Kaitiaki Harvest
Kaitiaki Harvest is a small quest-based foraging game, where you have to gather up medicinal plants to gain each star of Matariki.
WASD/Arrows to move. Click on highlighted plants when nearby to gather.
Credits:
Programming - Marco McGowan, Riley
Music/SFX - Finn Mitchell-Anyon
Art - Tina
Team Mentor and overall great help! - Hermione Mac
Karakia - Barry Soutar, Ngāti Porou
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Science Learning Hub | Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao
Te Mahi Māra Hua Parakore: A Māori food sovereignty handbook - Te Tākapu and Jessica Hutchings
Matariki The star of the Year - Rangi Matamua
Living by the moon - Wiremu Tāwhai
Dustimo Font - Cheapskate Fonts
Comments
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Love it. The idea of rōngoa māori gardens is inspiring and creates curiosity in me to find out more. I loved the graphics and the movement worked well for me. I found the sound of walking a bit grating in the end, but feel with background music it would balance that out. What you have created is educational, interesting and fun. You should be very proud, thank you for participating 🙏🏼
I loved the idea of this game! It is educational and is a nice twist on resource management.
Sound: playing via webgl and not hearing music. The end of round sounds are a bit jarring and don't seem fitting with the nature theme.
Visuals: I enjoyed how the trees/bushes responded visually to being harvested.
Gameplay: It feels like the player movement could be sped up a lot to make gameplay more enjoyable. It feels very slow and sluggish right now. A brief popup displaying controls would also help - the red box was confusing at first.