birdybirdkirby 2021-04-27 01:58
Great as always
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Nyctophobia
By thejohnyfeed
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 60 | 4.24 | 64 | |
| Fun | 69 | 4.15 | 64 | |
| Innovation | 630 | 3.45 | 63 | |
| Theme | 1093 | 3.50 | 64 | |
| Graphics | 61 | 4.56 | 64 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 646 | 3.00 | 43 | |
| Mood | 2 | 4.68 | 64 |
Great as always
Insane amount of content. Really well made. Good job
The art is beautiful! From the characters to the environment, all the pixels got me in the zombie escape action vibe. Even though you didn't make the music - it was a good choice for the battle and exploration phases. I got frustrated with having to kill zombies because there was so little ammo, and they just were so harmless, it felt wrong to kill them. Have you seen "I Am Legend"? I felt like I'm the bad guy in this game for some reason. I felt like I really wanted more ammo, more guns, and another zombie type. The game really sets up an appetite for more. It would actually be fun to fight a ton of these simple zombies if there was more ammo in abundance, there should be some better balance between ammo boxes and zombie count. Still, I had a lot of fun, the gruesome scenes were painful in a beautiful, horror movie way. Thank you for the game.
Amazing! I was blown away by the amount of details - bullet shells, bloody footprints, wow
And all of this combined with great storyline and creepy atmosphere. Well done!
This is great ! I love the mood and the art !
Wow, this is amazing!
It has blown my mind. How did you do so much in so less time?
Great game, i can tell you put a lot of effort into it. I loved the little dialogs i wish there were more
The game is great. The interactions with the NPCs were probaly the best part, as well as the details and the mood. The gameplay loop is nothing special nor innovative but it works, and the amount of content is also incredibile. Good job :)
The soundtrack was awesome and added nicely to the athmosphere. The sounds like steps, reload, shooting did also match pretty good.
I liked the "riddle", and the origin of the solution for the riddle. The "huggers" were pretty call and a real thread, while not having another weapon beside the first one.
2 Issues: 1. You forgot to normalize the movement-velocity-vector, so moving diagonal was faster than moving horizontal or vertical. 2. sometimes the enemies tend to get "stuck" on a corner, so you have all the time in the world, to aim and shoot them in the head.
Really decent submission, i really enjoyed play ing the game.
Nice top down action game. Great use of lighting and darkness, really enhances the mood. The gameplay is tight and the enemy design is cool. Audio is to the point and the dialog is great. Nice job.
Wow this is a really polished game! Very nice. I really like all the attention to detail. Good job!
Super polished and enjoyable survival horror game. Really amazing work!
amazing artstyle!.
Beautiful and incredibly smooth as well. great game
What a great entry! It felt really well polished and had a great atmosphere. I found melee combat a little tricky at first, but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it! Some tense moments a great soundtrack. Overall a fantastic job and an enjoyably tense experience! Well done!
I won't lie, I'm a scaredy cat and this game gave me the hibbie jibbies. The attention to detail in animation and lighting really sells the mood. There's a couple of weird interactions with collision but nothing off putting. One thing I would change is the ESC button always fudged with me when receiving a new item. I love to move around aiming the gun and looking like a baddie.
The knife feels kinda bad (I guess it's by design) and the mapping to the V key hurts my hands. Other than that, I found the game really interesting and engaging, with top notch atmosphere. I liked the attention to detail, like the bloodstains, the secret wall or the hunged people. Good job!
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:heavy_check_mark: This was **AMAZING**, it truly has potential as a follow-up game after the jam.
It seemed really well **polished**, with a smooth control and great mechanics.
The **gun** feels SO good. The sounds, the particles... This game felt like what a 2D Resident Evil would've looked like back in the day. I want to play more!
The little "puzzle" is also very nice, my only regret is that I remembered the solution right as I was finishing the game, I'm an idiot :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.
I don't know how many people participated in this, but **Kudos** to you all :clap:.
:x: My only (*tiny*) beef with the game is that the "hugger" enemy is very tough, particularly the first few encounters when you're still learning the ropes and you only have the knife.
Also, very minor, but I understand this might be a thing for keeping the suspense and whatnot, but maybe try to encourage the player in some way to **use the gun more**. In the end I think I still had 20+ bullets left, because I was always saving them expecting a bigger threat to appear next!
Lots of polish!! Loved the details and the art, was def creepy!
What it is the safe??
I'm using Linux with wine, and while the game runs, it is incredibly laggy, like 1 fps. Dunno if there's anything to do about it. I attached a gif of the intro text. It literally took 5 minutes to get through. Sorry to have such bad news, but it sounds like windows users are having a great time with it. It does look gorgeous!
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Hey matey, thanks for submitting your game to the stream! I hope my feedback is helpful, I really enjoyed the game! Here's the twitch vod if you wanna rewatch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003703630
This was a dark ass game. but i really enjoyed playing. the controller and the gun mechanics were on point and the chests that gave health an ammo were spread really well.
Very cool game, amazing job on everything. Great game!
Feels really polished and fun to play, thanks for submitting it!
Amazing visuals, great balancing of health and ammo, nice reward for those paying attention (LIKE MYSELF) to get the shotgun. Great work! More please!
