A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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Explore, build and expand in this god game of tiny proportions! Find the resources you need to set up settlements and upgrade your fire until it becomes the Sun!

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You can already wishlist Build The Sun on Steam! This really helps us a lot in the long run so please do it if you want to support the game's development! :)

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This game was made entirely in 72 hours for Ludum Dare #56! The soundtrack was made by Pentadrangle, the cover artwork on this page was made by Julia Godrie! Everything else was made by Rémy Devaux!

Benjamin also made another game for this same Ludum Dare, with even more music from Pentadrangle! Check out Combo Critters here!

We're definitely going to keep working on this one, so you may also consider this version as a very early demo!

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⚠️Hold click on the very first fire nest, or the game will crash!⚠️

You need to hold click for actions to go through. This is true for the whole game, but it only crashes for that very first fire, and I couldn't figure out how to fix it for this jam version, so please just hold click there at the beginning! Thanks!!

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The smooth animations remind me of rainworld

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It's 2 am right now, I finally beat this game and I hate it with every inch of my body

Ima play this later brb

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finally beat the game after like 4 hours!!

having an issue where no matter what, only five woods go to the fireplace.

NEVERMIND the other three are stone

How did you do that lighting?

My game keeps crashing. I mean, I just wanna build a sun but it just crashes. :(

super cool game. what is this game engine?

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I could be wrong, but I believe they build their games in their own engine, Sugar https://trasevol-dog.itch.io/sugar which hasn't been publicly released yet

built two suns, is that anything?

i build a too much farmers and now i cant do anything

that’s not the sun?! image.png

yep...

how… many more times did i have to upgrade?

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💀 NOOOOOO

pretty nice demo

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really great and addictive game , but please add saving the game and getting the rock for pickaxe has very low chance and takes a lot of time.

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um... what is this thing?

ERR [string "code/game.lua"]:501: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'xa' (a nil value)

Stack traceback:
    [string "code/game.lua"]:141: in function <[string "code/game.lua"]:137>

    [string "code/game.lua"]:501: in function 'update_camera

the camera probably zoomed in or out too much, you’re bound to get some bugs in a game made in 72 hours :P

YOU CAN ZOOM OUT??!?!

not that far, but yes

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pls add saving

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i rlly liked this game :D please add a menu or a way of saving the game ;c

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Yeah I liked to but I would like to continue when I am stopping it:)

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Me gusto explorar este mundo de oscuridad, perderse entre el bosque y buscar fogatas o casas me parecio muy ingenisos. Me molesto no haber podido terminar el juego, enserio que intente buscar el recurso que me faltaba para entrar a la cueva pero después de horas de juego no pude.


Siento que la experiencia mejoraría imensamente si se pudiera visualizar tanto la cantidad de recursos, como la cantidad de arañas que uno posee.

Me parecío molesto tener que mantener el click para cada acción (talar madera, picar piedra, oro, recoger pica, etc.), sentia que me limitaba a hacer una sola acción a la vez aunque tuviera infinidad de arañas, de la misma manera que aunque tuviera los recursos a la mano, ocurria que las I.A no queria entregarlos y tenia que esperar a otra araña al final del mapa para que viniera a entregarlo.

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I must say a thoroughly addicting game, I mean I spend 4 hours playing it. Fantastic.

If I have one critique it would be that I would have liked it if there was a counter in the corner to show a count of how many of one item you have.

This is less of criticism and more of a suggestion, getting the rock to drop the stone for the pickax seems to have a very VERY low chance. I feel like I spent 45 more minutes necessary just hunting down rocks.

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I got a crash that i think occurred while i was holding click on a tree immediately after assigning my little guys to another tree near to it. How can i send you the full crash log?

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Yes I got that same error.

Here's the log. Somebody farther down the chats claims to have fixed it but didn't say how. Ugh, Answer is right above download section. Hold down click for first fireplace.

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i got that error but insead of the tree, i go'ed to the wood piece where u start the game, when i clicked it, it crashed and that showed

Excelente 💗💞💗

"No compatible downloads found". Is the Windows download Windows 11 only?

No.

Still no compatible downloads found.

Congratulations! I really enjoyed playing. It's a shame you can't save the game and continue expanding your settlement.

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4 things would be great: Firstly a tutorial, and maybe an explanation manual or I am stuck manual. Second would be a menu to play game, save your save files. The third thing would be ideal - settings. It would be cool if the frames to upgrade the campfire could show what characters show, if you are missing them, they pulse red. The last and fourth thing is maybe in the full game - npcs. That's all

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It would be nice to be able to save progress. These runs take a while, and I have other things to do. Also, this game is a little frustrating to figure out. Once I figured out the core loop, it became more fun.

PLEASE HELP ME

I losted my home, how can I find it ? Im in darkness since too long

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Game instantly crashed lol

This makes me think of Patapon...

