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Of Gods And Rain

By zinkler, cybersamurai9000, KsardX, Notrelav and syRoK

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1163.9451
Fun2513.6051
Innovation3733.3351
Theme3523.6951
Graphics1154.2851
Audio953.8951
Mood504.1551

Comments

baktillus 2018-12-06 12:04

Really impressive submission! Graphics are great. music is fitting (did you source that elsewhere?) Texts are a bit repetetive. The stealth mechanic is simplistic but for the timeframe all in all its a great game!

n4tticus 2018-12-06 21:08

WOW! The visuals are amazing, animation is well done, the audio is great, this game rocks. The only negative feedback I can give is that the gameplay is a bit simple, but its definitely fun and engaging nonetheless

benjouille 2018-12-06 21:21

Wow, that's a very impressive level of polish for a gamejam. You guys worked very hard on this. The game is stunning, from the menu to the text font. Maybe gameplay need a little more feedback on player action, it's sometime hard to understand what we did wrong. Really great game, can be proud.

sauski 2018-12-07 11:00

Fantastic use of the theme, great to see the theme being used to set the entire mood of the game! I struggled a bit at the start trying to capture my first victim, and I had some Benny Hill moments hiding under the bed in plain sight, but once I began to grasp the mechanics I was thoroughly enjoying kidnapping sacrifices!

ksardx 2018-12-07 11:06

@baktillus Thank you very much for playing and your review! Yeah, the music was made by our team :)

@n4tticus @benjouille @sauski Thank you VERY MUCH for your reviews! It means a lot to us! Hope you enjoyed it ;) The Benny Hill moments are intended :)

The Ancient Ones are pleased!

krylos 2018-12-07 11:09

An absolutely astonishing entry! The graphics are amazing. I love all the little subtleties of the animation. That makes me realize how much love went into this project. The audio is also absolutely amazing. These two things contribute to a truly excellent mood. The gameplay was very good, though the theme of sacrifice itself wasn't too relevant. I suck at these kinds of games, though, so I didn't manage to play it all the way through. All in all, it's one of the best entries I've seen this LD. Congratulations!

alleskapaul 2018-12-07 11:43

Impressive entry, like said above the graphics and music is stunning! I am not sure though how the theme was incorporated in the game.

plagueofminds 2018-12-07 12:11

Very good entry! A nice simple, but polished game.

alexaur 2018-12-07 13:04

Like everyone else I'm very impressed, it really feels like a complete/released game :) There were some characters that got stuck on the second floor during the last level, which made it a bit hard to sneak around (web version), but it all worked out in the end!

The level design, graphics and music is great and well made, it fits together so perfectly.. I love games that requires sneaking with no option of killing, it's so fun! Great work!!

ksardx 2018-12-07 14:05

The rain will never stop! The world will drown in tears!

ksardx 2018-12-07 14:05

@krylos @alleskapaul @plagueofminds @alexaur

We are very glad you enjoyed our game! About the usage of the theme: the Ancient Ones need offerings, and we kindap people to sacrifice them in our lair.

The last level is a true competion, we know about it. But as the God said in the beginning - you WILL be rewarded, just try your best ;)

steel-dev 2018-12-07 17:03

I, of course, love stuff about dark gods and such- so I loved this. The graphics were very well done, the music fit well- mainly the music in the gods dialogue, and the font used for that was perfect. The gameplay was nice- difficult at times, but difficulty is what makes it fun :D Great job!

maximbegunov 2018-12-08 10:26

A very solid game in its atmosphere with good pixel-art and greatly chosen music.

maximiliangeorg 2018-12-08 10:39

Wow! Great project and impressive character art. In general I enjoyed playing it but the main gameplay is a little slow and sometimes dull. The NPCs can be tricked to easily.

iluvatar 2018-12-08 10:58

This was perfect! I loved the atmosphere and the graphics were top notch.

pedro-rosa 2018-12-08 11:34

I liked the gameplay and the graphics are great. The audio is really cool. I had a bit difficult to play the game at the start because it was a bit too dark.

corbak 2018-12-08 12:16

Well it is impressive to have made such a game in a short time frame. The pixel art is cute, the music ambiance and sounds are coherent, animations are funny, and it is stressful to go on a mission. There are just a few bugs that are visible but nothing too important. It's that sometimes I cannot get a key that a personne holds. It says "F" but somehow I can' get it on the first try. Some patrol are random and sometimes 2 people can get stuck in a room and it's impossible to get they key of the boy "3rd level" and the walking animation of characters can somehow bug and they walk without moving legs (creepy actually :P ) But other than these few little bugs, it is really enjoyable, well done :)

azayiah 2018-12-08 14:11

Well what a greatly fantastic game!!! Well done on the pixel art work, super proud!!! Well done

ksardx 2018-12-09 11:24

@steel-dev @maximbegunov @maximiliangeorg @iluvatar @pedro-rosa @azayiah

Thank you for playing and your reviews! It means a lot to our team! We know about the slow gameplay, it's intended to be so. It's a TACTICAL kidnapping after all :D You can choose your own playstyle, rush if you want, hide if you have to and have fun ;)

@corbak

Thank you for your detailed review! We are glad you enjoyed our game! You can give it a second chance soon, because The Ancient Ones ordered us to patch the game, so the HOTFIX is on its way ;)

Let the Gods be pleased! Show the game to your friends, share it in media! The Ancient Ones need more, much more!

