taner 2018-08-11 23:06
Looks good! Love the glasses of the character :D
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Darkest Shade Of Night
By bartosz, sandra-jasionowska, YamiFive and Mero
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 446 | 3.52 | 62 | |
| Fun | 594 | 3.22 | 61 | |
| Innovation | 488 | 3.28 | 62 | |
| Theme | 902 | 3.09 | 61 | |
| Graphics | 100 | 4.30 | 62 | |
| Audio | 206 | 3.58 | 61 | |
| Mood | 112 | 3.83 | 61 |
Looks good! Love the glasses of the character :D
Fantastic game! You really created a great atmoshpere. The graphics look fantastic and the character controls feel crisp. Thanks for the great submission!
I wanna play your game, but I have only Linux Mint on my machine. I can’t rate your game, sorry. See our game (it’s multiplatform).
Graphics and music is awesome. Also think it should be a lot easier
Wow, this really takes me back to the 90s with the tremors theme! well made nice graphics and atmosphere!
nice game man
@rangoiv We are working on improving the game, soon we will release an update
Nice idea, I like how the game looks, yet, I felt that it was hard to reach the villagers that where farther away, even with the wooden planks gidding me. Also, I think the player controller can be pulished more, I felt that I moved way to fast and it had some drift, the kind of effect you get in some games when you are on icy surfaces.I gotta say I got emerged on the level, I got tense and felt responsable for the life of this villagers hahahaha.
Finally, even tho its a good idea, I think that the game is not completely relatable to the theme, even tho a understand what direction you want it to take.
Very nice game. Graphics and physics are awesome. Consider building to webgl in the future to make it more accessible.
The atmosphere and graphics are indeed very nice. It's very polished for a jam game! Great submission.
Shiny graphics :D
I have found some bugs)
Hey @rodrigo-molina we had some bugs so theme wasn't very implemented well. Update will be released in short time :)
My feelings towards your game are mixed, I like your graphical style and the mood you manage to create with the lighting and the audio. However the gameplay loop feels a bit empty. All I do is run back and forth between my camp and the other villages. This would be fine but I have no real intuitive way of planning my routs nor do I have any idea where all of the camps are. Keeping all of them alive seems way to hard but just keeping 2-3 of the alive got repetitive quite quickly. Maybe let the player get two or three cans of oil for each trip. That way I can plan my routs and start solving the game. I think some type of map would also improve my experience. A game like yours, with the atmosphere you have created makes me want to explore the world. Not run back and forth between 2-3 points. That's my x-cents. Overall great job. Also rest in peace YamiFive!
@landberglife there are more "rest places"(not only YamiFive) i encourage you to find more after bugfix will be released
Wow! Actually good looking 3d game in a game jam! Great atmosphere and sound effects as well. My only issue was with the character controller, it needs some more polishing. Great game otherwise!
@sandra-jasionowska Yeah, the limited time also caused trouble to our team. Keep the good work! :D
Hey guys I loved the scary mood you created here, some constructive feedback:
- Terror music comes and goes in a snap, mood would greatly benefit from sound fadein fadeout. - Didn't see any worm, would be great to be eaten by one like in the gif when you die if you made that. - I played 5 times but didn't manage to find a second oil can. It would be cool if you spawned a second one, maybe random, or maybe at the right side, taking care of everyone felt unfeasable. - Is the red ball supposed to be drawn on screen? is it usable? does it make a difference to point in a direction? If so I could use more visual feedback as I couldn't figure out its use.
Overall a pretty solid entry, congrats!
@manusaiz Dont worry. Gifs are made recently after gamebuild update is coming soon! You will be eaten
@manusaiz You can place and take planks with that red cursor :)
I dig the aesthetic, sets the mood well, gameplay is simple but effective. nice!
Guys, we just squashed a tons of bugs and released Linux, MacOs and Web builds of the game. Those builds were not tested though so if you find some issues with those versions - please let us know!
This game look gourgeous! I really like the art, music, effects and overall ambiance. Is a kinda of nerve wracking experience to run around multiple places that are constantly dying... and, yes, when they scream for the first time I did a little jumpscare. That said, the mood is great and the game is pretty much straight forward to how to play it. I appreciated very much the care with the UX experience, giving control of the volume and giving a clear instructions how to play it in-game. It is a great addition to the Ludum Dare challenge we been through this weekend. Congrats to all involved in the process and I look forward to see more of your games :D
Great mood and atmosphere. Graphics are well made. Gameplay objective is a bit obscure and worm mechanic not immediately obvious but well done in any case :)
Love the graphics
The movement feels icy, in other words, very slippery. The goal of the game is a tad boring and I'm not sure how it fits with the theme.
This is just my opinion, I recommend giving the game a try for yourself.
Nice job! I liked how i actually felt the urgency and like i really had to be quick.
