minakorii 2023-01-09 18:57
Really fun game Reminds me Helltaker in some way Also the level design was nice
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Dream Reaper
By orhu, sullycollins, MitchA and Ratman
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 283 | 3.66 | 74 | |
| Fun | 345 | 3.47 | 74 | |
| Innovation | 451 | 3.22 | 73 | |
| Theme | 657 | 3.19 | 73 | |
| Graphics | 292 | 3.84 | 74 | |
| Humor | 371 | 2.96 | 64 | |
| Mood | 330 | 3.56 | 74 |
Really fun game Reminds me Helltaker in some way Also the level design was nice
Very nice game! Cute design, realy good audio and interesting puzzles. It's easy at first look, but later i understud, that i was wrong) But i catch a deadlock in the last lvl after using hourglass(freezing). bug.png
@foxwindler Hehe, sorry about that. I must've missed that during testing. Thankfully you caught that before the deadline, so I was able to fix it. Thanks for letting us know!
An exceptional, neat little game, its simple to understand mechanics combine into more and more complex puzzles that are still fair and not impossible to deal with. Only issue is it seems to slow down a bit while multiple entities are moving after each of your own steps, but that's barely noticeable and doesn't impact the overall engaging gameplay.
Very nice presentation and fun game! Happy to see someone investing time in cool puzzles and producing many levels! Well done!
Very fun little puzzle game!
The only thing that took my be suprise it that the player moves before all other objects. Like I expected an enemy to move away from a spot before I move their instead of me running into an enemy. It kinda felt a bit like all my planning was always a step behind.
Tough I suppose that is up to preference of how you think about it!
Great work guys!
Cool little puzzle game ! Mecanics are great, puzzles are very interesting too ! With a bit more time, I think there are some QoL improvement that could be made (auto use of certain items, some animations...) but that's the lot of game jams! I enjoyed playing it!
Very fun game :) Some time the corridors were too long and there was no puzzle to solve in them and it just took a long time to travel across
Cool take on the world moves when you do :) good job!
Really cute and deceptive depth of puzzle design. Nice work : )
ooh the puzzles start getting super zesty when you get the scythe! Appreciated the animation on the door phase too, well executed game!!
Great atmosphere and sound choices. I like it. Also I enjoyed the option to select levels, very professional. Good stuff!
Great atmosphere and sound choices. I like it. Also I enjoyed the option to select levels, very professional. Good stuff!
Very fun game, the controls are suggestive and easy to remember, the art is very beautiful and the sounds go well with the gameplay. Good job!
Played this for quite a while. It's pretty fun to play but for the first several levels I was really wishing it were a real-time game as that's how I was playing it. It starts to make sense in the later levels when it gets more complicated and the levels are designed to take advantage of the turn-based mechanic. Good work on the graphics and sound design, phasing through doors and reaching the dreamer feel satisfying. Little nitpick but some sound effects are maybe a bit loud? Anyway, solid entry overall!
It's a fun puzzle game, the graphics are cool and cute ! The level design is interesting. Good job !
A very cute turn-based tiled platform puzzler. I enjoyed the sound effects a lot and the art was very polished for a game jam! I beat about 5 levels, I enjoyed the strategy element and the mechanics were solid. I did get a little confused about the item usage rules (especially keys vs scythes) but I think overall this was a really good game!
Cool and simple game, easy to pickup but a bit slow sometimes. Didn't understand the relation to the theme though
@chevalbancal Reap and Harvest are synonyms ;)
I had a fun time playing this game! :smiley: It got a bit tiring to move after a while since The Reaper moves pretty slow, but it wasn't a big issue. The game's puzzles were not too hard, not too easy. It was really fun to solve the puzzles.
A fun little maze puzzler with good level design! I did find myself wishing I could move each gamestep a bit faster, as you'd figure out a level, but then just be mashing the 'wait' key for things to slowly slide into place.
Regardless, a fun game!
That got pretty interesting once I started to abuse phasing as much as I possibly could. Sometimes it seemed a bit too straightforward.
It would be nice to see what the best possible score on each level was once I'd beaten it to see if there was more for me to figure out.
I found this a little hard, but was able to beat the first 3-4 levels. The red light seemed to switch to a 'new' position when I moved, but it also caught me if I moved into it, which was a little confusing. Overall I had fun with this one, and I liked the ambiance and puzzles. Nice work :)
This game is so cute and I love the take on the theme! It reminds me a bit of Baba Is You with the turn based mechanic which I actually did not quite notice at first, haha. Some of the levels had me stumped for a bit and it took me a while to figure out how to predict what was going to happen when, but that was part of the fun. Overall, this is such a lovely game! (Also the design for the reaper is adorable.)
I was able to reach the end! It's intuitive, challenging and yet not frustrating. Beautiful Title screen and awesome music throughout- soothing, and not fatiguing over a long period. Overall, very satisfying game!
Cute game and good mechanics! Moving around was a bit slow, and holding down direction to move faster would have been good. Or alternatively just make the levels smaller! At times you have to walk through long corridors with nothing to do at a fixed speed. Sounds were a bit harsh and loud. Never keep audio by default at max volume :) Art is really cute and nice animations too. I liked the puzzle elements but it could easily be made more fun with usability / level design improvements.
Also why do I need keys if I can phase through doors :))
Nice Entry liked the art and sound as others have noted the movement gets a little tiring especially if you die and need to go through the whole level again. Level design was nice too
Well done
Cool entry, puzzles are fun and really getting tougher! One thing, though: when picking objects, there is a really high pitch ring that hurts a lot ^^'
@ysendrin I noticed that as well. For some reason it only appears when we build the project which made testing for it and diagnosing the cause extremely time consuming and we were running very low on time. I plan to go in and fix it for a post-LD build. Thank you for pointing it out though.
