Doesn't seem to be running for me :(

Amazing atmosphere and art style. I love the sounds as well as the effects on the water with your torch. Some of the sounds were jarring and rather scary, however I think that was the intention. I found the earlier levels very easy and the later levels were difficult. The difficulty curve felt well done and seems like you have a handle on it.

I look forward to what you make in the future, keep it up!

Nice!

The music does a nice job of setting the mood. I couldn't for the life of me get past level 5.

@evilDan Could you tell me what browser you are using?

Ooh, it's one of the games I kept seeing pics of in irc! Excellent visual style, good audio, and engaging gameplay!

The font is really difficult to read, though perhaps that was intentional. The = button doesn't seem to work for mute, at least on Firefox.

The overall style is very consistent, and the mood is good, though I'm personally not fond of the extreme low resolution.

The game seems quite difficult to not have level-based restarts though. Running through the first few levels with no interaction just adds extra time, so I quit after dying 5 or 6 levels in. :P

This game is phenomenal, the atmosphere is rock-solid, I love the minimal graphics, the sound design is amazing, and the gameplay is great. I was literally frightened at multiple points as I played, regardless of the low-res graphics.

Loooved the graphics and the sound freaked me out a couple of times

The graphics are great! Super LORES. The atmosphere is nice. Gameplay seems very hard, but overall very nice. Good job!

Great game but too hard. These sounds are not for me but they adds scary atmosphere to this cool graphic.
This is best game on this LD so far.

Great Game! The style and the mood (graphics as well as audio) are really well done. I really got scared in some situations so you definitely did a great job! :D

Some (small) drawbacks are the font and the kind of harsh sounds (some slight high shelf filter loweing on the SFX would have done great pleasure).

This time it's working!

Really fun - I love the ultra-low res pixel art!

Never before in Ludum Dare has a game given me the scare. Great job! :D

Really nice entry, the atmosphere was ridiculously good, felt tense the entire way through and got scared a lot of times. Really nice job!

Nice graphics, good fun, nice and challenging.

Would be nice to have some sort of checkpoints. I don't want to replay the whole thing to get back to where I was!

*Note from the creator!*

There were two minor typos in the game when it first released that have been fixed:

◙ Originally, WASD/Arrow control was going to be toggle-able. This was never implemented and the variable that set control was set to WASD permanently. I intended to remove any reference to the toggle ability from the code and enable both methods of control, but overlooked it. Arrow control has been enabled by deleting any toggle code.
◙ The final level was supposed to take you to an ending screen, but due to a typo, it took the player to the game over screen. Nothing was added to the game; 2 words were changed and now the game works as intended.

If you would like to verify what changes have been made, download both version of the source above and compare them in Construct2. :-D

Very cool concept. Gameplay was surprisingly smooth considering the limited amount of pixels. Nice work

Very tense and atmospheric. Fantastic minimalist visual style.

whoa... scary shit. Excellent mood!

really impressed .... and scared. great job

Wow, that was a great little experience! Great atmosphere, great sounds, and scary as hell, especially the red ball. Nice!

For such an abstract art style, it was pretty tense and scarry, great job :D

The sounds for shooting were a bit loud (but on the other hand those sounds are loud) music was fitting to the style.

Successful demake of horror genre. Unique sprites for each shooting angle - great touch. Usually people just rotate the sprite, which wouldn't work with your big pixel style.

My favourite game so far. Really liked the puzzle design, the difficulty, and the sound effects with the art style create a great atmosphere.

The atmosphere this game sets is amazing. Great work!

That was really cool. And very creepy!

Cool game. Really nice art style and scary gameplay!

Awesome feel, nice job.

Really good gameplay !
I DID IT !
awesome work !

BEAUTIFUL game with a really cohesive aesthetic, fabulous work. Scared the shit out of me the first time I played too.

I really liked it even though it's really hard. I wish it wouldn't restart at level one every time. I feel like this is a design decision that you've made knowing the frustration it would cause, but could you explain a bit more about why you implemented it this way?

So much tension crammed into so little pixels. A truly astonishing achievement in audio design as well. Kudos all around!

That was spooky! Great effects with minimal graphics.

the low res low color pixel art style is very unique and great! having to run through the tutorial levels every time you die is a bit tedious in my opinion.

I second the opinion of allowing you to continue on the last level you died instead of doing everything all over again. GREAT atmosphere. From the art direction to the dirty sound effects I was being pulled into this little hostile alien world.

It was fun but it was really frustrating restarting at level 1 each time. Dying in one hit wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the restarts.

Nice game, fun, and surprisingly creepy as hell!

You are featured in today's episode of "Ludumdare to Believe" by the Button Masher Bros! Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYGv849RzM

Unfortunately, the sound wasn't working on my browser (that doesn't surprise me). Even without the sound, the mood set up in this game was very good. Nice work with this.

Streamed this. There's a point when low-res graphics stop being "retro" and become simply unreadable. I feel like it was trying to be moody but didn't really succeed, and there wasn't much else to carry the game. So yeah.

In a simple game like this, polish is extremely important, and the lack of it is an eyesore. The difficulty curve is ok, but the restarts are what really subtract points. You're trying to teach the player the basic design implicitly, yet you punish them for trying things out. It doesn't work out like that.

@Jiggwatt Completely valid points! Having to restart from the beginning was not intentional, though. I wanted to put in checkpoints every 2 levels, but ran out of time.

Great entry, scary even with so few pixels! :)

Oh my god! You created really solid horror game. Couldn't pass the first level with red head, but then understood that it came aggressive by light of flashlight. The next level after it - not to look at the red head, NOT TO LOOK AT THE RED HEAD, ouch, so many hives, BANG! Oh no! OH NO! NONONO! GAMEOVER =_=

Super nice looking game! I included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you want to check it out :) http://youtu.be/wBne0r55jPY

I agree with jsmars.
Pretty fun~

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