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Sub Dragon

By deepnight

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall144.16
Graphics54.61
Audio274.02
Fun443.93
Mood473.83
Innovation943.85
Theme4603.37
Coolness157939

Comments

danilo-bezerra 2016-04-18 02:41

Very good! I really like the games you make, this is no exception!

alvaromartin 2016-04-18 03:38

Once again great game!

01101101 2016-04-18 09:00

Nice work, I didn't know Saint Dragon but the concept works pretty well :)
Cool graphics and impressive result as usual!

zombieritual 2016-04-18 09:11

Awesome game!

bemmu 2016-04-18 09:40

As always, a fantastic game. Gameplay is more fun than last year. The water transition is just beautiful, as is the palette with Amigaish gradients. Very juicy! 5/5

marcellus 2016-04-18 11:37

This is not your best entry, but this is not the worse.

sanguine 2016-04-18 12:30

just a black screen :(

deepnight 2016-04-18 12:33

It takes some time to load (3.5mb), it should start after a few seconds :) If not, try using Chrome, it should work fine!

remiv 2016-04-18 15:42

Very good game...

sublustris 2016-04-18 16:16

Great, as always :)

grayhaze 2016-04-18 16:24

Amazing as always Sébastien! One day you'll have to give me the secret to how you produce such polished graphics, music and gameplay in such a short time. I suspect that you might be a machine. ;)

I found this entry to be a lot more difficult than your past ones, but had no less fun trying. Good luck!

aurel300 2016-04-18 18:17

Always flashy with your particles :)

cowa 2016-04-18 20:04

Wow. Really love the graphics and everything!

xaychru04 2016-04-18 20:34

I really dig the atmosphere, the gameplay was interesting as well!

2016-04-18 22:13

Very nice graphics, cool game!

idorrac 2016-04-18 22:29

The graphics, sounds, and music are simply amazing! I wonder how you can create such beautiful sprites in such a short amount of time! The gameplay is incredibly fun as well! If I may make a small criticism, the collision detection of the snake is a bit glitchy, I managed to go inside walls, and even shoot enemies on the other side, a few times. :)

david-cookie 2016-04-19 01:16

How.. how did you make a game so perfect in 48h!!?? Easily the best entry I've played so far, so well polished in every aspect!

mike-cullingham 2016-04-19 03:55

Incredible graphics and sound. My xbox y-axis seemed to be inverted, so I had more luck with the keyboard, but a deceptively difficult yet still fun game. Nice job.

evergreen-games-ludum-dare 2016-04-19 06:43

Incredible as always. Very cool idea and very satisfying. Great graphics. It was a little hard though.

sanojian 2016-04-19 08:28

Unreal visuals and sound as always. It was almost too hard though.

xclementx 2016-04-19 11:36

Great game ! Very fun to play.

gamepopper 2016-04-19 12:49

This is surprisingly challenging, the concept is really clever and requires a lot of strategy. The graphics look exceptional as well. Great job!

yinyin 2016-04-19 14:36

Unfortunately the vertical axis for my xbox controller is inverted in this game :(

ramayana 2016-04-19 14:40

Very cool game! Great concept, great execution. Just great!

kgs0142 2016-04-19 15:21

A great game like always :)

This is full of challenging to me, I like the idea of freezing shape, it's fun when changing the strategy from attacking to defending.

