{"author_link":"\/users\/geist-191","author_name":"geist_191","author_uid":"1142365","comments":[{"author_name":"MashUpGames","author_uid":"1142974","time":"2019-05-03T14:11:39Z","epoch":1556892699,"modified":1556892699,"text":"Nice game. Liked the graphics with this one, good work.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gaming Night","author_uid":"1051279","time":"2019-05-03T14:32:49Z","epoch":1556893969,"modified":1556893969,"text":"The concept and its link to the theme is clear, the game run nicely (some gubs sometimes in particular after death but nothing very embarrassing). Good job.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bauke Regnerus","author_uid":"1144828","time":"2019-05-03T14:53:04Z","epoch":1556895184,"modified":1556895184,"text":"Since I can attack with the mouse, I'd expect to also be able to change direction with the mouse. Apart from that, great effort! Level design is really good.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jam373","author_uid":"1140301","time":"2019-05-03T15:07:39Z","epoch":1556896059,"modified":1556896059,"text":"Really cool dungeon crawler with great mechanics based off the theme. Very pretty art too! Was just a little dissapointed the items ended up amounting to nothing. When I finally killed the room filled with the (terrifyingly animated) balls with teeth, I couldn't pick up the rewards. And once I had finally stockpiled a whole load of potions, the game ended. The first floor however had some really interesting puzzles around health and selling to the mercant. Seeing as you have infinite health due to respawning, maybe make it so you lose health upgrades when you die? and doors don't save your progress towards opening them?\nAnyway, Good job!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bentekiller","author_uid":"1078391","time":"2019-05-03T15:18:17Z","epoch":1556896697,"modified":1556896697,"text":"A pretty chill game, just what I was in need for. Though there were some items I couldn't pick up like a second sword witch had blood on it and I was only able pick up the first blood stone, and my \nmovement speed seemed to be permanently influenced by the amulet even after death and it's not in my \ninventory. It fits the theme really well which many have taken more lightly. So, neat!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pusheeneiro","author_uid":"1142642","time":"2019-05-03T15:53:11Z","epoch":1556898791,"modified":1556898791,"text":"Very nice graphics and idea. If I can add something, I would think about better signaling the offense to the enemies.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"limejuice123","author_uid":"1013724","time":"2019-05-03T16:20:52Z","epoch":1556900452,"modified":1556900452,"text":"Nice work with the UI in particular, great use of space in the screen. Liked the concept and gameplay, plus the sounds were good quality. Little niggle but would be nice if I could just give small amounts of blood to the doors rather than having to go full wack and kill myself everytime I want to open a door that needs more than 3 blood drops.\n\nOverall I had a good time though so well done.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CircleOfLife","author_uid":1131901,"time":"2019-05-03T16:37:10Z","epoch":1556901430,"modified":1556901430,"text":"Well, this is very good, despite the fact that there are several bugs in the game (you cannot pick up an item from the chest if it falls into you and once the camera is moving from one location to another, it is just stuck in place). The plot I did not see (or did not understand). The graphics are good. ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JoshAnthony1990","author_uid":"1120259","time":"2019-05-03T17:15:58Z","epoch":1556903758,"modified":1556903758,"text":"Good game. I had fun playing it.\n\nThe only real gripe I had was the camera would sometimes get buggy and move when it shouldn't, resulting in me not being able to see the character. I had to restart once due to this.\n\nThat said, I liked the rooms concept in general, and paying to go through the doors was a solid application of the theme. The premise was interesting, and I'm impressed with the amount of content you were able to get into the game in such a short time.\n\nThanks for the game, I had fun! :)","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dev_For_Pizza","author_uid":"1001970","time":"2019-05-03T17:41:23Z","epoch":1556905283,"modified":1556905283,"text":"This is the first game with a tutorial and a screen helper that i see this year ! Nice to see that kind of stuff ! The game runs perfectly. Very nice job !","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Avoca-do","author_uid":"1143522","time":"2019-05-03T18:27:49Z","epoch":1556908069,"modified":1556908069,"text":"nice game but there is buggs where the camera is not on player or at least not in the right room...","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Knatt","author_uid":"1002328","time":"2019-05-03T18:46:22Z","epoch":1556909182,"modified":1556909182,"text":"Nice submission. I liked the sprites and the UI inventory off to