Shadow by FinalMirage

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made by FinalMirage for LD22 (COMPO)
Didn't get to the story so the general idea behind this was: You're having an out-of-body sort of experience (maybe a dream) where you're playing as your Shadow (on the left side of the screen) and you're trying to protect your Body (right side). Your Body has no control over his actions so you must follow him through the level and turn off traps that would kill your Body without your help.
There's also enemies/traps that you have to avoid at the same time while making sure you keep your Body alive so you can be together once again!

Created with XNA 4.0 so you'll need the Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 to run it: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20914
Artwork: Paint.net
Sounds: SFXR/BFXR

You can watch a playthrough here but it'll give away how to beat the game if you watch it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s84pb5aWg4

Ratings

Coolness 22% 533
Overall 2.67 349
Audio 1.83 451
Community 2.20 453
Fun 2.69 216
Graphics 1.77 630
Humor 1.63 418
Innovation 3.15 118
Mood 1.64 578
Theme 2.38 443

Feedback

spiral
19. Dec 2011 路 10:03 UTC
Brutal trial and error... made it tho :D.
good idea
馃帳 FinalMirage
19. Dec 2011 路 10:35 UTC
I watched my roommate who isn't much of a gamer start off pretty terrible but he figured it out. I little more polish would've helped ease the pain. :)
John Conrad
19. Dec 2011 路 20:51 UTC
Neat concept and some interesting mechanics. Nice work. :)
iforce2d
23. Dec 2011 路 07:49 UTC
@spiral yes indeed... brutal! :D
I think if the scenes were scrolling up rather than on separate screens it would help.
The controls are nice and responsive and the simple audio cues help a lot to get timings right. I think if you could arrange it so it needed a bit more thought and was slower-paced rather than this fixed speed and 'on rails' it would be awesome.
Kelly Thomas
24. Dec 2011 路 16:49 UTC
nice challenge, though a bit intimidating.
ziomorti
24. Dec 2011 路 23:15 UTC
Nice original entry here and I really appreciated your view of the theme. Great mechanics! The game flows just fine even with simple graphics and sfx. It's a shame it's so short :(
Hazard
28. Dec 2011 路 10:20 UTC
Cool gameplay idea and theme usage. :) Very short, though.
binary_girl
06. Jan 2012 路 19:50 UTC
i like it.. nice idea.. only thing that slightly put me off was being sent right back to the start but thats just because im rubbish heh ;p
leedo
08. Jan 2012 路 10:02 UTC
I like the idea, and graphics are ok. I can't say if tiles are crap or good.