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Beast Of The Woods

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme134.33
Audio154.13
Mood34.49
Coolness293
Overall623.85
Fun873.75
Graphics2503.52
Innovation2773.30
Humor7242.10

Comments

teekeks 2015-08-24 02:18

Awesome, best part are the pixelated arms ^^

timwright 2015-08-24 02:18

Very nice mood. The music and lighting are very scary. Good job

endesga 2015-08-24 02:33

Love the mood here, nice and creepy :)

ilseroth 2015-08-24 02:35

Really quality stuff, fits the theme perfectly. At first I thought the Hunter was psychic, but running draws attention from a mile away.

jmguillemette 2015-08-24 02:40

Intense and scary. Good audio

modoc73 2015-08-24 02:48

Wow! Nicely done. Really felt like I was the monster! And the hands :P Nice touch.
Felt like there could have been something else to do instead of just hunting. Sounds A+

dustinaux 2015-08-24 03:20

Really great! Fantastic audio and mood.

flygamer101 2015-08-24 03:21

Nice game with great pixel art and lighting.

watupdb 2015-08-24 03:36

Wow, that actually played very nicely. Art style worked surprisingly well too. Seeing the flashlight in the distance was a super cool feeling.

conormn 2015-08-24 03:41

Creepy stuff! Weird how being put in the role of the chaser still scares me.

lorcanwsmith 2015-08-24 04:07

Loved it! Very nice lighting and sounds!

ViliX 2015-08-24 04:23

Very nice aesthethics and gameplay! :)

noom 2015-08-24 04:34

Wow, fantastic atmosphere, the audio really sold it. Loved it, great job!

ganonsspirit 2015-08-24 04:36

Great atmosphere. Gets really tense when you're going in for the kill.

allwoodgamedev 2015-08-24 05:05

cant run it in chrome :(

agentparsec 2015-08-24 05:34

@Ethan Allwood -- There are several other platforms to try it out. :)

cgmorton 2015-08-24 05:44

Hey, playing on Linux here, and the controls get stuck. I press W once and I'm walking forward indefinitely (S has no effect), same with A/D and Shift.

Really cool game wish I could play it the way it's meant to be played...

candlesan 2015-08-24 06:11

This was great - love the music, use of lighting, and the awareness of the victims. Great mood and polish on keeping mood!

agentparsec 2015-08-24 06:13

@cgmorton -- Not sure why it's doing that. I don't actually have Linux to test it on; I just exported Unity to Linux, which has worked for me in the past. Don't know why it didn't work this time.

andyman404 2015-08-24 06:45

Wow! Excellent atmospherics/mood setting in the game! Well done! Playing this game definitely makes you feel like a monster.

jorgemoag 2015-08-24 09:42

hahah the mood is great. i want to kill more humans

marelisgamedev 2015-08-24 09:45

The atmosphere of this game is just incredible!

peterthehe 2015-08-24 10:15

Very atmospheric. 5/5 on audio.

twixtortitan 2015-08-24 10:16

Arms reminded me of the gringe or however you spell the xmas bad guy.

ajopart 2015-08-24 19:46

Superb ! Great game. I'm supposed to be the monster but I'm totally freaking out. Sound is amazing. TOP list !

q2k2k 2015-08-25 01:35

I like the concept of this game, stealth hunting. It's actually pretty difficult. The only issues I have with the game is sometimes the enemy just always knows where I am when I wasn't even that close. The art fits well with the theme and I like the darkness presented in this game. (Usually, scary games are bright enough that you can just see everything).

theziggy 2015-08-25 02:29

Amazing job! This was one of the better games i've seen. It was a little annoying with the human almost always following you no matter how sneaky you were, but it was very fun. Great Job!

vividhelix 2015-08-25 03:54

killed one...really nailed the mood with this one, well done!

radiolemon 2015-08-25 05:20

Awesome atmosphere to this.

karai17 2015-08-25 06:11

Top notch game! The audio really made the mood and made the game feel tense as you crept up on the human. Great job!

leuthil 2015-08-25 13:31

Now this is awesome.

crocantidepollo 2015-08-25 20:27

Nicely done! I love how as you approach the victim it gets more intense.

bogdanmaier49 2015-08-25 20:33

Dem Mexicans shooting at me

hcosta 2015-08-25 20:41

Really good game, congratulations.

jayprog 2015-08-26 04:43

Really like the audio. Has a great atmosphere. Very fun!

khahem 2015-08-26 07:08

Great atmosphere, I was quite stressed while playing.

