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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Ranch of the Gods | jam | 379 | 3.58 | 3.35 | 2.98 | 4.08 | 3.74 | 3.70 | 3.66 | 3.47 |
The movement was really hard to get used to, sliding like this is really weird. In the end I just found that going back and forth and just spamming the gun is the best way to win, no risk taken, as the sword is just not rewarding enough to use. To me, the problems are the movements as said above, and that the sacrifices are not a choice, there are the good one and the bad one (sacrificing movement or gun is just death).
It took me minutes to know that I had to go down to find people, and then it took me as much time to find how to kill them, I didn't understand that you had to kill them IN the altar either. How do the two bars fill? It seemed random which one filled when I was killing. Cool graphics though!
I like the idea, but the movements really frustrated me, I sadly couldn't finish the game. Maybe slowing down the movement when you release the key if you don't want a full control of the jump while you're in the air. Also, as you made the game in unity, if you want to avoid the dodo being stuck against a wall and not falling down you can add a physic material with everything at 0 on it and apply to the terrain and dodo. If this was intentional, forget what I said!
I'm sure without this movement problem I'd like it though.
I don't know if I'm stupid, but I couldn't find how to grab the chickens. The game look nice though!
Ryan Brenner said pretty much everything. I pressed escape to check if there was a pause menu, I discovered that it's just quit the game, the game was too slow for me to want to play through all of it again, but I see potential! Also, the music didn't loop for me, so I met an awkward silence after some time.
I like the environment and the mood, but I don't understand the theme, I only see her confessing for doing her "bad deeds". Even though I don't understand the game, I liked the atmosphere that it gives! I'll change my rating if I understand better the theme here.
I loved it! It really felt different that the other games that I played for the jam yet. As usual, I love your art and audio. I think it's just missing some background music/noise, as when the character finish talking there is nothing anymore, so it cut a bit to abruptly the voice. But you made this at the end so I guess it's comprehensible. All in all, really great game!
The idea is really cool, I wish there was a mac or html5 version, can't play and rate without it :cry: Good job still for doing this!
I noticed two differences, the green gas (tacos?) and the water falling (fire?), but sometimes I would use it and still die. The cute creatures say stuff like "This creature is afraid of fire", so I throw fire, and it wasn't, I don't know if it's intentional or not.
Anyway, I liked the art and the music, it's cute and really looks nice! Good job!
I love the game! I really enjoy the synthwave style, the graphics are well made as well as the music. The game is easy to control, I hope you'll make other great games!
I was getting negative all the time for keeping the cute panda and dog alive, how's this game fair! I love the idea :D
Too bad there's no audio, there's no risk of dying when the enemies come to you, so you just have to spam left click. There's also no limit to where you can go, so you can get lost out of the map. I'd like playing a more polished version ;)
Let's start with the problems I had. - Using W doesn't jump as said as in the description, not really a problem as you can jump with space, just thought I'd signal it - I can't finish the game, I end up not having enough lives after having to sacrifice myself.
The art is nice, it's missing a bit of something to make it alive. It would have been nice to have some sound on top of the music.
I couldn't see the end, but it's not a bad game
I couldn't run it well on low, even though I can run most normal games on this laptop, I think you might have too much post process and particles. The game was nice though! I'll try it again when I'm home on my better computer to test it further :)
Also, you have two exe in your folder, I ran the game with the PYEW.exe
Got stuck at level 4, but I like the idea! I don't know if it's on purpose, but when you click it opens a windows for level selection.
I liked the game, but I died too fast everytime to be able to go far, the graphics are not the best, but they're consistent and that's what matters to me, good job!
The game is gorgeous! I really love this game!
Naked knight is the best knight! I liked the game!
I really like what you did! Just lacking a small music, and a goal, or I didn't go far enough maybe to see a real boss?
I loved the pig noise! It's a bit of "try to find out how the game works", and I'm bad so I didn't manage to bring anything back to the circle :( Great potential though!
I like the graphics! The only part that feels weird about them is the ground texture and the grey rectangle for the tower spots, but it still looks great!
