Twilight Souls by Yword 2022-10-05T15:54:53Z
WOW, just, WOW. well designed mechanics, neat level design, and the art, is simply masterpiece. best game i've played since now.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Mantra | jam | 353 | 3.79 | 3.86 | 3.19 | 3.07 | 4.10 | 2.74 | 3.88 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Inked Garden | jam | 224 | 3.76 | 3.54 | 3.03 | 4.01 | 4.18 | 2.64 | 3.73 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Seasons Journey | jam | 120 | 4.01 | 3.77 | 3.87 | 4.34 | 4.01 | 3.00 | 3.73 |
WOW, just, WOW. well designed mechanics, neat level design, and the art, is simply masterpiece. best game i've played since now.
I get maney, gif me maney
very nice game, quite a challenge to manage the total bricks you have, and not smashing them all around
meow,meow meow, meowmeowmeow, meow-meow, MEOW.(human make cute cat game, all meowdum dare human should make cat game.)
such a wonderful idea! not to mention the pixel art and smooth control, with some well designed level there's really nothing to say other than compliment. eh, well, actually there is one thing, I think I just pass the level before final level with out defeating all yakuzas, is this a bug or it just design this way. but that dose not even counts a downside with such a great gameplay.
while you adding physics i think there should be a preview how that spell it gonna look like. but even with that it is a very impressive game i'll say, creative and very smart use of the topic, and the music is really good. btw are they saying chinese in the music? cuz i cant understand any of it lol
the biggest problem is it really not have enough challenge, 10s seen just too much more than enough for most of the level, and by that I mean it can be a real fun and satisfying game easily! I mean you got nice graphic, nice sounds effect and a decent idea, good job!
I got 30, the line three game always got me. not bad, decent control, balanced difficulties, I think the variety of minigames are still too little though.
game is quite hard actually, fun though. i think you can make a more clear deposit and pawn area, it takes me forever to dunk those gems to dimiri lol.
idk if im doing something wrong but this cat is really hard to pet! my arm is in pain right now! but the game is just too cute to get mad, great art, nice audio, fun to play, l love it!
it fells like legend of zelda at that first time but it is actually more like warioware! this idea is really interesting especially in use the opening narration as the first level. i think you can still add some direction to the goal of the level, I thought I should collect coin instead of going to the gate at the level before dragon. the direction can be like: "hey! listen! practice your spell with those target!" "hey! listen! defeat those thugs!" "hey! listen! go to the boss gate!"
very solid gameplay and idea, the hammer swing animation looks awsome! although i have to say it's kinda tired to keep pressing space key, it'll be real good if i can just hold space key and he keeping swinging hammer. also the collision of hammer seems a little small for me. overall a very fun game
an idea easy to understand and easy to improve, i can see a future rougelike that your weapon changes every 10s, and you have to try to find the best combination in hundreds of weapons. it would be quite playable when every combination can be a new experience.
pretty fancy title screen and neat music. but i have to say the control is really weird, and in the lava phase the best thing is just do nothing for 10s, i think it might be nice to there are something that can only get during the lava phase
我的发 大老爷们变成了美少女，怎么会做这样的梦（乡秀树脸）。 美术碉堡了大佬，还有闹钟真会藏啊w 但是十秒主题嘞ww
I think I'm having a bug that is I make a wrong burger the order dose not disappear so I cannot make the next burger. overall it is a very nice game, good graphic, music, balanced difficulty.
that chiken though
neat game, neat cat. I think there might be some improvement space in the coin collection. such as putting them in some more risky point?
I like the design that the save point is keep changing. I think it would better you show where it's going to change more clear. maybe add a line to connect both positiona?
i feel like Pac-Chad when i dunk 4 in a single day. how many levels are there btw
real nice gmae, easily one of the best i've played so far. but there is a moment that my hole screen turns red and never gose back, is that intentionally? I wont be surprised if it is lol
《这不是蟑螂球嘛，哪里是什么蕾雅卡啊》 虽然说玩法比较单调，但可爱的像素和抽卡本身的魔力已经足够让人看着只因的屎忽对着屏幕狠戳一会儿了www 不得不说像素图真的很可爱 真的很可爱 最喜欢那只幽灵
at first i thought it was too easy, but when they stat to chasing me... solid gameplay, solid idea, definitely a nice game.
your art style is awesome! I love it soooo much! it reminds me some Square Enix game and Voice of Cards. but I have to say the gameplay is too simple, talking with the ghosts are fun but without any combat or puzzle it's just a walking simulator (with really good art) and the timer seems useless (I really like the idea using stars as timer though). still i kinda understand that such wonderful art like this must take times and three days might not be enough.
