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Deep Hour

By BrianPim, cammin, Luriq, Alex Forcer and Tozze

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1154.0032
Fun1573.8132
Innovation2803.5031
Theme7372.9632
Graphics414.5632
Humor3063.1429
Mood2233.9131

Comments

profit 2025-04-08 02:36

This is a pretty good game. nice graphics. Good job.

cammin 2025-04-08 04:36

@profit Thanks for playing! The artists did an absolutely wonderful job :)

pavlov36 2025-04-08 04:59

Very nice art, like the atmospere!

yuri-antonov 2025-04-08 05:14

I liked the graphics, gameplay and atmosphere. Especially the mechanics of sucking in ghosts. But animations not very good. What did you use for animations? Something native?

phasmantic 2025-04-08 05:24

One of the ghosts kept spawn camping me, but otherwise a neat game! I liked the layout/design of the map.

cammin 2025-04-09 04:46

@pavlov36 Thanks for playing! The artists were great. And the atmosphere is quite neat

cammin 2025-04-09 04:49

@yuri-antonov Thanks for playing; The character animations are a mix of rigs done in Spine2D. And some animated props and the animation for the big monster was animated inside Unity. I personally think the animations are quite good, definitely not something I could accomplish myself yet haha

cammin 2025-04-09 04:51

@phasmantic Thanks for playing! This was my first go at designing a layout of levels with some proper level design procedure put into it. I definitely think it could be better, but good for a jam game :)

ntmalichi 2025-04-09 05:45

Loved the graphics, and sound design! Gameplay is also really nice and well made. Nice game

cammyrnn 2025-04-09 05:52

The game felt polished and satisfying to control. The text could use a little more work or personality, but maybe I just misinterpreted the dialogue style. The art looked great and items and characters were very intuitive to understand and readable.

cammin 2025-04-09 06:14

@ntmalichi Thanks! The artists really made some awesome stuff that I could integrate in the project. Lots of work :sweat_smile:

cammin 2025-04-09 06:16

@cammyrnn Awesome, I'm glad it worked out well. We sort of just picked a font and rolled with it, haha

texugo 2025-04-09 16:51

I loved this! Great art, animations, vibes and gameplay! This is a awesome twist on the theme

scoobysnacks 2025-04-09 20:06

Now that is very polished game, strong gamefeel, and a number of mechanics. Solid. I love ghostbusters)

cammin 2025-04-09 20:30

@texugo Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed

cammin 2025-04-09 20:32

@scoobysnacks Thanks for playing!

engoneer 2025-04-10 03:33

Seriously one of the most polished games ive seen so far. DAMNN, in terms of feedback I will say i was confused on how many ghosts I had to beat, i didnt know i did not need to take out the little guys. I love love love the chase when you run out of flash it gets intense. this is def one of the best!

cammin 2025-04-10 06:00

@engoneer Aww, that's so nice to hear, that's deeply appreciated :) I definitely agree with your criticism; I think the part that needed improvement was the game design and the core loop the most. I'm glad you like the chase when you run out of flashlight, I think it's a great experience too :)

blue-pin-studio 2025-04-10 06:24

SkywardRiver sent me here! Cool game, i think the strongest aspect is the art, that must've taken forever

cammin 2025-04-10 06:58

@blue-pin-studio Nice! Yeah the artists did an awesome job. Thanks for playing :) Nice, to see SkywardRiver refer the game, he's an awesome dude.

oxnh 2025-04-10 07:20

The art is very nice, player is especially good his animations are smooth af. Music went good with the vibe of the game as well. Gameplay was aight but mashing space-bar became a drag, I wish there was a way to mash faster. Maybe mouse 1 and 2?

3deimos 2025-04-10 07:33

Very cute and consistent art. Great job

adhvik 2025-04-10 07:41

The game is VERY good the mechanics and art and concept is amazing, keep it up

trevor-lentz 2025-04-10 07:43

This game feels like I'm back in the Xbox 360 Arcade days, in all the best ways. That being said, the ghost capturing/destroying mechanic could be improved on. Hammering my spacebar to destroy or capture the ghost feels like I'm fighting my immediate surroundings in real life to continue. A more zoomed out camera for some areas would have been nice, especially around some of the corners.

