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Bondfire

By Cryptanark, daidiimon, meowdy and sablen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7093.7031
Fun7323.5631
Innovation15873.1031
Theme6083.9431
Graphics8023.9131
Audio4233.7431
Humor13792.7029
Mood14233.2830

Comments

lukein 2020-04-21 04:04

Maybe it's just me but at first, I found the "two mode" thingy a bit odd to get used to. But passed this, it's actually a really fun game, graphics are simple but on point and music mix in pretty well with the rushing gameplay.

abb1x 2020-04-21 18:01

Great Game ! the graphics and the gameplay were very cool ! I found the music a bit too loud. Edit: Ok I didn't saw it thanks !

meowdy 2020-04-21 18:04

@abb1x you can turn down the volume of the music and sfx in the pause menu or main menu <3

cowa 2020-04-21 18:04

Nice clean graphics! The shooting feels really good.

Good job on your game :)

defenestration 2020-04-21 18:05

great job. controls were a little hard to understand though

jbdev 2020-04-21 18:12

The graphics are really cute! The game was a bit more violent than what I was expecting based on the graphics but it was fun to play. I think with more types of enemies it could easily be a nice mobile game : )

koolruz 2020-04-21 18:13

The music was great! I also loved that the main character's "gun" was a matchstick - That was a really nice touch!

I ended up in a weird situation near the end of the game where I was surrounded by enemies and couldn't really move, but also was killing enemies quickly enough that I could keep refueling the fire and not die. I also kept teleporting back to a momfire that I was trying to travel away from at seemingly random intervals - I couldn't figure out what was triggering this.

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Overall though, I had fun playing! The soundtrack was awesome, the gameplay was solid, and the graphics had a lot of cute charm to them!

kevinworkman 2020-04-21 18:16

I could see getting pretty sucked into it. Unfortunately on my laptop I can only use the keyboard or my trackpad, not both at the same time, so that added an extra challenge. But overall this was really well done, nice work!

primalshadow 2020-04-21 18:18

I love that you can light multiple fires from the original. This was fun

anystarabove 2020-04-21 18:18

very well executed and polished. the graphics and cute and fun. the mechanics work well and it was easy to jump in, be engaged and right away start having fun with the game. I don't usually like shooter games, but the theme made it fun instead of gory, kind of like the thing Nintendo does to make things family friendly and garner a broader group of players. I think you should definitely continue to work on this and try to get in green lighted on Steam.

brendev 2020-04-21 18:18

Good to see someone else had a very similar idea to me haha, top down shooters ftw! I loved this game though! Very fun and the gimmick is great. I do wish the difficulty curve was a bit slower, I found myself never being able to get to the rail gun and normally dying around the 150 points mark. Overall, great work!

ryanjavanshir 2020-04-21 18:19

Wow this was super fun! Really love this entry. Graphics and music/sfx are great and work really well together. Great job!

robotsandmuffins 2020-04-21 18:19

Had similar idea. Great arcade!

oooohmangames 2020-04-21 18:22

Really cool game. I love the music! The only issue I had was the balance because I dealt not enough damage to kill these hedgehog things. Solid entry, cheers ;)

jrf 2020-04-21 18:24

This is really cool! The game feels super polished with nice graphics and atmosphere. The music was also good but didn't really suit the overall aesthetic of the game. I really liked the mechanic of having two different firing modes you need switch between!

meowdy 2020-04-21 18:32

@oooohmangames try using the shotgun...we think it is the most op weapon lmao

greebs 2020-04-21 18:48

Fun little firestarter. The music and SFX were excellent and enjoyable, but felt out of place thematically (more of a space shooter than a woodsy-campy, playing with fire feeling). Catchy as heck though!

The gameplay was smart and strong; the horde definitely grows to an uncontrollable level too quickly, not allowing for the player to prepare upgrades fast enough to combat the difficulty increase. This does have the effect of creating a good panicky, unprepared for the apocalypse feeling, though, and who doesn't like a little "all hope is lost" feeling now and then?

The art is pleasant and CLEAR. Even in the chaotic bits I could tell what was happening.

Loved the push and pull of fighting versus feeding.

adamv 2020-04-21 19:02

Very challenging but I liked it a lot! I found the gameplay to be quite confusing at first, but things started to make more sense as I played. I think a more interactive tutorial would be a solid addition. The switching between branches and fire was confusing at first, but is actually a pretty cool mechanic once I understood it. Overall, very solid game!

daidiimon 2020-04-21 19:06

@koolruz thanks for playing! the teleporting is actually because the baby fire has its own health and if it dies, it respawns at a mama fire by stealing some fire. Unfortunately, time ran out so we didn't get to represent the health in anyway, so I bet it's confusing without that context.

dasilvacontin 2020-04-21 19:21

Very cool! Gonna come back to this again later! I feel like part of the learning curve is figuring out which fires/upgrades to get.

splitpainter 2020-04-21 19:22

> You’re a Baby Fire fire living in a forest with your Mama Fire fire

That sold me immediatelly. The only thing is that I got stuck surrounded. But overall, I liked it!

zaiuspanda 2020-04-21 19:59

Wow it's sop cute! Maybe I'm not so good at​ it, but​ imho it really needs to be a little more balanced. I wasn't able to lit the third bonfire, nor protect 2 bonfire for long.

imod 2020-04-21 20:24

Good game! Idea with upgrades by keep bonfire is cool. And i very like music.

bradalli 2020-04-28 20:48

Lovely graphics, catchy music, juicy sound effects and a fun gameplay! Only thing this game needs is a bit of balancing and difficulty curve tweaking. (Might be nice if difficulty increased as the player created more mama fires)

gameovermexico 2020-05-08 10:45

Good graphics and music, good game!