FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD44 → Drytown

Drytown

By davidpixel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall34.45113
Fun164.21113
Innovation1623.65113
Theme24.58113
Graphics244.60113
Audio
Humor563.94110
Mood94.44110

Comments

sefrz 2019-04-29 22:21

Amazing game with amazing music and mood. Great job!

supergamersgames 2019-04-29 22:27

The game is a perfect representation of what the theme could be used for. Great Job!

2019-04-29 22:32

This is excellent! Loved playing through this, the way it played and the art was great!

pierre-cilluffo 2019-04-29 22:44

I have nothing to say, this game is just excellent !

theitcrow 2019-04-29 22:54

Very well made. I love the stlye and the mood of the game :)

ldjsq 2019-04-29 23:11

Nice Game! I like the spooky mood, the black and white art and the cute characters. I lost too much blood at the graveyard ;-)

velvetlobster 2019-04-30 02:33

amazing art, great style and music! the vibe is perfect! Killed myself thinking that would be not allowed, like when you don't have enough coins lol. Must say again, the music is my favorite part

purrseus 2019-04-30 13:16

Whoa, this game feels incredibly polished! It's one of those gems where you forget about it being a Ludum Dare entry altogether. The overall mood is outstanding, it feels like a real, living world. You captured the adventurous spirit one feels when first exploring the World of a Zelda Game (or Minit, though because of the strong and coherent vampire theme your gameworld feels even more alive than Minit's). Thank you for making this game!

khofez 2019-04-30 14:07

Very interesting! The art is great and I liked playting through it

2019-04-30 14:12

sooo nice!

kristinamay 2019-04-30 14:35

This was really, really, really good. I almost forgot I was playing an LD game. The story was great, the 1bit art was fantastic (seriously, I do a lot of pixel art and I'm really jealous of this art style), the music was simultaneously whimsical and menacing, and it was all wrapped up in a nice neat little bow. Def the best LD game I've played so far. What engine/tools did you use to make this?

paulo-brunassi 2019-04-30 14:38

Great game, it fits very well with the theme. I loved everything about it.

2019-04-30 14:50

Cool graphics style

didigameboy 2019-04-30 14:51

Absolutely lovely! Love the 1 bit pixelart style! Great work!

davidpixel 2019-04-30 14:51

Wow guys thank you very much for the kind words! These comments are really making our day :black_heart: We have put a lot of effort into Drytown and reading these comments let us know that the message has arrive to our players, thank you so much!

vanleiden 2019-04-30 14:53

Excellent job, this is a perfect interpretation of the theme. And it looks like a finished product. Well done!

davidpixel 2019-04-30 14:55

Thank you @kristinamay that is such a lovely commentary! The tools we have used to develope the game have been Unity, Aseprite and Audacity ^^

didigameboy 2019-04-30 15:00

cAME BACK TO RE-ITERATE! aBSOLUTELY charming! 5/5

boxedmeatrevolution 2019-04-30 15:02

This game has a really good interpretation of the theme, and I loved the story/atmosphere of Drytown. Just overall very well executed game, and I'd like to play a longer version of it.

star-garden 2019-04-30 15:27

Wow this is excellent. The art and music are perfect, the game feels great, nice light puzzle solving. Very talented team this is one of the best games I have seen so far in the jam.

paul-giovannini 2019-04-30 15:38

I love the art and the atmosphere, best game so far !

simonl 2019-04-30 16:37

Awesome in all regards basically. Nice art, witty dialogs and even little puzzles. Sadly I have no speakers on my pc.

But it's not 1bit since the hearts need a third colour :P

gear-steak 2019-04-30 17:30

You nailed it with this one, I'm surprised I haven't seen more vampire themed games. My one complaint is that on a few occasions I walked into a screen right ontop of an enemy with no way to have avoided it

predrag 2019-04-30 17:39

I love this game!

machinescreen 2019-04-30 18:10

Mmmm, this is good. It looks incredible and the world is genuinely interesting.

repine 2019-04-30 18:18

wow, this game is outstanding. From the sound design, to the graphics, gameplay, and dialogue, this is all around really well done. Y'all nailed it!

derek-volker 2019-04-30 19:44

Thats a really solid entry and pleasant experience.

For what i though, the use of vampires with the proposed theme would be a obvious choice, but you mangaged to make them different from the traditional approach, even being faithful to the common vampire rules (blood drinkers, garlic).

So, it's a really fun game. The story is interesting and set in a creative way, while being innovative in the use of (some?) logic with a puzzle and the vampire role in the story.

It is a bold choice to make graphics with only two colors (preparation for the two colors theme?), but given the theme and the execution, it turned out in a really cool graphics that both serves as eye candy in the game but also helps set the spooky mood. Also, what a fitting and nice soundtrack. Why are you guys not being rated in audio?

Also, i wouldnt expect such upbeat mood in a game involving vampires, but it turned out to beign quite humorous experience.

Excellent job.

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Thanks for making the game!

davidpixel 2019-04-30 21:45

@derek-volker Wow! Thank you so much for the commentary Derek we are really glad to hear your feedback, this kind of player's messages its what really makes developing games worthy!

