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Smallest Dungeon

By reuno

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio44.57
Coolness1100
Overall344.15
Graphics564.48
Mood893.95
Fun1053.78
Humor1153.62
Theme1963.99
Innovation3203.33

Comments

hawksandwich 2016-12-13 12:20

Very nicely done, I really like the feel, the graphics, and of course the music is brilliant.

pcmxms 2016-12-13 12:21

Nice game. A little more control of the chars would be great (like setting their position before fight). If there is this option, it wasn't clear enough.

sidewalksleeper 2016-12-13 12:22

Just when I thought I've already found my top pick, I see this game. Exceptional art and music. Gameplay is simple but nice. Great entry!

nycolas 2016-12-13 12:24

Great game and well polished. I just LOVE the music. Only one thing: it tooks me a while to understand characters have an ultimate. Btw it's really good, gg!

isg 2016-12-13 12:24

Polished, fun, nice music, great idea. I'm surprised, it's definitely good game!

sokette 2016-12-13 12:25

This is amazing. Wouldnt mind a little bit more control though :P

bluethelemon 2016-12-13 12:30

This game is so lovely, i wanna marry it !
So much juice, so much cuteness, so much colors !
I was afraid that the gameplay was gonna be repetitive but the battle are small enought not to get boring. Great Balance too !

And most importantly, FANTASTIC SOUNDTRACK !

reuno 2016-12-13 12:31

Thanks a lot for your feedbacks!

@pcmxms > no, you can't choose position (for now!), but that's a great idea and would give the player something to do before the next fight. Added to the todo list!

Overall if I keep working on it I'll definitely add more control and options.

mouch 2016-12-13 12:36

Oh no, the corgi died. Fantastic music and graphics.

nidzakornjaca 2016-12-13 14:38

Really fun game to play, loved the humor. A little bit more control would make this perfect, but still a great entry.
Graphics and music are top-notch.

lonesurvivor 2016-12-13 20:32

Great game! Music is obviously excellent (can sadly only play the web version being on Linux), Graphics are great. Game looks polished. Good job!

mutuware 2016-12-13 21:46

A proper song for a ludumdare game, great stuff!

awoojr 2016-12-13 21:56

Wow, this game is pretty good. Nice artwork and animations, sound and music is great, and I like the upgrade system. I don't like the lack of control however and I feel the potions don't do enough. I'm not sure if it was intended but I found that if I just wait in the looting screen, my characters will regenerate their health. Overall though, a very neat game which could be expanded to be something very nice.

themightyteam 2016-12-13 21:59

Graphics and gameplay are really nice. I think music deserve 5-star ratings. Superb!

vrojman 2016-12-13 22:46

Really nice art and music. Sometimes I think the enemies just die alone.

kraftkar 2016-12-13 22:49

Impressive! Beautiful game :)

piwicode 2016-12-13 22:53

Nice song, lovely graphics. This is fine art!
I didn't know really how to pick wisely the items.
I will play it again because it's fun.
Congrats to the team!

tijmentio 2016-12-13 22:59

amazing!
rip corgi :(

tylerraz 2016-12-13 23:04

Great all around, the music fits the game so well. Art and animations are great. A little more control would be nice, as the mage seems to get in a lot of trouble fast

cxsquared 2016-12-13 23:12

Really well done overall. Everything about this is a lot of fun. Awesome work!

johnbrynte 2016-12-13 23:39

I only mashed buttons, so it wasn't really what I usually look for in games. But the experience, with visuals and audio, were really quite amazingly nice, especially considering the tiny amount of actual gameplay.

johnbrynte 2016-12-13 23:42

Also, I think an enemy got stuck outside of the boundaries from my super crazy knockback, so the game got into a softlock (web version).

doomdad 2016-12-13 23:45

This is one of my favorite LD37 games so far. Complete package art/sound/gameplay/challenge wise.

haddy22 2016-12-14 00:10

Beautiful! Very well done, professional, and polished. Catchy tune- I really enjoyed it.