Good job!

rynman56 2016-04-19 16:25

One of the best ones I've played!

fullmontis 2016-04-19 16:42

Excellent game! I really like the design of this one, perfectly balanced risk reward! Well done.

tentacode 2016-04-19 17:38

Nearly perfect grats

murderpunch 2016-04-19 18:33

I love the pixel art in this game! And the game mechanic itself is really clever. Great job! 4 thumbs up from my fiancee and I!

angry_cyboot 2016-04-19 19:26

Coffee is friend !!

afenda 2016-04-19 19:27

Very good game as always ! Very good work !

rahulparihar 2016-04-19 19:40

Exceptional game design, had a lot of fun playing this. Kudos ! :)

markusfisch 2016-04-19 20:11

Very impressive, as always. Definitely another league :) I really like the idea with the two sides!

dustyroom 2016-04-19 20:22

Great as always. Go robosnail!

psychomonster 2016-04-19 23:05

Amazing artwork ... I'm happy that I played it. 5/5 graphics!!!!!!

roland-m 2016-04-19 23:31

It was a challenging and hard on pc, but I think it will be easier with a game pad

travischen 2016-04-20 00:25

DEEPNIGHT NEVER FAILS. YOU ARE MY HERO. Brilliant. Best game.

pixelpotions 2016-04-20 02:00

Very addictive, awesome game! :)

howardcs 2016-04-20 02:20

Nice graphics. Fun.

nicotuason 2016-04-20 03:15

Amazing as always! Beautiful graphics and particle effects. Love the variety of bullet patterns. I like how the gameplay balances between careful thought and quick reflexes. My main strategy is to do strafing circles for most enemies, and freeze my shape for the tough entrenched enemies. Love the easter egg at the end also :p

ithildin 2016-04-20 03:16

Top marks as usual. I dig the way the dragon links move together, it looks so natural. The core mechanics are very original and well executed (I had some problems manoeuvring with the gamepad, though, so I went back to mouse and keyboard), and graphics and music could almost pass for final assets on a full-fledged indie game.

Considering that we're talking about a compo game, that's impressive (it could easily rival with the bet entries on the jam, too).

I'm terrible at it, but I've had a lot of fun so far.

Brilliant job!

kunonooni 2016-04-20 04:01

Absolutely beautiful! I expected nothing less :) Always look forward to playing your games.

starpixie 2016-04-20 05:17

Beautiful!

saiodin 2016-04-20 08:06

Awesome gameplay and amazing graphics, I really love it! I wished the music would be more action-y ;)

jin47 2016-04-20 13:44

Awesome entry. Super concept and mastered and dynamic gameplay.
The sound design is perfect too. Congrats !!

pythong 2016-04-20 14:47

smilie rocks at the end ;) good job! one of the few games i really enjoyed

lereveur 2016-04-20 19:18

I always wait for your entries, and again, I'm not disappointed ! Very good job !

mitkus 2016-04-21 09:22

Great idea and amazing implementation, good job!

oxysoft 2016-04-21 11:15

just excellent, all I can say

lochmann-apps 2016-04-21 14:03

Heyho, that's a very cool game. I like how the snake moves and shoots, really cool game for such a short time!

finlal 2016-04-21 16:23

Another great game, you rock!
Water art is beautiful, gameplay very polish, music nice too
5\5 stars in all

minibobbo 2016-04-22 13:05

Lots of fun. Frustrating at times, but in a good way.

otiose-ent 2016-04-22 16:41

I love the graphics, the contrast between water and orange sky is great and erverything looks so nice, but its hard and the shape freeze was not very helpful for me...

stevesalmond 2016-04-22 23:13

Genius! So impressed with your ability to come up with a innovative mechanic every time - props.

binarybot 2016-04-23 05:36

Amazing! (Of course, it's by deepnight :D) Huge amount of polish, great theme interpretation, stunning graphics, brilliant gameplay.

ethankennerly 2016-04-23 21:00

When I blocked bullets and planned a route through the stunning graphics and active music, I felt amazed! If you continue to design this, I died early and often. Sometimes I wanted to make a cocoon, and wanted to rotate relatively to my current facing, instead of pick an absolute direction by the arrow keys.

I played on Windows FireFox. On Chrome, the black window appeared but the rest of the game did not load.

dj_pale 2016-04-24 17:27

Great execution - as always. Nice mechanics, nice details with the level progression. A tad hard in the beginning.

