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Diva Descent

By Earlybard, quackqack and Master Age

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2343.8022
Fun953.9722
Innovation5943.0222
Theme2164.0222
Graphics1824.1722
Audio1193.9222
Humor3593.0020
Mood5003.4721

Comments

badpinkchicken 2025-04-07 12:56

Nice idea! Very fun to play, with unlimited speed it's speedrun material! Nice job!

oadt 2025-04-07 13:28

Great game! The graphics and music are very polished with a nice touch of feeling retro. I really liked the design decision of not letting the player become game over once they hit the wall but instead just resetting their speed. Isn't too harsh of a punishment but you still really want to avoid getting hit because higher speed is very fun in this game!

notnasiul 2025-04-09 12:34

After playing games like this one I end up seeing things moving up, like in one of those optic tricks? Nice score chaser!

mamboman 2025-04-09 12:38

pretty addictive =) graphics and sound are superb!

scoobysnacks 2025-04-09 12:42

solid game, polished. Didn't really used umbrella though, more fun in falling faster.

gquibao 2025-04-09 12:44

Great game! Cool concept, very well polished mechanics and aesthetics, really professional. The gameplay is fun, easy to understand e it's replay value is huge. Loved it. Great work!

tugaryn 2025-04-09 14:46

The only comment I thought the purple blocks were blocks you couldn't bump into, not the background. They'd be less bright.

And so very cool, all beautifully polished, well done!

euler-moises 2025-04-09 23:14

A fun game in its simplicity. I loved the choice of color palette. An online score would be a very interesting plus.

Congratulations!

adam-gallina 2025-04-12 02:12

Lots of fun, having your score is tied to your speed is really cool, it was interesting trying to find the balance of going fast for more points vs slowing down to grab coins for more points, nice job!

str8griz 2025-04-12 04:25

Purple blocks scared me at first, so ditto the comment to make them more of a background element. But fun game, pretty happy with my score. Taking on any challengers.score.png

caer 2025-04-12 17:46

A lovely game with great art, sound, and controls; I enjoyed that the speed mechanic gave me the option to increase or decrease the difficulty, in exchange for more or less score. My one critique, which some others have pointed out, is that I mistook the purple blocks for obstacles for quite a while--before realizing they were just a background art.

ryusui 2025-04-12 17:46

Reminds me a bit of Downwell, or an upside-down Tower of Greed. (Also a bit of an old Amiga game I once played called Goldrunner 2, which also had vertical scrolling, insane speeds, and plenty of crashing into stuff!)

hinamarina 2025-04-13 10:11

Super nice concept! It feels to me like a Downwell meets Flappy Bird, in a really cool way! The sound effects are so juicy and the overall vibe is super nice! I enjoyed a lot how the general feel of the game is. The only super small thing that got in to me is that I found the bluish tiles in the background to be a lil bit distracting, making me confuse them with the foreground when the speed is very high. All that said, I really liked a lot your little game! :) Super funny, quite crispy controls and full of juicy. I love how the music contributes a lot to bring more energy as the velocity goes hard. Great entry! Keep up the good work! :)

loveapplegames 2025-04-13 10:16

Congrats on a solid entry! Altogether fun, good looking, and polished game. There is little to gripe about, except that it's not very original :-)

kaba 2025-04-13 16:14

Fun game! The gameplay felt really good right from the start. Nice job on the polishing overall.

spacecadet 2025-04-13 21:02

Really fun and addictive game. I really enjoyed building up the speed and dodging the obstacles while trying to get the maximum amount of coins. Also the graphics and the sound design is to the point. Great job overall!

quackqack 2025-04-14 01:12

Thanks for the feedback everyone, especially about the background tile being a bit too bright! Glad people have enjoyed it.

wouter52 2025-04-16 20:11

Easily the most fun I had this LD, this is a great game! Love it from top to bottom ~hehe~~ The graphics are wonderful, the colorscheme is very bold but it works very well. Did you create the color scheme yourself? Great to see that the levels seem to be random. And I love how the ground is always there when the countdown stops. One little point: the rotating character when you hit something feels a bit out of place, I would have done that diffrently. Maybe blinking or something

doppler-affect 2025-04-17 22:01

I love the retro feel, I enjoyed the little sprite animations. The music is pretty neat. Thrown for a loop thinking that the greyd blocks were obstacles as well, and I made my first run way more difficult than it needed to be lol. I like how the multiplier worked in tandem with the descent speed!

blackcat508 2025-04-18 05:49

interesting mechanics and great art! Overall really well made

texugo 2025-04-25 18:55

Really nice and fun game! I'm bad at it, but it didn't stop me from having a blast.