jason-pitchford 2022-04-04 23:45
Nice Game!, Great SFX, art, and gameplay. Only 1 suggestion being to add a pause menu.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → The Endless Night
By wRadion, arivenzys, vidu, iko, VisionElf and Mistersyms
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 96 | 4.08 | 252 | |
| Fun | 253 | 3.78 | 250 | |
| Innovation | 318 | 3.66 | 248 | |
| Theme | 264 | 4.02 | 251 | |
| Graphics | 9 | 4.72 | 253 | |
| Audio | 72 | 4.14 | 248 | |
| Humor | 189 | 3.88 | 247 | |
| Mood | 112 | 4.16 | 249 |
Nice Game!, Great SFX, art, and gameplay. Only 1 suggestion being to add a pause menu.
Super cool project! However the default control scheme was really rough. WASD was much easier and more pleasant overall đ Well done!
So cool. So much polish and pretty fun to boot. Liking the cartoony look. Full game please. :)
Super cool and polished project! Neat art style, Bravo!
This is really well done. The 2d art and animation is fire and the game is fun to play ! My favorite so far
Really nice seeing more games with traditional 2d animation! Great stylish look too! The game is also really fun after the few tries I finally understood the different components. Congrats!
Wow, that's really impressive, great art and animation! You really put some hard work into that baby
The graphics are so impressive for the time limit. The game itself was good fun. I found the light level mechanic could use a little tweaking. I found the hunters sometimes grouped up and massively increased the light level when I was busy at the manor house or something. I also had minor pathing issues but this is one of the best games I have play in the event so far. Final small gripe was the UI didn't scale properly in full-screen.
That was such a cool game! It was a bit hard to get at first but after that overall super fun. Everything about it was very polished!
good game? but not intuitive control
I love the art in this, the controls were pretty confusing tho. I need to try this again
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I decided to rewrite my review. At first I was very confused with controls and was pretty disappointed.
Then I read the comments and saw a guy mentioning changing the scheme so I went back and HAD A BLAST.
This game has lovely graphics, nice sound design and the gameplay is FUN. Trying to juggle between the resources is so much fun and very well balanced!
And having this detailed and cute tutorial for a jam game is huge plus.
Got to 817 score! Really nice game, I like the different metrics to keep track of. One time I was so busy eliminating guards that I almost forgot to do the night-ritual.
Really fun game, and interesting take on the theme, with great graphics! However, I have to say that the default control scheme of ZQSD is really unintuitive for me, but that was mitigated by the ease of swapping over to arrow keys in the menu. Also the AI units (both the hunters and vampires) get stuck on buildings rather frequently. Otherwise a really cool game!
I really liked this game, however, Why the hecks do you have those wierd standard controllers. I was going to give a review about it when I found another comment saying that the default controllers was wierd, tried it again and changed to WASD. Loved the game with the other controll schema. Nice graphics and sounds.
Really nice game ! Simple yet fun and addictive
the game is very cool! The art, the sound design, the idea -- very fun to play. Also very addictive :) Was a bit hard to play on QWERTY (before I figured out how to change from AZERTY), but I guess you guys are from France, right? Very good job! <3
i love the art style and music as well. Very good and fun to play game.
That's impressive!
Everything is pretty well executed, great job! And I reaaaaaally love the visuals
I love the game and the art ! so fun to play !
The art style is really good and all the soft narration is really working for me
It ILLIGAL t make here such a hot sexy juicy piece of rock! Go away and make money with it,.. we are fighting for shitty, rusty, ugly, uncomfortable, buggy stuff here)) I gave you best scores to make you win and never see here again. ;)
Pretty cool, the graphics are great good artstyle, good animations too, like the music too haha, the game is really polished ^^
Great art and great sound work. Really well made, completed game and art.
Extra super duper juicy beaty ART! That's brilliant work! Thank you!
The art style is impressive and it look and feel is great.
But the controls are really a mess - WASD seems not to work properly on WebGl. I wasn able to go up and left (i needed to use Q for left and Z for up). Also arrow keys doesnt worked.
This would be nice to fix this in later version as this is important.
