Dangerous Gold by Kensou

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made by Kensou for LD 41 (JAM)

Lava... lava and lava. Lava never changes. Lava never let you go! Run for your Life. Collect Golds and maybe Gods will forgive you!

Stunning Programming ART!

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Spikes and Lava

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YOU DIED

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Best play with gamepad on windows. WebGL version has lower quality effects and sounds. Enjoy the game =) and Lava be with you!

UPD: PostLD

  • Fix jump counter
  • Add Mac, Linux builds
  • Fix sounds and remove jump in air sound

Ratings

Overall 354th 3.656⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 185th 3.813⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 930th 2.922⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1171th 2.25⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 609th 3.438⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 169th 3.758⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Humor 868th 2.375⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 434th 3.448⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 34🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

KayZ
23. Apr 2018 · 22:40 UTC
Best Audio track so far! Reminded me of the beginning of Phantasy Star 4. Gives the perfect vibe to the dangerous rise of lava.
Finished the game with only eleven coins and more than 60 deaths... will have to try again later.
Blinkenlights
23. Apr 2018 · 23:05 UTC
I'm afraid I'm absolutely terrible at this sort of thing XD Love the art though! (even on HTML)
🎤 Kensou
23. Apr 2018 · 23:07 UTC
Thanks @KayZ, this comment make me very happy. Three hours of writing this track in Bosca Ceoil and no regrets after the compare with Phantasy Star 4.
Matthew Hrehirchuk
23. Apr 2018 · 23:12 UTC
The music was incredible and the game is HARD! I didn't know I had three jumps until abut ten minutes in. As soon as I had that, easy money! Very fun!
🎤 Kensou
23. Apr 2018 · 23:16 UTC
Thanks @blinkenlights for good words about my Programming Art.
🎤 Kensou
23. Apr 2018 · 23:18 UTC
thanks for playing @matthew-hrehirchuk . Jump counter not so obvious =(
Blinkenlights
23. Apr 2018 · 23:25 UTC
@Kensou Gladly given! Would you mind giving your opinion on mine, if you had the time? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/cruise-co
Pixels Everywhere
23. Apr 2018 · 23:29 UTC
The art and sound design is very nice! Great game. The programmer art gives it a 'feel' that is hard to match purposely, Gg my man
🎤 Kensou
23. Apr 2018 · 23:38 UTC
@pixels-everywhere thanks for playing!
OmnipotentIndie
23. Apr 2018 · 23:46 UTC
Nice job. Very fun and hectic. Sound got a bit annoying though. Had a lot of fun.
OscarTrevejo
23. Apr 2018 · 23:58 UTC
Nice work lads! We also did a very original too, ye mid check it out?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time
OscarTrevejo
24. Apr 2018 · 00:05 UTC
Nice work lads! We also did a very original too, ye mid check it out?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time
Jaime Paz Lopes
24. Apr 2018 · 01:11 UTC
cool game, but it was impossible to play at first, i instantly understood that i had double jump, but triple jump took me a lot of time and deaths. i thought that I could jump 2 times because the jump counter is in 2, but this 2 means 2 times after the first jump (triple jump)
Alexander Furzikov
24. Apr 2018 · 06:14 UTC
Great game. Great sound and design. The game makes you nervous :)
Min0s
24. Apr 2018 · 06:24 UTC
Very nice game! Super challenging and addictive!
Merdek007
24. Apr 2018 · 06:59 UTC
Very difficult, very fun, now I hate lava))
GiovanniBarrottu
24. Apr 2018 · 10:32 UTC
Nice game! really hard!

The controls work really well though, I like the lava effect, and the music is basic but charming.

Just some more polishing with the art and sound effects would be nice.
🎤 Kensou
24. Apr 2018 · 12:18 UTC
Thank you very much @giovannibarrottu for playing this game =)
dankar
24. Apr 2018 · 12:58 UTC
Really like the music and the gameplay. Good job!
Riddhee Dutta
24. Apr 2018 · 14:44 UTC
Love the game. Great Job. Feel free to drop a review at our game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/boomball
Turdus
24. Apr 2018 · 15:03 UTC
The gameplay is pretty nice, it took me some time to notice that I have triple jump tho :P I like the music and artstyle too. Great job!
MZA
24. Apr 2018 · 21:39 UTC
This is one of those games that i'd like to play longer but I need to check out other LD games. It has a sorta super meat boy feel to it. It's difficult but not punishing. Music has a sense of urgency.

