advay 2021-04-27 09:43
Extremely polished! Loved the narration. Shooting felt juicy! Fine Submission. Great pixel art. Definitely 5 stars overall.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Depths of Darvaza
By ghost-in-the-toast, Conduit and Skawly
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 42 | 4.27 | 44 | |
| Fun | 125 | 4.02 | 44 | |
| Innovation | 870 | 3.25 | 44 | |
| Theme | 428 | 3.98 | 44 | |
| Graphics | 67 | 4.53 | 45 | |
| Audio | 6 | 4.53 | 45 | |
| Humor | 38 | 4.28 | 43 | |
| Mood | 105 | 4.27 | 44 |
Extremely polished! Loved the narration. Shooting felt juicy! Fine Submission. Great pixel art. Definitely 5 stars overall.
Whoa ! Such a polish game.
The audio is amazing, I've never seen such a good voice acting in a jam game, and the soundtrack does a nice job establishing the mood. The writing is top notch (definitly some portal vibes here) and really funny. The end game twist made me think about metroid fusion where you find a secret lab ou weren't suppose to see. There's also a good sense of "show don't tell" with some nemy being cleary zombified extractors.
In terms of gameplay it's a bit classic but effective, I found the momvement a bit too "floaty" to do some precise jump (in level 3 I never managed to go pass that nasty wide jump on the far right). What I like is that at first I was collecitng hopite and wondering "if I can bank it why not just farm the same monster again and agin since it respawn between death", but at level 4 I realised the real thing I should have collected was health, and that was more difficult to do ^^ (pretty clever twist onthe game design)
The graphics are really cool, very clear (which is important in a jam) and consistent.
Overal I'm impressed :)
WOW!!! This game is AMAZING! everything from level to sound design to visuals,, theyre all gorgeous! but i was a bit confused by the ending? im not sure why the boss fight repeated honestly your game deserves more ratings!!
The art, music, humor, and mood were all great. Amazing job. The movement was a little stiff and made platforming and combat harder than it needed to be, but other than that really great game.
Positively fantastic! I wish there were more.
@jaeliinah don't we all :laughing:
Dang this is my favorite so far. Great art, color scheme is awesome, narration added a really solid feel. Great job.
Do you have other games or an itch account by any chance? :)
This is a really awesome game! I really like the art and the combat reminds me a little of games like nuclear throne. My only problem is that once you release the jump button I feel like you fall down too fast.
That narrator sounds like a super cool guy. I had a lot of fun working on this and I hope to do more in the future! Thanks for letting me help out on this awesome game!
@tank yeahhhh, he's not as cool as you think! total amateur and really difficult to work with :laughing: jk jk it was a pleasure having you bro, you nailed that narration!
@creepyface absolutely! You can check out @ghost-in-the-toast 's profile for all the Ludum Dares he, @skawly and I have worked on as well as some solo submissions!
Extremely good voice acting! Love the pixel art. The jump feels a bit off. Overall a well polished game!
The main thing I found annoying is that the movement feels a bit 'floaty'. Other than that I love the music, and the mood of the game
I really like the voice acting, music, comedy, story and color scheme. Well done.
That's a noice voice acting! The game feel when shooting was pretty good but the controls were a bit lacking for a action platformer. Still, amazing entry!
That's one of the best jam games I've ever played. The only thing to complain is a bit wacky controls (or it's just me being a noob). Other than that everything's perfect. Graphics, sound, music, narrative part with all the references (babel station, huh). Very cool mechanics (like the jetpack one). It just feels like a ready to ship game rather than the Jam prototype. Great job you've done here! Congratulations!
@bereg lmao I was wondering if anyone was gonna catch that reference :laughing: :sob: :laughing: glad you liked it homie, we definitely took a more story oriented approach with more to see and interact with this time. Where as in the past we focused a lot on mechanics and soundtrack. This was an absolute blast to craft sonically and are really glad you enjoyed it <3
@spadekhemoglobiny I was one of "few" beta testers so I can tell you this game is pretty difficult at times XD @ghost-in-the-toast still struck a great balance I think with the balance of risk vs. reward (with a cheese strat as well lol).