The artwork, animations, movement, lighting, and interface is dripping with awesome. The best compliments I can give this game is that it appears to mix Alan Wake + Luigi's Mansion + Castle Crashers. Well done. :)

cammin 2025-04-10 07:54

@oxnh Thanks for playing, yeah I agree that the main gameplay loop could have had something changed like an alternative to the spacebar QTE. Or, add something extra to it so there's more variance required from the player instead of clicking immediately at the enemy to win. I'm glad you like the character smoothness, they are amazing :)

cammin 2025-04-10 07:55

@3deimos Thanks for playing! One of our artists was a lead to maintain a consistent style :)

fancyreckless 2025-04-10 13:52

Super neat art, looks very profesional. Sound effects are matching the mood very well, even the music getting more intense (altho it might be just coincidence, but I will give bonus points for that anyway). Gameplay itself seemed a bit repetetive, but exploring the hallways made it interesting and varied.

jacky-san 2025-04-10 13:56

Solid overall experience ! :D

palvel 2025-04-10 14:16

I liked: sounds, graphics, level design.

Didn't like it: small camera view. Matching the theme: medium

morepixels 2025-04-10 14:19

Looked gorgeous, but some of the ghost attacks felt unfair! Definitely needed a wider camera or something, I kept getting attacked by ghosts offscreen

cammin 2025-04-10 20:31

@adhvik Thanks very much for playing!

@trevor-lentz Thanks for the huge compliments! I definitely think that the core gameplay loop has some feelings of repetition and could be improved on be be more dynamic and interesting. I enjoy you think it feels like the xbox 360 days, haha.

@fancyreckless Thanks! Yeah my whole team are professionals at their craft so its helped a lot in that regard. I agree the core gameplay loop is repetitive and could have been more dynamic; will consider that for future projects :)

@jacky-san Thanks very much for playing!

@palvel Thanks for playing! Yeah, the camera could have been zoomed out a bit further. that, or have more options to look ahead.

@morepixels True, I think the camera could have been zoomed out a bit further or have more options to look ahead with the mouse or movement direction, etc. Another option might have been for the ghosts to react with some sort of idle animation before attacking so their position is more explicitly shown to the player beforehand. Thanks for playing!

jtap 2025-04-11 03:08

Beautiful graphics, atmospheric game, good music. It plays very nicely, thank you

cammin 2025-04-11 03:33

@jtap Thanks for playing! I also really like the graphics, the artists are amazing :)

oddmes 2025-04-11 10:44

Really funny descriptions, exactly my reaction to supernatural as well in those kind of situations.

andruid 2025-04-11 14:22

Great game! Amazing art and high quality sound! Congratulations to the team. I think this is a very solid entry.

cammin 2025-04-11 19:09

@oddmes @andruid Thanks for playing!

coderaurus 2025-04-12 08:40

Nice game, very polished! I like the Luigi's Mansion-esque gameplay, though sucking thing into your flashlight doesn't make too much sense.

Enemies have a good amount of variation. Maybe some of the more busier rooms would need more space to run around and dodge.

I wasn't a huge fan of button smashing, I think you would get better game feel if you could just keep the spacebar pressed to keep sucking.

Well done!

r8teful 2025-04-12 14:55

This was fun! I liked the graphics and the audio. My only slight problem was mashing the space bar, it felt a bit awkward/clunky personally but other than that I had fun :)

cammin 2025-04-12 16:39

@coderaurus @r8teful Thanks for playing! I definitely agree with your criticism; I think the part that needed more work was the game design and the core loop so that it can be more dynamic and interesting, will take the advice into the future :)

perrin 2025-04-16 01:00

Really stunning visuals, super well polished especiaslly for a weekend jam game. I did eventually get a bit bored of the capture mechanic but I think if this was developed further I imagine you could develop a lot of extra interesting layers to it.

cammin 2025-04-17 13:40

@perrin Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed the visuals

blackcat508 2025-04-20 06:50

really nice graphics! Mashing the spacebar gets a little tiring after a while, maybe some mouse related movements would work better?

yanato 2025-04-20 13:16

Wow, amazing game. A bit scary sometimes:)

cammin 2025-04-22 23:20

@blackcat508 Thanks! Yeah, we were exploring some ideas, but decided on just mashing. I'm thinking that a different approach instead of a QTE would enable to explore some more unique ideas with the combat loop, but we settled on a mash QTE for the scope of this jam.

@yanato Thanks for playing! Yeah it's indeed kind of spooky, especially when running out of battery :)