2018-12-10 22:11

Hello there. The big suprise for me was dedication to the game concept and effort that made that game distinguish among others projects on this platform. Music is brilliant serves as a great example of how you should make a music for a game like this, intense, with hints of the threat posed by the player. The interface, pixel graphics are absolutely astonishing and seems almost impossible to achieve in such limited time. Got some technical problems in a web version caused by my brouser, but it didn`t spoiled the aftertaste of the game. The cons are simple - it`s quite easy to beat, the gameplay can`t stand the test of time, if there were more than 7 levels it quickly would get bored and even a nice style would not save the game Well done, solid 8 out of 10, can`t wait for the upcoming content!

ksardx 2018-12-11 23:01

@baktillus @n4tticus @benjouille @sauski @krylos @alleskapaul @plagueofminds @alexaur @steel-dev @maximbegunov @maximiliangeorg @iluvatar @pedro-rosa @azayiah @corbak @artiseki

Good news our fellow-apprentices! The Gods asked us to do it, so we have realeased the HOTFIX for our game!

Now you can play it again and enjoy it much more!

Let the blood rain reign!

eatatjoes 2018-12-11 23:08

Wow! Really impressive audio and graphics design, I'm guessing you all had a dedicated audio and gfx person.

For the core mechanics of the game, i think its a great. And i love the stealth mechanics for a 2D game.

Super polished concept and execution.

eric-smith 2018-12-12 00:13

Wow this was definitely a fun little game! Well done. I would like to see this one mature. :clap:

zgragselus 2018-12-12 01:21

Very good entry, apart from minor bug (showing how much visible you are doesn't work properly in WebGL version), it is quite polished and quite complex. It was missing just some voice acting!

It seems quite impressive to do this within 72 hours!

Good job and keep up the good work.

wizardofozzy 2018-12-12 01:55

Very cool! I loved the audio - it does a great job of setting the mood of the game. Also, the walk animation cracks me up when your characters eyes thin out haha.

fireslash 2018-12-12 02:37

Great job end to end on this! The art, music, and gameplay all work very well together, and produce a rather fun little stealth game.

If I had to nitpick, the intro/text sections are a bit slow; I'd like to see more text on the screen at once and a slightly more interesting text interaction, but what you have is a good compromise given your time budget. Something to look into for post compo I suppose! The skip button was welcome.

I don't have much else to add, but keep up the good work and strongly consider fleshing this into a larger experience.

sthor726 2018-12-12 02:47

Nice Work! the story was intresting and the art gameplay and music was on point

ruddiculous 2018-12-12 02:47

Fantastic Mood and Art, I love the audio. Overall the experience was super cool, you guys made a beautiful game!

willoxs 2018-12-12 18:05

There is a bug where the "enemies" glitch around the doors and you're not able to get past them and sometimes the "e" was shown but pressing it didn't do anything which is frustrating (So that's a "-" for fun). But otherwise the game was great! Awesome graphics, fitting sound and intense gameplay. You even made bonus-content with collectables ... A great job in so little time!

firesplash-entertainment 2018-12-12 18:30

Thanks for submitting your game. Iw as to dumb to play LEvel 2 LOL but it was fun to play and I liked the idea.

falak 2018-12-12 19:57

Nice game! Good Luck

nikolay-zapolnov 2018-12-12 20:13

Great idea, cool graphics and fits theme perfectly :) Nice submission!

ksardx 2018-12-12 20:54

@eatatjoes @eric-smith @zgragselus @wizardofozzy @fireslash @sthor726 @ruddiculous @falak @nikolay-zapolnov

Apprentices! Thank you very VERY MUCH for playing and reviewing our project! We are genuinenly happy to read your kind words and critic!

@willoxs Yeah, we know there are some mean bugs, we're trying our best to eliminate them! Thank you for having interest in our project, we appriciate it :)

@firesplash-entertainment

Thank you for streaming our game! We still want you to have the best experience a bit later, so you can play it after the stream, we're sure you like it, promise ;)

Let's try our best to please the Ancient Ones and drown the world in rain! We are close, I can feel it!

lukel 2018-12-12 21:31

Nice graphics, great music. The mechanics of hiding, stealing and NPC hunting is great. A nice addition imo is adding a distraction mechanic, maybe throwing an item you have picked up. Nice job!

ksardx 2018-12-12 21:58

@lukel

Thank you for playing! Yeah, we planned to add a distraction mechanic by throwing a special item that makes sounds, but didn't have much time for it, so we had to get rid of this idea :(

Maybe we add it later... we'll see

muffty 2018-12-14 18:04

thats awesome. plain awesome. I just did not like some levels and the ai could be a bit more deterministic. But apart from this, great entry!

hdugmag 2018-12-18 21:51

Really impressive! The art and audio design is perfect for such a cool mood. But I felt stealing keys from the unpredictable AI was pretty challenging. Other than that, i played it for quite a while, great job!

ankan 2018-12-18 22:32

so polished!

nander 2018-12-24 14:32

Very impressive game, really nice art, nice gameplay. I stopped playing in the third level though.

simanis 2018-12-26 22:26

There are many good aspects that probably are listed by others already, but I'll reiterate:

- nice artstyle - good atmosphere (I love games set at night and rain :) ) - a lot of lore (for a gamejam game) - good choice of music - polished feel

Admittedly, The gameplay itself didn't feel particularly exciting.

kaeveris 2018-12-29 19:42

I really like how the game suits the theme. It's really polished, the artstyle is awesome, the music is great, the atmosphere is really good!

ksardx 2018-12-31 17:11

@muffty @hdugmag @ankan @nander @simanis @kaeveris

Thank you SO MUCH for your feedback! It means a lot to our devteam!