done by hand but it is faster with a tool. However, the kicker is that you have to drop your tool in order to pick up resources and deposit them on the turtle's corresponding storage area. Mix this with the fact that you are constantly racing forward and it's pretty much impossible for a single player to keep all the tools available throughout the journey. Probably still pretty challenging even with a full squad. The little purple skull spirits flying around will hit your turtle and then essentially super-slow/stun it for 5 seconds making it that much easier for the huge spirit to catch it. You can break this debuff by feeding the turtle a berry, though the speed buff will only last half as long. So the overall goal is to just keep going until you make it through all the "stages", which are specific points (looks like a dirt/sand pit surrounded by stones) where the protective bubble is reset along with the timer (and a bonus based on how fast you got there). Not sure how many stages there are in total though. [h2]Suggestions:[/h2] [quote] [list] [*]Allow players to swap between hands and tool without having to drop the tool (i.e. able to put a single tool on their back). [*]Slow down the movement speed of the purple spirit. [*]The container for the resource should be highlighted the moment the player puts that resource in their hands. [*]There should be some sort of prompt to give the player some general pointers and tips on how to play the game at the start instead of this information being buried within the "Gameplay" settings tab. [*]Add some more settings like V-sync and such. [*]Allow the player to highlight/target resources with the mouse cursor. Right now it can be dicey trying to face the character at a tree in a way that it gets highlighted so you can chop it. Precious seconds spent doing that makes it that much easier for the purple skull spirit to catch you. [*]Let the player pan the view somehow so they can see what type of area they are about to move into. There might not be enough time to gather all the resources in the current area, but if you know what type of obstacles are there in the next two areas ahead, you can make better tactical decisions on what to collect. [*]Show a progress bar over the resource being harvested. Makes it easier for the player to see how much better using a tool is vs. harvesting by hand. Also provides a good visual indicator in case you need to make a split second decision whether to bail on harvesting to take another action. [/list] [/quote]