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SoulReaver

By carminegames

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun2363.06
Graphics2973.24
Theme3402.97
Overall3403.01
Humor3462.20
Mood3862.65
Audio4142.40
Innovation4692.49

Comments

oajfh 2013-08-27 02:00

Very fun game, good graphics, nice sfx, but pretty hard. Good job !

lordhellmax 2013-08-27 02:27

Got a virus alert by Avira... unpack200.exe

xndr 2013-08-27 02:29

Too fast gameplay.

jqcoding 2013-08-27 02:33

Good concept, but didn't like the audio that much. Fairly hard though, but good job.

kepamun 2013-08-27 02:37

If I get time for killing enemies, but not for the enemy spawners... I don't want to kill the spawners. Maybe if destroying the spawners gave a good chunk of time I would actually attack them.

brogrammers 2013-08-27 02:42

Very fun game with good looking graphics, a bit hard though XD

whiteravens 2013-08-27 02:49

My only comment is to use other colors for breakable objects (or a hint like a crack). I'm partially colorblind, and it takes me a while to differentiate your pink and purple.

lizengland 2013-08-27 03:05

Oh man, if there wasn't a time limit I'd play the hell out of this (but I know that's the theme). Wish I knew how many levels you made. Hard, but it's got all the right seeds for fun in it.

vile-smile 2013-08-27 03:09

Pretty cool. The controls felt pretty good. The corridors didn't offer much space for fighting.

dagamesta 2013-08-27 03:09

A bit too hard, but still quite enjoyable nonetheless. It does become a little memorization-y the more you play, though. But you could have picked better sounds.

generalgore 2013-08-27 03:55

quite fun, challenging, but not too much. repetitive, but hey, you made it in 3 days so kudos to you! :)

oxysoft 2013-08-27 04:23

Very fun game. I like difficult and fast paced gameplay like that. The backstory is very nice too.

Daveydag 2013-08-27 06:30

Really cool idea. like the fast pace gameplay. so far best game i've played in the comp.

manabreak 2013-08-27 06:59

Cool, but really difficult! I think I managed to get to the fifth level before I died. Don't have anything to complain, really solid work. Music would be nice, though, to complete the mood. :)

grooveman 2013-08-27 07:07

Ah, it's been a long time since I've played Gauntlet, this is a fun homage! Love the grindhouse aesthetic too. However, the twinstick control scheme on keyboard felt unwieldy.

raincole 2013-08-27 08:54

The .dmb doesn't work at all

tanser 2013-08-27 08:55

Nice graphics and great idea.

dkilford 2013-08-27 09:02

I really liked this. It took me a while to understand the game but I found it pretty enjoyable once I got going. Enemies spawning ontop of myself was pretty annoying, but I understood why.

valerien 2013-08-27 14:04

First of all, it's quite fun to play because the controls are responsive. Nice work on that.
However, the way you designed your "time bar", it really doesn't look time-related, thus your game feels like it missed the theme : why do white balls would give you time back again ?
Using an hourglass and sand, using a setting closer to the prince of persia series would have made it clear.
Apart from that, the audio is pretty repetitive.

Anyway, I think you got part of the deal nailed there, but not everything yet. Keep it up, next time you'll certainly get there.

Cheers,
Nathan

ratalaika 2013-08-27 17:14

good job

doubles 2013-08-27 17:24

Pretty difficult but enjoyable none the less

gmaker 2013-08-27 18:10

great idea!

voltorben 2013-08-27 18:14

Cool game. Gameplay was a little too fast - Would have been nice with some more ways to restart the timer.
Also, it gets quite challenging (which is good) but kinda tedious that you have to restart from level one.
Nice graphics, and also nice sounds :)
All in all a pretty good game, and some nice game mechanics!

ultravisitor 2013-08-27 18:14

Super Fun! The jar worked fine on os x

zlowrance 2013-08-27 20:02

Very old school feeling. Cool entry :)

namrog84 2013-08-27 23:31

haha! so fast paced and crazy!

crazi456 2013-08-28 03:39

Art is nice! Cool game!

anachron 2013-08-28 05:25

Cool take on the Gauntlet formula!

diptoman 2013-08-28 06:08

Quite challenging but at least it's fun! Played it quite a few times already..good job!

reaperguy 2013-08-28 08:27

Nice game, but when time runs out you should restart on the same floor you were on, not back at the begging of the dungeon, otherwise the game is too hard.

