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Flare in the Dark

By jony

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10222.8124
Fun10572.3424
Innovation10482.2524
Theme8163.2924
Graphics5833.6124
Audio4593.2924
Mood8083.2024

Comments

adrelladev 2024-10-07 23:35

Good concept, I enjoyed it!

megurt 2024-10-07 23:45

I really love art of this game! Especially backgrounds :heart: But one thing I didn't like is that the character control feels "Uncontrolled", it's like it's being carried away

oldzombie14 2024-10-08 02:54

nice work

plasticsword 2024-10-08 08:48

Overall nice little game. I like the death animation, the controls are kinda hectic on a keyboard. Might be cool if you did some sliding mechanic for movement.

chocolat-endive 2024-10-08 22:41

Cute little game! The only issue I have is since everything is static on the screen and the controls are super-sensitive, the safest way to achieve a high score is to just wait in the middle of the screen and only move when needing health. Pretty sure you can play the game forever like this.

I get to 500 points and decided to leave the game.

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But I really dig the art, and the butterfly animations are flawless.

lastuck 2024-10-09 22:17

Great art! I feel like you add some effects on the character itself to increase the feeling of speed, and maybe add more obstacles after some time. Nice game still!

milq 2024-10-09 22:21

Super fun game! I love the concept of collecting hearts, dodging lightning bolts and raindrops, and earning more points. For me, the graphics are the game's strongest point, and the music sets the perfect mood and atmosphere. It's true that controlling the tiny creature feels a bit 'uncontrollable', as some have mentioned. In my opinion, I would suggest tweaking the character's speed. I'd recommend faster acceleration and deceleration, but with a lower maximum speed, making it more controllable while still not too slow that it feels sluggish. You could also introduce power-ups that increase speed, gradually getting the player used to handling higher speeds. Overall, it's a great game. Congratulations!

jony 2024-10-10 08:27

Thanks for all the reviews. I was in big rush so had to omit lot of the things i wanted to do. In the end i just wanted to make it work and put it there :D

zomk 2024-10-10 08:46

Cute game. The art and sound are really great. I found the controls a bit unresponsive, but still a good entry to the jam ^^

angrybeard 2024-10-10 17:10

nice game, the art is very atmospheric, with nice touches like swaying grass. i think you could improve the general feel with more responsive controlls, and a fixed parallax effect for the backgroundlayers.

voraciousghost 2024-10-10 21:07

Nice game, the graphics are really good, I love the glow effect on the hearts and orbs.

I think it would be cool to see the lightning telegraph where it will strike about a second before it does, so you have a chance to dodge, as well as if the obstacles ramped up in difficulty more over time!

sharky3188 2024-10-11 03:27

A fun concept that i think with a bit more polish could have really shinned. I think one of the biggest issues for me was the floaty controls, if i pressed forwards it was hard to gauge when i would stop, making it some what difficult to predict. I also sometime got stuck unable to pick up objects as the amount the character would move was too far. I think you could solve this by either making the character constantly moving, or change up the controls so its much tighter and speed up all the projectiles over time. The art was ok, a lot of the trees had some really bad aliasing which was quiet distracting. Overall though great work for completing a game.

pepnou 2024-10-15 18:24

Nice art. The parallax effect is awesome. It would have been nice to have warnings before the lightning strike as you cant do anything and the inertia of the fly is really weird. Nice entry overall, good job.

fractal 2024-10-17 17:17

I really like the background and the atmosphere. Too bad that the controls are a bit too difficult and that the difficulty doesn’t seem to increase with time. I got to 1000 points and then got bored.

jack-s 2024-10-17 17:19

Really nice art ! Congrats.