Regarding the missing Audio category, well as far as we know (according to LD rules) if you haven't made yourself one of the categories of the game you should disable it to be rated, in this case most audio is from other creators(with a Creative Commons 0 license) and music is by Incompetech, his public music is usable in games if you give credit to him in the game description. Thats why we disabled the category for our game even though we worked in it so it could match with the rest of the game. Not sure how it affects the game rating though.

ivan-garcia-filho 2019-05-01 02:39

Awesome art and animations, i would just say that "hearts != liters of blood" , there's no way of knowing how many liters a heart has before you just die accidentaly hehehe ... And maybe enhance the dialogue fonts ... they are hard to read.

saucygames 2019-05-01 06:15

Awesome Artwork and direction! Loved the main character's designs. great minit x hollowknight feels

2019-05-01 12:05

The work on this game seems to be huge. The art is so cute. Good work, keep going !

supernapie 2019-05-01 14:02

Super fun quest game! Fits the theme very well! Liked the details in the buildings very much!

sunnray 2019-05-01 14:11

This game is great! Animations felt smooth, and the gameplay was fun. I hope you will continue to work on this game.

skylark721 2019-05-01 14:33

This is a gem in LD44. Amazing art, sound... characters, everything! And it fits the theme so well! I honestly can't say anything bad about it, it's so polished. I hope you guys decide to make a longer game out of this universe with this art style, that would be awesome!

ratz 2019-05-01 14:38

What a great idea! The 1 bit graphics are very well done! Love every bit of it! The only little problem I had was that enemies would attack me while the character was going to the next screen. Congrats!

hugovaz 2019-05-01 14:46

I liked everything! All was made with intention and very well polished. Nice job! Top 10 game for sure

riftpoint-entertainment 2019-05-01 15:18

Very nice game! The mood is very good, as well as the art style and animations. Amazing! good job

b33thr33 2019-05-01 15:20

Very very nice visuals, cool setting and good implementation of the theme. Actual fights could have been a bit more challenging/diverse but except for that, best Web GL one I have seen so far.

kukareru-sekai 2019-05-01 15:36

Very nice take on the theme! I really like 1-bit graphics like this as I am not sure how you can make such good art with only one color. I also enjoyed how the process of getting the containers got more difficult as you go on. I didn't really care for the last puzzle as I didn't understand it and it was easy to brute force, but other than that this was an excellent entry. Good work!

2019-05-01 16:13

oh! It is really interesting game. Very interesting theme and a lot of interesting dialogues and situations. I will download this game on my computer and will sometimes play. Thanks for this

2019-05-01 17:41

Well this was amazing! From the start the artstyle really stood out. It was just not another pixel art, it was something new. It created the mood from the get go along with perfectly fitting music. This was a great little short story and I'm really impressed you guys managed to create it in such a short time. I liked the dialog and the characters. The idea of donating blood and the blood containers was a really smart way to use the theme. I liked the grave puzzle, neat little thing. The only thing I was lacking was some challenge and bigger climax, maybe the boss should've been at the end with a little more difficulty.

Overall projects like yours inspire me to put my best into future efforts. If you were to do a full feature of this world I would surely buy it.

edevjogos 2019-05-01 18:40

This game is gorgeous, awesome work!

2019-05-01 21:33

Awesome! Played it all the way through to the end. Charming music and design... Could do with some more content post jam.. And perhaps more involved combat and new locations to discover. Well done!

lord9000 2019-05-02 09:25

Just wow! This is so far my favourite game I have played here. The art style is amazing - did you taki inspiration in Minit? Because this game feels very similar. The execution of the theme, music, feeling and the technical side are almost flawless. As for a jam game I really don't know what to criticize - I would really like to produce such quality games on jams as you.

pixel-boy 2019-05-02 17:03

Good atmosphere, the art looks like Minit, which is cool, I was stuck in the game after the falling tree, but I enjoyed the game!

deathbysnail 2019-05-03 20:43

Nice work

drauthius 2019-05-04 11:09

Very nice entry. The artwork is very good and works most of the time. The puzzle elements were fun and interesting, and the story/setting was great.

reality-blind 2019-05-04 18:56

Every point of the game was perfect to me: you have awesome graphics, "creepy but not to much" music, charismatic characters, the town is really pretty, and the theme is perfectly used. You even have a hilarious puzzle in the graveyard 😁

Your game is now first of my top 5 LD44 games ❤ Keep doing such an awesome job!

palsina 2019-05-04 23:38

I donated a lot of blood on the tombs sections :smile: Everything is good about this, but the pixelart in just two tones is just killer

flaterectomy 2019-05-05 17:04

More than I expected of a jam game! Saw you in Randomise User's video and wanted to play myself. The simple two-color scheme (well, three including the red) and scaled-up art is well done, all sprites are easily identifiable and I assume this style meant there was more time to put together levels. A smart choice with a narrative game!

Gating progress with the health cap is a very clever mechanic, and everything was so charming that I had to finish playing through the game until the end. Good choice of music too.

