Light the Lighthouse by GranaDa

made by GranaDa for LD23 (JAM)

Update 04/26 V1.2 (final build for this prototype) -
"Easy Mode" - Now Everyone can beat the game! :D

Hi There,

WOW! Last Minute "literally" Submission :)

This is our first submission to LD! after 2 years doing games for iOS it was a breeze try something to PC,

Total 24h (+4 after the end of LD23) of work(distributed in 3 days going home to sleep etc),
we rush it a lot in the end but we hope u like it somehow :)

We are releasing with near no testing, we apologize if you experience any kind of bugs,exploits,glitches maybe we take the game to a proper polishing process later we really enjoyed ourselves having a good time on this

No Time For Sfx, Sorry..

Thanx For Playing

GranaDa Team

Art:
.Glauco Wong
.Jack Tinx
.Gigafragen
Code:
.GM Papacuh

Windows	http://www.mediafire.com/?6c1hjc6588calxq
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=11561

Ratings

Coolness	89%	2
Overall(Jam)	3.26	88

Audio(Jam)	3.82	25
Fun(Jam)	2.28	201
Graphics(Jam)	4.54	7
Humor(Jam)	2.16	150
Innovation(Jam)	3.13	99
Mood(Jam)	3.20	73
Theme(Jam)	3.65	31

Feedback

LeReveur

24. Apr 2012 · 05:05 UTC

Really good entry.
Really hard for me too, but I won't juge on that, considerating that I'm bad.
By the way, the ESC key to return on menu after die don't work for me (but "New" menu still does).

gritfish

24. Apr 2012 · 13:18 UTC

Holy cow, I opened up your game cause it looks like we picked almost the same idea somehow... but your graphics are AMAZING... I just wish it was easier to get to the end so I could see more of them :( still, you at least got top marks for graphics from me! Definitely give this thing some polish and release it fully.

🎤 GranaDa

24. Apr 2012 · 16:26 UTC

Hey Guys, Thanx for your support and time playing our little game!

PapayaJuice

24. Apr 2012 · 18:24 UTC

Wow, stunning. I'm really impressed you did all this in 48 hours. It's so polished! The spaces were a bit tight and therefore it was tough to play, but rewarding when you got past it. Awesome entry.

zorf

24. Apr 2012 · 18:28 UTC

Great graphics and sounds. Too bad the game is almost unplayable, I just keep dying for no apparent reason.

jrasmussen24

24. Apr 2012 · 18:45 UTC

Overall good work. The initial character drop is difficult for new players (it seems like you die for no reason, but there is just a short window in which you have to start pressing the space bar). The game is extremely difficult right now.

cirolve

24. Apr 2012 · 18:50 UTC

extremely difficult game, wow, I could barely get anywhere, mainly because of the controls and continually having to restart. other than that, the graphics were great and the music was catchy :)

laubori

24. Apr 2012 · 18:55 UTC

Super nice font and awesome graphics but yep, extreamly difficult^^

uprightpath

24. Apr 2012 · 19:00 UTC

Hard! Too hard for me to get right. On my screen the colour difference between the tunnel walls and the background isn't enough to easily differentiate them.

It also seems like the physics are a little too unforgiving for a learner (I mean, you start falling immediately, and in my case, I couldn't even see what killed me. xD)

pbackx

24. Apr 2012 · 19:02 UTC

Way too hard for me, but wow, the visual style is just great. Very very impressive.

Wampus

24. Apr 2012 · 19:08 UTC

Woah that was tougher than NES silver surfer. Tightly put together though so was impressed.

Vaelzan

24. Apr 2012 · 19:09 UTC

[Comments and ratings from this account come from various team members]
I loved the opening title on this and the graphics and sound were quite good. The game itself was quite hard to get into and it took me many deaths to even realise what the game was and what I was supposed to do. An interesting idea but gameplay could use a lot of tweaking.

s0ulcrusher

24. Apr 2012 · 19:47 UTC

I was so pumped to play when I saw the intro graphics and heard the sweet music, but unfortunately I die in 1 second every time the game starts. A few status messages draw on top of each other when that happens, telling me to hold spacebar. I've tried holding spacebar when the game starts, and I can rotate the world 5 degrees or so before I die. I gave it a shot, I died 20 times in about 20 seconds. Too bad, I really wanted to see what this was all about...

