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Holy Plague

By adrien-dittrick and Shinlalala

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3013.9257
Fun4573.7256
Innovation4763.6857
Theme7163.8957
Graphics3154.2658
Audio2743.8754
Humor4723.5353
Mood5943.7354

Comments

acoto87 2020-04-20 20:49

This is a good game, interesting choices that the player learn with each day. Graphics and animations are very good. Gameplay feels solid. Good work!

mickgerritsen 2020-04-21 12:39

Polished game is this! Nice that you have a narrative with choices and gameplay fitting it. Very good. If you want to make the jumping feel a little bit better, you can give it a variable jump duration (like in mario, the longer you hold the butten, the higher it jumps). But that was just a minor thing. Overall I really liked it!

gal-afik 2020-04-21 18:19

The art style is great and the music is fitting, but otherwise, there isn't much to do. I managed to get to a higher platform on the second day and just hold Up to destroy everything. The instructions are also a bit unclear. Am I supposed to destroy everything? Just some things? It's certainly a good project. I wish there was a tighter game loop.

adrien-dittrick 2020-04-21 18:58

@gal-afik the instructions are MEANT to be unclear :p

2020-04-21 19:41

Killed many humans. 10/10 would kill again. Still not sure what I was supposed to do on bee-day, or if that was just a lose-lose situation.

kiln 2020-04-21 20:20

A really interesting take on the idea of "keep it alive". I loved the art style and the ability to choose which side to be on, very cool!

keybol 2020-04-22 06:23

Saw this game tweeted on Newgrounds. Played it and enjoyed the mechanic! Had a laugh when the angel fell to the ground. I'm not sure what's the intended gameplay though but I just destroyed the obvious, beasts, clouds etc

adrien-dittrick 2020-04-22 09:02

@keybol The intended gameplay is to use your free will to light up whatever you decide needs to be lit :)

forging-foxes 2020-04-22 10:20

Love the graphics, interesting gameplay

bentebent 2020-04-22 10:22

Pretty cool to manage to cram some choice into a game in such a short timeframe, well done!

kirlosev 2020-04-22 10:22

That's a quite nice game. Gameplay is smooth, has pretty graphics and sound effects. Fits the theme very well. The only thing I would tweak is to show the objective immediately because it wasn't obvious to me that you can shoot clouds on the 2nd day (but I also don't read text). Overall it's a solid entry. Good job.

noirdrive 2020-04-22 10:24

Interesting gameplay with a strange concept that suits well with the theme. I like the "your choices matter" thing in each day. Appreciate the work done in 72h. Well done!

fpixel 2020-04-22 10:24

An interesting game with good mechanics and beautiful design. Well done!

adrien-dittrick 2020-04-22 10:25

@kirlosev The whole point is that the objectives aren't given to you because God is a bit of a lunatic :p

goblinkingmatt 2020-04-22 10:33

"This entire city must be purged"

10/10 this is an awesome take on "Keep it Alive". Needless to say the sprite work is fantastic, and sound design is spot on. Gameplay is sufficiently challenging, and the story keeps things interesting. Great job!

davidvfilipe 2020-04-22 10:34

On the first day I was a bit confused on what my decision was but it all was clear on the second one. Cool concept and visuals.

khopa 2020-04-22 10:38

One of my favorite entry so far. I got ending 2/2. But the last day was a bit tedious, because of the respawn location.

