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The Altar Beckons

By sirpigeon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3.006
Fun3.005
Innovation2.335
Theme2.756
Graphics3.835
Humor2.665
Mood3.505

Comments

nanolotl 2020-10-05 11:56

Nice entry. Some more visual variety in the level could have been helpful to help navigate, especially after things start disappearing, but that's a fairly minor complaint. Really liked the ending.

indigo 2020-10-05 12:02

It's a cute entry, I like that there's different types of things and clues to find. You may want to mention in your post that the Spacebar is the "Talk" button, that took me some time to figure out. :)

Also, for you next game, I suggest you use a kinematic rather than a dynamic character controller. You probably noticed it yourself, but the controls feel very "slippery" as-is. Kinematic character controllers don't have that problem. Also I think you forgot to normalize your movement vector, but I'm not sure.

Oh, I just noticed that the information on the controls is actually in the main menu! D'oh!

porcus-pie 2020-10-05 12:13

This was a neat game, I loved the graphical art style. It managed to blend old school dungeon style games with a cuter aesthetic, whilst still being really clean. The dungeon itself was nice to look at and walk around, I knew what everything was when first looking at it and what would and wouldn't hurt me. I did, however, get very lost. A simple map function would have made the game a lot easier to play and a lot less tedious in the wandering around. Overall this was really neat. I can't expand too much on what other people said, more just reinforce their points and say I enjoyed it

danial-jumagaliyev 2020-10-05 12:19

I had fun exploring the underground caves, but once I got back to the start again after placing the diamond, I didn't know what else to do. I also personally wasn't a fan of the camera movement, I wish it moved to the same direction you're heading, not to the opposite, if you get what I mean.

sirpigeon 2020-10-06 04:02

Thank you all so much for the feedback! As a noob dev, especially appreciate @indigo's comment about slippery feel & kinematic character control :smile:

bernhard 2020-10-21 17:59

Neat game! Very complete!

I kinda missed the ending because

!> I thought I needed to bring that last diamond to the altar as well and suddenly the game restarted. Couldn't even look at all that treasure!

(click to reveal)

fabdynamic 2020-10-24 04:03

This is so cool! You did a great job and this is a great entry. The graphics especially. And with only a few months experience its even more impressive. Nice!