I went through the walls after clicking retry after getting aborted :sob: Nice game! I like the graphics and audio!
The zoom of the camera is really disturbing, especially with how big the house is. I'm not a fan of the "go fetch items" games, but there's potential in the game!
I'm a bit lost with how to play the game, sometimes clicking on the grunts didn't do anything, or I couldn't move the windows. Great idea, even though I didn't manage to do anything.
I love it! I want more of devil songs!
I liked the graphics, but I got fired every time right at the beginning, no idea how to get a successful run. I'm as good at this game as in Kerbal :rofl:
A bit hard to play with those keys, but it's a nice game
Thanks all for your feed back! We hope that you enjoyed playing :)
@natethegreat Thanks for the feedback! It's a bug coming from apparently when you pick up a mating animal, we're tried to find it, but after all the work while sleep deprived, we can't find much. It will be fixed as soon as possible after some due sleep!
Thanks for the reviews! We didn’t keep enough time for the balancing phase, we’re going to continue ipdating the game in the day, I’m going to add an in-game tutorial to the list of things to add. I’m happy to know that you enjoyed our game and hope you had a great game jam :)
Thanks for your review @irock !
The game ends when all the gods are completely unhappy (three depleted meters), you will lose when you only have one animal of a type too, it's only a question of time before a god wants this animal.
You also don't have a victory condition, the goal is to have a high score right now. We plan to continue the game, so in the future there will probably be a win condition.
We will try to add more UI, to make it easier to know what's going on around when you don't have time to check on your animals.
We sadly didn't have time to create another music and had to go for something simple, it will probably be improved in later versions of the game too.
And lastly, the throwing part was one of the things that were planned and also didn't have time to implement (the list of things planned that we didn't have time to implement is long!).
We will continue to improve the game, and we hope if you play again our game one day when we did, you'll enjoy it more :)
@donitz Future DLC, you beat the gods and demand sacrifices from them! :zap:
@renegadepunisher As said in the description (I know, sometimes reading descriptions is boring), you need two of the same animals so they can reproduce, if you only have one cow left for example, you won't have more cow anymore, as long as you have two they will reproduce. Aphrodite controls how much they do, if she's happy they mate more, if she's angry they don't.
For the post-jam version of the game, we're going to add some tutorial, more UI to know what's going on and more!
@publicidadeba Thanks for your review. Don't worry, it's not wrong to not like what people like :)
I can understand the "busy work" part for the gameplay. For the sfx, was it the style that you didn't like or you had any problem?
We value every comments, positive and negative as they will allow us to improve for future games.
Thanks to everybody for your reviews! Every positive AND negative reviews are important to us to improve the game and other future games :)
Thanks for the reviews!
@yyz Thanks for the in-depths review, we're planning to expand the game, and use this as a base for the game. So there might be a win condition, we're still thinking about ideas of what we could create from this jam.
We will also improve all the interface part to make it easier to understand, as it's impossible to really know what's happening right now without the description.
The sound creeped me out so much, I felt bad for those people I had to kill. I took me time to understand that I have to right click, but you said it in the description, so it's my fault. I like the game, maybe having a bit of difference in the sound when you throw someone to his death would make it less repetitive (just changing the pitch by +- 10% is already plenty enough)
I got lost at the beginning, trying to click everywhere getting a bit frustrated, until the tech window came up. Even then it's weird to not have any sound, and it was hard for me to understand the interface. With some upgrade on the interface, I think it could be a great game.
It's a really beautiful game graphically and musically, but I don't understand what's happening, the game glitched after the bear, background disappeared and I couldn't move anymore. I can't figure what the "give light" is supposed to do either. I'll try again later if you fix it (if it's a glitch?) and improve my vote :)
I like the tutorial (° ͜ʖ ͡°) A bit more of an explanation about what to do would be nice, but I quickly understood when the door opened after I sacrificed sleeping, going out on vacation and partying to keep video games :P
I like the character designs, but it's not on the same level as the rest of the game, so it doesn't really feel right, great potential though