The visuals are incredible good and also the humor :D Reminds me a bit of Hotel Transilvania .
This is the first game I've rated 5* all the way down I think. Absolutely incredible! The art, gameplay, concept... all of it A++. My only tiny comment would be that WASD is a better default control scheme. I had no idea how to move properly until I figured out how to change it.
THE GAME IS AMAAAZING although please make wasd or arrow keys the movement buttons
Music is awesome! Especially with drums!
Visual is beautiful! Very fun! I didn't understand why I died, but I got 5 children and 2 cursed monks =)
Thank you for your game, great job!
Absolute blast playing that game. Overall very nice game design paired with cute graphics and great music and sounds. As a lover of vampire trivia this is great! Thanks for making this game!
What an amazing and visually pleasing game! The controls nearly killed me in the beginning, until I read that they can be swapped to arrow keys. That worked!
Other than this, this is really something to be proud of! Awesome!
Good art ! good job !
The looks very nice, the graphics and sounds are pleasant.
I couldn't figure out the controls at first as the default ones are very awkward on my keyboard. But thankfully I read in the comments that you can remap them in main menu. That helped.
There are quite a few interesting mechanics, but I kind of felt like it's maybe too much to track at the single time, something was constantly happening while I was doing the other thing. Also, I got score of *minus* 344 stars, is this a bug, or am I that bad? :smile:
Good job overall!
Crazy good graphics!! I'm a WASD girl so thanks for having that, I changed it immediately after first try. Great entry :)
amazing art, was a bit confused by the gameplay at first but got the hang of it. I feel like there could have been a sound for interacting with the house / keeping night as I didnt know what holding E was doing at first. Great job!
Amazing art, and I love the isometric perspective of it all. Also appreciate the different keyboard options. Good job!
F*** thats cool
Damn the art and everything is so impressive is that amount of time ! Well done
Loving that emo mood, brings back the good ol' tokyo hotel vibes (no.) !I'm a bit confused by how to get rid of the hunters properly, but overall great game, especially the graphics !
Hello, thanks a lot for playing and for the nice comments! We're glad you liked it overall :) So, to answer some of the questions:
Yes, we're from France and our keyboards here are AZERTY (so for us, the default keys are ZQSD and not WASD). Sorry for the issues some of you encountered, we'll try to upload a patch to make WASD the default option!
@lawrence The 'stars' at the end is just the symbol for the score, and the '-' is for the separation. The number is your positive score (can't be negative thankfully), sorry for the confusion!
@tyrannas You can eliminate one hunter (and gain some points) by doing a ritual at the cemetery, but you'll need enough energy to do so.
ZQSD? I found that hard to work with. Gorgeous game otherwise. I recommend adding arrow keys. As for the art and feel, WOW this game is beautiful.
I was a bit confused about the W and A key not working as well. But great game after switching it to the arrow keys in the menu. The music also felt like a total fit. Just so perfect that you don't notice it until you start listening at it better and recognize all the small details.
Oh wow, the production values are amazing for an LD game! Great job! Loved the style and the humour too! Definitely one of my favourites so far!
Love the art and the humor :D
Maybe a small bug(?):I changed the keyboard settings to WASD and played for a while. Then went back to the main menu to read the tutorial again. After that the keyboard was resetted to ZQSD and I had to restart. Nothing major though. :)
Good job with the game!
I really enjoyed this, it's definitely some of my favorite art so far. The audio and gameplay is also really quality too. My only complaint is that it was a little hard to really appreciate the character art and animations because the camera was very zoomed out.
Neat theme for the bar balancing, love the art and music and the programming/movement and interactions feel good.
incredible music and graphics!!!
Great game art! I found the controls almost impossible to use though.
Once I got a hang of the game loop, really fun to manage multiple simple resources at once. Highly polished, great OST and art.
Nice game. Children sometimes stop following you and get stuck in the guards' lights
The first thing that caught my eye when I saw this game is that the art is fantastic! It's a neat management game concept, but I found myself getting bored because the gameplay loop is pretty repetitive. Some more features that come in over time may help with that. Great job!
cute and funny game
Okay, this was really well done. Love the art, the music and sound fit perfectly, there was excellent feedback, it was fun and engaging. Really, really well done. This feels more like a finished product than just about any other game I've played. Very impressed, awesome work!
