The Mountain Pear (やまなし)

A non-game based on a Japanese child story

Based on The Mountain Pear (やまなし), a Japanese child story by Kenji Miyazawa. You (crabs) try to touch the mountain pear as much as possible while avoiding a kingfisher.

Sadly, the game isn't really playable yet. I only put up the characters to show the overall atmosphere, and I ran out of time. I might finish it sometimes later.

Comments (5)

remco • 1 year ago • 

Nice pixel art. Reminds me of a lot of those early 90's screensavers.

It's as if you can see the exact moment you ran out of time: You where finished with the second pass on the fishes, and was working on detailing the pear. The crabs would have been next to get more texture.

voxel • 1 year ago • 

cute wiggly crabs, i hope sometime they get to touch the pear あきらめるな

Bklyn(@DevBrook) • 1 year ago • 

Cool artwork.Its unfortunate that you couldn't finish it. As a tip for making games, you should usually test a concept or idea by using simple shapes for the art and focus on creating the core mechanics.

Baconinvader • 1 year ago • 

Art is kind of charming, are you planning on making it a full game at any point? I'm sure it would be fun.

thomastc • 1 year ago • 

Interesting. Now I wonder what this story is about, because it sounds kind of random :)

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PublishedFebruary 27th 2023
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