Made for Acerola Jam 0 in (almost) two weeks.

If you don't have time to explore and experiment, here are some help:

List of all endings
  1. Guardian of the Mountain Peak
  2. Drown in water
  3. Frozen by mountain stream
  4. Couldn't complete a task
  5. Starved while cooking
  6. Lost in woods
  7. Didn't survive the night
  8. Starved to death

Full playtrough video (spoilers)

Ending 1 speedrun video (huge spoilers)

All endings video (massive spoilers)

Hint 0Hold "action" to run

Hint 1Look around for a triangle markers, and use "action" button to interact with them

Hint 2Cook a potato salad at home before going away

Hint 3Explore the mountain for wood and something for dinner

Hint 4Go home at evening

Hint 5Split the wood and cook a dinner just outside the house

Hint 6Have a good night

Hint 7

Observe its behaviour before doing anything, try to spot the best timing

BTW there is a nasty bug with fireballs: they remain invisibly floating in air after you die, so please restart the game if that locks you, sorry for that!

Hint 8Shooting will only give you some time

Hint 9Next hint will spoil everything

Hint 10Shoot when it's head is down, and, while it is not moving, interact with the head

Hint 11Go have some sleep

Hint 12No more hints, you're are on you own now

Hint 13No, really, there is nothing left for me to teach you

Hint 14What else do you want to know?

Hint 15Did you try to get a better time?

Hint 16Some of actions you do are not necessary

Hint 17Some of actions you do could be combined with others

Hint 18Some of actions you do could be combined with others because of a bug that lets you move while doing something else

Hint 19Like shooting (you probably got that already)

Hint 20Or some other full-screen action

Hint 21Like woodcutting

Hint 22Next hint will spoil my 1:02 strategy

Hint 23Run straight to the woods skipping everything else, shoot a right-most duck, start woodcutting and run back while cutting the wood, split the wood, cook a dinner (by spamming action buttion), run fast to the shooting spot, activate it as soon as you see it starts moving, shot it while the head is down, attack, go back to the shooting spot and repeat doing that (so you won't let it to take off even once), and then finish the last cooking sequence and run to bed

Hint 24Actually, my best time is 1:00, but I am pretty sure it is possible to complete it faster than 1 minute

Hint 25Thank you for going so far, no more hints

Hint 26For real, I don't have any hints left

Hint 27Seriousely, you've done everything in the game

Hint 28But you could play it more if you want (during the last 3 days before the submission I played it hundreds of times, and even now I ocasionally return here trying to beat 1:00)

Hint 29Cool, let's wrap it up and go play some other games!

Hint 30See you later!

Source code and devlog could be found here: https://github.com/mattekudasai/guardian-game

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fafa2256 days ago

Interesting game that with simple graphics, lines and mechanics manages to convey a lot.


I only reached two endings though (both of them bad: “lost in the wood” and drowned), I can start a fire but I am not exactly sure where.

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matte256 days ago(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, the game is half (or less) done, so many features are not there yet (and probably won't be, since it is a game jam project, and I only have 3 evenings left).

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