🎤 GranaDa

25. Apr 2012 · 16:27 UTC

Hi Guys, Thnx for playing we are all ears for your sugestions and apoints we are aware of the difficult and the intial difficult to grasp the controls and timing and stay floating, we have no time to implement a safe area for the "Game Start" we sorry about the difficult but with no time for testing we could only have our feedback and some of us are crazy for hard games :D

sampyxis

25. Apr 2012 · 18:46 UTC

I really like the way it looks, the sound, the concept - but it was very hard! ;-) I know it was supposed to be, but I really wanted to play through it - but I liked it a lot.

🎤 GranaDa

25. Apr 2012 · 22:57 UTC

Update 04/25 V1.1.2 - Player starts floating, so no more compulsive/accidental deaths at start :)

runsintowalls

26. Apr 2012 · 01:48 UTC

Very well put together, but too hard for my liking.

30dogs

26. Apr 2012 · 01:50 UTC

Like everyone has said-- superb graphics and music. It was reallly tough even with the floating at the beginning. I tried probably 20 times and eventually got near the bottom of the screen. I'd love to try it again perhaps with lower gravity or maybe a greater light radius (or both). But even still an awesome entry!

poohshoes

26. Apr 2012 · 02:06 UTC

Games super hard

demonpants

26. Apr 2012 · 17:22 UTC

Mac please!

🎤 GranaDa

26. Apr 2012 · 20:03 UTC

Easy and Normal modes added! Thanx for the feedback guys.

Nightsjester

26. Apr 2012 · 20:54 UTC

I dig it buts definitely abit too hard to tell where you are going.

zdanielz

27. Apr 2012 · 13:12 UTC

Download link is broken :(

🎤 GranaDa

27. Apr 2012 · 15:00 UTC

Download link is okay ^^

Tourgen

28. Apr 2012 · 01:06 UTC

the music is great. It's hard to see the walls. clicking in the window brings up a web link which is very annoying.

CappaGames

29. Apr 2012 · 16:14 UTC

This is a really good entry, but as others have said its a bit too hard and I'm the type of person to like hard games. If you had 2-3 hp per try, I think it would make a big difference.

moop

29. Apr 2012 · 16:21 UTC

Cool game if super difficult. Level of polish is impressive!

rhaasken

01. May 2012 · 19:29 UTC

Great music and graphics, but it really is impossibly difficult, so I didn't get to see much of it before I got too frustrated and had to quit.

deejorg

01. May 2012 · 19:52 UTC

Looks amazing but way too hard for me :/
Maybe if the light radius was just a tad bit wider.
Great entry overall though!

robcozzens

06. May 2012 · 01:26 UTC

I would play it, but I'm on an iMac.

MrBarnslig

06. May 2012 · 01:41 UTC

Really amazing art. Also loved the music. Sadly it was way too hard for me to get past the beginning. Really tough difficulty ramp and tight spaces, made worse by the loooooong load times to restart. But the story and the world were incredible, awesome job, glad I played it!

machinas

06. May 2012 · 06:58 UTC

great graphics. game was really hard, even on easy mode. i gave up after about 15 tries. would be great to have a version that was a bit more forgiving and you took damage for hitting walls instead of instant death. missing sound effects. would be great to have some feedback on hitting the walls. for some reason the left / right controls felt backwards to me. would love to have a setting to reverse them, partly contributed to the game feeling hard to me.

Pacifist Games

07. May 2012 · 11:47 UTC

Very difficult to play, even on easy mode... Maybe you could improve the radius of the player's light source? The graphics and music are awesome! I love the particle effects.

davidwparker

10. May 2012 · 14:50 UTC

Looks rad... but I can't play as I don't have Windows.

asfdfdfd

10. May 2012 · 16:09 UTC

Too hard but cool.

rvmook

11. May 2012 · 16:54 UTC

Even easy mode is too hard for ma, haha. Realy cool graphics and interesting gameplay.

Christina Antoinette Neofotistou

13. May 2012 · 10:28 UTC

I found it really really hard, but so beautiful and mood-setting, that I gave this full marks. Please, please do something with the difficulty, I like this too much :)