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John and the Stairway to Zion

By lassedissing

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Mood943.64
Audio2363.24
Graphics3523.33
Overall5633.16
Theme5843.51
Humor8261.87
Fun9082.60
Innovation11812.15

Comments

korywazhere 2013-04-29 09:23

Thomas Was Alone clone in 48hrs not bad :)

ella-guro 2013-04-29 09:29

i realllly like the mood set by the environments. the lighting is really cool. but your character being a big orange-ish rectangle kind of clashes weirdly with the great style.

jami 2013-04-29 09:31

Nice game! Great atmosphere!

johnste 2013-04-29 09:34

Very atmospheric, loved the music and the lighting.

tau7153 2013-04-29 09:59

Really nice art style and good music but John is a little short. :)

glisk 2013-04-29 10:00

Nice thomas was alone clone with great atmosphere, the music combined with graphics is really nice (I like the orange color for the player btw).

Magnus 2013-04-29 10:03

Agree with ella, the player being an orange rectangle looks kind of off.

karsyf 2013-04-29 10:04

Pretty cool version of TWA, jump collision felt a little splashy sometimes but the atmosphere\music, little touches like the gently swaying level all cool

lanoiadimuu 2013-04-29 10:06

Great setting.
But some jumps were to hard to achieve.

morgawr 2013-04-29 10:07

Really smooth game, the rotating room gave me a bit of motion sickness and the gameplay was a bit slow/sluggish but pretty good nonetheless!

kefir 2013-04-29 10:18

Got to the end! My game have almost the same ending and main character looks very alike :) A little annoying that you need to be maximum accurate in movements or you will fall and have to climb back again.. and again.. and again.
Very good level design work though!

the-jahn 2013-04-29 12:52

I like the ambiance, though jumping can be a bit iffy at times.

yezu 2013-04-29 13:50

Great! The graphics are super, the ambient soundtrack fits well. Only the jumping mechanic could use some work.

What are shrooms?

lassedissing 2013-04-29 15:03

@Yezu
Oh forget to fix that!
Shrooms was a reference to an internal variable. It should have said crazy mode or something like that. Disabling it removes the swaying and background color changes.

edocentrique 2013-04-29 16:19

Great mood

quasiperfect 2013-04-30 04:46

The creepy music and lighting enhance the mood of this game, but the context set up by the dialogue snippets really define it.

grambler1 2013-05-01 08:12

Are the shadows rendered real-time? If they are, there's such a huge amount of potential wasted by not making something move in front of the light sources, it's almost sad. :/

The ambience was really cool though, and I was not affected by the dizzying effects, excellent job!

pixelfan 2013-05-02 12:01

Good game i love the music

shellfishgames 2013-05-02 12:12

This was great, I really like the atmosphere. What you did with the shake-effect (felt like it all took place on a ship), the lighting and the ambient sound is really exceptional and totally pays off.
The only complaint I got is that it's really quite repetitive and a little too long (John seems to be of the same opinion). Other than that it is one of the best LD26 games I've played yet.

killedbyapixel 2013-05-04 19:10

Level design was good but maybe too repetitive. Good visual style, maybe need a bit more contrast between solid tiles and background for some colors.

minionstudios 2013-05-08 00:46

Excellent work. Please ignore any "Stairway to Heaven" or "Jacob's Ladder" references, lol.

cakemonitor 2013-05-12 18:38

good sense of mood and nice to see a game which follows a character through a story. it was a little slow paced for me but a really nice game none-the-less

dector 2013-05-13 20:04

Reminds me "Tomas was alone".

dremelofdeath 2013-05-17 09:28

Didn't work for me, just printed out a stack trace and died :/