@conduit what i meant by my comment is that it feels like walking on ice, once you stop moving you don't fully stop but kinda glide on the ground for a bit, but maybe that was intentional
@spadekhemoglobiny oooh gotcha, yeah the character was meant to have some momentum, I remember commenting on the slippery feel lol
Amazing voice-over work! Had lots of fun with the jetpack, but do agree that moving felt too slippery at times. Was unpleasantly surprised that you had to pay again to get down if you returned to the higher level; but I guess that's just capitalism.
Holy cow this game is polished! I'm shocked this is a jam game. Really nice work with everything in its presentation. Level design is great but needs a tiny bit of tweaking on some of the jetpack sections because they felt a tad bit too hard to land sometimes. I'm nitpicking though. Great work.
The game was awesome! I really liked the graphics and audio, the story was witty. My biggest gripe was the controls, having to use the right hand for the arrow keys and the left one for 'Z' didn't feel so nice as opposed to a more conventional WASD/Mouse setup.
I don't mind a slippery game although that combined with high gravity makes it pretty tricky to control. Really liked the whole feel of this though, good job!
I liked this game a lot! Good job on the audio, story, voice acting, graphics and challenge variety. The controls were a bit slippery as others have mentioned, but overall the game was pretty polished. I got really confused by the ending though. After you defeat the boss and finish the dialogue on the platform behind him, the level just restarts. And when I go up and then back down, the game crashes. I'm not sure if that's how it ends, or if I'm missing something. Other than that, good job!
One of the most polished games I've seen for the jam, although there were some bugs (like clipping into the walls and skipping the bossfight). The voice acting together with the other sfx created a really nice atmospheric mood, It really felt like the planet was owned by a corrupt corporation. I think that it's difficulty is a little weird, though. There are some very hard jumps in some places, but theoretically you can cheese the whole game by killing the same enemies over and over. The artsyle is also very nice, kinda makes me think of the 80s
@bajtix @jandourek really glad you all enjoyed it! We focused a lot of atmosphere and the vibe this time rather than a mechanically focused jam like we have in the past. The game does end after the boss fight, so gz on a job well done! <3
I'm on mac so can't actually play but the soundtrack is fantastic!!! My favorite songs are 24 Kilometers and Corporate Dub. If I could rate audio more than 5 stars I would. Also from those screenshots graphics look amazing too. Hoping for a mac / web port!
@evn much appreciated! I actually didn't spend as much time as I usually do on the soundtrack, we heavily featured voice acting in this jam so that ate up a lot of time XD @ghost-in-the-toast would be the man to talk to about a web port :eyes:
This was a really cool game! Really loves=d the voice lines and the story that came with it. The combat was a bit easy since the enemies kind of lined up to get killed. An 'easy' fix would be to add some randomness to the AI's movement ^^
Great story for a dare game! For some reason, the elevator reminds me of half life.
Great game, the story and dialogue awesome. Fantastic job!
I loved everything about the game!! Really love that there was voice acting for the narrator and the other characters in the game! I played the non post jam version and found the movement to be a bit too slidey and floaty, but apart from that I'd say that the polish on this game is really good!! My only feedback would be to maybe add in a jump buffer and coyote time to make the platforming aspect slightly easier. Other than that, really good job!!
the graphics are very cool but I think the character is very carried away. And these abbreviations)))
Thats some really good voice acting! I couldnt finish the story, but youve done a great job with the polished visuals and sounds. Also dig the humor sprinkled throughout the dialogues! I do wish the combat was different though, in such close encounters, relying on a gun for combat felt unnaturally difficult for me, I'd have loved to be able to jump on enemies to take them out, or even a melee option.
