Acorn Debt
Acorn Debt
You've just awoken from a quick nap before hibernation, only to find all but a couple acorns have been STOLEN
Collect as many acorns as you can, hire other squirrels to collect acorns for you, and upgrade them all the be the great acorn collector they were born to be.
Features:
- Unbeatable emotion-driven story
- Sleek, simple control scheme
- Modern graphics
- State-of-the-art computer controlled squirrels running at maximum efficiency.
- Innovative gameplay
- This game currently has *no audio*
How To Play
Tap/Click to move. Walk to an acorn to collect it, then walk back to the tree to deposit it to your stash. Use on-screen buttons to open the shop and upgrade yourself and all the workers on your payroll. Increase their carrying capacity, speed, and vision to increase their detection of acorns. Make sure to upgrade the acorn drop rate as well, else your workers might slack off with no work to do.
Credits
Programming, models, textures:
C-Tor
Animations:
mixamo.com
Color Scheme and color inspiration:
AUTUMN HARVEST 37 PALLETTE by mysunnyrose
Made for Comfy Jam: Autumn game jam
Comments
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Enjoy the game, simple yet really effective, I really like the fact that we can hire squirel to work for us. It's nice innovative gameplay.
Very cute fun game! I really liked the dancing squirrels! A little frustrating that the squirrels dont recognize that I picked up an acorn and they walk all the way over to it, bypassing closer acorns. Could be fixed with a check that ticks periodically to see if the acorn they wanted to pick up was still there - and you can put in a bReserved per acorn so multiple squirrels dont try to pick up the same one. Maybe "vision" is an upgrade for the player to zoom out their camera? Awesome!
I'm so glad you thought it was a cute fun game! Yeah I didn't put much finesse into the squirrels AI. The squirrels will just set out to pick up an acorn and they'll keep going to that spot even if the acorn has disappeared or rolled a little bit away. I did actually implement a prevention from 2 squirrels choosing the same acorn (similar to how you described), so as far as I know that shouldn't happen. Though it might seem like it happens since they might chase an acorn that was picked up by the player or decayed. YES! That was the plan for the player's vision mechanic! Thank you so much for the input, especially the technical part. Appreciate it!
often the extra squirels seem to get stuck after a while, they keep standing next to the tree still but jittering, fun game tho love it
Thank you so much for playing my game and letting me know about this bug. It is a known bug, but I underestimated how often it would occur. The AI is quite simple right now, they are just told to go to a very certain spot to drop off acorns and I didn't give them much tolerance. So they are constantly trying to reach that exact location but they block each other if there's too many 💀. Thank you for enjoying the game