truiton 2013-08-28 12:15

It's hard, but nice art :)

rincewind_cz 2013-08-28 14:51

Controls are good and responsive, but the door spaces are bit tight imho :-/

minionstudios 2013-08-28 16:02

Tough to play, but it is so classic you can't help but love it.

nerlin 2013-08-28 19:16

Nice sounds and good graphics!

jupiter_hadley 2013-08-28 19:51

Nice idea and graphics, though I got stuck trying to go from one place to another and I featured it in my compilation video of Ludum dare 27 games, if you'd like to check it out http://youtu.be/PSym67k7zBg

just-tom 2013-08-28 20:47

Quite pretty, the colour pallet work very much in it's favour. Nicely done. The game play feels too fast, it's very difficult unless you already know the level and hard to get into.

That being said, the idea of explore fast, kill faster is a neat one. I'd love to see more work done on this, it feels like I'm on the edge of something brilliant when I play this.

mironix 2013-08-28 21:32

Fun game, based on zelda type of dungeon crawling - keep at it guys!

muznak 2013-08-28 21:42

Quite challenging, I liked the graphics and mood.

phocker 2013-08-29 02:49

very hard game -- but i liked the graphics and the mechanics -- great job

sengi 2013-08-29 18:26

Hardcore! Realy liked dat game!

mventurelli 2013-08-29 18:26

10-seconds Gauntlet! Haha! I did the same thing as you from a completely opposite angle. Good to see more games representing Gauntlet

edocentrique 2013-08-29 20:31

Kinda hard, but good and nearly fun to play.

proc 2013-08-29 22:23

10 second Gauntlet is good by my books. Warrior is about to die... every 10 seconds. Lots of levels!

finnegan2100 2013-08-29 23:22

Cool! I love games like Gauntlet! Really tough though! Sound effects were pretty funny.

elrobo 2013-08-30 01:53

Neat gauntlet clone. The sounds were...weird. I wish I could restart with a keyboard key. I liked the art/ui graphics.

peace 2013-08-30 08:50

Very nice Gauntlet clone with a twist! But the time is too limited for this kind of game I think.

deammer 2013-08-30 14:33

Very fun game, i especially enjoyed the difficulty.

tobiasw 2013-08-31 15:23

The graphics pretty good! I like what you did there with the gameplay, but wow, this is hard - and was permadeath really necessary? I switched to just watching the Playthrough video pretty soon.

pinktreeleaf 2013-08-31 17:17

Made it to the 3 character level. loved the music, graphics were really well done. extra points for innovation cause you used multiple characters. must have been hard for a jam.

pinktreeleaf 2013-08-31 17:28

last comment was a mistake.

good graphics, but I was stuck in the first room. also im one of those people can only play if moving is the arrows and wasd are the shooting

makio 2013-08-31 19:36

It was fun and nice graphics, but I want more time. XD

hyperbox 2013-09-02 18:16

Good stuff, definitely had a nice Gauntlet feel to it. It would have been nice if you restarted a level instead of the entire game after dying or running out of time.

lightmarestudio 2013-09-02 21:59

Fun Gauntlet-like game. The audio is a bit grating though, and making out the purple tiles among the blue ones is a bit difficult.

jprogman 2013-09-04 03:03

Definitely like Gauntlet with a few changes. Ideally, the 10 second timer. The timer adds more difficulty to the game, but it's not too bad.

jhelle 2013-09-04 09:18

Lovely gauntlet like game. Good job :)

daanvanyperen 2013-09-04 13:20

Fun little game!

saschanarr 2013-09-04 13:26

Nice graphics, but very frantic gameplay. Feels like the game is running at twice the speed it should.

emveyh 2013-09-07 20:23

Great gauntlet-like :) I like the fast-paced gameplay

naufr4g0 2013-09-08 20:33

Game is quite fun with good graphics. It's very hard as well!
I'd like monster dying animations! :)

wilbefast 2013-09-10 11:47

On Arch Linux 64 bit I'm getting an "Error: Could not find or load main class SoulReaver-1.0.jar" for the jar.

For the binary it gets stuck at "[OS] Detected Linux (linux, 3.10.3-1-arch)"

:'(

What did you make/build this with?

infernet89 2013-09-12 17:57

It took me a little to figure out that some block are actually breakable, and limiting the gameplay to ten second make this game too hard for me :(

mekuri 2013-09-15 04:57

The graphics reminded me a bit of the good ol' C64 game Gauntlet. The game was a bit hard though.