Very VERY good graphics and audio, feel like it is meant to be played on controller. Love the idea of a constant threat anytime you step away from the trail. Keep up the good work
@bigjigglyproductions After minute or 2 you wold realize that you are running out of wooden planks it was mentioned in the description and every time when plank is destroyed
I didn't need planks lol, I just ran and only got killed when I missed the path and hit a wall :thinking:
Wow! Great graphics, atmosphere, and music / sound effects. The transition from the danger music and normal music is a little sudden and can be quite annoying if you only slightly step off the plank though (it keeps happening!!!). The character always looks at the mouse but this never actually had a purpose rather than for realism, but that's just a personal criticism by me. The story was very interesting, I normal don't read a massive wall of text but that had me going especially with the mad looking demon worm on the right (so much teeth!). The colours are amazing and really set the scene up just right. I remember seeing posts of the development of the player model and I love it even more seeing it in gameplay. Solid entry, well done you guys!
For a 72 hour jam, you did very well! The graphics, mostly the UI could use some polish, but otherwise it's great! I'm very bad at it, but I'm bad at games in general haha! The music and the sfx work very well with the game play and I think you also captured the theme nicely. Well done! :)
Great graphics and audio. You've created a fantastic atmosphere. I like the gameplay too, although found it a bit difficult to run between villages and my camp. Overall, excellent work. So well polished for a 72 hour game.
@shinysteel Coursor has additional functionality - you can place and take parts of path - those planks from ground! I't makes you to think a little bit about strategy, because monster worms are destroing those planks and your path as you play!
very good music and graphics i love it. I found some minors bugs, but nothing important
Visuals are a consistent and high level of quality throughout the experience. Sound and visuals set a strong mood. Controls are responsive. Animation is fluid. You've pretty much nailed all your technicals. Well done. In the end I didn't enjoy doing the activity the game asked of me even though the experience was delivered in top notch packaging.
Was at first seduced by the graphics and the overall mood that the game had. But then the music is a bit harsh when alerting the player about danger. ( works a bit like a jump scare ). Other than that, I didn't really feel the theme. Still, it is very visually pleasing.
Planks didn't feel like a real need to place! Could be nice if you had a map and you could place planks anywhere on the sand and you only knew which direction the camps where, and the would be obstacles in the way so you would need to figure out how to get to the camps and place planks as a line you can then follow. Just an idea, I did enjoy playing it!
Wow, soo nice mood. Art particles animations and all on top level. Well done. It's funny when people say about your game being polished, of course it is, You are 4 Polish developers after all :)
Really nice mood =) The art is really cool, the game reminded me of the movie Tremor with Kevin Bacon =)
@tomeks That was very funny comment indeed :)
It took me a moment to completely understand the controls, the gameplay etc, but at the end it was very cool! Feels polished, detailed, a great job for a 72 hours production. The work on lighting is great, the atmosphere, the mood are great, that was very cool to experience the game.
I simply think you should've made music transitions instead of doing a volume settings menu :p
Cozy game and graphics! Well done making all this graphics and content in such a short time! The controllers was a lite bit funky and somethimes the object wasn't clear. Music was good, but the worm-attack soundtrack cut of a little bit too harsh. I liked the game a lot and loved the feeling and mood. Very nice atmosphere, and it was kind of an unique concept.
@iokin now we have linux and web build - you may want to give it a try :)
Wait-- Is the web version improved since the jam deadline?
@wrenpirate Hey, how did you conclude that? No, we built it right after the rest when we finished bugfixing :)
@sandra-jasionowska This comment from "a day ago" would be from Tuesday (PDT) So bugfixing is allowed? This is my first LD, so I'm unfamiliar with what counts as a major fix or a minor one. Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 12.17.38 AM.png
@wrenpirate yes. Bugfixing is allowed, although you should not add any new features. You can read rules here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules
I played this game on the WebGL version, and I found the art and mood to be top notch ! The audio is nice, I just think the 'demon' music could use a bit of fading, as it currently enables/disable a bit too often for me. The village dying sound also jumpscared the heck out of me with it's volume ^^'
Gameplay wise, the game is pretty simple to understand and is fun to play once you get in the mood. However, the mood killer for me was that I was able to completely cheese the worm by jumping over and over, not using any planks.
Other than a couple hiccups, the game is amazing ! Good job !
The graphics are very cool. Good work with light!
Great entry! Amazing graphics and atmosphere! In my opinion, the change between soundtracks when you touch the sand is too sudden, maybe you can try to smooth the transition. Otherwise, great job!
Nice entry, graphics are well rendered, audio fits well, pretty hard game. well done :)
Nice game! Your grapsics look awesome.
A bit long but really awesome ! The idea and the story is great, the graphics great, the audio is a big part of the mood which is nice ! Maybe a tutorial could be cool to understand how to move or interact with object (F it's in game but creating platform with a limited number of planks was a bit difficult to understand). Anyway, great job !
Nice game!
Coool! Nice game :thumbsup: +++++