matthew-mcclure 2019-04-30 19:34
I really liked the overall look of the game. The lighting and graphics were really cool!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Lifelight
By kromzem, gumbarius and Manti
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 141 | 3.87 | 37 | |
| Fun | 69 | 3.97 | 37 | |
| Innovation | 490 | 3.18 | 37 | |
| Theme | 654 | 3.22 | 37 | |
| Graphics | 75 | 4.37 | 37 | |
| Humor | 792 | 2.36 | 31 | |
| Mood | 85 | 4.00 | 36 |
I really liked the overall look of the game. The lighting and graphics were really cool!
Really nice game! My best was wave 8. I really love the artwork, great job!
A fun game to play! Pretty hard actually, specially when you get stuck to the sides of the level x)
Nice take on the theme to consider the "life is munitions" as light. I think the graphics and the game atmosphere very nice, good job guys.
Looks amazing, great job :)
really nice artwork/animations and lighting
Really polished and moody bullet hell shooter! The sprites look fantastic and the controls are smooth. I don't really see much connection with the theme though and the new mechanic is basically a life system. Nevertheless, nice job.
Really satisfying game! The art and sound effects are great! My only minor issue with this game was that it got a bit too repetitive over time and there wasn't a clear indication of my health. Really satisfying and fun overall!
Really enjoyed the graphics and the music.
Nice, finished it. Very polished game!
Cool game and mechanics, love it!
Great atmosphere in this game and the music fit really well. The story was nicely played out, the only thing which caught me offguard was when the game started, I thought I was still in a cutscene, having some sort of UI appear might have told me "hey, you're ingame now", it would have been nice to see how much light I had and how much health I had remaining, kinda just died out of nowhere xD Good job though!
Really nice artwork and animations and soundtrack loved it. Gameplay was a bit boring to me. Some upgrade system after a wave would be nice.
Nice athmosphere, loved how you made the story :D the first 10 waves felt a little to easy, but all in all great game!
Artwork is amazing! Difficult game but challenging in a good way. Is there an end to the game or a leaderboard - Im unsure?
Bonus points for making the enemies look like Gengar - my favourite Pokemon. Tell me you know Gengar.
Really well drawn characters, and really fun to play too.
The atmosphere of the game is incredible.
I don't know if it's just me, but those dark monsters look a lot like pokémons hahaha
Nce job on this game!
Everything about this game is awesome! I've always wondered how you can achieve this dark atmosphere with the lights etc, maybe you could explain!
@mza Yeah, sure we know about Gengar. Huge Pokemon fans here :D After our artist has drawn the enemy she quickly realised that it looks a lot like a fluffy Genger xD
@nico-fallosch Thanks for your review. We also had in mind to put in an upgrade system or something like that, but for the sake of polishing the rest of the game, this idea hat to be cut off in the end.
@oktarian We're glad you like our game <3 Maybe you can add me via Discord or something and I try to recap how I achieved such an atmosphere :D
Discord: Kromzem#1165
@refraction Yes, I agree that the transition to the core gameplay or the missing HUD in general can be confusing. My goal was to focus more on atmosphere, so I decided to cut off the UI to improve the immersion of the game. I will definitely think about on how to improve this point ;)
Lot of fun and challenge ! the 6th wave for me I have to retry :)
That was a funny game, I really enjoyed playing it ! I lost at wave 14 on my first try, feels frustrating but I guess I did great haha Many things to say !
- I like the art, monsters are cool, their animations are great, you can feel them ready to kill you, happy to do so and that they having nothing to lose trying. About the bullets colors, I'd have gone for a more different palette between the player and the monsters, no need to go for a basic green/red, but maybe it would have been more beautiful to fire lots of colors while monsters fire red/purple/orange bullets. - I don't like the main menu, there's 0 animation in it, if the music weren't there I would have think the game crashed. There's no feedback on buttons too, so this is pretty sad because it's the first thing I saw ^^ - The music is cool, audio too, but maybe a more horrific sound design could be cool! You're in the dark, with lots of monsters, play on that to scare the player a bit ! I know it's not a horror game tho - I like the way the waves are getting harder to beat, however I only felt the difficulty getting really hard on wave 8 or 9 maybe, and it was juste because there were much more enemies. I think it would have been better to keep some enemies for last levels, not spawn them until level 6 or 7, and then when the player is used to the easy patterns, he has to learn how to face a new enemy. That's the reason I don't want to play again, I have nothing to discover, even if I didn't reach the last level I'm pretty sure there's no bonus enemy in it (I might be wrong though, but that is the feeling I have!) - More feedbacks would have been great, sometimes I wasn't sure about bullets if they did hit me, and when I died I was like "okay but why ?" I had no way to know I was about to die. Also when light comes to the player after killing an enemy, the animation is cool so you should accentuate it ! - The audio is cool, I had a feeling some music did not loop perfectly, otherwise it matched the game atmosphere pretty well - I did not really feel the theme...
I think that's it ! Oh and you can't skip the credits, and they're long so it could be cool, but it is a detail :) Thanks for the game, it is a great entry!
@saering Uff, thats a pretty detailed review, thanks for that in the first place <3 We sure will keep your critics into account to improve the game. They sure really will help us, making it a well polished and complete experience. PS: The reason you didn't feel the theme is because we also didn't feel it, so we just moved a bit away from it and made the game just a bit theme conform, to keep more freedom on what our vision was :)
Between the stage border, different colored glowing eyes, and the player's sprite changing, the visual information in this game is superb.
The artwork was fantastic. I really love the creature designs and the way their eyes glow in the darkness. The difficulty kind of spiked a bit toward the end, but other than that it was really great all around. And thanks for tuning into the stream!
Really fun game! The art work is superb, and the music really contributes to the atmosphere of the game. One thing though, when I was playing, the controls unexpectedly stopped working. While I could shoot, the bullets didn't seem to do damage, and I could not move. Other then that, great game!
Cool games, loved the mood and music.
Simple yet very solid entry here ^^
I love the music and art.
I didn't understand how the life was represented, I think it has something with the tail of the MC :/ This part was too unclear for me sorry ^^ Also maybe the MC don't have enough animation (sad since it's the only thing always in the center of the screen).
Awesomely fun ! And I really liked the representation of the game area's rim with the decreasing light. Really fit the game.
Btw, my best was wave 9 or 10.
Edit: Okay I saw the video you made, and understand now how life is represented... (didn't had so much HP in my runs...)
Great job! The music, art, sound design, gameplay, everything was on point!
Great game, I really enjoyed this one. The story and tutorial has been made really nice and I also like the art work very much. The gameplay was smooth and I had no problems straight up 5/5. Keep it up, If you have time check out my game too :v:
Quite good game ^^ I enjoyed playing it. The difficulty curve was well balanced and the game didn't become boring. The movement felt quite good and the enemies had good pattern. The graphics looked awesome and the lighting was well done. Good game :)
Pretty good game. I do believe that there needs to be a clearer indication of HP. For some reason, sometimes, enemy HP feels like they increased drastically at times, but I'm not sure whether that's my imagination or there's a function that causes that. The graphics are really nice. Good game overall.
Very good game. You nailed the theme.