Great job overall !

nils-liquid-fire 2020-04-22 10:45

Great vague storytelling, great mood, great game!

daepso 2020-04-22 10:51

Very interesting game! I really love the atmosphere of the game. The music and the graphics really make it works. However respawning mutliple time at the begining of the first "board" is a little bit frustating when you have to walk through a lot of empty "board" again and again (maybe I died too many times :p ).

zezel 2020-04-22 10:59

Very cool game, I love the transition between each level by "god" that's very clever. The gameplay feels smooth. Graphisms are so pleasant. The only bug i could say is humans when they disappear on the border of the screen. But that's a very good work !

snowirbis 2020-04-22 11:11

Great game ! The mechanic is interesting, there are many levels, and many options !

redsponge 2020-04-22 11:22

Really fun game! The mechanics are great, it feels nice to control, and the story is really interesting! The music also really helps set the mood which makes this a very very good game!

aerolink 2020-04-22 12:07

Everything is spot on, the gameplay is smooth and easy to grasp, the graphism are really nice, the music is fantastic, the story is simple but allow for replayability if the 2 ending. A really cool game

brachistosauro 2020-04-22 12:10

Very good game! I like the original concept and it's pretty fun to play

2020-04-22 15:49

Nice graphics, interesting game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/BkQLNdwwwdM

aberderbart 2020-04-22 16:55

Very cool art style, cool concept! The best parts: -super hero landing! -ending 1/2 (no spoilers ;))

mathieu-semin 2020-04-23 12:14

Cool, polished art style. I really like your take on the "Keep it alive" theme, good job !

silkworm-sweatshop 2020-04-23 20:23

Loved it! Feels really polished, I especially like the transitions (that landing feels really sick). Really cool way to implement the narrative with the theme and a sense of choice.

vesper 2020-04-24 14:27

Hahaha, that was great. Loved the versatility of the gameplay, and that animation of the angel crashing down to earth is just pure gold. Easy, and fun to play, and the humour was wonderful. Very nicely done.

aurel300 2020-04-24 22:01

We streamed your game with Danae: [link to Twitch VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599171054?t=02h52m11s) (approximate timestamp)

Very nice, the graphics are preetty and coherent. From the start I was clearly trying to help the people, but it was a bit disappointing to see where that lead. In some rounds it took me a second to understand the goal, but maybe that was kind of the point. Bees and getting killed by detonating nukes both felt quite punishing.

adrien-dittrick 2020-04-24 23:37

@aurel300 glad you played it :) sorry for getting you to nuke god :/

shinlalala 2020-04-25 14:56

@aurel300 Thanks for playing our game. Glad you finished it.

n-feofentov 2020-05-01 14:17

Very nice idea and execution! Art style is also very cool. I had 2/2 ending and I like how resurrection after each [spoiler]nuke explosion[/spoiler] make you run again through the same world but now destroyed. The impact is bigger that way. Great job!

adrien-dittrick 2020-05-08 10:04

@n-feofentov thaks for playing till the end :)

papabirb 2020-05-08 21:20

Lovely game! I really enjoyed it and played it three times to get the 2 endings (because I was dumb and got the same ending twice in a row). The platforming is annoying though: - Is the player supposed to wait for the water level to rise enough to get up that one hill that has a cloud platform added to it later on? - Why put bees RIGHT where the player is going to walk into them, forcing them to respawn and walk there all over again? - I kind of wish taking off was a separate button so I'd stop taking off before I'm done destroying absolutely everything by just holding the jump button and going through the levels. (I'm not even sure how you would pass some of them without doing that, i.e. the bees & if you make holy trees it's basically the only way to get past all the dogs and angry humans) - Also, it seems weird in the lumberers vs holy trees level that my "help humans" option is to kill the lumberers rather than making all the dead future bee-trees into healthy ones for them to chop down, or cause saplings to grow up even?

Also, I don't know if "I am once again asking for your ethereal support" was supposed to be a lowkey Bernie meme, but it made me giggle either way.

Had a lot of fun with it. Found it by accident while avoiding my backlog of games to play'n'rate in the next three days, lol. Guess this is one way to break the ice! Also, I love the angel's progression from faceplanting to cool superhero posing on landings, and the design of the Creator is really cool.

elysiagriffin 2020-05-09 18:41

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615922637?t=2h33m08s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin

deakcor 2020-05-10 22:05

Like the graphics, the concept is original. However, I really not understand why we must respawn from the start of the level is particularly for the last level. Anyway, like to see a such original game for a short gamejam.