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Chasing Light

By lychee and AFestiveDolphin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4613.5453
Fun5153.3253
Innovation5033.2453
Theme5463.3252
Graphics2873.9553
Audio3243.4551
Mood1693.8750

Comments

theomaniacal 2019-10-08 04:13

Love the art style! Great job, and congrats on your first LD!! :thumbsup:

supercannon 2019-10-08 04:22

I really love this idea! It's an interesting trade off between ammo and vision of the enemies. I've thought about doing something similar in a game before, and it's cool to see someone implementing it.

I did manage to kite the enemies pretty easily though, although it was pretty fun to see how many I could get lol: screenshot.png

I think some other enemies with different AI that try to flank, or maybe even fire a projectile at you could spice it up so that's not an issue.

Oh, I like the art style and the spooky sounds as well. Pretty cool game!

mingxi-zou 2019-10-08 04:55

I like your art style pretty much, it's simple but cool.

nisovin 2019-10-08 05:00

I definitely like the visuals, and the game is easy to pick up and quite fun!

shugor 2019-10-08 05:19

The art in this is great, and lends itself super well to the rest of the atmosphere. Enemies really can jump out at you at the lower light levels, and paired with the bizarre sound effects it can be quite spooky.

brokenmirrormedia 2019-10-08 05:32

Spooky aesthetic, I kinda wish the minimum view distance was a bit bigger so I can see enemies before I am already touching them, but otherwise it was fun!

eranot 2019-10-08 06:10

The art style is really good, easily the best part!

velvetlobster 2019-10-08 06:32

interesting drawing choice on the enemies and energy not sure the sound effects fit it though

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sometimes they were already too close

2019-10-08 11:41

I liked the idea and graphics (the creature is kind of cute!). Attacking the enemies is a bit hard because I don't see them until it is to late, but good job!

elmos-minion 2019-10-08 14:02

Great game, it was fun kiting and dodging enemies.

alicecrd 2019-10-09 07:01

I like graphics, this game is a good idea even though I died early enough in the game

hajden 2019-10-09 07:07

Good idea, too hard though. Would like for enemies to have to have a more distinct 3D sound, so I can get a sense of where they're coming from even if I don't see them

tohubohu 2019-10-09 07:43

Really like the graphics here, and the audio has a nice quality and consistency to it. The gameplay was fairly simple but still enjoyable enough, definitely a lot of potential to build it out more if you wanted to. Got up to 2071 points on the first try, less so on the second. :P Congrats on the submission!

croewens 2019-10-09 07:46

Cool atmosphere! It felt a bit zoomed in at first, but soon realised that was only temporary. Great choice of mysterious music! Got not that far in my first run: https://i.imgur.com/4n5ddBQ.png

xakkar 2019-10-09 08:03

Cool art style)

jumbax 2019-10-11 07:42

nice idea

lonewolfdev 2019-10-11 08:30

Nice art style, pretty authentic! I like the mechanic of picking up light so you can shoot!

ryano 2019-10-11 10:40

Really enjoyed this. Thought the art style was interesting and the game idea was clever. Good work!

2-odd-diodes 2019-10-12 03:29

I love the art style. Trading off visibility for damage is a neat concept, and not being able to see the enemies gives it a nice horror like atmosphere aided by the music. This is great!

drgrognak 2019-10-12 05:11

I love the concept of the camera zooming out as you get more light. Very cool! Would like to see more content in game but it's a great start.

frozen-spirit 2019-10-12 05:55

the art style i personally thought was really cool and and the way the camera zoom out when you get more light. I did find it to be quite challenging when all the enemies started to surround you. Excellent job!

hiroboto 2019-10-22 01:04

I like the SOFT character it was so cute! the animations of it is also incredible, but i think maybe the UI can be improved, anyway great job!

gamefive 2019-10-22 04:34

It's all It's an amazing game. The concept is excellent. Slime is very cute.

sver 2019-10-22 05:47

Beautiful style, very unique :) Really enjoyed playing it

pattedecanaard 2019-10-26 15:49

Very cool graphics! I like that the zoom change with the amount of light, it's good idea :) The game is fun and well done, good job!

alphish 2019-10-28 06:22

That's a good self-balancing concept here. The attack uses up visibility, yet it being area-of-effect rather than single hit means that to attack most efficiently, you need to gather the enemies round. I also liked the audiovisuals, especially the coloured pencil aesthetics.

Well done. ^^

rplnt 2019-10-28 11:00

Nice visuals, with the music the mood is definitely up there. Plays well, and one thing I would change is to add some sort of background noise maybe? To indicate movement if there's nothing around me. But now that I think about it, it might be intentional to make it harder to anticipate and evade enemies :)

lilkrit 2019-10-29 01:26

I love the art style. Everything fits nicely!