Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Sweet Dreams
By lehaine
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 55 | 4.08 | 50 | |
| Fun | 95 | 3.93 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 362 | 3.38 | 50 | |
| Theme | 389 | 3.68 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 51 | 4.26 | 52 | |
| Audio | 179 | 3.64 | 49 | |
| Humor | 248 | 2.98 | 43 | |
| Mood | 66 | 4.03 | 48 |
Fun and satisfying to play! Really nice artwork. The screen shake is nice, and the slingshot is fun. The animating UI at the top-right adds some extra charm.
The tutorial billboard says to press "q" to shoot the slingshot instead of "f", just a little thing I noticed :)
I found a winning strategy where I can avoid all enemies by walking past them, and going back and forth with the slingshot. But it was really fun! The slingshot is really fun to use!
Great game, love the style and the smoothness!
Nice style and combo system. Fun to play
Really smooth controls, great game experience.
Really good stuff. Beautiful art and solid mechanics
The pixel art and the idea are nice. The result seems polished :)
I love the art style and super-polished look! A bit higher jumps would be nice, but thats just my personal preference. Great Job!
I love everything about this! The controls are so fun and satisfying, the art style and animation is really nice, the sound design fits well, the whole thing is just really cohesive and fun. Really impressed that you did this yourself in 48 hours, brilliant job!
Very solid entry with beatiful pixel art and a very polished gameplay, congrats :)
Good artwork and animations.
First had a little problem with WASD controls, and had to use arrow keys. The good news - arrow keys also work. The bad news - if you use them you can't really reach the Roll and shoot buttons comfortably. So I was relieved when I figured out why WASD were not working (wrong keyboard language selected).
The boss was little underwhelming. Maybe some variety of attacks would've helped.
Also love how the background changes as you go deeper into the nighmares.
Really satisfying to play! Took me a few tries to get to the end, attacks are clear and give good feedback. Well done!
Yeah, very fun! Strategy "run right-left and some times shot" very strong. Maybe to much strong. I like this 2d art and animations with combination some various enemies with they unique patterns.
Fantastic! The game was fun and felt great to play. Great art as well.
there's a melee attack?
Liked your game! Game graphics looks very nice and feels fun, animation and control looks smooth and juicy. For more dynamic gameplay, you could add more space for player. Now you can only run from left to right, and you feel enclosed in 1 dimension (Wow, just realized, I never played 1D games xD )
I have a question. I looked and at your code and it is written on kotlin. And compiled into jar. How do you upload your game for web? Is is possible to run java in web browser? (exсluding java applets) (I never tryed write on kotlin, and don't know how it's related with java, but looks like you can compile it to jar)
Thanks all who has played so far and to those who have left feedback!
@phoenix-gi Thanks for playing! Yes, it was written in Kotlin as a multiplatform project which can build to JS, JVM, Native, and mobile. I only built it for JS and the JVM.
Wow! This was a great experience to play though, I like the game mechanics even though they might be a bit to easy, but hey, it's a kid that needs to survive the night so it's ok! The boss fight was super nice, you got a good mood and feeling going on, and I like the progression of the environment. The graphics are super nice and cute, I always tell myself that I should go a bit more minimalistic with my graphics, but I never manage to keep it on a small scope :sweat_smile: Maybe next time ey? Anyways, a great entry to LD48! Congrats for a job well done and Cheerz!
The art style is amazing. The game is fun, however I find it a bit hard. Nice entry!
The game was really fun. The first stage was probably the hardest just because it was hard to tell when enemies were attacking.
smooth movement and animations, super cute art and the theme was spot on
This game was super satisfying to play, I really enjoyed it. The attacks/movements were super responsive and the difficulty curve was nice. The one issue I had was spotting enemies - sometimes they were hard to see due to the contrast against the background. Nice submission :)
Fantastic game! The art looks amazing, and it nailed the theme. Great job!
I love the clever application of the phrase "deeper and deeper" in reference to sleep. Also a big fan of the juxtaposition between a little girl in PJs and violently battling nightmare sheep. Solid submission!