the side \n\nI had a bug every now and then with the camera. It would happen sometimes when scrolling to a new room. I'd be pressing in the direction I wanted to move and it shifted the camera. Had a hard time replicating it tho","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Adam Elaoud","author_uid":"1074033","time":"2019-05-03T23:27:41Z","epoch":1556926061,"modified":1556926061,"text":"This is a really good take on the theme! This reminded me of the sacrificing health in the binding of isaac. My biggest criticisms are that my attack range felt kinda clunky and it there were quite a few bugs that made the game a bit unplayable for me. Bats were constantly clipping through walls and would damage me when I moved between screens and - like you mentioned in your description - the screen offset on the second level made it super hard to play, my screen would change to the next room before the character got there and the player had slower movement speed for some reason which made navigating the super slow. Regardless though, what I did play I enjoyed and I'm really impressed with the artwork! Overall, great job!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Copper_Aardvark_Games","author_uid":"1142976","time":"2019-05-04T16:52:33Z","epoch":1556988753,"modified":1556988753,"text":"Very clean and enjoyable game. Well done!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"A_ColtZz","author_uid":"1147138","time":"2019-05-04T17:08:04Z","epoch":1556989684,"modified":1556989684,"text":"The game is really polished nicely, as some of the others say the attacking was a bit clunky but I really liked the rest. I also had this bug where the camera was stuck a room next so I had to restart but anyway good job. If you have time check out my game too :v: ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Flamboozle","author_uid":1147470,"time":"2019-05-04T17:08:43Z","epoch":1556989723,"modified":1556989723,"text":"Solid little game, decent UI and graphics. Also matched the theme exactly (which is pretty hard for this LD's themse). Game was a little slow, but it did have some variety too it.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Al Bueche","author_uid":"1147956","time":"2019-05-04T19:19:37Z","epoch":1556997577,"modified":1556997577,"text":"The theme and setting are awesome. The controls and attacks generally felt natural.\n\nI was a bit confused by the shop (I didn't initially realize I was looking at a sell window). I was also confused on the purpose of the corrupted potions and drank one to ensure I was understanding the concept correctly.\n\n\nI ran into a few bugs, but nothing too devastating. I was unable to pick up the 2nd max health increase item (full inventory?) so it despawned leaving me to kill myself from max health getting through the next door. I also saw the camera bug described in the summary.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Anion_Z","author_uid":"1080999","time":"2019-05-04T19:20:34Z","epoch":1556997634,"modified":1556997680,"text":"Man those graphics deserve a seperate grade! \nInventory system, merchant and items are my favourite features in this game, attacking is fine but maybe you should be able to move while attacking.\n\nI didnt expect to see more level then 1 tbh but it did surprise me you had time for level building. \n\nCracking the things around you also feels great and adds to the feel.\n\nAnimations are good in general but you could also add particle effects or camera shakes when you hit an enemy, right now Im not sure whether I hit something or not.\n\nLastly sounds are great but the music finishes and does not loop I think you forgot to press loop button in on AudioSource which plays background music.\n\nIn general good job guys you came far and maybe could expand on the game!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Purrfexionator","author_uid":"1113635","time":"2019-05-04T19:47:00Z","epoch":1556999220,"modified":1556999220,"text":" Well done on this game! I loved the graphics. Everything had so much polish and detail, it was a treat to look at. You did a great job of working the theme into it with the doors that you had to pay to get into with your health, although I found that it could be easily bypassed, as it saves the amount of blood currently in the door when you die so you can simply run  into a door without enough blood, die, and repeat until you got through, just rushing through the game without doing much. I would suggest only saving unlocked doors and not saving the blood in doors that aren't fully unlocked to help resolve this issue. The ambient sound works really well, although I found that it stopped playing after one loop. The game was definitely fun to play through, although there was a lack of feedback when hitting an enemy. If you played some sort of hit sound, slashing through hordes of enemies would likely feel much better. Overall well done, and I can't wait to see what you do in the future!