Thanks a lot @mercuryal for the first every comment I get! real glad you like it! btw there are 2 different final level and 2 different ending, wonder you try both of them.
Setting menu seens to have a problem... there are too many things I have no time to check before submit... only if I didn't play that much hearthstone at first 2 days
one question guys, can i put a new version that i did some debug? and i made a chinese version, is it breaking any rules for uploding those? i mean the submission was ended but i saw other people having some fixed version. just wonder.
@aderpychickenstudios thank you for the comment! my friend says it is a little bit too hard though lol
@fermingimpel yeah my friend reported that as well, I already fixed it but I’m not sure if I can post the fixed version.
@alex-de-la-cour you are definitely correct, I actually didn’t even know what jump buffer and coyote time is! I checked them after read you comment and realized that is what I’m looking for all the time when i feel weird when testing my levels and try if I can make jump smoother (eventually I can not). I’ll definitely adding them for my next game, your comment helps me a real lot.
@bluepir thank you so much for liking my game just like i like yours! I also really want someone to do tha music, that's one important thing that i really have no idea. and, sorry i do not use instagram and i do not really usually to post my work to internet.
@yword the one in level3? Yeah my friend reported that be too hard as well, the interesting thing is I actually didn’t feel it was that hard when I was testing it, but after he reported that and I try again myself I found it is much harder than I remembered. So yeah you are correct about it and I’ll definitely change it after rating session.
wow, did i just suddenly got 6 comment!? thanks all for liking my game!! and @bluesand sadly i do not have plan to really continue developing, i'm putting all my energy on a long-term project which is a metroidvania game. but i did have plan to make some improvement, including adding more detail art, a little redesign on some level that is harder than it should be (the two leaves jump and another one in the hidden level), also i want to complete the narration as i really wanted at the first time i come up with the idea of this game.
@oakhardt you mean the final jump of the hidden level(three ice then two petals) or normal level3(only one ice)? humm that was weird. but there sure be some bugs that I do not understand as well lol, i am still very bad at programming after all. but i'll definitely check it!
@oakhardt wow that looks really helpful! (Especially when my next game is also gonna be a platformer) thanks a lot!
I think I fixed the problem that it can only play in debug mode. anyway, there definitely gonna be a big upgrade after rating season.
@tinysalad is it because the outline is too bright?
@projectcolorball 喔……喔，我好像也没什么列好扩的……不如说我自己还想找一些组织咧，现在完全是闷头自己学自己做的情况，你们如果有什么讨论群之类的话我非常乐意加一下
@projectcolorball 好呀好呀，啥方式咧？微信的话我有cht321654987
@lincolnsalles that is a interesting report, the save system should work when im testing it. I already fixed a lot of problem, I’ll make sure the save system work and maybe add a load function to the menu before i upload new version. Thanks for reporting that!
yup, we're finally here, a game that kills baby. I really like your art and animation, adding more contents will make it a very fun game, and it is already a pretty good game for now, well done!
im not sure if i did something wrong but the timer seems not working properly? for about a few minutes i just did nothing and seems get no punishment. the game itself is pretty good though, real nice art badass music! QQ图片20221005020834.png
Last night my roommate's clock rings about 20 time makes me cant sleep, and today you give me this, well done Ludum Dare. A solid platform jumping, I think you can add something that makes it more of a clock theme, like, ummm, a ring ability to wake something up and the thing is two different platform in wake and sleep form?
hahaa, I know there must be someone got the same season idea with me! a fellow platform jump with season change theme! yours seems really good consider it's in compo, I dont think i can even finish mine in 48 hours. you got really nice pixel art, some nice level design, and music that i wish i can have too.
I have a suggestion that you can make a "waiting" key that speed up the game so you do not have to wait half a minutes if you miss a jump. that's what i did when i to make "10s a season" as well, but i changed to "10s a whole year" because i want to make my jump level more continuously.
also checkout my game if you like!
we got the same idea about season changing! and the most interesting part is we made whole different type of game. real nice work, lovely are and good music, fun to play. ill say the carrot is not that useful lol, apple and pumpkin makes a perfect circle that keeps you busy the whole year.
keep going! fellow first time developer! you have a nice potential of pixel art, adding more things falling down might improve the game a lot, for example add some smaller meteor rain every 10s but in different timing. can also make the slime move faster so he can handle more danger. add a timer bar to show when the dangers are comming is also good i think
short but polished, very good idea, love the art and control feels good as well. job well down!