Awesome product for a jam! The art was clear and the game loop was intuitive
Nice art and audio. The gameplay doesn't feel overly intuitive though, I struggled with the controls and the game would end so suddenly. I'm sure with a few edits this can fix these minor issues. Well done.
Love the art and sound design for this! Animations are so good, especially with the time limit of the jam in mind :o movement feels really smooth too! Really cute game
Great art! That is the best thing about this submission. My only complaint in regards to the art, is all of the buildings are the same color. Meaning I had a hard time telling what the manor was. I also noticed the guards kept getting caught on walls and I lost but wasn't exactly sure how. I think it was because the night ended? But there weren't any warnings. But a beautiful game nontheless!
very good graphics and sounds. fantastic experience overall!
This game was worth it for the animation of the headbanging vampires alone! Great submission, there were a few issues with the enemy pathfinding and conveying which building was the mansion but for the most part it was intuitive after reading the tutorial. The graphics and sound were cohesive, with the former being particually impressive. Really enjoyed this one guys!
Amazing game ! The art, animations and sound design were fantastic, and the gameplay was really well balanced, if not a bit hard to piece together at the first run ! Definitely one of my favourite entries so far, GREAT JOB !
I love this art and mechanics! Really cool
It's really fun to play, I like it :) Controls are good, art is perfect, sound & music fit very well, game looks and plays like finished one - that is great! ) Didn't get from the first sight how I should use manor, but finally got it :laughing:
Great game. Had fun playing it. It doesn't look like a regular GameJam entry :D must be result of experience and expertise.
Just wow. Looks more like the normal game than a game jam thing.
Very nice ! I had a lot of fun ! \m/
fun game, made me remember one old game about a girl who wanted to get all the boys of a school and they all chased after her. 10/10
The town looks amazing. The mood is really good overall. I liked how the different mechanics worked together. The only small drawback is that sometimes I lost without being sure what's killed me.
It's gorgeous! Looks like AAA! Great job, congratulations! Very bad that u can't win in this game(
Vraiment du beau boulot les gars ^^ c'est super joli, c'est comprĂ©hensible et le thĂšme est lĂ Ă 100%. La charge d'info Ă gĂ©rer est lĂ pour qu'on finisse toujours par oublier de faire un ptit truc et paf... Game over. Les quelques petites amĂ©liorations que je vois qui changerait tout et rendrait l'expĂ©rience encore plus agrĂ©able : - Un SFX quand une des jauges devient critique (que ce soit la jauge des chasseurs, du cycle jour/nuit ou mĂȘme de celle du sang quand elle est pleine) - Un design peut ĂȘtre plus dĂ©tachĂ© des autres bĂątiments pour le manoir (je suis passĂ© devant quelque fois sans trop le diffĂ©rencier lĂ oĂč les autres lieux d'interaction sont bien dĂ©finis et reconnaissable du premier coup d'oeil) - Au niveau level design j'aurai placĂ© le manoir au centre pour faire poper des prĂȘtres de tout les cĂŽtĂ©s et forcer d'avantage le joueur Ă se dĂ©placer dans toute la ville
En tout cas GG ! C'Ă©tait super chouette !
I agree with everyone else, the art and the sounds are amazing. The one thing I wish is that your main manor was more easy to identify. Other than that the gameplay was smooth, but got repetitive pretty quick which is expected with the time restraints. Great job with the game overall!
The art is amazing and its an interesting idea! While the art looks super polished I think the gameplay isn't quite on the same level. I guess it just needs some more things to do to make it more interesting which might be too much ask for a small jam game. Still fun to play as well!
This is great! Gameplay is fun but could be expanded upon, but for a game jam taking everything else into account, it's incredible all in all!
The art is really good, your artist has real talent, and I love the style! Really stylish and fun.
Great work, thanks for sharing!