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Zesix","author_uid":"1009905","time":"2019-05-04T19:50:12Z","epoch":1556999412,"modified":1556999412,"text":"I have a soft spot for this graphics style, and I love the polish that went into this game even if there are some bugs (which are to be expected for a jam entry). Great job overall!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"No Grapes Games","author_uid":"1148118","time":"2019-05-04T20:21:07Z","epoch":1557001267,"modified":1557001267,"text":"This game was fun to play, there were some bugs of course. The bugs did not hide the fact that this game was very well put together. Very Zelda like! Everything about this game felt satisfying with great programming and art. Great work! ","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"NathanT","author_uid":"1144807","time":"2019-05-04T20:36:21Z","epoch":1557002181,"modified":1557002181,"text":"Good job with an ambitious project. Ties in well with the theme. The tutorial was helpful, and the store is very functional and polished. I had a bit of trouble with items and found myself respawning a lot to open doors. The face monster is great - good sfx potential there. The art style was also really cohesive. Nice game!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MayChant","author_uid":"1084883","time":"2019-05-05T03:01:24Z","epoch":1557025284,"modified":1557025284,"text":"The pixel graphics are impressive! It manages to make the traps and monsters look pretty gory, but at the same time the ending is kind of... sweet? I stopped seeing how many blood drops I have left after the fourth or fifth death. Not sure if it's intentional though.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Magnanix","author_uid":"1142092","time":"2019-05-05T14:17:06Z","epoch":1557065826,"modified":1557065826,"text":"Game would have lovely with some ambient dark music, ended up loading up a YT video with some, for the feel :D.\nOnly had a few issues - the enemies keep moving, and attacking, whilst you are transitioning screens. And sometimes, this causes the screen scroller to go haywire - scrolling down, instead of to the right. Then you gets 5ever.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"samh","author_uid":"1006585","time":"2019-05-05T17:49:08Z","epoch":1557078548,"modified":1557078548,"text":"A nice entry! The main system (opening doors with life, selling items for life) works well, but combat feels a bit more random, especially with the enemy behaviour. It definitely needs some balancing because you can rush the game simply by using all your health at each door, respawning, and continuing\u2026","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mharring","author_uid":"1141942","time":"2019-05-05T17:51:42Z","epoch":1557078702,"modified":1557078702,"text":"Fun game! Reminds me of older Zelda titles. The visuals are great - well done! It needed some more feedback when hitting an enemy, sometimes it was hard to tell whether I hit it or not.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bentebent","author_uid":"1078349","time":"2019-05-05T18:27:35Z","epoch":1557080855,"modified":1557080855,"text":"Pretty good, graphics are nice and the gameplay feels ok. Kinda hard to know if you hit the enemy or not, would be great with some better feedback.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Nikolay Zapolnov","author_uid":"1004004","time":"2019-05-05T19:34:25Z","epoch":1557084865,"modified":1557084865,"text":"Hey, very nice roguelike! Great graphics and lovely enemies (especially liked the one that looks like Cacodemon). Small detail: clickable areas for menu items are off for my screen resolution, maybe you want to fix that.\n\nBtw, thanks for playing our game on the stream, that was awesome :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Evgeniya Zapolnova","author_uid":"1127377","time":"2019-05-05T20:03:55Z","epoch":1557086635,"modified":1557086635,"text":"Cool game! I liked bats very much and this idea with doors is very original. I played with pleasure, thank you!","likes":2,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/153980-64df73640276ff002a949097d773b9ff.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/geist-191.itch.io\/descend","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"41423","g_author":"1142365","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"254842","g_title":"TheDescent","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"29","g_site2_node_id":"153980","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.534351"},"nds":{"n_key":"153980","n_urlkey":"254842","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/thedescend","n_slug":"thedescend","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"142365","n_created":"1556581472","n_modified":"1556611058","n_version":"462370","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":153980,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":142365,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-29T23:46:56Z","created":"2019-04-29T23:44:32Z","modified":"2019-04-30T07:57:38Z","version":462370,"slug":"thedescend","name":"TheDescent","body":"Descend into the depths of hell to save your wife from eternal doom! 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