Seems like it's not so easy to be a monster, everybody's life is hard ^^

bigbuggames 2015-08-26 21:49

Great game! Truly felt like the beast here, great atmosphere!

uheartbeast 2015-08-26 21:52

This is a compo entry! Simply perfect! I could see this one winning.

superfreak 2015-08-26 22:00

Amazing fun to play around with the AI and experiment with how to actually be the monster - loved it :D

cultofmonkey 2015-08-27 08:04

Very atmospheric! I did get a little bored because I was wondering around for a long time without finding anyone. Audio is very effective.

archonthewizard 2015-08-27 23:29

By far the best compo entry I've played from any LD. It's like reverse slender man. It felt great sneaking up to murder humans. The AI felt super realistic - and the strategy was immediately apparent. Your ability to build tension is quite remarkable.

saintheiser 2015-08-28 03:58

Very mood and athmospheric game! I'm really fell that i'm a monster! But game has lack of gameplay... I mean it gets boring after few times of run.

denis347 2015-08-28 21:48

Perfect mood and audio!

emmelineprufrock 2015-08-29 03:37

Good mood, lots of interesting little details (like the shadows on the trees) and an interesting mechanic. A tiny bit claustrophobic/nauseating for me, but that can't be helped with first person titles.

onlyslightly 2015-08-29 03:42

Loved how well you setup the horror movie mood. I really did feel like the monster in a monster movie. It was delightfully creepy and I couldn't help but be uncomfortable with the amount of glee I got out of it. The aesthetics, sounds, and lighting were all amazing and contributed to spooky horror vibe. Awesome job!

a_cat5 2015-08-29 20:29

This game is awesome its like your the monster but your still getting scared:D

springcabal 2015-08-29 22:32

I absolutely loved the mood. Controls weren't working well (they'd get stuck after pressing them, so I couldn't strafe), and I didn't get far, but I still enjoyed it.
The only thing lacking was a pounce :)

azureknight808 2015-08-30 04:19

Even though I'm playing the monster, the audio and mood makes the experience very scary! Great job on the mood.

buzzwerd 2015-08-31 01:08

Lovely game. I like to think i'm Kermit the frog going around murdering these poor campers. Wasn't very good at the game, but that didn't keep me from completely enjoying it.

insality 2015-08-31 18:29

Ohhh, the very scary game at start!
Perfect lighting balance and the MOOD! The sounds make it really incredible!
Great job. Got scared then i have shooted ;))

Is it ok, that i breathing like a monster? Game is mind control me, awesome ;)

flannelvindicate 2015-09-01 16:04

PSSST - You are featured in today's Ludum Dare to Believe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmckPggrwA

drauthius 2015-09-01 20:03

Cool game. Very good atmosphere and fits the theme very well.

zatyka 2015-09-03 01:36

Probably the best use of the theme I've seen. Top marks in Theme and Mood!

taro 2015-09-04 03:04

Fantastic polish to the game. Did a great jobs focusing on the stealth experience. That said, I'm not a fan of being forced to restart from the very beginning. It's easy to get lost and not find any humans. It's also very hard to sneak behind trees, so a mechanism to tilt the camera so that you can see what's behind would have helped. Perhaps easing the difficulty on the third level might improve the experience. Overall, excellent job! Awesome use of audio, too!

arzi 2015-09-05 08:16

Nails the mood! But it's a bit too dark, I had to close the curtains to be able to play.

bombjack 2015-09-07 10:30

The gameplay could be improoved if there were some hint of the position of the humans. The ambiance and the sound are amazing.

selzier 2015-09-11 20:37

This game is a blast, very well done! Make sure to download for desktop so much better in fullscreen :D

crucknuk 2015-09-12 20:12

really good mood :)
really well done!
i almost got myself scare just by plaing it, i thought as the monster i wouldn't be scare but maybe they feel the same as I do! :D so much mistakes in all those games! Monsters were just misunderstood :P
well done!

jcourt 2015-09-12 20:21

I like how the pixilated arms rise up when you get close to a human.

alexpgilbert 2015-09-12 21:17

THis is an overall pretty fun game! I really like the billboard 2D sprites, we went for the same look with ours! Great job!

wertle 2015-09-12 22:38

This was an amazing job for the scope that you did it in, you put a lot of effort into all the places that mattered most. I loooooved the little monster hands creeping onto screen to indicate range, and what you did with the music for the same. It was an elegant way of both creating mood but also giving the player important gameplay information at the same time. My only note would be that the effect when you successfully kill someone is a little unclear, and when it happened the first time I thought I had been killed. I think the fullscreen red flash makes me think "I have been injured" because it's as though something has happened to my own vision. The fact that the human whips around to see you at the last minute is really cool but also adds to this confusion (did they shoot me?). Perhaps a scream or finding another bit of feedback and saving the fullscreen red when YOU are shot. Not sure what that could be. That was really the only confusing point. Wonderful job with the mood and all the foley!

ddrkirbyisq 2015-09-13 00:35

Nice! Only suggestion I'd have is to allow for restarting on the same level as opposed to forcing the player to repeat all of the previous ones again.

jupiter_hadley 2015-10-20 12:30

Challenging, fun game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/t2uXuiSquSk