I can't believe they managed to do all of this in such a short amount of time, truly admirable O.O!!. The art is incredible, from the style, to the animations, the character design, the scenery, the backgrounds, I'm amazed! The sound and music is not far behind, the gameplay is very fun and everything is very well thought out. Amazing work! I hope to see more vampires invading other towns jaja! xD
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Well done! Great graphics, gameplay, and Audio! I appreciated the tl:dr at the end of the tutorial as tbh I didn't exactly read it super well. I feel like the balance between map size, movement speed, and enemy speed/aggression was perfectly done!
Fantastic art!
Great art style.
Amazing art and music! Great tutorial too! Really well polished and well made!
-Tim
really fun and polished game! I love how much quality of life features you managed to fit in and what you accomplished in 72 hours is crazy impressive! It felt well balanced.... even if i was a bit rubbish at it đ . great job!
I haven't seen this polished Jam game in years. Everything from art direction, music, sound effects, gameplay, tutorial, notes, scoring system... every is perfect even for a normal full release game, that's why it's even more impressive do something like this in 72 hours.
Definitely a 5* in more than one category for me. Great job guys :)
(Note: I didn't have any technical difficulties, apart from three or four instances when characters got stuck in trees and other coliding environment.)
The project looks incredible. Tell me - did you use pre-made assets?
@andrey-zhukov no pre made assets :) But we were two artists working on this (Ikowa for the animations and me for the arts)
That's really cool. My respect.
Fun and beautiful game. I found it a little difficult to remember everything though, like where to go if there were a lot of hunters, but the tutorial was well designed.
I LOVED the game, I am not too sure what the guards do tho... the game is polish, the music is great and I love all the little touch you guys added to the game.
This entry is awesome
This is perhaps the best art among all the games that I've seen on this LD. Amazing work!
A very nice and polished game. Really like the art. The key locations could be easier to identify - especially the manor.
Wow, really fun and polished!
WOW, this game is amazing. Completely polished. great sound design, absolutely amazing art, 10/10. Best game i've played!
Really cool game! I loved the art so much. It was so beautiful and charming, so well animated. Absolutely amazing. The themes and design of the game were also really interesting, I liked the way you incorporated an overarching plot idea to tie all the mechanics together. The UI and end-screen were cute and funny as well.
I think the gameplay itself was a little bit underwhelming. It was great in that the challenge was enjoyable and the way it was presented was crystal clear. However, I think I just expected...more. It felt to me that it needed a larger map or more variation in terms of danger. The ramping challenge was not enough to keep it engaging within the current primary loop.
That said, it was a beautiful game with some really cool concepts, mechanically and thematically. I'd love to see an expanded version!
Great looking and sounding game. The only issue I had was identifying my "house" to get the light meter down.
Overall a fantastic game!
A very polished and fun game with excellent art! I especially loved the concert and the converted priest!
AWESOME! Art style, sound design, gameplay! Probably one of the best games that i have seen recently
This has some nice work put in to it, especially from the art and animations perspective! lovely stuff keep up the great work!
The art and animations are awesome! Even the presentation page is appealing and it makes you want to try. I find the tutorial a bit too much to handle, the last screen recap was welcomed to sum up all the rules.
Wow, what great animation for an LD game! Lots going on gameplay wise, but it all made sense.
Wow, one of the best games I have seen during this game jam. The idea is so cool, it fits the theme perfectly! I absolutely love the artstyle, animations and the sound design. It's fun to play and the game is very well balanced - everything what a great game needs.
Amazing Game! I think that the idea is very cool, and could probably be turned into a full release pretty easily. 10/10
Excellent art, animation and sounds! Well executed overall.
The game is so polished! I love the cartoony art!
Great job of capturing the theme. Nice art style as well.
Really cool art and great idea!
the arts are so cool, and game play are fine !
Wow, such polish! Such graphics and sound! And so much fun. I can't believe you managed to pull it off in 3 days.
What a great game. It's so well polished. The art is adorable, and I love all the animations. Great job!
Great mood and music!
Stunning visuals and great interpretation of the theme!
Loved the illustrations! But no clue why the run ended :/
Great visual design. The level of polish is very impressive. The quality of the in-game tutorial is amazing.
