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Darklike

By clachipso

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1683.6824
Fun2863.4024
Innovation2703.3124
Theme1563.8424
Graphics434.1725
Audio1043.6124
Humor3982.4419
Mood1203.5723

Comments

jandourek 2017-12-04 17:59

It's a fun and challenging game, but it would be even better if there were more enemies and items.

ham-and-swiss 2017-12-04 18:56

Nice graphics, good polish. Gameplay was fun and easy to understand.

I think the flash should be on cooldown or have a way to recharge, because when you run out the game kind of falls apart and becomes just blindly looking for the exit.

tvance 2017-12-04 19:01

This looks very polished from the screenshots. Well done. I can't play though bc I don't have windows :\

syrapt0r 2017-12-04 19:03

This is a really nice game :D

I liked the overall presentation, the music was good and the artstyle fit the game. The only little complaint I have is that after using all my flashes, searching for the exit became a rather mundane task. But other than that, very good work :D

clachipso 2017-12-04 19:29

Hey everyone, I was able to fix a keyboard bug, and now the game should run under any OS that has Java 1.8 or newer. I have not tested it on Linux or with OpenJDK, so please let me know if you have a problem! Thanks for checking out the game!

kerneltt 2017-12-04 20:08

hard game is there a whay to recover flashes?

tiberiusuciu 2017-12-04 20:44

The game plays pretty well, I think I might have encountered a case where there was one ball which was unobtainable. It was stuck between two statues vertically. This game seems to have randomly generated levels, but if it helps, I had it happening at level 11.

Great usage of theme and good fun game to play, I wish there was some way to restore your flashes, otherwise great work!

2017-12-06 15:26

oh congratulation! Nice art! Can I follow it also on indiexpo? Do you have also a page there? This looks great! I looked for the games that used the #LDJAM but I don't find yours. So good luck!! I will hope to make a video about it!

lanedavis 2017-12-07 03:10

Clever game mechanice. Truly the dark souls of dark games involving souls.

alottabit 2017-12-07 04:08

Really interesting concept! I enjoyed playing for a while until I collect too many orbs to see anything and ran out of flashes. It was cool the first few times trying to find the exit by following the bullets and their 'sight aura', but it quickly became frustrating walking in circles. It would be great if there was a way to make this part less tedious.

Enjoyed the graphics and sound design, great work!

chartman 2017-12-07 04:24

Easy to get into. Graphics and audio were fantastic! The concept of losing vision while collecting those orbs is a cool idea for the theme. I wish that there was a way to earn more flashes because the game got really difficult as soon as I ran out. Maybe reward the player with a new flash after collecting so many orbs?

Overall, the graphics and audio stand out from most other games here.

raven 2017-12-07 16:20

I wish I could draw sprites like these _(:з)∠)__

I think it is a big problem that there is not enough guiding to exit when the player got very limited sight. If the exit is not on the line of projectiles, it would be a disaster lol

fangzhangmnm 2017-12-08 05:20

I liked the atmosphere. Bullets from the dorkness and the mysterious standing knight status. The music is good.

The problem is the game at first seems too easy and it sudden go very hard as the light circle shrinks.

blinkeye 2017-12-08 12:00

The art looked really good! The audio is fitting and the gameplay is pretty solid. I would add a way to recover flashes or make the player visibility larger than the actual player :p

All in all its a great game.

linky439 2017-12-08 12:51

Wow! Great game!

I like the idea of the shriking light circles, the audio is nice, the graphics are great and overall it just works wonderfully well. Congrats!

(My best score was 84 orbes)

nucleose 2017-12-08 18:37

Strong graphics and sound work here, and once I understood what was going on with the gameplay I was pretty content with it but seeing that there was no notable end to the game and your flashes/vision never reset meant I didn't feel much motivation to keep going or trying again once I made it as far as I could. I'd love to see whatever projects you're working on because your style is really nice!