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Dead Spirit

By snowirbis and Skyppy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10333.5646
Fun15913.1445
Innovation23732.5144
Theme23912.7343
Graphics1694.4145
Audio5543.6344
Humor2.507
Mood5173.7843

Comments

chloeofarroyo 2020-04-21 11:02

Beautiful game, love the art style and its really quite touching :) Thought it was super hard at first, then I realised you could just run past the bats and it got a lot easier - crashed when I reached the end though!

henwee 2020-04-21 11:07

Very good game. I thought it was a little hard to control in the air though

lloydcorfex 2020-04-21 11:14

I like the graphics of the character and the companion, remind me of old point and click games. But a jump`n`run like hundreds of others

timetravelhamster 2020-04-21 11:15

The movement and collisions are good. The Art is amazing but is to little content in the game. i finish it to fast and jump over the boss and don't even fight him. Good Job!

laveilleusegraphique 2020-04-21 13:11

I do love the graphics and the whole ambiance of your game. Really impressive for a gamejam. Congrats :) The inertia is perhaps a little bit too strong while jumping with the character.

heelio157 2020-04-21 15:19

Loved the art style and the mood of it, the gameplay feels good too, nice job :slight_smile: I can only complain about the foreground being to big on a few places, making it difficult to see and beat ennemies.

snowirbis 2020-04-21 15:33

Thank you for your feedbacks, they are precious ! :slight_smile:

werlock 2020-04-21 15:33

good art and music. Sound effects no compatible with atmosphere, but I enjoyed with this game.

panzerr 2020-04-21 19:44

Very beautiful game, sadly it's a bit too hard for me

ballipilla 2020-04-22 09:32

Love the overall feel, art style and music. However, I personally would have preferred something a bit more engaging.

zsolt 2020-04-22 09:49

Very nice game :D My favorite in this jam so far.

xdsilentstorm 2020-04-22 10:03

Really nice art, game play, and sound. It was a cool journey and fun to play. when playing if going in full screen the game would stay small. Still a nice fun game that could be expanded on!

gnocchi 2020-04-22 10:58

The world you build for your game is really nice ! Graphic art is beautiful and sound design fits well with it. The dev is good too : simple but nothing implemented that doesn't work or is glitchy.

I was surprised by the key mapping you chose ; usually jumping is on space and attacking on enter. It's not to say that you can't do what you please, obviously, but personally I found it confusing. Also I found the 'boss' to be easier to beat than the smaller enemies. It is bigger, that is to say easier to hit, and his range is smaller (compared to his size) so easier to dodge.

Overall I still think it's a well-made little game and a good entry for a gamejam, I'm just pointing at what I think could be improved for a future project ^^

god-colo 2020-04-22 11:00

First of all, the graphics are insane! Second of all, the music is on point! Third of all, the attack felt impactful! Greato Jobu!

fabula-rasa 2020-04-22 11:31

Beautiful! The graphics are breathtaking and the music compliments them so well. You created a great atmosphere, so fitting to your theme.

I completely sucked at it and it took me a while to discover that I am supposed to jump not with SPACE ;). But - great work!

epsulon 2020-04-22 15:29

Good graphics + 2d animations with story, nice!

kiririn51 2020-04-22 16:14

Nice and short with pretty visuals, my only complaint being that the trees in the foreground make it hard to see what you're trying to hit during combat.

hexa3 2020-04-22 18:55

Impressive game! The art is stunning!

leetchi-heda 2020-04-22 23:11

Good job, very beautiful !

davidvfilipe 2020-04-22 23:16

Stunning visuals!

3lstmsinatrenchcoat 2020-04-23 05:00

Very pretty!

denis123 2020-04-23 10:29

Impressive work of art :-o

whim 2020-04-23 10:58

The graphics are so good! That's really nice, there is a peaceful atmosphere thanks to this really grood music. I like it ! Expected something else for the end but it's still good :D

havok06 2020-04-23 13:55

The art is amazing but I did not go far into the game because I kept dying.

I think the range on that attack is way too small and it's really hard to get close to those enemies without dying (in just 2 hits). And when you die the starting dialog is playing again and it's frustrating to have to go through it.

Anyway, nice game and thank you for it.

un-ornithorynque-dans-la-piscine 2020-04-23 14:06

I like the game. Find it fun. =) Was the Art done during the jam? I would be curious to see more by the artist(s).

penguinbob 2020-04-23 14:42

Fun game! The art was great. The game was so fun I wish it was longer! Though the foreground made the game look better, it did get in the way most of the time. Good game, and keep it up guys!

snowirbis 2020-04-23 15:43

Thank you all for playing :smiley:

@un-ornithorynque-dans-la-piscine Yes it was all made during the game jam, by our two artists

The decor was made by Joris : https://www.instagram.com/jorishalgand/ (sure you'll like it)

And the characters, enemies, animations were made by Rieyden : https://www.instagram.com/rieyden/

Je vois que tu es français je vais check ton jeu !

un-ornithorynque-dans-la-piscine 2020-04-23 15:51

@snowirbis ah t’es français aussi !? Merci je vais checker leur insta. :) hesite pas a me dire ce que pense du jeu :))

imod 2020-04-23 20:42

Good game! Beautiful art, i very like atmosphere of this game.

caeonosphere 2020-04-23 21:19

I will happily give a rating to someone brave enough to scold a feed spammer! :D

A very nice environment, and some effective parallax. The music was sparse, but I liked it anyway. I agree with another commenter that the mid-air controls are a little strange, but I did enjoy beating up that giant bat. Nice work!

jeroenwimmers 2020-04-23 21:25

I may have rushed this a bit, but it let me! I just hold right continuously and tried to hit some bats if they got in the way. I missed every slash but it didn't really matter since I could still keep going. Jumped over the one and I completed the game.

It did look very pretty but there wasn't much to the gameplay like this. I'm sure it wasn't intended, but if it's possible, players are gonna take the path of least resistance. Why would you kill enemies if you can just run past them? I guess it does fit if you want to go with survival like you say in the description, but I wish there was something else to do/manage then

snowirbis 2020-04-23 22:22

@caeonosphere Haha nice thank you !

@jeroenwimmers Yes the overall goal is to reach the fields of Elysium, whatever you do

You can speedrun the game this way :slight_smile: (that's actually what we do sometimes)

themightytrout 2020-04-24 01:33

really good graphics and a very simple concept. the music was great too. all round good game. well done

g12345 2020-04-27 11:46

I really liked the world and the atmosphere. I've mostly just jump past every bat and reached the end. I think I missed the final dialogue because of that.

What would really helped is to have a button to skip all the dialogue, I restarted and had to hold enter until every text was gone.

Beautifully done. :smile:

disperse 2020-04-29 23:17

The graphics: the character design, the backgrounds, the foregrounds, are all beautifully done. I found the combats difficult because the swings of the enemies were hard to predict. I ended up winning the game by running past all of the enemies until the boss and then very carefully 'fencing' the boss. Great entry, beautiful work!

marie-launhardt 2020-05-01 14:02

the graphics are so beautiful. love the atmosphere very much.