Make it more arty and you've got a gem :D.
hatchet
24. Apr 2018 · 22:03 UTC
Those are some nice lava effects! :) Also your programmer art is not half bad! I like the jumping mechanics and gameplay in general. Although the only thing I can't see is the connection to the theme. But otherwise, nice entry!
TomekS
25. Apr 2018 · 07:27 UTC
Played WebGL build, controller works without issues, I found best way is to use AD and jump with mouse button. Quite challenging and thus entertaining. Good effort.
OhFiddleDiddle
25. Apr 2018 · 07:56 UTC
Very nice. Played really smooth and quite challenging. Although I don't see what the incompatible genres are. :P
Regardless, nice work and nice work with the audio/sfx, it sounds pretty good.
🎤 Kensou
25. Apr 2018 · 08:08 UTC
@dankar, @turdus, @mza, @hatchet, @tomeks, @ohfiddlediddle Thanks to everyone for playing this little game. I'm really, really glad!
Kurt Roembke
25. Apr 2018 · 14:08 UTC
The sound and music was very simple but effective which is great! Fun game.
Klerembot
25. Apr 2018 · 14:27 UTC
Really cool, I've have to come back and finish it someday (I imagine it's not an endless runner). Very fun. The graphics are really nice and the music is awesome (and made during the jam? incredible!) One think I don't really get is the connection to the theme. Is it something subtle and I don't see it, or did you not have time for implementation?
🎤 Kensou
25. Apr 2018 · 16:24 UTC
@klerembot Thanks for playing game. It's not an endless runner. It's 3 section with checkpoints on 2 and 3 section. It's also has two ending results based on how you play. Music made during the jam in Bosca Ceoil. It's amazing, easy to use app that I first time launched on this jam. I'm very glad people's like music in this game =)

And now about Theme. This also was mentioned by @OhFiddleDiddle @hatchet

My General Idea (that comes to me at the end of 1 day) is very silly. Combine Flappy Bird tap mechanic with Uncharted end game section, when Natan escaping from another very old Temple when this temple is destroying. And this was so releaf after Half Of Day just starring on a wallspot. It's not obvious combine and as I saw on the end of the 3 day not so Incompatible genres. But theme of this jam put my mind on the road that lead me to this game =) So for me personally Theme for this jam helped build this small expereance.

If you play WebGL build you can miss this Uncharted tension. Because of performance I'm turned off most lava effects events.

![496E408900000578-0-image-a-24_1519206384406.jpg](///raw/a6f/2/z/13f4f.jpg)

Here's Incompatible cat. Cheers!!
elemel
25. Apr 2018 · 19:29 UTC
The lava stresses me out! Only made it to the spikes so far but might try again. The music really helps elevate the sense of fleeing from certain death. Well done.
Yahialds
26. Apr 2018 · 12:37 UTC
Had fun playing it, but what makes me fell this is a great work is the programming art. It is amazing for me to see and think about how you did it
Pietro Ferrantelli
28. Apr 2018 · 19:33 UTC
One of the most fun I had so far. This is a simple but well executed and addicting concept. Even if the artstyle is minismalist, you really nailed the transitions. and the overall mood. Pretty good entry !
minibobbo
29. Apr 2018 · 04:57 UTC
I think this is excellent programmer art. Especially the lava effects. I really liked the challenge of trying to land as close to the platforms as possible to minimize the falling time to stay ahead of the ever rising lava. The music was also a perfect fit.

I always wanted to jump up the right side when the spikes were first introduced. Not sure why, but I did three times in a row.

Very nicely done!
vkmicro
30. Apr 2018 · 07:42 UTC
Phew! this is hard! gets my adrenaline rushing and my blood pumping trying to outrun the lava!
Very cool, very fun, very enjoyable :D I had so much fun.

Graphics were very pleasant, sound effects were nice and not too loud / annoying. Animations and character design were cool and gameplay was smooth and I didn't find any bugs