2019-05-05 19:16

Love pixel art of your game. Background music matches nicely with the art. Good job :smiley:

coatline 2019-05-05 19:23

Wow. This game has more content than you would expect from a jam game. It has music, good sfx, a story, and good gameplay. One thing though. I encountered a bug where the lumberjack wouldn't cut the tree down for me. Overall, great job!

recursor 2019-05-05 19:30

A fantastic entry that reminds me of Minit without the time limit. I played through the whole thing and enjoyed it all. One of my favorites of the compo.

engyne 2019-05-05 19:31

I think this is the best game that used the theme correctly and nicely! The game design was really good, the music (sometimes annoying) went very well with the mood and the art was on point. Well done!

webox 2019-05-06 01:42

I'm pretty sure this is a winner right here. AMAZING game.. There's only a few things

* Music was a bit too intense, like I was in combat all the time * UI when clicking yes or no was weird * Harvesting hard in the last stage felt a bit like a chore

Other than that, this is perfect.. Amazing job

euler-moises 2019-05-06 04:20

Simple and delicious! This is my kind of game! The choice of B & W was excellent with the mood of the game. For me it is one of the best uses of the theme. Congratulations!

I have a game for LDJAM too. Try it, rate it and comment. Please. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/junkebox-panic

sol-roo 2019-05-06 10:08

excelent job

mediyaz 2019-05-06 12:26

I liked it! The choice of a vampiretown rpg is really inspired and fitting for the theme - Cute puzzles and I enjoyed tentacle tennis, I think a more fluid and interesting combat system / way of grinding for blood would make this game feel more rounded and satisfying, but otherwise a wonderful little gem 💎

fear-games 2019-05-06 14:06

Really well polished game, absolutely gorgeous graphics and fit the theme really well! Love it!

mika-la-grand 2019-05-06 18:07

Very good game, but I was just wondering which track(s) you are using from incompetech?

garys 2019-05-06 18:23

This is simply wonderful, I can't find a single fault with it. The art style is really impressive too. Top work guys.

2019-05-06 18:55

I really liked both the style and concept of the game. Nice rtwork and cute characters with simple gameplay. Great use of the LD 44 theme.

dimesto52 2019-05-07 11:29

beautiful story, beautiful graphics, the feeling of the first zelda .... something magic what!

franklins-ghost 2019-05-07 13:58

This is one of my favourites so far. Fun art and music worked so well in setting the mood. Really enjoyed it and exploring to find all the hearts. Liked how short it was so I felt like I saw everything. Also nice touch at the end where you get to see all the character designs on the one screen.

randomphantom 2019-05-07 15:25

Such lovely art and its just a complete package with even the requisite puzzles, combat and creepy ending. Very nice Minit style game that I was initially trying to do for my jam entry but I gave up and switch tracks, I'm glad that I still got to play a game like this in this jam though! One nitpick would be that I get immediately attacked when I move to the next screen which seems a little unfair, but I guess replenishing blood is as easy as cutting up some bats and rats which come to think of it, is a little more than horrific..

pl4typus 2019-05-07 21:21

Indeed, excellent game. I thiink everyone above said what needed to be said. I think that for a jam game, yours is very complete and proves how much skillful you are to make games.

Appreciate the honesty for the Music category.

2019-05-07 23:12

Really charmingly fantastic art and atmosphere!

angela-he 2019-05-09 06:32

Awesome work guys!! This game looks so beautiful - the mood is insane.

The font's a lil hard to read

Love the sound effects and high level of polish!!!

When I press esc it closes the dialogue so I can't read the rest of it? I was expecting a pause menu/nothing

Wow can I say again - insane polish

asshole vampire "forest guide" screwed me over i-

Love how we don't have to play the whole game over again if we die because I suck at these kinds of games

I got stuck at getting trapped in the area with the fallen tree - i couldn't give the cutter my 2 units because I'd die :/

jam373 2019-05-10 16:20

Really Fantastic! I loved the cute but moody art, the cool gameplay loop, the spooky story, and the terrifyingly tense music! Perfect all round!

kaeveris 2019-05-11 14:03

Awesome work! The story was engaging, the characters were interesting, the music was terryfing and incredible and the artstyle was super cute. Great entry!

aeveis 2019-05-13 07:23

I was able to finish the game! The 1 bit look is nice. The animations on the enemies were nice, though unsure how human the blood is if I'm killing creatures to get blood back, haha. nice job!

ploy 2019-05-15 16:22

Best game I've played so far, but first dialogue is a bit long and boring :D

gamebuilder 2019-05-16 11:53

I like the B+W graphics a lot. The music is very good too. I don't like giving or stealing blood though.

neontropics 2019-05-19 13:40

Great mood! Good graphics and very fitting music. Clever attack animation, and very nice feedback on attacking.

The font is potentially a bit too hard to read, coupled with possibly slightly too much talking initially led me to be a bit impatient.

Really good entry, definitely a full experience!

rosypenguin 2019-05-22 04:10

Love this so much! The art and music worked wonderfully together. I enjoyed solving the puzzles and the light combat. What an adorable story too, I laughed at the ending. Congratulations on the well deserved scores!

2019-06-04 09:12

Simply loved this