martenscedric 2024-04-15 01:56
This game is definitely HIGH mood! epic puzzle
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Dark Altar
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 50 | 3.94 | 27 | |
| Fun | 66 | 3.82 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 108 | 3.62 | 27 | |
| Theme | 28 | 4.28 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 154 | 3.58 | 27 | |
| Audio | 83 | 3.60 | 27 | |
| Mood | 48 | 3.92 | 27 |
This game is definitely HIGH mood! epic puzzle
This seemed fun! Unfortunately it crashed on my browser after a few levels due to high memory usage.
Very good! It has a very nice story (even though I think you could display it a bit better). I really love the puzzles and I think it's very fun!
Again, I think you could display the initial story and the instructions / tutorial a bit better than the current one, it kinda is a wall of text but the text is short, so it's pretty fine.
The mood I think is also pretty on-point. Overall, I think this is a very fun game!
Solid, really fun game, simple enough to keep going. Nice touch meeting each demon and new rules keep making the game fresh. Thanks
I love this kind of puzzle! And wow, the sfx + the demon appearing caused me jump scares. hahaha
I enjoyed this!
On the puzzle front, I was a bit confused at the solutions. I don't think I ever used a blood chalice? Are there multiple solutions to these?
I got a jump scare from the first demon too! Great look and feel and music/sfx. I loved the puzzles - interesting and just enough difficulty. You did introduce the chalice in round 4, and it wasn't used until 5. Nice work - I enjoyed this!
Really solid puzzle game!! I loved the idea of the chalice but never seemed to have to use it definitely could see some pretty crazy levels with it
Hi everyone! Will respond to comments is a bit! If the chalices aren't appearing it's because my level generation code is kinda flawed. Just replay the game ('s' will skip a level if you want)
I had a bug where a chalice got stuck floating above the puzzle. I loved the talking demons and the mood!
@alanbrook Sorry that happened. I haven't seen this, but on my (super crappy cheap android phone) it doesn't run super well in the browser either. The Music glitches.
@altaf-creator Thanks for the comment. I think if I had more time I would have developed more of a back and forth dialogue scene where Cedric Leopold talks with his cult members to convey the story. Will try to do this next jam!
Yep didn't really have time to develop a tutorial :/ Which is why I recorded a playthough as a bandaid solution!
@sirjupitron Thanks for the comment and kind words :)
@tata glad I succeded in designing a puzzle! :) Thanks
@owtuvammo yep sorry about that! My level generation code is kinda bad. So for each level there is a different % chance that each cell will be for a particular type. But it may be that none spawn for the blood chalice for example.
Also I think there are multiple solutions yes!
@rob6566 sorry about the jump scare lol!
@ben-albert the level generation code is kind of bad! Maybe try playing the game again? YOu can skip levels with the 's' key ;)
@captainspacecat Wow. I've never encountered that bug. Do you remember what you did to produce it? Thanks for the kind words
Fun and clever puzzles! I really enjoyed the game
Very fun, enjoyed the mechanic, couldn't figure out lucifer but I'll probably go back to try aain later.
Fun puzzle game. A summoning theme twist to the classic picross style. Very nice
Nice idea for a puzzle game. At level 5 things got a lot harder quickly. A bit of game juice would've kicked the overall feeling up a notch but nonetheless, a nice entry!
Love it, quite fun
I don't think demonic sudoku was on my bingo card, but here we are :rofl: Cool little puzzle game, nice graphics, music really sets the mood. Great work!
fun game! i like the demon graphics
also got jump scared by the first demon I summoned :D I really like the demon art. nice job!
Fun idea, I initially thought it would play more like a Picross but there is more freedom here. I like your take on the theme, but I feel the randomized requirements to finish levels are a bit too random for their own good ^^ On my first playthrough, I never had to use the chalices (only ever had one on the final level anyway) and when replaying it and skipping all the way to the final level, Lucifer only asked for a grand total of 1 candle :D
This could overall be expanded in a nice standalone game, with handmade puzzles (and why not randomized ones as a bonus) and more demons and new objects. Fun game, congrats!
Funny how this Ludum Dare has spawned so many puzzle-based ideas! Nice twist on the picross genre!
Great game! I am really impressed by the music, which online sequencer did you use? Good job!
Nice puzzle game! I was a bit surprised that the puzzles didn't have a unique solution. It was a fun twist with the skull of 2 points and the blood chalice. My main strategy was greedy: start with the skulls at high numbers and in the end move some things around to fix the last numbers.
I like that you took the effort drawing different demon faces, even though they only have a short appearance.
Overall, well done!
Very innovative and interesting mechanics! Well done!
Someone commented on my game that we had very similar games, so I came to check out your game. :D I really liked it! The puzzle mechanics work very well and really give you that puzzley-sudoku feel. I also really appreciated the story, which added a nice immersive touch which my game is sorely lacking >.< This was a lot of fun! Thanks for making this game :)
@wuppos Damn yeah your game loops pretty similar haha!! Will defo check it out. Great minds think alike