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Cthulhu must be kept alive

By vartagh

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall20813.0743
Fun20722.8643
Innovation21642.7443
Theme4154.0443
Graphics14013.4843
Humor6703.3341
Mood14463.2742

Comments

xdsilentstorm 2020-04-21 12:54

This is a fun interesting take of the theme. The art is quite nice though i feel like maybe some animations for the player could add quite a lot. I also think that maybe some more characters to give to Cthulhu would be nice, though i understand that time was limited. Overall a really good entry to the jam, i enjoyed it a lot.

sandeia 2020-04-21 12:54

A clever premise and an arcade-style feel compliment the gameplay, as well as all the beeps and boops. Good job!

thecze 2020-04-21 12:55

cute graphics and animations!

bitingcold 2020-04-21 12:59

I love the concept so much, but I couldn't really try it out, as ctulhu energy runs out too fast - you don't have enough time to bring him even a single human :( Restart menu doesn't seem to work as well :( Still - concept & art are great! I really hope to see a bugfix to try this game out ;)

zozol 2020-04-21 15:38

Feels like there's much more potential but it's a fun little game even if it's unfinished. I'm happy someone chose cthulhu as their theme, good job!

dbreak 2020-04-21 17:34

So bloody. Seems I killed all people in level 2 but I'm still not win.

gmaanicus 2020-04-21 23:18

Hah, nicely done. I don't know if this was just my imagination, but were the men slower?

I was INCHES away from delivering the last stupid human to our great lord Cthulu, but the great lord grew impatient and game-ended me.

I like your art design, and the game mechanic is nice and simple. It would have been nice to hear the stupid people scream, but I understand voice acting is not many people's forte or priority because of the short timeline. Well done!

Also, I noticed those shaders. :smirk: Beautiful.

vulgaris 2020-04-22 00:34

i love the concept, and cthulhu looks super cute in this game <3 sadly, no more stupid humans spawn in level 2 and seems not possible to progress further? still had fun!

yeti-kid 2020-04-22 13:48

Really cool idea, think there is a lot of scope for it. I liked the shaders used on Cthulu really made him seem over wordly. Great job!

0x01f0 2020-04-22 14:39

Fun idea!

I like the instruction, very simple and concise.

Well done on the first game you've made in 5 years :D

I hope you got some sleep and that you can fix the restarting bug (I get stuck in that game over state).

The pick up -> dropping people off feels fun and I think it would be even more fun if I could play longer 🙏

rongefilet 2020-04-22 17:18

Always love a nice human sacrifice. The game suffers a bit for being too repetitive and slow-ish but quite cool anyway especially since you've been away from gamedev for a a long time, good work!

vartagh 2020-04-22 18:46

thanks all!! I'm planning to expand the game with more enemies and more gameplay :)

undead-aubergine 2020-04-22 19:01

I respect Cthulhu cultism. This game is great. However, I could no go forward after sacrificing everyone at level 2. What font did you use for the white text? It's beautiful.

empheon 2020-04-22 19:21

The idea is fun and the art is cool, well done! However some music would be nice and maybe make the movements a bit faster, going so slowly towards the humans is a bit frustrating.

strailks 2020-04-22 20:54

I liked the idea behind the game, it was pretty creative. The speed was at some times frustrating but that might have been the idea for it. I also liked the art style chosen.

vartagh 2020-04-22 22:25

@xdsilentstorm i originally planned also: THE FAT BOY, THE DETECTIVE (you can see in the menu screen), the ENEMY CULTISTS and other stuff... maybe in the expanded edition!

@sandeia THANKS <3

@thecze THANKS! :)

@bitingcold maybe it was too hardcore for the first levels... gonna fix it, SORRY!!

@zozol thanks! i hope to expand the game further!

@dbreak Chtulhu is really a bad boy... :flag_py:

@gmaanicus oh thanks alot.. i'm quite happy of the shader i created :-) you have a good eye... boys are a little slower than girls.

@vulgaris sorry, i need to fix the bug... stay tuned!!! Loved your review (STUPID HUMANS!)

@yeti-kid oh thanks!

@0x01f0 sorry, i'll try fix it!! I'm quite rusty about game making ;)

@rongefilet thanks! I have many ideas but not so much time... i was planning 6 humans type, 2 with guns and other stuff...

@undead-aubergine i took the white font from the construct 3 examples page.

amazura 2020-04-23 03:25

good concept and adorable pixel art. unfortunately it was no music. this game really needs it to make the mood even better. overall good job on making this :thumbsup_tone2:

shadow30 2020-04-23 12:08

Nice pixel art! I would liked to see different possiblities to sacrifice humans. But great job! Is there an end? I stucked after the second "level".

sheinxy 2020-04-25 16:27

This comment was made by a stupid human :3c

I like it!

The "stupid humans" at the beggining made me smile :3

The art is nice, very retro-looking and I like it! Though, some more animations to the player could have been nice

The gameplay is simple and makes for good fun, though I feel like I'd like the player to move faster, but I don't know uwu

Some more sound effects and music could be a welcomed addition!

Anyhow, this still is a nice little entry, well done!

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vartagh 2020-04-25 17:22

@sheinxy thanks alot <3

vartagh 2020-04-25 17:22

@shadow30 good idea... but i think they all die when they see the "thing" from the outer dimension... :-)

simon-rahnasto 2020-04-26 08:03

The pixel art was really nice, I also like the screen effect (Is it called raster?). Nice take on the theme, I am a big fan of Lovecraft. I unfortunately did not manage to keep Chtulu alive for very long after the first level (I think my best was 4 or 5 human sacrifices there), I guess it takes a cultist for the job :smile:

Good job!

lorwon 2020-04-26 09:49

Need a bit more work and gameplay mechanics but the concept is fun and the graphics are very nice. Good job !

vartagh 2020-04-26 17:54

@simon-rahnasto oh thanks man! the screen effect was called SCAN LINES, it was a typical effect of the old arcade monitors.... :)

vartagh 2020-04-26 17:54

@lorwon thanks HUMAN, our dark god is glad to hear this :)

sageware 2020-04-30 08:29

Excellent take on the theme, loved the gameplay. Great graphics. There is a bug where pressing "Z" to restart is a loop back to the Game Over screen.

marbles 2020-04-30 10:05

Nice pixel art. It was amusing seeing humans run away from my character only to be carried to Cthulhu :D