Amazing game, really love how the picking up of items works, very reminiscent of resident evil and dino crisis. Really enjoyed the "enter the gungeon vibes". I hope you take this further into a rogue like dungeon crawler, guns felt amazing and fair. Well done !
One of the best Ld48 games so far, the mood is so great, the tension, ahh! It's one of my favourites, despite it being made in just 72h it is still one of the best 2D horrors I've played. The plot seems a little "forced" but the way the game shows the world is great. It is important for a horror game not to reveal all the secrets, isn't it? Graphics are nice and the sountrack is creepy, although in some places i think it just changed the volume too quickly. Great Job !
Super cool little game, looks great, the minimal pixel art really adds to the creepy vibe, great music, and the bloody footprints effect was really cool.
Only 2 minor gripes. I do not like the use of V as a melee attack. FPS games barely get away with it, but it's such an annoying thing to stretch my finger down off the movement keys. The other thing is that when I hit escape to try and pause the game (more out of habit than expecting pause to be implemented in a jam game) I went to the main menu and lost my progress, so I didn't get as far as I liked.
Man, the atmosphere in this is fantastic! Relatively simple but fun :white_check_mark: mechanics and art/sound that get the job done. Great entry!
I like crazy people scenes inbetween the monster rooms. That, along with the graphics and music, really help set the mood. Shooting a gun feels really good, but I'm not a big fan of using V for melee attacks. It makes my hand placement really awkward. I like how you have a number to remember for bonus ammunition. Great job!
Really liked this game's mood and aesthetic! ^^ Thanks so much for submitting, here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1006074749
I expected a lot from a top tier dev, and you knocked it out of the park! The game is so well done. The lighting, the horrible monsters, the helpless and oppressive atmosphere, the creepy characters. Nailed it. My only gripe is it is actually a bit long for me, to the point where I eventually just don't want to fight the horde anymore. Overall excellent though. Here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003973155
[Thanks for submitting your game to the stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1007626304?t=04h16m16s)
You don't see too many top-down horror games these days, so this was an awesome surprise! You really nailed the atmosphere with the visuals and the audio. Sorry it ended up looking so dark on stream! :frowning2:
If I could make one suggestion, it would be great if the attack button was mapped to a different key. If I wanted to attack, I had to either take my hand off of WASD, or take my hand off the mouse in order to hit V so that I could move around and attack in quick succession. Other than that though, I'm blown away by the quality here!
Had an absolute blast shooting my way through! (Played patched version)
Pros:
- Love the pseudo-horror aspects - Very good graphic-wise - Soundscape adds to the mood massively - It's kind of reverse 'deeper and deeper' theme game - Guns have actual 'ompf' feeling - Mood is very much there
Cons:
- Melee combat sucks to be completely honest, took me a bit of time to understand timings to not get grabbed - Wish there was any boss fight - Enemy AI gets stuck on corners - It does not really fit in a 'humor' grading, but I don't remember whether you could opt it out or not
I also think you took a bit of inspiration from your previous entry, which was a blast to play as well. Solid work here as well, congratz!
I really like the pixel art and the little details like the blood splatter! The dialogue/cutscenes were also really well done and contributed nicely to the game's creepy mood. I also liked how you had to remember the safe code from the early dialogue. The knife controls were a bit unintuitive though; it would be nice if you could just select it as your weapon and then aim and click to attack the same way as guns.
Great horror game! Loved the gameplay and just the total amount of detail in the game! Played it on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/leyamez
I think the music difference between scenes took out the mystery of when you enter a room, and the knife was quite terrible compared to the guns lol! I probably wouldve opted out of the humor rating, since I really dont think you fit the category..
Awesome game! Keep up the great work! :v:
A great and well polished game from start to finish. Humor and occurrences are a bit dark and I think this could definitely be expanded upon if you plan to expand the game/had more time. I do miss one more enemy at the end, but the two enemies you had so far were great. Melee could be polished a tad bit more. As melee only works well horizontally, but not vertically. Shooting was perfect. And last thing I found was enemies getting stuck on corners.
Am I 50th? :)
Nice game. Good work!
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Pretty cool and incredibly polished game, almost felt like a finished title. The atmosphere is really cool, I loved the random events with those mental patients.
There's only one thing I can say as constructive feedback, and it's that for the most part of the game, there are too many bullets for a horror game, once you get the gun it's fairly easy to traverse the levels.
Other than that this is an spectacular, super moody horror game.. Congrats on making it, awesome job!!
Game is well polished. Ambiance is incredible. Great job
Extremely impressive game, can't really find anything to complain, you did extremely well setting the horror mood for the game, probably one of the best I played this LD.
Just curious though, this is probably the first time throughout this entire Ludum Dare I just had to download a single exe file for the game, what did you use to create it?
@escapade Hey! Thanks for your feedback, I'm really glad that you enjoyed the game. I used Clickteam Fusion 2.5 engine.
The game is very cool and the graphics are beautiful.
Very good game, the pixel art was amazing and the game overall had a decent creepy feel to it. If it was longer i'd definitely play it, good job
Absolutely incredible! My favorite game I've played. Would definitely love to see this expanded upon.