harley77 2014-12-09 04:01
The smiling face on the spiders is unnerving. Great use of lighting. Awesome game!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Hive
By joshua_burr
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Mood | 90 | 3.77 | ||
| Audio | 203 | 3.41 | ||
| Graphics | 223 | 3.83 | ||
| Overall | 266 | 3.49 | ||
| Fun | 277 | 3.35 | ||
| Theme | 544 | 3.51 | ||
| Innovation | 683 | 2.76 | ||
| Humor | 750 | 2.06 |
The smiling face on the spiders is unnerving. Great use of lighting. Awesome game!
The look and feel of this one are great!
Great game, looks really good! I like how the monsters eat you while you are dead. It is indeed very unforgiving, though. Took me several tries to make it to night 2. The sound effects are also top-notch.
Wow one of the better jam entries I've played so far. The after glow from the vaporizer is a really neat effect, it was so cool to blast a spider as it jumped towards me and have its glowing afterimage pass through. The gameplay is solid and just works. Right when I was thinking "this game would be cooler with upgrades"... the night is over and I got to upgrade! Really well done and the first game that I've given a five star for mood. Nice work!
I couldn't figure out how to use the torch light.... but other than that, nice look and feel. The spiders are scary they move really fast! I never made it past the first night :/. Well made game!
Awesome ambiance! It definitely created a sense of fear in trying to defend myself from the spiders. Great work.
If you were going for difficulty, you hit the nail on the head! Well done!
Pretty fun liked the graphics overall pretty solid. The mood was neat. solid overall experience!
Those spiders... they're my worst nightmare. Great job!
Very well crafted atmosphere, there's a certain tension ongoing all the time. Maybe would've liked a bit more tension, a little less action. Still very entertaining to play.
Great spooky game!
not bad
Whoa, looks really good. Graphics, sound effects and atmosphere. I also like that they eat you when you die.
This is how I feel when finding a spider in my basement.
Hot damn... I love the feeling suspense here! The simplicity of the game is what makes it so great.
The lighting effects, graphics and sounds/music put the game all together. I'm amazed!
I like how the spiders act like boo from mario, I had fun. I think the mouse controls were good, and overall it was a cool game.
Cool game, very good atmosphere building and great audio ambiance. The light effect works very well.
I know you intend to make the hero shoot towards the mouse cursor, but the feel of shooting a spider that is "on the same platform as me do" is weird, for that you need to aim a bit lower than expected (probably because spiders are short? but it doesnt look so). That could be my own opinion, though.
Anyway, a great game!
I hate spiders haha :p
Scary. The way the spiders die is unnerving ... Great setting. Especially liked the way the spiders behave. Felt very "real"
It's uncanny. The spiders are smiling and the player is faceless. The music is unnerving. 5/5 mood :)
I loved it. Really addictive.
Very clean entry. I enjoy the atmosphere you created. Very hard!
Nice graphics. Not a game for playing during the night... Great work!!!
I didn't last that long, but it was fun. I enjoyed the lighting effects, it really set the mood.
Cool. Nice, simple game. Easy to understand. Alien spiders bad. Shoot them! SHOOT THEM!
I like the spider death animation (fading to green)
There's a funny thing going on with the controls. The mouse controls are so much better than the controller controls that you'd have to be crazy to use the controller. That's a funny little balancing problem.
Eh very cool nice mood and light fx, i found the control responsive and react pretty well, fun and great at the same time, congratz !
Creepy and very nice game! I like the graphics and light effects! Really sets the mood. Great job! :)
Excellent game and addictive
really fun entry. I had trouble making it past the first night, but I still enjoyed it. The sound is well done, and those spiders! creepy as hell. Good job!
Really cool game, simple and fun.
Nice graphics and game feel. Very creepy.
Nice atmosphere in this. Graphics and sound are spot on. The gameplay is pretty good too, if a little simple. Fun stuff.
Dude this game has great atmosphere and the use of the flares as a gameplay mechanic to hold back the hive is so cool! I got legitimately freaked out when the spider things jumped at me. This is really really cool!
Great game! Very good ambiance, graphics and sound. This is hard! Though it's partly my fault as lazy me didn't want to fetch a proper mouse, so I don't have a right mouse button on the trackpad. I didn't make it past the first night! Still I really like what's there. Extra mood points for the spiders eating me after I'm dead (yuck!).
Well done with the lighting effects! Found the spiders to be a little disruptive to the rest of the artistic style you have going for the game.
That was fun. Great spiders.
Good graphics, lighting, physics, animations. Interesting game experiance.
Very good graphics!
I really liked this, the use of audio is awesome and together with the dangers lurking from the shadows kept me on my toes all the way. The spiders are really creepy (thank you, btw, for increasing my fear of them some more ;) )
I love how their green silhouettes still go after you, this creates a deeper sense of fear. just awesome crafted mood all around.
It's really hard though, but I'm content with my progress to the 2nd night.
Hey Joshua, I can't get the game to work
"Unable to load mono library from "C:/Users/XXX/Desktop/Ludum Dare Games/Hive/Hive_Data/Mono/mono.dll" (error = 126)."
@Warboys A quick google for that error suggests that you need to update your .NET Framework.
I must admit that I never tested things on Windows, I'll take a look tomorrow and see if it works for me.
Great job on the atmosphere, a really fun and challenging game overall. Maybe update the GUI visuals to match your game a little better though
good scary game, fantastic mood. the smiles of the spiders, while creepy, could match the rest of the game a little better.
Great game. I would have liked a crosshair or something to see where I'm aiming, but it's still fun
Nice graphics. The gameplay was pretty intense.
There is a great "Lovecraft" feel to this game. :) It's very creepy -- I really like the toothy smiles on the spiders, and the animations when they feast on your corpse send little spidery shivers down my spine!
This game totally needs more content and a smoother difficulty curve (as it is currently 80-90 degrees or so). Perhaps a life meter or perhaps adding tension with a rescue crew trying to save you from the spidery pit of doom. It totally needs larger, bigger, uglier monsters, bosses and more weapons you can throw at them. :) The day/night mechanic is really challenging, too!
Very atmospheric
made me feel fear a bit)
Damn spiders! Cool game! I Included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/YpdCMKphEUw
Fun idea !
I had a lot of fun playing this. Clever survival concept and the graphics/audio fit together quite well. Definitely a favorite for spider fans out there. :)
Very hard, I couldn't get pass the first night. Good work with the graphics.