Was hard to know what upgrades to choose from, which was better etc. And I dont like having such little control of the battle, who goes where who attacks who, who gets potion etc. You dont like wasting a potion when one guy is full and another guy is low health- but hey what am I complaining about- this is really an amazing entry for a game jam! Bravo!

dunin 2016-12-14 00:23

Having a band for a jam is amazing!
Graphics are cool, upgrading stuff is cool, but I don't really (have the time to) understand the speciality of each charactere and don't have the time to take real logical decision...

inventivum-games 2016-12-14 00:39

Absolutely Amazing Best Game So Far Good Graphics Good Audio 5/5 Game.
Its A Pity The Download Doesn't work :(

mirta000 2016-12-14 01:42

loved the soundtrack! What a nice little game!

zzapp 2016-12-14 02:53

Really awesome game, loved the character and enemy sprites they were super cute and audio was great. Super solid entry overall

xbcw 2016-12-14 04:26

Most played LD37 game so far. Great job.

marta-viader 2016-12-14 11:49

Wow, with a bit of balancing you have already a super cool game to launch :D! I encorage you to keep working on it!

wowa_u 2016-12-14 13:02

Very well done!!

reuno 2016-12-14 15:20

Wow, thanks a lot for all that great feedback!
It motivates me a lot to push that game further.
@Inventivum Games > Could you tell me what's wrong with the download so I can fix it?

warmlemon 2016-12-14 15:25

Great! now.. how do i get that catchy tune out of my head?

ryuko13 2016-12-14 17:16

Amazing entry!

firellon 2016-12-14 20:22

Great game.
Indirect control is making my efforts a little bit useless, as I can not choose where to go and where to start
And 1 defeated hero = game over, actually =( They can not be resurrected

uliana-galich 2016-12-14 20:36

special music for this game?Real good job. Ave Ceasar

titomakanijr 2016-12-14 21:18

Music and art are both just fantastic!

etherealpsychegames 2016-12-14 22:35

Uau, this is one of the top game of this Jam. Love the music, art, gameplay and all!
You should go and publish this game for mobile platform,it is amazing.

pyokoanarogue 2016-12-14 22:52

loved everything but the game design ( but most probably because i wanted to get to the meat of the game very quickly and the game didn't seem to guide me to it . why did i die? how to look at what happens in the game and the gauges at the same time ? and other things like that ) still for the time frame it's an amazing game. ( how cool is it that you get to do the music with your band ? really cool !)

michalidis 2016-12-14 22:54

Alright I have FINALLY managed to find a bug - when you have too high knockback, an enemy might spawn/knock behind the walls and so you can never kill it :D

Other than that the graphics, music and sound are so amazing I would not even believe it was done during Ludum Dare :D Great job guys :)

simonhutchinson 2016-12-14 22:57

Great! This is tons of fun and fast paced. I'm not sure that I'm doing it right, but I do OK.

Love the speedy feel and casual graphics style.

yami-no-tenshi 2016-12-14 23:01

I wanted to try it but I got this error message when launching the .exe of the win version :

There should be 'SmallestDungeon_Data'
folder next to the executable

jayprog 2016-12-14 23:08

Great game overall!

I really enjoyed the speed, polish and music made for exciting gameplay but the trade off is that it became more of a button mashing game for me as it was hard for me to keep up.

Probably just the kind of thing that iterating on the UI and playtesting over time could help improve. I really hope you guys continue exploring this one.

reuno 2016-12-14 23:18

@Yami no tenshi > So sorry about that! I've uploaded a new version that should fix the problem. Thanks a lot for reporting this!

@Michalidis > That's right! Knockback should be capped!

@everyone > Thanks again for all the great feedback. I completely agree with it all, the game definitely needs more playtesting (to be honest it didn't get much during these 3 days, apart from me). Your comments are super useful to me, thank you!

aaranos 2016-12-14 23:28

Recognized you immediately from the last entry. Really love the polish you can put on a weekend made game.