2016-04-24 18:07

Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

mrshoestore 2016-04-24 20:44

amazing, completely amazing. how do you do it!?

atomicpair 2016-04-24 21:49

One of the most beautiful looking games I've seen in LD35 to date. Very well done!

franklins-ghost 2016-04-25 12:03

One of the best looking entries I've played so far, such great graphics. Only issue I had was the walls you can't go through should probably stand out a bit more. Another LD though and another amazing polished entry, nice job.

knason 2016-04-25 18:30

Great game! I liked the graphics a lot, the game was a bit hard but fun as always. Good job!

derr 2016-04-26 08:06

Incredible game from controls, to graphics to audio. Well done!

jvanbaarsen 2016-04-27 10:14

Game looks cool as always, but I feel you should be disqualified, since you did not release the source.

In fact, the last 2 ludumdares you didn't release source, which is part of the rules..

Ludumdare 34: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=2982
Ludumdare 33: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=2982

deepnight 2016-04-28 17:40

@DigitalDuck> I'm really sorry that not disclosing the source in time to be such big issue. I mean, there are so many other entries where people don't do it. Anyway, I just posted the SubDragon source code, feel free to download/check it :) Didn't have time earlier and I just totally forgot about the source code of my previous LD game.

general 2016-04-30 17:39

Video: https://youtu.be/OC2Isnqi0nY
Creative approach to shape shifting! Good combination with shooter game

rock-eaters 2016-05-01 05:29

impressive stuff !

domrein 2016-05-01 18:38

Awesome game. Best one I've played so far. It'd be cool if you had mouse controls too.

zyow 2016-05-02 11:26

Excellent graphics and sound! Good job!

commanderstitch 2016-05-04 03:52

very cool game You are very very talented. :D

retrogradeorbit 2016-05-04 10:34

First game of yours that doesn't work for me. Just a black screen. Checked my flash is working... all your old games still work. So something has changed...

retrogradeorbit 2016-05-04 12:12

Just to provide more info. I've checked the network tab in chrome and the .swf is loading successfuly. It just doesn't start once it's loaded. The console doesn't report any errors. No idea what's happening.

riftpoint 2016-05-04 16:34

Very nice gameplay mechanic, really creative. The graphics are amazing too. Congratulations!

team_disposable 2016-05-04 20:50

Loved it! Excellent music and the death sound is soooo good. It also plays so smoothly! Congratulations.

tanis 2016-05-05 16:32

Awesome as usual! :)

saintheiser 2016-05-08 11:10

Not working on linux.

davidb 2016-05-08 19:34

Super!

geckoo1337 2016-05-08 21:10

Great game with a frenetic gameplay and a beautiful aesthetic. Well done ++

brainslugs83 2016-05-08 22:29

That was fucking awesome. Not to mention beautiful. Thank you for supporting the gamepad, btw. :-)

tth2x 2016-05-09 08:07

subdragon very awesome~! detail so rich! rhythm very balance!and the music also that, very smooth and genki,let me immerse it so easy and also so charmful..
the final challenge's second part(upward area to island) ,i found that i could runsh direclty up-ward, and then clear the part-1 area enemies! (very exiciting!) although this final part really hard but also give me so deep impression ! well done and this entry worth high vote!
(btw, flying like a snake feels very great!)

weeping-rupee 2016-05-09 13:37

Awesome.

Very well executed without being too high concept. Thats the nice thing about video games being associated with a style of 8 or 16 bit art-- all the early games needed to have recognizable characters with such a limited resolution... so you can tell me "ok you're a snake whose red side shoots lasers and whose white side absorbs rockets and bullets" and I'll be like "yeah, ok lets do this."

Nice tutorial too.

Very very well executed from conception to implementation.

acuity 2016-05-09 19:45

This is a really cool concept! It's hard for me to control the dragon the way I want it to though - I think my head wants to operate in tangential coordinates instead of absolute (as in W always moves forwards and A and D would "turn")