FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD58 → Lunar Burden

Lunar Burden

By iluvatar and kobylarz

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1083.9451
Fun2993.4951
Innovation4793.1251
Theme1824.0151
Graphics94.7251
Audio354.2251
Humor1493.6450
Mood174.4451

Comments

indigowolf 2025-10-06 16:37

Really love the art and SFX, good work on this.

sinusquell 2025-10-06 16:41

This was amazing! I don't want to spoil anything, but this looks super polished. great music and sound effects, too.

jiri-hysek 2025-10-06 17:34

Hi Davide! That was awesome. I've red you didn't have much time this time but I definitely wouldn't tell! It was funny little story with great mood. Really engaging and pleasure to play, I love the subtle dark humor :D And the graphics, of course, the graphics was stellar as always :)

threeli 2025-10-06 19:22

Felt like a Sierra classic, if a little short. I would love to keep playing in the world, feels like this game exists on the edges of a bigger space, which is a testament to your worldbuilding here. Brilliant stuff!

rise12600 2025-10-06 22:20

Art was outstanding, with a good amount of time i can see this being a super fun game like Thimbleweed Park great job

kamilah 2025-10-06 22:22

Amazing pixel art and great sound effects. Fun short game. Very clever idea that's on theme.

azahara 2025-10-06 22:28

Loved this one, being the moon tax collector so the ghosts don't fade away is such a cool idea. It really reminded me of old-school point-and-click adventures. The art is stunning, the music fits perfectly, and I honestly wanted more when it ended! The only thing I'd say is that I had a hard time spotting the worm at first.

ludumdaredevil 2025-10-07 04:04

Love the mood for this one! The art fits together very nicely. I loved the story. The worm was kind of hard to notice at first.

jin9310 2025-10-07 12:43

Hi Davide, again you got me, and again I love it! I must say, that the ending is so cool and funny. Love it! (as they say: only taxes and death are certain in life :D) Your pieces always create such a mood that it feels like you, as a player, are part of it. This time on very minimalistic scene, but that doesnt seem to be an issue. Huge kudos to the music and the art overall! Great job done my friend.

ira-baciu 2025-10-07 15:15

Your game is so wonderful that I even can play it on mobile! :)

tesseus 2025-10-07 15:18

Amazingly beautiful and nostalgic look and genre. Really coherent game with all things fitting nicely together.

mololo 2025-10-07 15:18

I love the pixel art and the sfx. The theme fits well as well. Good job

syphorce 2025-10-07 15:24

I love that you created a Halloween themed game for this jam. This game feels very polished and worthy of a good rating!

iluvatar 2025-10-07 15:27

@indigowolf Thank you!

@sinusquell Thank you, Im happy you liked it!

@jiri-hysek Ahoj Jirko, thank you for playing! Yeah, I had less time than usual, but I guess I managed, but the game is super short, and also it has only one screen. Which saved me hours of drawing :)

@threeli Haha, yeah, I'm an oldschool adventure freak! Glad you like these games as well. I wish I had more time to make the story more complex.

@rise12600 Thank you! Ironically, me being an adventure game fan, I have never liked Thimbleweed Park haha. But yeah, I would say my game is a very typical 90's-esque adventure game.

@kamilah Thank you! Glad you liked it.

@azahara Thank you for playing! The music is amazing thanks to my main man Daniel Kobylarz, he is a professional musician and he helps me almost every LD event. I love him to death, both for him being my friend and for his beautiful music! Yeah, sorry about the worm, my wife said the same when testing the game, but I really didn't know how else make it more visible. I tried to animate it to make it easier to catch your eye. Thank you for the feedback!

@ludumdaredevil Hi, thank you so much for your feedback and I'm glad you liked the game! As mentioned in my previous comment - Sorry about the worm, my wife said the same when testing the game, but I really didn't know how else make it more visible. I tried to animate it to make it easier to catch your eye.

