Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → VampySitter
By macdoom
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 977 | 3.58 | 76 | |
| Fun | 1074 | 3.39 | 76 | |
| Innovation | 393 | 3.74 | 75 | |
| Theme | 841 | 3.82 | 76 | |
| Graphics | 795 | 3.91 | 76 | |
| Audio | 667 | 3.53 | 75 | |
| Humor | 259 | 3.80 | 73 | |
| Mood | 582 | 3.73 | 73 |
All 5 stars across the board baby; this game is perfect. Once I figured out the controls, I had a blast. Fell out of my chair laughing when the vampire first jumped down a pit. Absolutely nailed the theme; most creative submission so far.
Amazing! My favorite thing is using the cross haha the vampy has such a startled expression and the sounds are fantastic
Very nice, and VERY VERY VERY orginal
Thnx @goblinkingmatt !! Seems that the dark side is strong! Really had a blast playing your game!
Hey @hundred ! Loled quite a bit preventing playing with your screamy chicken! ;) Thnx for the compliment =O)
Excellent interpretation and implementation of the idea! Beautiful graphics, lots of nice animations and events!
Great game, good good looking and original, the perfect recipe for ludum dare
The vampire's reactions are gold :ok_hand: so good
Unfortunatly I could not get it to download properly on my computer but from what I've seen it looks pretty cool. Nice work.
Thnx for the comment @fpixel. Congratulations on your entry, lovely graphics!
@hamzeh Liked that recipe. Keep on you chernobyl simulator!
@fluto Excellent game! I had to play till winning! Congrats to all your team
@frozen-spirit Are you using windows? Is the only port I can make for now. Or is it an Itch.io prob?
lol funny story! gameplay is solid and i loved the opnening screen. good job
Really funny and great graphics.I had fun playing this and the sound design is pretty nice.Great game.
Hey @frozen-stick ! Fellow game maker! Can't comment right now on your LD page due to site's problems. Loved the frenetic gameplay! Great sound and overall feeling. Excellent job!
Really love the idea and how the game looks, great job. One criticism though, the gameplay can feel a little sluggish, moving the camera to look for victims is really slow and I rarely used the garlic, instead using the cross since it moved the vampire so much faster. Really impressed with the game overall though.
@dmtroy Thanks for the feedback! The garlic is meant to move Vampy more accurately for dangerous areas. There were a few obstacles that didn't made it to tha jam version. Hope to update it after a postjam cooldown. Now let's take a look to that Baby Dragon!
Great job on the animations, you gave the vampire a ton of personality. It's unfortunate I'm always scaring away the wampire as that walking animation is so good. I liked that there was a bit of risk/reward to your options. At first I started with garlic as it's safer in general, but then I started using the cross more because there are no pits at the top so it seemed safer. However, it DOES expose you to stakes more, so you really just have to juggle your risk that way. Pretty cool game!
Thnx @peachtreeoath I had a fun time playing Food-Chuck. Wacky!
OMG, the eating blood animation is the best thing I've seen in a while! It is bloody, creepy and yet fun and nicely translated into the pixelart work! A vampire is also a nice interpretation of the theme.. I could imagine this game be a bit bigger to make it into a stand-alone game, outside of a jam? Maybe include some riddles or clues the player has to find? I really like the effort you put into "remixing" the sound! Nicely done!
Pretty fun game, I had a blast playing!! Not a big fan of horror but cute theme, but the gameplay is pretty much cover it.
To be honest, it is not very interesting, there is little variety of traps and opportunities for the hero. Overall 4
Very funny and I liked how you make the game have their own... 'personality', somehow. Looks good, plays good and have some kind of challenge so I think is a solid/good game. Nice work here!
Hey @misterg420 ! Maybe I'll continue this game's development into something bigger. Lots of fun making it and lots of ideas but. Thnx for the compliment =O)
@ahistyap thanks for playing and feedback :)
@palvel Many obstacles and features of the original idea couldn't make it as programming + animating + audio creation all by myself was really time consuming. For the next jam I'll be harder, better, stronger and faster :) Thnx for the feedback. Excellent work with the Necromancer! The selection process is an important, yet overlooked, responsibility of a man who wants to raise a family.
@eulalia-porto-figueroba Thanks for playing. I really enjoyed your game!
Main Menu aside all the other sprites were beautiful and smooth (especially when Falling and using the Cross), the game was fun, and the Audio was really great. Loved it.
This vampire is truly suicidal. Sometimes he's even ignoring victim standing right next to him :)
Art looks awesome and music adds to the creepy mood immensely. Add some time to polish few minor issues related to vampire getting stuck on level borders and this could be nice game outside of game jam.
Cheers!
really cute animation, great job :)
I liked the animations and the audio was nice. I adored the creepy atmosphere.
It took a while (or rather, it took some vampire deaths ;)) to get used to the controls. At the beginning, I was quite confused. It's not easy commanding the vampire around!
Good Game
Nice mood, I just feel like hitboxes are a bit too big on the wooden pic. It's a good game otherwise!
@mathurin You're right. It was Vampy's hitbox while walking. Fixed on the web version. Thanks for the feedback!
Really fun idea. I love the pixel-art throughout and the overall move. It was a little difficult playing on a trackpad, but not too bad.