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game crashes every time i click the piece of wood at the start of the game :(

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i saw that too!
(Edit): it didnt happen when i installed it first, but when i uninstalled it reinstalled it, that appeared! 

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it crashed and i lost all my progress

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Very fun! Would love to see some of the fixes listed here, but I imagine those will be done with the steam release. Some extra stuff–like 1-2 new resources or biomes–could be a nice way to flesh out the final game, but simplicity is key! A way to send workers to resources could also reduce wait times and add a little multitasking. But again, simplicity is key. Apart from that, it might be nice to have a minimap to how things have scaled. Overall, it’s really fun and everything scales quite nicely. Looking forward to the steam release :D

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I immediately crashed the game accidentally, what I did was start the game, follow the arrow and while auto scrolling to the fire I was holding down click, it clicked the fire and before the little dude could jump my mouse moved off the fire, the little dude jumped then the screen went black, I tabbed out of the game and saw an error message. hope this helps

I have succeeded, so what do I win?

one change I would make is when your trying to build/destroy something it prevents items that sootlings are carrying from being destroyed, cause I destroyed a couple pickaxes from doing that accidentally.

HOW?! i got stuck after getting that dude with a hat when making the rectangle fireplace. i thought it might be used to mine that big rock, but that doesn’t work

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for a game made In just 72 hours It's very well made. I love the simple yet relaxing progression towards making the fires grow bigger and stronger, as well as seeing just how far your colony has grown. however I have some issues involving game play. 1) you can't save. while not a big deal for a gamejam game made In 72 hours It's still a problem, especially with crashes happening at times

2) you can make the blobs drop things. this alone Isn't a big deal (though It's a waste of both the resources and blobs to do so) the problem Is the way you do It Is the same as doing anything else (holding left mouse) and with everything but the fire blobs and blobs crafting stuff being droppable It often leads to Important resources being dropped by accident while commanding something to be done (the windmill being a prime example)

3) there's no info on anything. whether it be what a house, a farmer, or anything you build actually does. how many resources you have or where you get them. or even If you can actually build something or If a blob Is just being slow. the game just doesn't tell you and It can dampen the fun.

4) The blobs are really slow and prone to getting stuck. It's not too problematic If they're nearby but If blobs from another fire nest Is called then a LOT of time Is wasted just trying to get wood and It's worse If many blobs are needed or If a wall of trees are between them.

Regardless, the game was joy to play despite my issues and I look forward to the steam release. 7/10

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tried to to play

Please send this to the developers to help them resolve this issue:

ERR[string/hame.lua"]:501: attempt to perform artimetic on a field 'xa' (a nil value)


Stack traceback:
[string "code/game.lua"]:141: in function <[string "code/game.lua"]:137
[string "code/game.lua"]:501: in function 'update_camera'

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I had that issue too, just as I got to the first location at the start of the game.

i figured it out :) thanks tho!

I dont think many people realized this, but the pickaxes can be spawned after you destroy the rock that has four different sections on it. Loved the game, would love to see names built in for the different little dudes.

I really enjoyed this game! Enough so that I made sure to wish list it on Steam once I finished making this video!!!

I loved the design and soundtrack! The control scheme was very interesting! I think some quality of life additions would be really nice such as a tooltip window that tells you what you need to build something or just what something you've built does. 

There's a good bit of waiting for actions to be done where I'm not sure if any of the little creatures are actually coming over or not. Something to counter this might be making a little icon that lets me know a creature is on it's way while I'm clicking and holding for creatures to come over! 

I'm also never sure if I actually have all of the supplies I need to build more, so maybe making the little silhouettes red if I don't have what I need would help to inform me whenever I'm trying to build something!

I really liked the little animations of the creatures running around and always had a little dopamine rush whenever I built something!

Overall a game I would play again! I think it's very impressive after 72 hours of work and look forward to the Steam release! Thank you for making this!

this was such a lovely experince, the looks & feels & sounds.. just adorable

only issue I had was pickaxs like most others xP

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Such a cute fun little game!

But WHERE ARE THE PICKAXES

lol

I'm sure it will be rebalanced for the steam edition ;) wishlighting now

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fun! i think you should make it so that on windows, you don't have to press the windows key to un-fullscreen

Oooh you figured it out better than me. I just went alt + F4. So yeah, I second this remark.

This is a lot of fun! I've played a few times, have yet to actually build the sun bc I keep having to go do other stuff though. It'd be really nice to have a way to see how many of each resource you have at a time.

Spoiler!

This game is really lovely. It takes many hours to finish and sadly there is no option to save it in between. Only way to pause is to keep it running in the background. I would love to know more about how the windmills and berry bushes affect the game. I mainly focused on one campfire, because at some point a blue diamond is needed, which is hard to get. But only one is needed to complete the game. After the two final glowing stages of the fire, you win. I thought that the fire would light the whole map, but nothing really changes, there are still a lot of unlit places. That was a little disappointing. If you want you can keep playing after winning.

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