lovely art, decent gameplay. though i fount the rift can spawn just right at a fairy's face and I have no time to respond, this can be a little frustrating. and the end, yeah, didnt see that comming, but, well, yeah, why did i not surprised lol
well, at first i thought the game was kind of unpolished, tons of detail can be improved, than i starting to impressed by how much it is complete as a game. a story, different enemies, crafting, even a hidden reward! although i still think there are lots of detail you can improve, such as it is hard to find normal nut in middle to late game, and the farming lands are to few and separated, but it is actually a good side! i mean, hey, there are a lot of details you can improve to make it even better! I'm glad i play it through, one of the best i played so far.
a little short but quite fun and creative! nice job!
cool and refreshing gameplay, cute pixel art. that game can be pretty chaotic but that is one of the fun parts. I think make the field larger could be really fun
handsome indeed, handsome indeed
real cool idea, but too hard for my brain lol, im only able to finish half of the levels. It's like, I understand how every thing work, but I just dont know how to make it work. but that not the game's problem. very nice work!
slow and relax gameplay, might a little simple though. the little comic is pretty cute!
@foxwindler yeah i know, i gave my most time on her and have no time to really polish others lol
@john-wuller wow thanks a lot!
@john-wuller I just watch the video and I found I actually did almost every trick he shows lol. did I set my jump buffer and coyote time not long enough? which part you think I should improve most in platform jumping?
@witchgf yeah it still has some crash problem, i also notice it after submission, just restart it should be fine. and, i did want to do more guide for the game actually, but turns out I dont have enough time. there are a lot of thing i want to do but didnt due to lack of time, more enemies, some decorations on the map, more chatting with your sword, a short story maybe. well, that's another fun part in LDJ.
@john-wuller when I talk with my friend(no game developing experience) about coyote time he was surprised that it exist and think it should not be exist for most of the game lol, so i did makes it shorter than i was planning to...
@diego-teran i set attack to be "release button" to trigger (I remember it is because i feel it be easier to add a charge attack), think that's the delay comes from. it's the first time i try to add combat, and my long-term project is gonna include a lot of combat, the more problem i found, the better! Thanks a lot!
@profhatchet I didn't do the sound part, but everything else, yes. Also, thanks for all the advice you guys give! it helped a real lot!!
@thyoi thank you sosu!
@koboldskeep I always cant control myself to give player something really hard at the end lol. I'll try not next time. and actually, there are not gameover, when you die you just get back to the tree with 3 health, so, try to jump to one side and kill one or two, then die, get back, kill few more. yeah, that is what i thought when i feel it was too hard myself, yes, i know it sounds silly.
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very lovely art and fun gameplay, love it a lot. but i actually stuck at the level that you first get projectile rune. the problem is Ernest dose not stop when i press down or up, not sure if it was intended.
ohhhhh so you have to stand in front of him, that make sense. i try again and finish the game! (that level is still pretty hard though, even harder than the final level for me) A real nice work, still I feel Ernest move a little to fast for me to check what come next and set up rune, maybe a overview of the whole map before level start will be good? overall, wonderful job!
masterpiece, simply masterpiece, I would like very much to see it make into a full game. very creative idea and challenging to play, feels really good to make the right strategy. I beat the game after about 5 attempt, and every time I lose I want to start a new game immediately. the art is very impressive as well. a few suggestions: 1: there might be too much informations on the screen (like the light and dark in percentage), I dont feel they are necessary and would make the screen much cleaner without them. 2: some trees are a little useless, I feel I should only give energy to the main tree and the seed tree. if i dont have enough health, I can just collect them from those auto spawn one. may be you can make other trees simmillar to the energy tree that can be harvest over time, and reduce or even remove auto spawn. Again, I really love your game! I hope I can play the full game one day!
good art! and quite hard, some traps are hard to see. control and collision could have a little improvement
love the art! the game is about trying in my view, to find with mushroom can extend current poison. so maybe a mushroom index that record ever mushroom you've eaten can be good? again, I have to say the dying animation is sooooooo good
quite interesting use of the theme, and very well done! the only think i can say is it would be really good if i can use key board. or actually i can but i just didnt find the right key?
control feels a little wired but the idea was really good.
yes, cat game yes.
good idea, good graphic, great audio, i love it!
I love it animation was smooth and design was great. there are many new mechanics on the way to makes it not boring. i particularly like how the lightning interact with platform.