Super nice game! Loved the art style and music, the mechanics where nice, but it was not obvious what building the mansion was! Also i would have loved to have a little note on what i lost to on the game over screen, because i didnt always pay attention.
Great job! Fit the theme perfectly!
I recognized @vidu's art quality from 20,000 Lightyears in the Sky, and you knocked it out of the park again! 5s all the way, I'm super impressed.
The bite animation on the screen and sound effect were soooooooo satisfying!
Oh â„ Thank you so much, I am very pleased to read this comment, Ă @mhorth !
Amazing art!! Sounds and music makes a perfect match with the gameplay!! Really cool game! Congrats!!
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!
If youâd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=7h18m08s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Great game ! stunning art love the adventure time / cuphead vibe ! gameplay is simple but effective, wished we could see the dawn coming in game but that's would be so much more work ^^
Obviousy the art is amazing... and the Tutorial is one of the best ive step upon... You had several mechanics and managed to explain them all nicely.
Hiding building in front of the camera was perfect.
was an overall great experience
Such a nice game! I really love the 2D art and music!! Nice gameplay and mood!
First off, excellent tutorial! It was presented in a fun engaging way and wasn't too long that I just wanted to skip thought it - one complaint though, I couldn't click on the "click to continue" text to continue :smile:
I think the game itself was simple but fun, escalation was at a good pace and gave me plenty of time to learn the mechanics in my first run without getting overwhelmed. Music fit the mood and the art was cute af.
Great work all round, well done!
Wow the artwork, story and and music are amazing! One of the best entries i've seen. Great work
Wow. Just wow. This is just beautiful. Polished. Clean. It's just- wow. I honestly have no constructive criticism. Freakin sell this.
I had trouble with this on ultra-wide on the download build after struggling with the html version, it'd be nice to have a way to start it in a window, or have it border itself to an appropriate ratio in ultra-wide
Like the art style which is 50-60's loony toons or that game Cuphead cartoon style art work.
Nice artwork! Love the added touch of the gig in the corner. The hunters seemed to not do anything apart from walk around? But then I think they killed me anyway.. I couldn't tell because there's no health bar, no indication of any kind that you're taking damage, or being "hunted". I can just push them around the map and they seem to not care until it's suddenly game over :D apart from that, great job!
Nice and fun! I like that you have made different control setup. Just one thing, did you know that you can have zqsd, wasd and arrows works at the same time?
The game works pretty well, and the stress factor works well. I saw very few issues in your game. The first one is that guards are often stuck.
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Another thing is that the game could benefit for sound FX when we are spotted by a guard, when the night is coming to the end, etc. Since there's a lot to focus on, I feel that it really could hep the player.
Overall, you made a super nice game, with a lot of polish. Graphics are cute and beautiful, it's fun, the tutorial is super clear with a nice recap at the end of it. That's a really great jam game!
how did you manage the team with 6 person? when you found time for development ??
Pretty cool! Love the polish on the menu, the button hover sfx in particular really make things feel professional.
As already mentioned, some additional visual quality-of-life features would be nice (manor being a different color, guard detection radius being more visible), but it's otherwise really fun!
Bravo les french!!! C'est magnifique, le son est chouette, le level design est franchement sympa...Vous avez géré! Cependant il y a quelques petits soucis de pathfing, c'est assez souvent que les chasseurs se bloquent. Il manque également des feedback quand le jour est sur le point de se lever. TrÚs bonne idée en tout cas, c'est trÚs plaisant à jouer, et c'est du trÚs gros boulot pour une game jam! =) (Par contre je comprends pas du tout pourquoi les gens se plaignent des contrÎles ^^)
Very well polished! The music and sound design is fitting the cartoonish artstyle, and the gameplay feels enjoyable and is forgiving enough to not be frustrating. Great job!
An incredibly good game, once I worked out how to play it was super fun. Loved the art and the polish. I just have a few nitpicks concerning the intuitiveness of the game:
After the first few tries I couldn't work out why I kept loosing, until I eventually found where I can turn the night back, It wasn't very clear that house was my manor and it was where I spent my energy to turn back time. It's also very hard to tell if a guard has spotted me or not, I don't really understand how the priests work (so I just kill them when they spawn and that seems to work fine). And finally, I couldn't for the life of me find the replay button on the game over screen (I couldn't tell the drawings on the paper where also buttons), I eventually worked out be clicking everywhere.
