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Death Game by Falleco

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made by Falleco for LD21 (-)
This is my entry for the LD #21 and my first game as well. I hope you like it.

Here you play a game from the death, it calls you and others souls to take a chance to come back to life and escapes from the death domains.

Use WASD to control, Mouse to shoot and E to create your own path until the exit. Only one soul can get it's life back, will it be you?

I doubt... huuhuh

Web http://www.kongregate.com/games/falleco/death-game
Source http://www.aeosworks.com/games/deathgame/source.7z
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=4879

Ratings

Coolness 1% 311
Overall 2.89 240
Audio 2.48 191
Community 1.93 368
Fun 2.37 326
Graphics 2.71 249
Humor 1.56 323
Innovation 2.69 265
Theme 3.14 201

Feedback

markengley
22. Aug 2011 · 11:52 UTC
nice atmosphere
CJ
22. Aug 2011 · 14:46 UTC
great!
Pvaiun
22. Aug 2011 · 22:17 UTC
Cool game, I like the block placing mechanic, however you might want to try changing the controls for placing blocks to something other than E, it was really awkward to use.
d_m
23. Aug 2011 · 04:34 UTC
Good game! I found the controls a bit challenging, but the mood was good and I definitely had some scary moments being chased by the enemies. I had a bit of trouble playing on my laptop and either the block placing thing was a bit wonky or I never totally understood it. But well-done, especially for your first game for LD!
Shigor
23. Aug 2011 · 12:22 UTC
Not bad at all (especially for your first game :D)
mlb
23. Aug 2011 · 18:25 UTC
The idea was nice, but the mechanism to build blocks was quite challenging...they never appeared where i wanted :)
jonnopon3000
23. Aug 2011 · 19:28 UTC
I liked the atmosphere and the story, but the block placing mechanic is a little fiddly. I understand the difficulty in creating a block, however, anywhere other than either in the direction you're facing or in the direction you were facing, so it's forgiven. Overall, a very good first game :)
Gornova
23. Aug 2011 · 19:58 UTC
I like it!! Need more polish on controls like other people said before me :D
mikolalysenko
23. Aug 2011 · 23:57 UTC
It is really hard to place blocks and move to the right at the same time. I almost feel like the mouse would be a better button to use for the blocks, and perhaps e could be used to toggle between the two modes. Also the looping background noise gets a bit old.
Sos
24. Aug 2011 · 19:46 UTC
Cool stuff! Placing a block under yourself would be much more fun IMO :)
🎤 Falleco
24. Aug 2011 · 20:02 UTC
Sos, actually, you create the block in the last direction you 'look', so, if you type down (S) the block will be created under yourself (then you can jump and create it). XD

I think i didn't make it clear in the tipbox :(

Thanks for reviewing my entry!
RedWater\wzl
25. Aug 2011 · 00:52 UTC
Atmosphere is nice, the intro is too. didn't like the game mechanics though. the block building killed it for me, slowed the whole pace, didn't make sense.
love the menu screen distortion though :)
Daniel X. Moore
25. Aug 2011 · 16:38 UTC
I use a non-qwerty keyboard layout so the wasd controls were tough, adding support for arrow keys would help me out quite a bit. Then I placed a block and it stuck me in the wall, trapped for eternity in the pits of hell. I also didn't want to kill any of the other poor lost souls, but maybe I'm a contrarian.
Dark Acre Jack
26. Aug 2011 · 02:32 UTC
I'm a... creeper?

The mechanics definitely need more development to bring out a smoother flow to the gameplay, and the audio could use a tiny bit of variety to avoid driving players insane.
khahem
26. Aug 2011 · 18:46 UTC
I liked the story, but blocks are a bit too hard to place, going up takes a lot of time and if you miss you must start from scratch. Maybe being able to jump up through a block could help :)
matthias_zarzecki
27. Aug 2011 · 08:45 UTC
Neat mix of mechanics.
dogbomb
28. Aug 2011 · 16:59 UTC
I really struggled with the controls on this. I liked the idea of placing blocks to move around, but it was too fiddly for me to enjoy for too long. If the controls are ironed out, this could be great! Enjoyed the moody music.
recursor
01. Sep 2011 · 20:58 UTC
I played until I got stuck in the floor. :P