@cobear25 A mouse is really usefull in my game indeed. A lesson I'll keep on mind for the next jam due to compatibility of different setups. Loved your game.
Thanks for the feedback!
Nice game concept and good art! This game would do good outside LD!
Nice work!! Loved the idea behind how to control the vampire and the animations :)
I had some issues figuring out the controls and felt it could have been slightly easier to start, I got insta killed by the first log quite a few times (until i realized you could click on it and break it).
Definitely an enjoyable experience.
That did not SUCK, if you know what I mean AHAHAHAAJhsjksqhjdkqhqk! (great job)
@blackgoku36 Thnx for the comment. Maybe after a cooldown time I'll upgrade it =O)
@vernalbehemoth Yeah, it's a hard game. In the future will be a tutorial stage for that.
@DocGeraud Pun acknowledged jajaja! Congratulations for you entry. Tres jolie et artistique
Really unique take on the theme! Can definitely say that I've never played a game quite like this one!
This vampire is so cute! I liked the game and had a lot of fun! The animation and sound are very funny, the graphic style creates a Gothic atmosphere.
You can get stuck in the game for a long time. :) It would be great to add a result counter to compare the time and number of victims in different sessions.
The unusual movement mechanic was quite tricky to get used to. I think I would have struggled even with full day light -- maybe the visibility circle could have started easier/bigger and got smaller over time to ease progression. That said, well done for coming up with something new & innovative! The pixel art/animations were nice, and I'm glad you got some organs into the audio where I didn't! They really set the mood. A strong entry. :slight_smile:
Thnx @aj-jones! never played a game like your's also :v:
@primum-ludum The result counter is going to exist on a future update. thnx for the feedback.
@gwinnell For the organs I used Jeskola buzz's organ machine, it's free. The visibility circle is a great idea! It's going to my changelist right away. Loooved your game! Been playing a lot of retro FPS this month and you goit it right on spot.
great concept and gameplay, i like it
This is really cool, I especially liked the graphics. It's a very dark game and the atmosphere was near perfect, but for some reason I didn't think the in game music fit too well - not that the music was bad, but it isn't the music I think of when I think of vampire. The music to the opening sequence and the sequence in general was a perfect opening to the game though. The game play doesn't have a lot to it and I think that the cross and garlic are too similar (unless I misunderstood how to use them). I enjoyed this :D
Nice style and a unique premise and mechanics! The art works really well too. And you absolutely nailed the cartoony animations.
great art and fun game! good job!
Nice spooky but fun mood. Amazingly animated vampire. Strange indirect movement mechanic.
Awesome game! I love the concept, it is original and works well with the theme. The graphics look good and I laughed out loud when the vampire fell down the hole. Well done!
Everything was good except the gameplay needs more polish. The mechanics don't seem to interplay in an intuitive manner. Good graphics, good design, just needs the gameplay/mechanics tweaked.
Very nice art and funny animations. Found hard to understand in the beginning, but the figured it out after a couple of tries.
Feel maybe the camera should follow the mouse and not have separate controllers. Think that would feel more natural.
really cool game ! love the sound design and pixel art, also good ideas !
@Zenris Great Idea! I'll implement it!
Interesting idea. I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/S9pVfrriZ3E
@jupiter-hadley Thanks for playing my game! You have to use the cross and the garlic to guide Vampy to his breakfast. Once he is near he will be attracted and willing to attack at left click. There's mucho to polish for a post-jam version.
The presentation side of the game was great. From the title screen to the vampire's individual expressions every sprite seemed very finely drawn. Animations of "Vampy" were definitely the highlight of the game, along with the original idea, which was very fitting for the theme.
Audio was mostly great. There was a small bug with the music which played at game over, as it didn't stop when pressing restart, and then continued to play on top of the starting track. A small yet annoying bug, but as you probably ran out of time to focus on small quality of life fixes like that one, I'll give it a pass xd.
Another nitpick: on the difficulty selection screen (along with the rest of the minor UI you had in place), it would have been nice to be able to use the mouse, as it can be used in the actual gameplay too.
Overall tho, I think the biggest issues in the game were the controls, camera movement (which does work as expected, but felt a bit unintuitive) and the lack of explanation. Without reading the jam page, the controls and the objective were quite unclear to dechiper from the game itself. You did at least have the controls listed in the help section of the main menu, but if you could have somehow taught them through gameplay or a short tutorial it would have helped a lot. Remember: people don't read!
But despite the few flaws I mentioned, I think you still have a great LD entry here. For a one man team, I must congratulate you for this achievement! A quite unique and stylish jam game, great job!
A great experience - really enjoyed it. The animations really brought it to life, and a game where you don't control the main character felt quite original (oh, that was a possible theme wasn't it?! haha!). Awesome job!
Here is the VOD of me playing your game on stream: (Timecode 2:47:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckMlQhB4kk
@honest-dan Thanks so much for the feedback and being in your favourite entries. Never thought to be listed in one <3 Loved your game too! So much fun!
@joe40001 Thanks for the video! Your game was really interesting. Felt a little bad about myself after playing it. Very original!
Hey! Played your game and loved the art style and the concept was very cool! Here's the feedback, sorry for the late post, I got sick and had to take a break
https://youtu.be/OMoHT8Vo3dQ?t=946