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wonderful, can wait to see this complete. and... it's maybe the design, but i still think a pause button is somehow needed, it's really overload my brain probably gonna overload even more in the complete version. still, i really enjoyed it so much, thanks for bring us such a great game.
character moves fells good, quite straightforward and fun. using keyboard fells funny though.
and i dont even know why i love the art so much
tarzan probably
yeah
tarzan
great character design gameplay was fun but i think it's a little easy when Lacti was really op, and kinda lack of change each level. unlocking new characters each level rather then just give all of then at the beginning might be good? anyway, a really good game overall
you got a really good idea, but every thing just happened so fast i dont even have time to check the stats. but i have to say again i really love the idea
wow you got such a polished game! very well done!
i've seen some interesting poker game that combine all kinds of card together and your game is totally as much interesting as others.
i was still not completely understand how exactly everything work at the boss fight but i can say the design was quite something in the draw death card game. it combined very well with other mechanics because if you want to give you opponent death card and dont draw it yourself, you want have less card on your hand and give you opponent more and that's why you want to shed and why uno cards are good.
love it!
nice idea about the theme, solid gameplay as well, love it.
@mduo13 @scottmakesgames @huga should work now
idk if im allowed to change the file though...
@scottmakesgames thanks for the tips! i did actually feel that problem as well when i was testing, and my solution (for some reason i didnt do(laziness perhaps)) was simply make those platforms take longer to fall. your solution work with coyote time was actually better i think. anyway ,thank you for like my game!
@ben-parisi i made it too hard again? damn... I always want to make combinations of all mechanics and it always turns out to be quite hard.
@ismael-rodriguez yeah that is one of the problem i always thinking about when i made the game. i really want a clear way to show player what power you gets limited, but i just can figure out a good enough solution.
@vanillz @mao that's odd, i didnt meet significant wall climbing problem when i test it, hmmmm.
@mduo13 thanks a lot for the very detailed advice! i've thought about most of those problem when i make the game and it's really nice when someone point it out that those problems are real, so i know where i should improve next time.
I set coyote time to 0.1s which i think was normal though, seems Celeste-like game do need a little more of coyote time?
i actually plan to make it work with controller at first, but i didnt have time to do it since i never try that before. pretty sure ill do it on next jam though.
@bredera @siberpunk01 @mooptychunk well that's super wired, i've seen this problem been mentioned a lot but it just, i never met it myself so i dont even know where to start.
can you guys describe what happened? sometime nothing happened when you press SPACE on the wall? oh, btw you have to keep pressing move key to do that. like, if the wall is on your right, you have to keep pressing D and than press jump to do wall climb. i dont know if that's what happened but that's the only thing i can think of.
@mooptychunk yeah i kinda know what's happened. think this way, by holding A or D you can stick on the wall, and than you can press space to jump. so it's not pressing D and space at same time, it's holding A or D, than press jump multiple time. i did that cause i dont want player to stick on the wall by just approach them.
seems i have to work more on control logic. and i shouldnt show the sliding animation while player is not actually sliding. more improvement, nice.
@tschonni have you try holding D? Or there is another problem i didnt know…
@lcstark thanks so much for like my game and detailed feedback!
the double jump problem might have something doing with those falling platform, they fall faster than i thought, so probably when you press jump you are already on air, not sure though.
@thyoi thank for play my game again sosu!
the wall climb problem almost drives me crazy, i dont know what is actually going wrong!
i have to ask again did you press direction key (A or D) during wall climbing? if no, try do it, and if that work ill feel better because it just some control logic problem. but if yes you did, i, just dont know what to start with. i never met this problem myself, not even my platformer noob cousin. it just so weird
got pretty good of almost everything but i think it's really lack of contents. mechanics were good, graphic was ok, music was good, i'd really like to play more level.
space cats!
i really like what you did with the gravity and the background looks fantastic
character movement feels really strange, but it's good that by using the power you immediately stop the character. it's quite hard and esc fly very unpredictable in some level. i like the idea that you die by squeeze cause the theme is limited space. it's pretty fun overall!
very polished game, art looks nice, control feels good, gameplay was simple(maybe a little too simple). overall really good!
this is masterpiece, best i've played so far. no need a lot of introduction, just move around and you can find how the game work, and amazed. it just, so good.
nice game, puzzle design are pretty good, graphic looks decent as well since tiredness problem was already mention, adding description of each tile would make more clear for players. i spent a few try to figure out what the mushroom can do (or i somehow miss the description?). overall a really good one, i enjoy playing it!
this is much more fun than i thought it would be at the beginning. smooth control, nice pixel art, reasonable difficulty all makes it extremely fun to play. one of the best i've played so far