The game's a bit random but I think it's a good play. Some more control over characters would be nice or an explanation of their skill. I kind of just mashed all the buttons.

radstar 2016-12-15 00:45

Really cool music and graph ! Liked the game à lot. It even worked on my phone! Cool and polished, good job!

powerspark 2016-12-15 01:05

The music is amazing but it's brought up even more by a solid game! Great feel :)

t4u 2016-12-15 01:39

Amazing graphic and sounds (want to download songs). Funny jokes under upgrades. Shame I can't control characters and all my interaction comes down to trigger all specials as fast as you can (since you don't know what they do). Even potion heals everyone so there is no strategy there.

I could easily see this game on sposored web game page.

recursiveanomaly 2016-12-15 01:58

Super clean and polished! Great game, my only complaint would be that it is hard to see the outcome of my choices.

ashtheevil 2016-12-15 05:37

Battles are too short to realise what's going on. But it's a great game at all!

peachtreeoath 2016-12-15 06:37

I expect to see this game place pretty high. If you could more convey abilities that relate to an idle game you might squash the complaints about non-controls.

beardybard 2016-12-15 07:35

Reunard, you're my hero!
How can a single man create such fine piece of art in only 72 hours?
Mind==blown.
Anyway, great game and thank you for your work :)

saiodin 2016-12-15 08:43

Extremely polished, art and music nicely harmonizing. Easy to control and satisfying to play.

mighty-buxx 2016-12-15 09:17

Nice game. Gameplay is simple but fun.

kurakurt 2016-12-15 09:27

5/5! Amazing game! One of the best games of this contest!

infin8 2016-12-15 13:15

Game is fun and love the music. :D

bigbuggames 2016-12-15 13:49

Really nice graphics and music! The only complain is that the battle happens so fast that you don't have time to understand what's happening, I was spamming all the abilities when they were available. Overall, one of the best games I've tried so far.

lukeryn 2016-12-15 16:26

Very polished! Great work! It would be cool to be able to give them potions individually instead of all at once.

yami-no-tenshi 2016-12-15 18:47

Thank you for the windows download correction.

I tried the game and I like the concept of upgrading the team members. Graphics are also really really nice, good job ! It was a pleasant game.

I'm not very fond of the musics selection though, not fitting the game really well imo.

And the game itself wasn't really hard, just upgrading the strength and regen was enough to go through the levels. I got a bug that stopped me at the end of level 4 with a kind of infinite animation on the wall (apparently the ice animation of the blue team member) and the level not ending.

tutti-ankka 2016-12-15 19:30

Great graphics and amazing soundtrack! Gameplay is simple but fun. Very good entry!

zenmumbler 2016-12-15 22:34

Total chaos. I clicked to do some special attacks but I'm not sure I helped my poor heroes much in the end. The presentation, art and music are top-notch.

potato-dog 2016-12-16 01:34

Really nice game, and looks amazing too. It runs so smooth considering the timeframe, will be cool to see where it goes! Great job

ednei 2016-12-16 01:58

Great experience!
Love the áudio and graphics! Nice job!

stylo21 2016-12-16 08:34

Awesome music, lovely.
Very cool art style too.

siryakko 2016-12-16 09:31

Love the cuteness, the use of the theme, the gameplay, the feeling LOVE THE GAME

2016-12-16 10:03

oh! Nice! And it's also online! Can I find it on indiexpo? I'm making videos about the games of this Jam, but only about the games hosted also on indiexpo! Tell me if you will add it, so I can include it in my next video ;)

ghostik 2016-12-16 11:24

Very well made :) Great audio!

deathbysnail 2016-12-16 12:23

By level 5 I was singing along. Lovely. 5*'s all round!

arzi 2016-12-16 13:41

Great art style and probably the music in this LD.

terryg 2016-12-16 16:36

it is very fun but i wish that when you died it would automatically give you the option to restart as apposed to having to click the pause button

etherealwhisper 2016-12-16 20:22

Very cute and polished, I really loved the music, congratulations. I did find it a little bit confusing at a start though, it would be nice to have a little more control on the characters.

