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Sugar Lake Chronicles by Tayway203

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made by Tayway203 for LD32 (JAM)
Johnny has fallen asleep again in the woods and his nightmares have come to life. Find Johnny and wake him up. Luckily for you, you've just come out of a candy store and possess a giant lollipop and nightmares are diabetic. Use your lollipop to protect yourself on your journey.

Also, scattered around the world are 5 hidden coins. Feel free to see if you can find them.

Controls:
WASD or arrow keys to move
Space to attack
V to interact
Web https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60943619/LudumDare/Sugar%20Lake%20Chronicles.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=50306

Ratings

Coolness 89% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.04 675
Audio(Jam) 3.02 399
Fun(Jam) 2.71 751
Graphics(Jam) 3.61 353
Humor(Jam) 2.92 488
Innovation(Jam) 2.28 925
Mood(Jam) 2.90 633
Theme(Jam) 3.18 640

Feedback

William Florencio
23. Apr 2015 路 21:13 UTC
Very cute. A big scenary to slow steps. Where the creatures are hidden? I want to kill more.hehe Good job.
馃帳 Tayway203
23. Apr 2015 路 21:25 UTC
Thanks. There's an area in the bottom right that's surrounded by rocks. There's a bunch of enemies there asking to be wacked on the head.
Nikteddy92
23. Apr 2015 路 21:30 UTC
The graphic style is really nice! And also the basic idea of the game!
Maybe the player movement is a little bit slow ^^'
Feyd_Rautha
23. Apr 2015 路 21:38 UTC
The map was a bit large and slow to navigate. Aside from that it was pretty fun. The animations for the creatures were a lot of fun and killing them was satisfying. I really stuck it to em.
Garris
23. Apr 2015 路 22:24 UTC
This is a really cute game! Reminded me a bit of Zelda, map-wise. It was a realllyyy big map, and not many enemies to kill along the way to finding Johnny. Also our character was a really slow walker for the amount of map to cover. But I liked this game! Really nice, smooth controls! And the lollipop was a really cute weapon.
TheMeorch
23. Apr 2015 路 22:27 UTC
Lovely pixel art! The character movement and animation is a bit jerky and slow, and the world seems a bit empty, given its size -- but I'm sure you could develop on it if you keep working on it. Nice job!
Big Cow
23. Apr 2015 路 22:29 UTC
I liked the intro and the graphics. I agree with what people are saying about lack of enemies for such a large map; I wandered for ages without seeing anything.
tummyache
23. Apr 2015 路 22:31 UTC
This player movement is extraordinarily slow. I took forever to find Johnny and I almost gave up. I only fought the one monster on the way which was kind of a bummer, so for me it was just a really slow walk over to find sleeping Johnny.
MrRoboman
23. Apr 2015 路 22:35 UTC
Nice Game. Unfortunately, I never found Johnny. I killed 40 of those shadow dogs, though. They're great.
The twitchy camera movement and slow walk speed were a turn off though.
Great work! keep it up!
馃帳 Tayway203
24. Apr 2015 路 00:50 UTC
The enemy spawners were set to some crazy high number so I've fixed that. Now there should be more things to smack and performance should be slightly better as well. Thanks for the feedback!
sorlok
24. Apr 2015 路 00:53 UTC
Interesting; I loved the opening! Overworld was very big and a little repetitive. Loved the secret coins and the overall aesthetic.
dcRfj15
24. Apr 2015 路 01:08 UTC
Great game, was fun to explore and fight monsters. I found Johnny in about 5 minutes (I guess I got lucky because it was such a large map though). I liked the humor though, some of the townspeople had some funny things to say. I found one of the hidden coins (#2). The character was relatively slow though, as was mentioned before, but that is a minor issue.
benmcnelly
24. Apr 2015 路 01:10 UTC
Geez, I love the contrast of cute lolly pop kid and then holy crap demon horde thingy. Nice work!
rodobodolfo
24. Apr 2015 路 01:55 UTC
The combat feels rewarding, the art is awesome. Movement could be a little faster. Great entry!
Pix3M
24. Apr 2015 路 01:58 UTC
Could very easily be a fun hack n' slash if the controls felt responsive. I basically killed the things by running away, facing them, then holding my spacebar as I wait for the attack to fire. Sometimes I tap my spacebar and nothing happens, and it felt like the attack fires only some of the time.
richiebranson
24. Apr 2015 路 02:21 UTC
Definitely feeling the old school action RPG style pixel art & gameplay. The melee attack was reminiscent of Secret of Mana...well executed.
gruhn
24. Apr 2015 路 02:40 UTC
A good game with some interesting visual feedback.
SmilingCat
24. Apr 2015 路 03:25 UTC
Nice graphics, loved the art style. Great job!
Davikin92
24. Apr 2015 路 03:34 UTC
I got lost a couple times and once I was able to get out of the bounds of the map. You should make the beasts a little slower because it's too hard to outrun theme. Music is good and the theme is funny. Good job!
deadbodyoutline
24. Apr 2015 路 03:37 UTC
Lol, that guy "fishing" :p
ironleonem
27. Apr 2015 路 00:30 UTC
Cute and fun
Jokerbomb
27. Apr 2015 路 01:53 UTC
Cute game =). I enjoyed finding all the NPCs and coins. Attacking seemed to be on a weird timer. Sometimes I could reliably attack, other times I'd push the spacebar with no response. Nice work.
jacketsj
28. Apr 2015 路 01:09 UTC
Why don't the villagers jump into the water :(
NoorStudios
29. Apr 2015 路 05:21 UTC
cute game!
mystakin
03. May 2015 路 19:15 UTC
Adorable graphics, reminds me of Earthbound mixed with Legend of Zelda. Enjoyed the humor and thought it was a good base for a full game. :)

I would ditch the diabetes jokes, though.