Great game, I liked the humour and graphics a lot! Gameplay is also nice, I liked that you have new abilities and new health each time you go deeper. Had quite hardtime at 3rd level (and also didn't find out how to reach left high platform at danger zone there), but I liked the "secret ceiling" ommage to Mario at the second floor :D Great game, I would not be surprised if it was a big full game at Newgrounds at its best days (I hope that it is not considered as insult, I just got really strong vibe from that time - and I loved that time :D)
Wow, I have to applaud the work of this team, I do not remember seeing in Jams an audio quality mainly so good, it is very professional, the intonation of words, performance, clarity, everything is very beautiful, apart from the arts that have a lovely color palette only thing that in my opinion was not good, not that it is wrong, but the level of the game is so high that it seems wrong for enemies to slip, and not seem to feel the real impact of a lightning bolt that is the size of it, suggestion do not need to press the button 2 times to restart, I played the Ludum version to make my observations to be fair to others, I hope I helped, I await your feedback, I will be very happy, a big hug.
@jvdwijk @spacialseasoning @mariszin @sheol @lisichka @amar-ravi @badabooom63 @etrealjunior thank you guys so much for all the amazing feedback! We're very proud of the work we put into LD48, again a big thanks to @tank for absolutely selling the role of the Foreman, if it wasn't for him Depths of Daravaza wouldn't have nearly shined as bright as it does. Again, thank you all for the very detailed feedback :)
-much love, Conduit :cloud_lightning:
I don't have much to add to the praise from the other comments, great work! I do have a crash report: after descending from level 4 to level '????' I foolishly listened to the guy telling me to turn around and went back up the elevator instead of continuing. Then, after going through level 4 again and trying to use the elevator to level '????' a second time, I got this: Screenshot (6).png
I really enjoyed your game and paid tribute in voxel. ludum48_Depths of Darvaza.png
@markopolodev one of our friends who tried the game had the same thing happen to him, unfortunately it seems to be one of the fatal game jam bugs :laughing: @etrealjunior OH MY GOD! This is absolutely STUNNING, thank you so much for the love :heart:
Nice game! I enjoyed the story, colours and the voice acting!
The controls felt a little imprecise to me, I felt like there was a bit too much slide when jumping onto a platform and with the relatively low jump height I would often miss jumps or slide over the platform when making the jump.
With nothing to say. An absolutely complete game! Good art (well chosen and unexpected color palette). I love limited palettes. Music plays exactly its role in creating the mood and as we descend the music changes. Perfect! Narration is the best of audio. The most surprising to me: A suspense story with an unexpected ending!
Congratulations to those involved!
@euler-moises thank you so much for the kind words, I can speak for all involved that it was a sincere work of passion 😊 thank you again for playing!
incredible entry. loved the nether color palette, the art, the sound design, the voice acting, etc. could not praise this enough. talk about a 5 star entry.
@tessahardin thank you so much for the kind words <3 we're beyond glad you enjoyed our jam game :smile:
This one was really impressive! :o Loved the art and palette! Also the use of sound design was excellent! Amazing work!! :D
Nice polish you've got with the voice acting! Found a way off the map and softlocked myself on level 3 (oops). Gameplay was solid though I felt the movement was a little on the slide-y side (perhaps that's just my taste). Graphics were minimal but pretty aesthetic and the music fit nicely. Well done!
Hi there,
so right of the bat, I noticed one thing with your game - shooting the gun requires the Z button. Due to me using a german PC, this setup is highly inconvenient (Z is next to T on the keyboard). So, after some tinkering, that was fixed (and I didn't factor that into my scoring, just letting you know)
Overall, I really dig the artstyle. The color palettes are coming together nicely and it is just pleasing to look at. Great Spritework as well!
The Sound design is suberp - I love the voice lines.
Gameplay wise, I'm really bad at dodging the enemies, so i didn't get very far on the first try, but getting there. Solid game, would recommend playing!