An impressively polished game, right from the menus that are already well detailed & animated. The graphics are beautiful, with quite a lot of details in the town, some nice animations (love the concert ones). The music is also good and goes together with the graphics in setting up a great mood. The gameplay has enough complexity with a lot of different elements and mechanics (hunters, priests, graveyard, concert) in addition to the main 'delay the night' mechanic.
The biggest issue I had with the game though was that it can be unclear sometimes of why you lose, as I sometimes lose while having neither of the night/manor bar nor the light/guards bar full. I don't know if it's due to some bug or if there's a hidden night timer. Another smaller issue is that the manor doesn't stand out enough from the other town buildings, it could use in looking more sinister/darker so it can be instantly spotted.
Love this so much. The tutorial was a bit confusing considering there's a lot to keep in mind, but for a jam game to even have a tutorial is a huge plus. Not to mention the recap at the end of it was a very nice touch.
Game itself is fun! Could use some SFX for alerting the player to some resources or being spotted, and the guards could sometimes spot my "children" but not me, but it's only cuz one of them was stuck somewhere and the guard found him. Which makes it so I feel like I lost out of nowhere (till I realized what the issue was), so apart from the pathfinding issues and lack of some SFX (quality of life, more so than a bug) the game was super well polished, great art! great gameplay. Very solid entry.
Nice game! graveyard is not too useful as it could be. overall very playable and polished project. well done :))
Great game! Really liked the graphics, and the music was pretty good as well. The gameplay was also really fun the more I got used to it. The only problem I ran into was that at one point I found some of the guards stuck in a tree, but overall I really liked this game. Well done!
Very cool game - a lot of fun! I can echo some of the other feedback though - Some sort of sound notifications as the lose conditions approach would be good. The graveyard was a bit hard to figure out when to use. And the manor could have stood out more. All that aside, it's a terrific game!
I loved the visual aspect of the game. Nice job :)
This was great! I don't have much to give feedback on as everything feels very polished, from the varied buildings and their lights to the really clever tutorial and end screen. One thing that bothered me is that it seems my children can trigger the guards, and since they can get stuck in various places, I once had my lantern meter go up without being anywhere near a guard, and too far from the concert to do anything.
It took me a while to figure out how to summon the zombies. I had kinda forgotten that from the tutorial and since you can only do it from one side of the graveyard, I didn't stumble upon it by accident.
I had a hunch from the art style but I see some of you are French, cocorico! :rooster: (that explains the ZQSD... thank you for that)
I think your team will get very high on the scale. The art is amazing, the layout well though and the bite mechanic simple enough to not distract you from all the things you have keep an eye on. I like the core loop and this type of rock-paper-scissor ideology put into it. Amazing game with room to expand and almost ready for sale.
I enjoyed the artwork and music especially, well done.
One of the best that i even seen here. Great work!
Well done, this was really thought out and polished. I really enjoyed this. The tutorial was very helpful. Thanks!
Awesome art and excellent polish. I wish the game over screen would tell me why I lost, though, because it can be a lot to keep track of.
The art, mood, and general gameplay is just great! This is an awesome piece of media and the fact that it was made in just a weekend makes it that much more amazing!
Very thoughtful art and an interesting idea. It looks like a finished project. Good job!
The art is gorgeous ! Music is pretty nice but a bit slow, doesn't really match the gameplay. All in all this was pretty fun, but the arrow keys didn't work for me making it a bit more difficult
Fun game. Got kind lost with the interface at first. But it's a very good game. Oh, and the graphics are amazing. Good job.
I tried to skip the tutorial, that was a bad idea ... Nice game and mood, bonus point for the graphics. Good job!
Game play was unique.
Really love the atmosphere of the game. Graphics and audio are great!
Having a hard time coming up with things I didn't like. Good job!
Nice concept. Pretty good game !
One of the more unique, and complex games of the jam! Fun mechanics, interesting interpretation of the theme, and smooth difficulty curve. Amazing Entry!