The animation looks incredible, the gameplay is very smooth and satisfying The music adds a nice touch Good job, this is fantastic!
I felt the character was too small, also using the shift key to dodge is a good idea, since it is close to both WASD and the arrows. However, in windows if you press it five times it brings up a prompt by default that can be distracting, that is how I died.
Just some small nit-picks because the combat system is very fluid an easy to understand, and the artwork is very cohesive, I especially like its caste-like aesthetic.
The game plays really nicely. Love the combo effects and a dodge into slingshot attack was really satisfying. Really impressive! I feel the camera should have been zoomed in a little though since a lot of the screen isn't used and it was a bit hard to appreciate the differences between some of the enemies.
The percussion is delightful!The pixel art is very fine, I like it a lot
Pixel art is nice, the gameplay is good !
Heyo! First of all, bonus points for allow AZERTY keyboards to play! Then, I'll start with the negative stuff : the music doesn't loop. Nothing too harsh, that's just sad :( Then, you should have said in-game we can use Spacebar to jump (I though it was the Z/W key) Positive stuff : an original way to match the theme! Some would say it is a bit off-topic, but it isn't : the deeper your sleep and the more fearful the foes, the harsher we go in the difficulty. Nice graphics, at first I found them too heavy, but that's not a problem since we can easily see the enemies. I enjoyed the game overall! Not too easy, not too hard, challenging enough.
Good job!
I liked gameplay mechanics, effects with particles and sprite animations. Also i encountered bug when you change your keyboard layout from english to any other layout controls in game just stop working. In anything else is just a great small game.
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Nice take on the theme, going deeper into sleep. The graphics and sound were good, and the combo was very satisfying. I found it hard to parse the enemies from the background. I noticed the character has a shadow, maybe the enemies should too? overall its a great entry, congratulations!
Enjoyed it very much! Видел я иногда страшные сны, да. Бывает. Лучше с ними сражаться, чем от них страдать, согласен! Молодцы! ^_^
Nice pixel-art! The game feels very satisfying to play, with the camera shake and particles etc, nice job! I found the combat a bit too easy as the enemies spawned a long distance away and the slingshot can hit them outside the screen, but it was still fun! :smile:
Really funny concept! The controls are a bit awkward with so many buttons to use spread out, would probably be great with a controller!
Otherwise great game, good work!
Wow, this is amazing. Looks REALLY nice and I love the monster designs!
Really cool game))
Cute art, smooth gameplay, good game feel you've really done well here. Awesome work!
Dear doctor, today I beat up my sleep demon, but the ticking sound in the background keeps ringing :')
real solid. I do think the slingshot was only really needed for the final boss~ (and even then could be done with dodging and melee) but even so, it was a great experience with solid polish on the controls. The ?bunnies? at the start were likely the hardest though, as their numbers eventually made it rather tricky :')
be v proud, its amazing <3
The second level of sleep seems to be harder than all subsequent tiers because the enemies don't seem to have tells or windups. This is pretty sweet overall.
Cool action packed game! Slingshot was the best.
Very cool game, nice work! :D I'm unfortunatly really bad at these kind of games, soo my only hope to beat your game was to find out that if you continuosly walk left to right in the room, they can't hurt you. After 5 minutes I beat that cool looking nightmare! :D The graphics are very well made!
Grats! It's damn nice, gameplay feels good even though it would have been nice to have more content. But I know the constraints and it's awesome how much you packed-in in such a short time. Really well done!
:wave: Hi there! This game has been featured on the GitHub Blog: [Ludum Dare 48 staff picks](https://github.blog/2021-05-19-ludum-dare-48-staff-picks/#sweet-dreams) :slight_smile:
[Ludum-Dare-48_GH-staff-picks_Banner.gif](https://github.blog/2021-05-19-ludum-dare-48-staff-picks/#sweet-dreams)
@lee-reilly That is awesome! Thanks a lot!