Enjoyed playing through this! Reminds me a bit of some of the timing/planning challenges of Crypt of the Necrodancer. Some of the mechanics weren't super clear at first (like why you need to have the phase mechanic) but made sense later when there are limits to use. Fun level design, some frustrations when the traverses are long and you die right at the end (happened to me level 8) but had fun! Nice work :)
Nice concept and cute artwork, and a pretty interesting take on the theme. The levels are interesting and the difficulty curve is perfect. On the downside, I kinda felt like the movement was a bit slow and jerky, and I would have liked to see a "cancel move" key.
Overall a very nice entry, great job !
Cute little puzzles. There are quite a lot of levels, and mechanics are gently introduced. Nice work !
Many comments, I should predicted that after playing this game. It's really nice, I like that kind of games. A little hard at the beginning to understand all logic, but after a short time it was understandable. Looks like you wanted to make the movement animation "jumping", but due to that sometimes keys were not read properly, making me click them multiple times. Also the sound of getting the item is a little... to loud in comparison to other sounds, on headphones it hurt a little :P But nice entry, funny game, I see a potential to develop it more after the ludum!
Thank you everyone who's commented so far. All of us are thrilled to see so many people playing and enjoying our game. This was our team's first time doing a jam and all the feedback we've gotten has been so touching to read. Thank you all so much for the kind words and feedback! <3
Really cool art and ambiance. Definitely challenging, at least for me :-)
Cool stuff. Liked the use of items in specific orders to win
As a Shinigami who can't walk through walls, it's only natural that you need a key to get in sometimes, right?
(XD. Just two steps into the game, I knew that the game had a similar movement style to Windy Celine, Rhythm Dungeon, and Dragon's Teeth, which I enjoyed because the enemy didn't move, and when I did, it meant I was thinking straight. This way of playing gives me more time to calculate lines and plan my pace.
This is the case with this game, although the core is not taking out all the enemies on the field, each step I take is well thought out and the interaction with new enemies or new obstacles, along with the new props I get, makes a difference to the play experience. It's great and I'll keep playing.
This game feels great!
As a reaper who can't walk through the wall, it's normal to sometimes need a key to enter the door (XD.
Just two steps after opening the game, I knew that the game has a movement mode similar to that of Shiren the Wanderer, Crypt of the NecroDancer and DragonFangZ. I like these games very much, because this kind of game mode allows me more time to calculate the route and plan the steps.
This is the case with this game. I don't need to kill all the enemies on the scene, but I walk in good order at every step. With the rules of new obstacles and the new items I get, I can have different effects of playing experience.
At the 11th level, I realized that it is not a bug that the ghost form does not consume energy when it does not pass through the door.
And I really like the design of more than one route in some stages behind.
I think I will spend more time studying whether I can complete the stage in less steps.
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Great puzzle game.
Adorable little puzzle game
Great game. Sometimes the input felt a bit slugish I guess I have to wait until everyone moves. Maybe It could be cool if everyone (player and enemys) move at the same time. But other then that I had a lot of fun
Cool game! My only complaint is that I would expect tile "actions" to happen at the same time. For example if the red light monster's light is in the tile in front of me, currently if I move to that tile it would catch me, but I would assume as I move, he moves his light out of the way at the same time. Of course this is just my opinion, you may have your own decisions around why you designed it this way! Outside of that, music and SFX fit the game well and the graphics were cute and fun. 4.5/5 stars!
Really like the artstyle here, it's super cute :)
I like the puzzle design, but I found the movement and general gameplay to be really slow, the time it takes for the player to move across tiles feels like it takes forever, which then makes replaying the particularly long levels kind of frustrating, if that was sped up I think it'd be a lot more enjoyable, still a very good job though :)
The game has good difficulty. I like that the movement is turn based. The art and music is good. It is amazing that it is possible to change the audio volume, since I felt that the sounds were too high. I wish that the game had a redo button, so that I would not need to restart the whole level when I do mistakes.
@accatosh Yeah, I totally agree about the redo button. A lot of the feedback we've been getting have to do with the tedium of having to go all the way back through a long level if you die. I actually wanted to make a Baba is You-esque undo button, but that turned out to be fairly challenging implement in the time we had. I am planning to implement this in a post-LD build at the moment.
@orhu I am looking forward to the build!
I had a ton of fun playing this game. I love puzzle games and the art direction for this was so good! I really liked utilizing the phasing through doors mechanic and setting up the timing of everything just right.
It is easy to learn, the level design is interesting, and the graphics is comfortable. It is a very good puzzle-solving game.
Cute puzzle game! Just a FYI the ZXC key layout is really awkward to use on some keyboard layouts. On my German keyboard Z and Y are swapped.
@timur-bahadir Thank you for making us aware of this. When I was designing the control scheme, I hadn't considered that people would be playing on all kinds of keyboards. I'll implement rebinding keys in a post-LD build so that everyone can play with whatever control scheme they'd like!
Pretty fun game, only thing I would change is making continous movement a bit faster as crossing a long hallway with no threats feels like a bit of a chore. Apart from that love the art and concept
Really nice entry! The sound is crunchy and the puzzles interesting. Also enjoyed the artstyle and dead animation. It had me struggling a bit but it was really fun!
Nice puzzle game! A most levels are made too long and movment somtimes feels slow. But still a great job!
A challenging puzzle game, fun to play. Good job! One feedback: It would be great if we could move a little bit faster when we hold down arrow keys.
I really liked this game, it's cute!
I think some of the levels might be a bit strangely designed, but none of them were bad or anything.
My only real complaint is that moving around is annoyingly slow, because you have to wait for the enemy turn after each step.
I recorded my experience in this video, Dream Reaper is at **29:50**. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST10nvA_qXE