Erased by Falkreon

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made by Falkreon for LD22 (COMPO)
In the dimension our hero comes from, an evil tyrant has banned magic. After leading the resistance, he was banished - censored out of his very existence. Now he wanders the shadowlands, a realm of broken dreams and forgotten things.

Ancient rumor speaks of a relic of lost happiness at the top of a tall tower, that can take one to a new world. Now it's our only hope.

Map screen:
WASD or arrows to move
Space or enter to interact.
Tilde or M for upgrade menu (every 3 monster victories gives an upgrade point)

Battle screen:
1234 or QWER will activate the spells listed at the bottom of the screen.


Spells:
Rapid - 1MP, 1 damage. +2 bonus damage to poisoned enemies.
Solo - 3MP, 4 damage. (supposed to proc extra Spark damage, did not have time)
Poison - 1MP, 0 damage. +Poison
Spark - 2MP, 2 damage. Each consecutive action raises the mana cost *and* damage. (poison is supposed to reduce its efficiency, did not have time)

Edit: Whoops, source link is up now.

Ratings

Coolness 59% 3
Overall 2.05 602
Audio 1.61 477
Community 2.93 168
Fun 2.10 460
Graphics 2.40 417
Humor 1.57 438
Innovation 1.80 572
Mood 2.32 346
Theme 2.25 487

Feedback

iforce2d
19. Dec 2011 路 14:00 UTC
Could not get past first enemy, I think you need more directions on how to play. When the fight starts he just blasts me a few times really quick and I'm dead. Nothing I do seems to attack him.
I like the random generation.
馃帳 Falkreon
19. Dec 2011 路 15:09 UTC
Yeah, I really felt the time pressure on this one. In my post-Ludum update I'll put more tutorial in. For what it's worth, 1234 or QWER are spell buttons.
Michelle Sleeper
22. Dec 2011 路 00:21 UTC
Pretty sure contest rules says you can't use existing materials, and Nyancat is absolutely copyrighted.
Saxon Douglass
23. Dec 2011 路 04:15 UTC
Cool concept and I also like the random level generation.
I would prefer it if combat was a bit slower - everything seemed to die in less than two seconds!
summaky
24. Dec 2011 路 19:15 UTC
I could pass the first 8 or 9 levels without any fight at all; not very fun. Then tried again from the start and the first fight was a complete lost for me. Not very intuitive for me :'( The sound effects were also somewhat annoying.
dr_soda
25. Dec 2011 路 04:08 UTC
I like how much you managed to cram into this LD in the amount of time allotted. You had some really good ideas with the battle options and I can see where you were going with them. I like it that poison is actually useful here!
caranha
28. Dec 2011 路 12:37 UTC
At first I was "The brooding, it burns!"
But then I was "Nyan!?"
Wonderful!

I liked the amount of work you put in the active battles. Sadly, all that work goes to waste because your game does not have an FPS limiter. I could win the game by simply mashing the "1" button in every battle, and I wouldn't realize how close or how easily those battles were. Add some sleep time to your combat update functions.

That also applies to the "walking state" - the hardest thing in this game was hitting those damn stairs :-(

That said, thanks for the game, and thanks for rating so many games :-D
wademcgillis
04. Jan 2012 路 15:28 UTC
I had to lose a few times while mashing my keyboard to find out how to fight. The movement was... different and trying to hit the stairs was a little difficult.
binary_girl
06. Jan 2012 路 20:00 UTC
as im finding with alot of games they seem to run far too fast on my machine (cant control the character) like the game loop is just running as fast as possible instead of capping it kind of thing..like the gfx tho :)
Stargoat
08. Jan 2012 路 05:45 UTC
man, this ran really fast :\

I managed to beat it, but i have no idea what i was doing in the battles... just mashing qwer.

Graphics are nice, though.
someone
09. Jan 2012 路 14:17 UTC
Nice game. I seemed to have the opposite problem to everyone else: it was only running at ~5 fps on my system for some reason.
rawbits
10. Jan 2012 路 00:08 UTC
This is a really bad approach in cloning of Dungeons of Dredmore...
demonpants
10. Jan 2012 路 00:24 UTC
Any chance for an OSX / Unix version?