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Elyseus

By crocantidepollo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness292
Theme2273.70
Graphics2373.64
Mood2643.34
Innovation3213.46
Overall3243.44
Audio4162.93
Humor4192.53
Fun5043.10

Comments

jupiter_hadley 2014-08-25 04:35

Really well done. Great graphics! I included it in part 2 of my Ludum Dare 30 Compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/aac43JwG3FQ

crocantidepollo 2014-08-25 06:35

Thank you Jupiter! :D

kidando 2014-08-25 06:47

Congrats on finishing your game. Its nice to relive the jason experience :)

stridewide 2014-08-25 20:50

Nice, I really liked the ending.

honcho 2014-08-25 22:56

Great game! Loved how when you killed the ghosts and took the portal back you could pick up some health!

fussycashew 2014-08-26 01:21

Well done! Didn't expect to go so far through the realms.

malf 2014-08-26 06:17

Well done , surprising end :D

roguenoodle 2014-08-26 11:16

Awesome entry. Once I realized that you had to escape through portal of the underworld, it really opened up. Great ending, too - didn't see it coming.

andybrown 2014-08-26 11:35

Interesting game, the graphics looked great! The music did a good job at setting up the atmosphere, and the sound effects were very fitting. I kinda just got bored after awhile and let the ghosts kill me, nice twist after that!

dohan 2014-08-26 15:54

Excellent twist! But if you keep yourself near the portal, you can stay cursed and fighting almost forever XD

sputnik 2014-08-26 16:17

Nice idea!

ryguydavis 2014-08-26 16:21

I almost quit after the first play, but once I realized that you can go back to the living realm it became very interesting. Nice use of the theme. I would have liked more macro goals, it seemed to boil down to "run back to the portal and collect health."

crocantidepollo 2014-08-26 16:34

Thank you people for all those positive comments!

@Dohan, @ryguydavis, yes, in it's current state it's mainly infinite fighting unless you are very unlucky and die... I wanted to add some kind of objective but didn't have enough time. Also in my mind was adding a multiplayer component in the style of dark souls, were you could invade others' games. But that was way too big for me to do in a weekend :P

lekochen 2014-08-26 17:00

Nice idea! I didn't see that coming!

tautnerve 2014-08-26 21:22

surprising development with the death system, very cool.
Had fun anhialating skeletons

snoutup 2014-08-26 22:24

Oh, so great! No toast too, but I enjoyed killing skeletons "disguised" as one of them :)

compostface 2014-08-27 00:44

I really like the cyclical death idea.

bamboo 2014-08-27 02:47

Liked this one a lot!

bluemaroo3 2014-08-27 11:59

Great game. Love the graphics and the twist at the end. Brilliant interpretation of the theme :)

joshk 2014-08-28 11:12

Great game, lots of fun!

homeworld 2014-08-28 12:33

Great concept with the death, altough i did expect some sort of rebirth cycle, love it!

crocantidepollo 2014-08-28 12:37

Thanks!

@homeworld you can actually resurrect in two different ways, one through the portal and the other, harder, by taking the life of another hero ;)

lakael 2014-08-28 16:24

Really cool concept! I like that you jump through the realms.

sunflower 2014-08-28 17:25

Pretty cool idea and presentation, but sadly gameplay needs more variety and objectives or so; not that you don't intend to add that later. ^^"

nerd-burglars 2014-08-28 17:29

Cool game. Loved the graphics and audio :) Good luck!

juaxix 2014-08-28 17:33

Bien hecho, sabes lo que me habria gustado? si fuera online y que hubiera dos equipos, los esqueletos y los humanos :D

crocantidepollo 2014-08-28 18:14

@Sunflower Yeah variety is pretty scarce I'm afraid. I'd love to evolve it into something bigger and more complex

@juaxix If I ever add multiplayer, which I'd love to, I imagine it being in the style of DarkSouls. Wishful thinking? I don't know! :P

dickpoelen 2014-08-28 18:28

Nice game

rawbosaurx 2014-08-28 19:37

There's some very awesome ideas behind this. I think it could have been executed in a better way, but it's a start. I especially enjoy the fact that you start off by fighting the enemies that you later become. Great game!

akirassasin 2014-08-28 23:30

I don't really understand what's going on, but its fun

ajopart 2014-08-29 06:56

Nicely done ! great gameplay and good ideas.

p4nurge 2014-08-29 08:51

Great concept and enjoyable - if slightly limited - combat. The art and audio worked really nicely too. Good work.

jjhaggar 2014-08-29 12:04

Does it have an ending or is it endless? I suck at this kind of games ^^U Anyway, I liked it, good job! :)

crocantidepollo 2014-08-29 12:37

@jjhaggar Yep, it's kind of endless until you get killed as a skeleton, then you get the stats of what you endured...

After reading all your comments, I think the game definitely needs something more to make it interesting. Otherwise you get bored soon :P

Thank you all for the feedback!

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-08-30 06:07

Great idea and I love the 2D/3D mix!

howkj1 2014-08-30 23:56

Good gameplay and nice transitions. I phased through all stages on what I thought was an intro/title screen and it said game over with credits... maybe don't send hordes until a button is pressed? Otherwise, a fun little game!

zkenshin 2014-08-31 02:38

Neat idea, and really enjoyed the look of the characters. Good entry. :)

pixlwalkr 2014-08-31 16:15

Nice Idea, Enjoyed playing it :)

mintarcade 2014-09-01 15:21

Nice idea. Didn't appeal to me for whatever reason, but mechanics and implementation of theme are cool.

spotco 2014-09-02 04:40

Really great graphics (and loved the ending -- what a twist!)
The combat felt a little off, mainly since your sword attack range was so short.

Gameplay wise our games were actually pretty similar, top down sword-fighters!

jukimv1986 2014-09-03 11:40

Buen trabajo! Neat graphics and contrast between the world of the living and the undead. However controls were a bit difficult to get the hang off. Great job!

thecolorhacker 2014-09-04 17:39

Nice game, the ending was fun. Liked the combat mechanic and enemies. Graphics were good and it ran smooth. Buen trabajo!

uvwar 2014-09-04 20:11

Pretty cool mechanic, although I wasn't exactly sure what was going on until I played a few times and read and re-read that I could actually respawn as a human. I never saw the beam of light until my third playthrough or so, then a lot of it made more sense. Maybe have some kind of particles or something pull into the beam to make it more obvious that its there if its offscreen? Otherwise very solid!

danman9914 2014-09-04 22:48

It was a great surprise when I rose as a skeleton and fought myself!

xanjos 2014-09-11 00:04

Pretty interesting gameplay concept. I kind of like how you can't actually die in the game (although the revival mechanic might need some fine tuning as at the moment it's too easy to die then head straight to the portal).

sephyka 2014-09-11 15:55

Interesting idea about the link between the worlds of the living and the undead. This idea could be expanded.

traumendes_madchen 2014-09-12 12:31

Wow, it's kinda grimm to be transformed into a zombie and forced to kill other zombies (remind me of Dark Soul...). Nice graphics and I like the idea =).

commodorekid 2014-09-15 23:41

It's a great idea however the character's attack range is not working at all. I guess he is actually faster than enemy at attacking so if you run towards them and attack, you succeed. But this doesn't make much sense if you don't support it with graphics. I think graphics could use a little polish but other than that I kinda liked it.