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Consumed

By bangkerpow

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall793.6826
Fun1683.2026
Innovation1203.4526
Theme933.7926
Graphics843.8126
Audio1363.3025
Humor1862.4723
Mood344.0625

Comments

pavlov36 2025-04-07 12:11

Like the mood of the game! It was fun to stuck all monsters on one cell and then dump them together)

manuel-cabrerizo 2025-04-07 12:36

I like the mounster movement, they can realy catch you

jiri-hysek 2025-04-07 12:39

Finished! Nice litle game; once I figured out the patterns of enemies, it was fast :) Although I found the most useful the first emotion and used it all over. Btw, I can appreciate little details like animated background and limite color palette! :)

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andrewkennedy 2025-04-07 21:00

Very moody! The smear effect for the transitions worked really well.

I didn't get a ton of use out of the extra powers, since the movement pattern of the enemies made Grief almost always the best option. However I did make a couple cool shots with Loss, and unlocking Hope was pretty cool thematically as a protective ability.

After figuring out how to abuse the enemy movement near the end, it became a little easy to win by just walking into a corner until the enemy movement lined up with your position. Perhaps adding a movement counter or a timer would have made the latter levels more challenging.

Overall, great work!

bangkerpow 2025-04-08 01:04

@jiri-hysek The credit for the animated background goes to you. I saw that fog screenshot you posted and ~~stole~~ was inspired by it

bangkerpow 2025-04-08 01:09

@andrewkennedy I originally planned on more monsters that would move diagonally and/or shoot. Hopefully, this would stop the player from approaching them straight on, but this weird thing happened where time kept moving forward and the deadline did not :)

k1n 2025-04-08 05:27

Game feels comfy, good job.

gsoutz 2025-04-08 09:55

i can't memorize patterns for every single enemy. you nailed the mood but the wall of lore text didn't help.

playrea 2025-04-08 11:17

I love puzzles, here is a great one!

arenavgust 2025-04-09 06:18

Great puzzle and the mood of the game so nice!

ntmalichi 2025-04-09 06:33

Atmosphere is done really really well. puzzles are nicely done, great job!

outer-cloud-studio 2025-04-09 06:42

The snippets of dialogue in between really add a lot to the atmosphere. I would suggest adding a bit more enemy variety earlier on.

indiealesha 2025-04-09 06:57

Cool puzzle game with a dark, simple yet beautiful style. During level transitions, the dimming screen was misaligned and didn’t cover the entire area, but that’s minor. Great job!

darklumo 2025-04-09 07:43

Moodwise is spot on, the music is repetitive but helps with the ambience and sense of dread. Like some commenters pointed Grief is kinda overpower and could be abused too easily, never needed the other powers. Maybe you can add puzzle like element like pushing rocks in certain ways with the emotions. In general I really liked it and the art was great.

wisstopher 2025-04-10 22:48

Good tone, simple and intuitive, I enjoyed reaching the new powers and the texts between levels. Great jam.

glebsviripa 2025-04-11 02:56

Wow, I 've just finished playing and I like it. The idea is simple but overall mood, combination of graphics and music feels really nice. It somehow feels similar to Helltaker and I'm really impressed how consistent it is especially for a game created in a compo. TBH I came here because @bangkerpow left a comment on our game :D but now I feel like our game just doesn’t feel nearly as good as this one. :) The only thing I 'd want to change here is maybe difficulty of the last levels. For me it feels a bit easy after previous.Maybe because I just used to game mechanics :)

alex-servirog 2025-04-11 03:07

Neat complete game, rules are simple but there is some challenge to the levels

mgear 2025-04-11 07:09

solid game mechanics/idea! wasnt too difficult to understand the idea (after dying few times)

tad-i-guess 2025-04-16 01:57

Oh, this is a really cool puzzle game! The whole aesthetic is really awesome too, I enjoyed this a lot!

commanderstitch 2025-04-19 16:24

Hye Beat it. hehehe i liked grief the best. It was the best way for me to handle the consuming balls of darkness in my life.

frank-gevaerts 2025-04-21 20:59

Very nice mood-setting!

I was worried I wouldn't remember what the various powers did, but then I really only ended up using Grief (although Hope is useful if you mess up and end up surrounded!)

It does feel a bit repetitive after a while with basically only one power being needed, and once I got the hang of it it was probably a bit too easy, but those are nothing some level design sessions can't fix, and for a jam it's better to be too easy than too hard :)

roroto-sic 2025-04-25 12:15

The mood is well made !! Visual and audio are good ! For me Grief was the easier power to use, so i keep it all the way to the end haha

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