Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Crucifix and Tentacle
By Loic Nageleisen, cedric-fey, Deesmon and Poche
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 456 | 3.51 | 36 | |
| Fun | 546 | 3.27 | 36 | |
| Innovation | 875 | 2.89 | 36 | |
| Theme | 250 | 3.89 | 36 | |
| Graphics | 247 | 3.95 | 36 | |
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 90 | 3.87 | 31 |
The graphics and audio are awesome, but I seem to be unable to make a difference in how fast I die. Is that me or the game? I never got any better because I couldn't see that any of the running or stabbing I was doing were having any effect. It looks cool, but playing was maybe a little too Cthulhu.
Thanks for playing!
I should I have explained that every time you get touched the darkness get closer.
Looks pretty cool. Play smooth. Good job.
Maybe add some explanatory text to this page so players can understand fatser, what to do.
Really nice I like the Idea theme and Graphics.Also the game plays very smooth. really nice Idea with the darkness
Smooth and straight forward, well done!
Amazing game
Great game! Lots of fun and action. I found a bug where my character became invisible...
@11tomi12 A bug ??? Impossible!!! ;-) Thank for playing, really.
Really interesting! I swear I only got hit once but after a few minutes the darkness just suddenly closed in and engulfed me. Up until then I loved the way it worked, hacing to drive it back. I think with the way you have to hold it down, a holy beam or something would work a lot better. The art and animations were really nice though. Some more variety in enemies would have been nice but that's the LD for you! Good job :)
Really good looking game. Only thing I would change is maybe decrease the projectile sound. It got a bit annoying later on
Love dark mood of the game. Simple fun gameplay, well done.
I like it alot! But you cant do anything in late game becouse its too fast and you die.
Awesome fun. I imagine this could be expanded to include levels, power ups, and all sorts of other goodies.
@dylanbr Thanks! Yeah we had lots of ideas, like a massive explosion that would kill nearby enemies and repel the darkness, a flying sidekick, various weapon patterns...
I really liked the drawings and the animations. The background tentacle-mist thing was great. Graphics wise you could've improved the shooting a bit (by adding an animation), but other than that you did a good job.
Awesome game, love the art style. I wasn't able to reach the boss, but i tried ! it seem to me that darkness come closer even when i don't seem to get hit.
yeah nice mood and art style. the creeping darkness is really well implemented
Great mood. I would have loved to have some secondary thing to do apart from shooting whatever appears on the screen (maybe collect coins, grab items or something). This way, playing more than once has the added challenge of improving your performance.
> every time you get touched the darkness get closer
Oh, my!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSKkwzwdW4
I liked the art style, really makes Lovecraftian atmosphere, liked the gameplay, it keeps on tension. Wish there were more of this things.
Just in case you are interested we fix a couple of bugs... here is the other version [https://cedricfey.itch.io/crucifix-and-tentacle-mk1](https://cedricfey.itch.io/crucifix-and-tentacle-mk1)
Great mood and drawings! I love the "Devil Daggers" or "Ubermosh" play style
Really great quick timer. The graphics are phenomenon and add the right mood to the game. The gamplay is very fast and maybe too difficult. But that's just an individual problem, it doesn't mean that the game is not good. It would be better, however, if there was some kind of procedural progression in the difficulty instead of having it so hard at the beginning.
- PROS: AWESOME graphics and mood. Fun gameplay, enjoyable animations and fitting backgrounds. - CONS: Shooting sounds were more like a sci-fi laser which didn't fit that well to the theme of the game, but that's just a minor stuff. Maybe too hard from the very beginning. (P.S.: My claustrophobia says, it didn't like it).
Nice one. It did get really hard after a while, but then again, I wouldn't want to keep doing the same thing forever. Nice artwork. I also really like flow of the darkness, very nice!
Nice graphics and smooth gameplay. Wish there was more content though.
Great game, a tad difficult but very fun, great graphics and mood.
Interesting idea, amazing graphics. The soundtrack could've been a bit more interesting to add to the dark mood of the game. Something in the style of Diablo would really work here. The scream after you die is just awesome. It's a pity I couldn't survive to see the final boss, I imagine it would be really beautiful. Good job, guys!