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ahhh, i love inevitable death by bats. good game! it'd be cool to have some sort of high scoring thing.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD15 → Into the Pit: The Endless Caverns
By mklee
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 25 | 3.65 | ||
| Graphics | 24 | 3.69 | ||
| Coolness | 3 | 29 | ||
| Overall | 31 | 3.48 | ||
| Fun | 31 | 3.37 | ||
| Humor | 61 | 2.46 | ||
| Audio | 62 | 2.57 | ||
| Innovation | 76 | 2.81 | ||
| Community | 117 | 1.88 |
ahhh, i love inevitable death by bats. good game! it'd be cool to have some sort of high scoring thing.
Juggling is fun. Whoah, I can go way off the top of the screen!
Getting bat combos is awesome :) Good stuff!
I actually was able to survive for longest not trying to dash and instead just dodging the bats. The screen shaking is distracting.
Fun, but it seems there should be something to do to the bats?
This is pretty dang polished for a Ludum Dare entry! The beginning seems a tad uninteresting, but that's just a question of tuning. Nice job.
I love the game mechanics, but I wish there was a button for dashing because double tapping isn't as instantly responsive as I'd like it to be. Still, herding the bats into a big group and hitting them all for massive amounts of points is addictive.
I liked how the bats went after me FAST when I died (for eating me I suppose xD)
Nice graphics and easy control. It would really benefit from some music, a catchy melody instead of constant noise.
Good luck!
Fun game, but I think some music would have really added a lot. It's a little tricky sometimes to figure out the recovery on the dash and when you can start a new one, but I got the hang of it after a little bit.
Played it twice! All these flixel games are nice, I should check that out.
Rather simple gameplay but quite polished entry.
A leaderboard would make it really addictive I think.
Haha, I didn't realize on my first play through that I could kill the bats. I had SOO MANY of them chasing me. I beat the crap out of them the second time through, though. Juggling is way too much fun. :)
Really entertaining game :) As others have said, juggling the bats is awesome.
Weee, bat dodging ;)
Well done, seems quite polished, but the screen shaking is annoying (is that a Flixl problem? had that with another entry as well)
Great idea, very creative. I would love to see this with some lighting effects or something. Also, maybe tweak the frequency and behavior of the bats, not sure. Good job.
This is fun. The controls can be a little unresponsive though, sometimes when I doubletap it doesn't dash.
Also had the same experience as destroysound: not dashing and amassing a bat collection instead got me the farthest, but of course that doesn't give you any points ..
Man I loves me some Battletoads. I'd have liked to see dashing on a button press instead of a double tap. Also would have been nice to allow the player to dash in the opposite direction while still dashing (or near the end of the dash). Overall a lot of fun!
Hey, pretty cool. I like the simple graphics and controls, although I would've liked to be able to move faster (personal opinion).
I didn't realize that I can dash at first, but after that realization it became a lot cooler (and I died about just as quickly)
Cute graphics. And bat juggling is a sure plus.
I totally see the Battletoads influence. Had a lot of fun with this, and the graphics look great.
Nice pixel graphics. Double tapping didn't seem to respond always which cost me some health a few times.
Where's my bird-beak sword?
awesome
It's fun that you can dash into bats but not touch them. Double pressing a key for dashing means slower response time.
This game seems like a good idea, but the controls ruined it for me. I don't know if it was just my computer or what, I found that about a third of the times I double-tapped left or right, it wasn't detected as such and I didn't actually dash. Since the most interesting mechanic in the game is the bats and the ways you interact with them, and this issue made interacting with the bats effectively impossible, it was a bit of a downer.
Otherwise pretty neat, huh?
Great stuff, though I didn't realize you could dash into the bats until I read it here...
Audio is just static for me, which, while atmospheric, is maybe less than ideal. Cute overall, though.
Nice game! Would've liked more types of enemies. Juggling the bats was a nice element. Very polished compared to many of the other games. :)
Scrolling was a bit jerky, not sure if that was intentional. The first time I tried it I didn't realize the dash would kill the bats. It's a lot more fun now that I understand it.
Good game. Simple but fun. A health pickup would have been nice.
The bat juggling was especially enjoyable.
1700 points, 332 meters..
Never figured out how to juggle bats.. but I could kill them and get hurt by them.
Really like the visual treatment on this game and it is simple and fun to play. Feels like the excitement doesn't really ramp up at all after a minute or two it starts to get a little boring. This would be fun to see a post-compo version where there is a bit more going on as this is a great basis for a simple little arcadey game.