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The Cost of Living

By xenoxygene, touffemystere, hirowix333, raitozan, hurley, alexzen and fumbledagain

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD43Ever
Overall9152.903113.420.9
Fun8432.783119.225.2
Innovation9282.593112.017.6
Theme8562.913118.021.2
Graphics8932.57319.313.9
Audio5442.863121.432.0
Humor7072.463020.131.3
Mood8362.853118.826.0

Comments

theog 2018-12-04 04:19 ♥ 3

Interesting gameplay. The "multi-path aspect" is great!

avi 2018-12-04 04:20 ♥ 2

Neat game! Good work! Really like the simplistic art style!

toast-toaster 2018-12-04 04:21 ♥ 2

Good level design

imphenzia 2018-12-05 09:53 ♥ 2

I like the built in tutorial, the level design/progression, and the different jump techniques that were introduced. Well done, especially with this being your first jam! See you at LD44 :)

xenoxygene 2018-12-05 14:45 ♥ 1

@imphenzia Thank you it means a lot! Thanks to all of you actually! We hope to see you next LD too!

ursagames 2018-12-06 05:33 ♥ 2

Your game was played on my stream ( twitch.tv/ursagames ) for the second day of Ludum Dare streams - you can find the timestamp of your game here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8

dzmitry-pukhouski 2018-12-06 17:47 ♥ 2

Even though the art style was blending in my eyes it still was a good experience. Loved the upgrades and how you can use them to take a different path. And the controls were good and responsive too except for their layout but they worked

call-me-nutty 2018-12-06 19:43 ♥ 2

Made it to the end!

I really liked the power-ups in the game and how you built some of the levels anticipating that the player may not actually having one of the required power-ups therefore giving them a different route. The controls were well done. I would say that the game could have done with some polish, some of the hitboxes are a bit too large and there's a pretty nasty blind jump in the second level (the one that requires the double-jump) I died a few times on that part.

Otherwise I quite enjoyed playing the game, the ambient noises fit perfectly with the music and the difficulty scaled pretty well. Thanks for making :)

sickdot 2018-12-06 20:08 ♥ 2

I really liked the mechanics, level design also good graphics. overall a really good game!

sauski 2018-12-07 10:27 ♥ 2

Certainly an engaging game with a "one more go" aspect to it, I found myself crying in frustration when I miss timed a jump, but it's a mark of a good game that it's able to evoke such engagement. An escape menu and the ability to mute would have made for a slightly easier user experience, something you'll definitely need to consider for the next Jam! :)

badpaul34 2018-12-07 14:44 ♥ 2

Nice feeling of the jump and we all know that is not that easy.

Good mastery of the pacing and onboarding. I quited though because there was no checkpoint and it's sooo frustrating to play again everything from the beginning.

itsjustjord 2018-12-07 20:32 ♥ 2

I liked it but the graphics were a bit "meh" in my opinion :)

krx271 2018-12-07 22:49 ♥ 2

Nice game on the horizon, good idea, graphics :D Look at our game, greetings :D

masterzenith 2018-12-10 01:25 ♥ 1

Not sure what this has to do with sacrifice.

Other than that, pretty decent!

raitozan 2018-12-11 13:15 ♥ 2

@masterzenith our gameplay is based on sacrifice, you sacrifice your life/energy to use your abilities, and you've to sacrifice an ability to take a new one ;)

thx all for your reviews ! :D

appix 2018-12-15 02:49 ♥ 2

welldone~i like the graphics.

elysiagriffin 2018-12-18 21:03 ♥ 2

Hey raitozan! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346057870?t=06h32m43s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin