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bat story

By maunovaha

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness369
Graphics1234.21
Audio1873.60
Mood2123.62
Overall2233.64
Theme2813.94
Fun2863.45
Humor3542.92
Innovation3973.30

Comments

ruerob 2015-12-15 09:50

Great entry! I really like the gameboy-ish graphics! The sounds are nice, too. I liked the ending of the story! Sometimes it was a bit hard to play, but that is more a problem of the theme. Great Work!

maunovaha 2015-12-15 11:17

Thanks for the kind words ^^. And I agree, I probably should have spent more time on fine-tuning the gameplay, but I literally just managed to get the game finished. Thus, this happens to me at every gamejam. :D

mab 2015-12-15 12:23

reaaly good graphics and nice idea

kmakai 2015-12-15 12:28

Great job with the sound and music! I also really liked the style of the sprites/tiles, it seemed very cohesive despite how little time there was to put it together. There were a couple of spots where it seemed like the shape of the level made it very hard not to get hit, but that wasn't a big deal. Congratulations!

architect404 2015-12-15 12:32

nice graphics and sound and a touch of humour. good use of getting extra functions out of two buttons. fun entry, great job!

maunovaha 2015-12-15 12:34

Thanks for the feedback! I spent majority of my time to making those simple graphics, so it feels great to hear that. hence, I am a programmer not an artist, so it feels even better. Thus, I agree that some of the levels were made like that.. but for those reasons I added some hp pick ups here and there. (;

dege 2015-12-15 12:35

I love it! I love the colors and the music, the bat is tooo cute! The gameplay is very creative!

didi 2015-12-15 14:38

Nice pixel art, and story!

mechamism 2015-12-15 14:54

Love the style of this game! Wish there was more to play!

nitinmdsu 2015-12-15 16:17

Solid entry!

nowandstudios 2015-12-15 16:45

I like the controls man! Retro style graphics are awesome. The music do a good work too

danex317 2015-12-15 17:26

I just avoided all enemies and collected the necessary hearts along the way haha. Very cute game.

warboys 2015-12-15 18:21

Really like the flying mechanic, felt great although switching was sometimes a little tough. The guards were assholes though, they kept stepping on my head and I couldn't escape haha.

Got to the end eventually though... did I die? :O

maunovaha 2015-12-15 20:01

haha.. :D sounds great.. and about the ending, let's keep it as a secret ;)

schizophrenicghost 2015-12-15 21:49

Looks good! I love the Gameboy graphics. You definitely nailed the style! Music is good too, but it was really soft on my end compared to the SFX. Mechanics are a little clunky. Some times I would just want to back away from an enemy but I end up turning into a bat and some glitches when turning into a bat in tight areas. But seriously good job on this one, it came out great!

andrei_s 2015-12-15 23:26

Funny story ^^
Well executed game! I liked the transformation mechanic and the way you attack (after I understand it).

chromewisp 2015-12-16 00:07

Beautiful art, cool flying mechanic too!

ointment 2015-12-16 01:12

A pretty versatile use of the theme. With just two buttons, you can either lure enemies around, try to dodge them as a bat, or straight up punch them. Gotta say the presentation is a step up from some of your earlier jam entries I've seen.

xanjos 2015-12-16 01:43

I like the transformation concept a lot but I think the time it takes to change should be a bit less (although I did manage to circumvent that limit by alternating between the two arrow keys). My only gripe is that the only way I could exit the game was to alt-tab first instead of pressing alt+f4 or esc.

_hopfrog 2015-12-16 03:12

Awesome little game! I honestly found more fun to just avoid the enemies than to fight them. Loved the aestethic choice!

miznoruri 2015-12-16 09:00

Amazing art and idea! Love this game!

maunovaha 2015-12-16 10:10

Thanks for all the feedback.. :) Didn't knew that so many would even play it, cool! ^^

krashja 2015-12-16 20:18

Very cool game, i like the movement mechanic ;), nice work also, great art!

fluidvolt 2015-12-17 00:30

Cool mechanic! It's fun changing forms and trying to dodge stuff. The camera is a bit too shaky when you're flying and it's moving up and down, but it's nothing too bad. The graphics are nice and evocative -- I like the darkness punctuated by torches. And the baroque-y organ is a nice touch, very Dracula!

morseamalgam 2015-12-18 05:29

Cool idea! I ran into an issue where oftentimes the transformation would play over and over rapidly which could be a little grating (Very noisy) but I'm not entirely sure what caused it.

inbetweengames 2015-12-18 15:29

Haha! Awesome entry! Loved the ending ;)
Even with being limited to only two buttons you managed to pull it off - the game felt good. Well done :)

scorched 2015-12-20 20:30

Nice. Liked the humour and controls, wish you could turn back into vampire in the middle of flight :-)

skywilly 2015-12-22 16:43

I love the ending :P