@jin9310 Ahoj Jindro! Thanks a lot for playing the game. Yeah I wish I had more time to have multiple scenes, I would LOVE to add something like graveyard church or mausoleum. Maybe next time :)

@ira-baciu Thank you for playing! Wow, it actually worked haha. I ticked the mobile option while exporting the game, but I didn't actually test it. Im so happy it works then. Thank you so much for feedback and for doing the testing for me haha.

grizwhirl 2025-10-07 15:32

That was awesome, art and sound were stunning

khamekaze 2025-10-07 15:33

You really captured the essence of the point-and-click games from the 90's and the art is amazing, would love to see this expanded into something more

mihu 2025-10-07 15:40

While short, the game is really good. The art is amazing, the sound is on point and the story is funny. Great job!

khton 2025-10-07 16:00

This was incredible! I don't want to give anything away, but the level of polish is stunning. The music and sound effects are also top-notch.

recursor 2025-10-07 16:46

This was a great and short little experience. This is point and click gaming at its finest. The puzzles were just enough to be interesting but not too hard to make me give up. Excellent job!

harujam 2025-10-07 17:29

As a big fan of Lucas Arts point and click games I enjoyed this a bunch! Pls expand to a full game :)

psevdonim 2025-10-07 19:44

I love well-crafted pixel art, and the visual style here is great. The game takes place within a single scene, but it’s well thought out and fun. Definitely a thumbs up!

denilseven 2025-10-09 13:33

It's amazing how you did so much worldbuilding in a single scene! Enjoyable to play and easy to digest, but still leaves you wondering about the rules of this world. A stellar job especially considering your limited time on this jam :waning_gibbous_moon: (SPOILER: ~~the raven is my fav character k~~)

tomssuli 2025-10-10 20:39

Very nice job! Apart from being short (as you already told so it was expected) great and polished game in all areas!

I really like the the retro style with "voices" for everything. The big and bright texts bring old Indy adventure games to mind. Plot was familiar silly stuff from that era. The pixelart is just lovely.

euler-moises 2025-10-10 22:19

Beautiful art and a great atmosphere. I really like point-and-click games. Even though it's a short game, it was fun to play.

Congratulations!

stingdragon 2025-10-11 19:15

This was a fun little puzzle! Great work!

roroto-sic 2025-10-12 12:36

haha funy ending ^^ Short but entertaining ! :) it was quite hard to know that we had o talk back to female ghoste after talking to thief. (i had to watcht the video in comment to find it)

wouter52 2025-10-12 18:33

What a fun little game this is! I saw part of your lifestream when coding myself. It looked very beautiful to me. I must be honest, I was wondering if the game would be fun to play as so much time was spent on graphics. But my gosh did you deliver. A nice point & click detective style game with gorgeous graphics and fitting music / soundeffects. I had fun playing this one :-)

yibirabbit007 2025-10-13 10:45

I completed the recovery mission, the bag fell and knocked out the thief. The pixel art is impressively skillful! Thank you for bringing us this simple yet fun story!

hjalte 2025-10-13 10:49

Lovely graphics! I wish it was a bit longer, but it's a nice little puzzle and funny ending :)

hap 2025-10-13 11:35

I love the art of this game and I enjoyed it a lot! I would definitely play the longer version with more developed story.

frau-blut-kranz 2025-10-13 11:52

Very nice point and click game. The graphics were done well. The music was spooky. I like the little bits of lore and personality the characters had. Wouldn't mind a sequel. 10/10.

thiefviolinist 2025-10-13 13:03

Probably the most polished game i played this LD, well done

sheepolution 2025-10-13 14:03

Lovely lil' point & click game. I will admit that it was a bit frustrating, because the solution was pretty obvious, but I had to go through quite some text to get to it. It helps that the storytelling was nice. The graphics are great, the music and sound effects complement the mood really well, and the ending was funny. Good job!

lulu-hihi 2025-10-13 16:24

where is frank????

kalbshack 2025-10-14 19:56

Nice visuals. Good work.

bryceltaylor 2025-10-17 01:21

Really nice! I like the art style a lot. The story is fun and I like the characters. Some of the puzzles were tricky to find what I was supposed to do, and I tried to click the bird too early and it didn't do anything, so I ruled it out at first. The worm was a little frustrating to find. But I thought it was funny and fun overall. The mood was great.

aviv-levy 2025-10-17 14:44

Love point and click games, and the art is really good!! The game could have more puzzles, but it was still an enjoyable experience :)

lereveur 2025-10-18 14:20

P'n'c are my game type of heart, and even if this one is very short indeed, I loved the old-fashion mood and arts. Maybe a last scene would have be good, I really was expecting the grave robber becoming a ghost and having to pay the lunar tax :laughing:

shadyshade 2025-10-21 19:26

It was pretty fun, short and polished experience, I like it! :purple_heart:

thegrottman 2025-10-21 21:11

Wow, what a solid entry! Loved the vibe, the music, and the old-school graphics. It made me want to play some point-and-click... Great job on that!

wouter52 2025-10-26 07:57

A sub-10 for graphics and half of the categories 4 or more stars, very well deserved! Congratz!