What is this game?

The Heart Pieces is a top-down game where you have to pick up healing items and bring them to a dying heart, in order to save it. You have a limited time to do so, and each item brought to the heart gives you more time

The game challenges you with several puzzle-like rooms, where you have to manage the little time you have to collect the items in the right order.

According to the rules of the Compo format, all the game and the assets were made by me, during the first 48 hours of the jam.

How do you play it?

The way you want. The game is compatible with WASD, Arrow keys and gamepads. Simply move the character like in any other game! You can pick up the items by walking on them and give them to the heart by colliding with it.

/!\ The gamepad controls doesn’t seem to work with the WebGL version. They’re supposed to work with the executables though!

Thank you if you played the game! This is my first Ludum Dare submission for the compo format, so it means a lot that you decided to try my game! :) Thank you very much!

Changelog

  • Fixed a bug making the music restart if losing on level one.

Download

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TheHeartPieces_Windows.zip 25 MB
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TheHeartPieces_Linux.zip 27 MB

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Good job!

I liked the way you introduced the fact that the player can bring the objects back separately by positioning the heart in the center of the room and the objects to the left and right of it, clever. 

My only... complaint is about the last level. It wasn't necessarily clear to me that all roads lead to objects. 

Thank you very much for your feedback! I’m glad you find the level design clever haha :)

I’ll try to improve that last level, if I get to continue developing the game! And add other ones as well ^^ Thank you for that complaint, it will help me improve it

(+1)

A very good game 👌

Thaanks!