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The Holly Matter

By azakhary

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio723.86
Humor1893.50
Mood2663.48
Graphics3133.83
Overall3883.37
Fun5972.97
Theme9262.79
Coolness150444

Comments

cultofmonkey 2015-08-24 12:55

Fun to watch, but not much in the way of tactics/gameplay. Nice gfx & sfx though

ajopart 2015-08-24 13:02

Am I so bad at this game that I can not pass the second level. Don't see the tactics to use. But great sound and graphics. I like the humor too.

romaing 2015-08-24 13:20

I like the Music, did you guys actually did voices ?^^
A bug on level 2 prevents me to reach next level (a sister is stuck on the road).

azakhary 2015-08-24 13:26

If someone is stuck on the road, just turn it off and on again, do all things the same, it rarely happens, ever 10 times or so :D sorry about that :D But yeah the voices are done by our awesome Sound/Music/Screaming guy

zepplondon 2015-08-24 13:27

Romaing: Thanks. Yeap, It's our voices. :)

undef 2015-08-24 13:31

I played it three times, and every time a monk got stuck on the road. Fun idea though!

holyblackcat 2015-08-24 13:31

Very nice execution and good graphics! But more compex gameplay would be nice. :D

By the way, in the comments to my game you've said that you had some strange bugs. Can you provide more information? When they happen? How?

azakhary 2015-08-24 13:52

Hi HolyBlackCar, thanks for the feedback! Regarding the bugs, there was this window in a "tower-ish" like structure, I staied near the window, and just died there, then another time there.

holyblackcat 2015-08-24 13:54

Ok, thanks! I fixed the camrera and collisions (I think). You can try again if you wish!

azakhary 2015-08-24 13:56

Going to try again in half an hour, trying to fix my bug with freezing monks :D

krisdevelopment 2015-08-24 14:04

It was all about spamming the fanatics. However, nice entry, enjoyed it a lot :)

zerkruemler 2015-08-24 15:04

This is a really good idea: Reverse tower defense. At first it feels weird, but then it is fun to find our how to pass the levels. Unfortunately I didn't find any good tactics except clicking as fast as possible and trying to send all fanatics to the same spot.
Would be interesting to see if there are other tactics as well.

azakhary 2015-08-24 15:09

I lacked on the level building side. Wasn't able to find a right balance between hard/easy and interesting. I guess needed more trap types, but there was not too much time. I guess it could be made into something cool, but requries more working on it :)

spyboy 2015-08-24 17:30

Hard to predict when the two groups will merge as one :p

azakhary 2015-08-24 19:00

true that is...

felipeberquo 2015-08-25 01:28

Nice idea! It's hard to see this kind of game in jams like this
The graphics are great too! Congratulations!

glerikud 2015-08-25 02:16

Funny and good soundtrack, but could be more complex.

darklightteam 2015-08-25 09:51

Nice entry! However I'm also stuck on level 2. No matter how I spam the guys they never reach the city.

azakhary 2015-08-25 12:51

Try to make so, that both branches connect in one simultaniously.

Shina69 2015-08-25 15:06

Hallelujah, brothers and sisters! This game rocked! Couldn't stop it until i finished the last level. The characters, the voices, the deadly machines... everything on its proper place. The only negative point: there's not much strategy on it, people may think they need to spawn them in different locations but, on exception to one level, i managed to pass them all with a single concentrated crowd and having the luck to have a fairly amount of fat priests xD

azakhary 2015-08-25 18:12

Shina69! Thanks so much! we tried hard to make it fun, but yeah I know it lacks on strategy side, whatever I did I couldn't make the level act the way I wanted, it's was harder then it looks :)

QKnight 2015-08-25 19:46

Fun game, well made. Would have liked a restart button since you can see pretty quickly when you are going to fail. But fun base concept, pretty hard too.

headmade 2015-08-25 20:06

Ah it super cool to see you in Ludum Dare. I'm really looking forward to take a peek at your source code. I'm sure I can learn a few tricks from the maker of Overlap2d.

On my first try one of the fanatics got stuck in the middle of the path. There was nothing in the way or anything everyone else passed him, but this guy was just jittering to an fro. So I couldn't finish the level.
So I restarted the game and I played to level 3 where the same thing happened. I already reached the goal so the towers were no longer firing. So again I couldn't finish the level because one guy was stuck.

But still I liked the game. It is quite polished and the art style is very nice (I especially like the intro screen). The music is a bit annoying with the "gospel" but it fits the game well. As the others have noted more depth wouldn't have hurt.
Good job overall.

tomolivier 2015-08-26 18:55

Fun game! I tried to play the first level again, but i couldn't :-(

kayz 2015-08-27 14:31

Fun game. Succeeded in taking the citadel in the last level but one of my guys got stuck.. so I didn't really finish :(.

Found your game through your PostMortem on reddit. You should link to it here too, it's an interesting read. I've never heard of Overlap2D but it has some nice features.

guoboism 2015-08-28 23:30

Nice game! With the graphics and sound, especially voicing, the game is really fun to play! But the only strategy to spawn all at once?

drauthius 2015-08-30 14:24

Hehe, interesting concept.