The Sanctuary

Category	Rank	Score
Humor	47	2.42
Graphics	74	3.00
Theme	77	2.46
Overall	116	2.31
Audio	122	1.54
Innovation	124	1.85
Fun	128	1.92
Mood	144	1.54
Community	501	2.11
Coolness	685

ziomorti 2011-12-20 13:37

Woah! 13? You made a better game than many of the entries I saw. If I can give you some suggestions: the solid objects tend to get confused with the background and when I picked up the big head I went right and then disappeared. Nice job!

jeck 2011-12-20 13:55

There's a certain sly humor in the "You made a friend" thing that I liked. Good pixel art, too- things were very distinguishable.

zorrtwice 2011-12-20 15:21

Thanks for the responses! Yah the walk off the right side is a glitch a lot of people found and I found it at like 901 so I couldn't edit it. To finish the game u have to go backwards anyways, so yeah. @jeck I was kinda going for that, like one of those badly translated NES games. I was going to put "(literally" after it but I ran out of room on the screen.

vdogamez 2011-12-20 19:24

Not bad. Somewhat short but amusing. The engine seems to have some bugs, especially with the jumping, (and the running off the edge when you find the head thing) but everything looks pretty and I like how he "made a friend". That is worth at least a few extra points for humor.

milo 2011-12-25 00:25

The font you used was fairly difficult to read, due to its kerning; the letters were touching each other.

I was quite impressed with the attention to detail in the backgrounds, since it looks good and is quite substantial.

joekinley 2011-12-26 07:54

Not even one blog entry? No timelapse and all? Sad me :/

Nice little game. Though at the time when you had to jump up, I had a lot of problems even seeing the platform.

Controls were kinda quirky. He moved while jumping, but falling down was straight down. Weird.
The character thingy reminds me of a japanese horror movie I watched a long time ago. =)

Good work on the graphics, nicely done. Unfortunately I had the same problem running into eternity.
Good luck next time, and write yourself a nice post mortem. I bet a lot of people would love to read it, plus you could use it in school somewhere and earn extra points.

zorrtwice 2011-12-26 15:20

Thanks! I know I didnt do a blog entry I was going through like 5 game ideas and i actually decided on the idea on the last day of the jam so I was REEEEEEEEEEALLY pressed for time. I'm working on a game outside of ld and I'm thinking of starting a dev blog.

make-a-game 2011-12-31 16:56

Some nice pixel work and an idea that you can progress on to make a kickass game. Good job and keep at it!

seagaia 2012-01-08 17:43

I liked your pixel art - but the bg/fg mix in too much and there isn't enough contrast to see what is steppable on without squinting.