sekaru 2016-12-16 23:17

Extremely nicely polished (especially with the music!) however I feel like there's so little control in the game leading to a weird mess of explosions.

doubtfulgames 2016-12-16 23:47

Such a sweet song. Gameplay is a little difficult to figure out, but all in all a pretty solid submission! Nicely done.

madmarcel 2016-12-17 09:44

Wow. So good. Really impressed with this entry. Love the graphics, the music and the kooky enemies. My archer got stuck attacking the wall on level 17 or so :P

mieeh 2016-12-17 12:33

Nice feel overall, stumbled upon some bugs, for examlpe, the green arrows just kept raining doing no damage which led me to die because I couldn't cast it.
Other than those small little bugs the game was great!

david-cookie 2016-12-17 15:54

Amazing work for only 1 guy in 3 days :o The only downside is that we don't really know what is happening once the battle begins, but other than that it's really polished, the art is incredible and the music is gorgeous.
One of the best entries no doubt!

yamzho 2016-12-17 17:16

Yep. That was good. Very good. Amazing in fact ! Well done !

dev-dennis 2016-12-17 18:53

Really impressive game!

hiki911 2016-12-18 21:22

Well done! Have a lot of fun during a few sessions

onixowl 2016-12-19 06:21

It's waaay bigger then high quality! Good job

polygonteam 2016-12-21 22:53

very very cool art style! music very nice! great game, guys!

indrkl 2016-12-22 10:56

Really fun game, loved the song, would just play for that :)

iossif 2016-12-22 12:28

lovely! i had no idea what was going on at the start but pressing the buttons and looking at the nice effects was already a great feeling :D

i also really enjoyed the loot menu. very polished. good work!

arowx 2016-12-22 19:27

Great work for solo 72 hours.

romandtom 2016-12-24 14:04

dude the graphics! graphics is top! and the music! ohh!
didn't really understand what I'm doing but I managed to complete 12 levels
Thank you for this!

ithildin 2016-12-27 03:02

Best sound so far! The song was super catchy, it reminded me of The Dandy Warhols, and I was instantly sold :D
Visuals were super polished, and gameplay was solid as well, but felt a bit confusing due to the frantic speed: it was hard to tell what was happening.

Despite this, this was a brilliant entry. Awesome!!

minato4th 2016-12-27 10:08

This is increribal! Like, like!
Please dont stop and bring the game to release

oddly-shaped-pixels 2016-12-29 17:43

Really polished, the visual style is amazing and the idea interesting.
I dont find the music particulary fitting the game but that's my opinion :)
A nice and fun game, congratulations from an other Renaud :D

questionablequality 2016-12-30 22:58

I love the visuals and the presentation is fantastic, the gameplay seems like it would work really well for mobile and I could easily see this on the app/play store. My only suggestion would be to make it clearer when and why you should use abilities, it felt a little like I was watching more than playing. All in all it feels super polished though, especially considering its made in 72 hours. Great job!

ringlangmail-com 2017-01-02 18:47

Artwork is great so as music! Game is very fast and I felt that I haven't got enough control over my heroes.

raaaahman 2017-01-02 19:15

Awesome music and graphics. But the choices, I don't really understand how to evaluate their effects, so I picked randomly... great job though!

yuigoto 2017-01-02 21:02

Whoa, this one's REALLY GREAT! Lots of fun playing it! It looks cute, really well-polished and wrapped up! :D

The graphics are just cute, and so well-done, and you did so much stuff! Sound and soundtrack, specially, made the game really feel great! :3 Just brilliant!

Controls are simple, but that's what makes it fun and accessible! Great work there!

ijzm 2017-01-02 23:50

The effort put into this game really shines through- the art and lyrical music are great and the game feels very polished overall. My only criticism would be that the gameplay can feel repetitive with not much player input, but that's not a huge problem with the added health boosts and upgrades.

-TinyCastleGuy

reuno 2017-01-03 18:46

Thanks a lot for all your nice comments! I can't wait until the next LD now!