Of Gods And Rain by Zinkler
The Ancient Ones wish to drown the Earth in the tears of their old enemy, but they yet lack the power to do so. As his faithful apprentice, you'll have to run his errands of kidnapping his future victims and performing the sacrifice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRulBnPH3s
Tactical kidnapping
Seven houses, seven people to steal
Collect items for hidden lore
Make the Ancient Ones pleased
CONTROLS:
A or Left Arrow - Move Left;
D or Right Arrow - Move Right;
Left Shift - Run;
E - Use objects;
F - Pick Up / Steal;
Optimized for 1366x768, windowed and fullscreen.
Hotfix is out! - Improved NPC pathfinding - Fixed item usage radius - Several visual and gameplay bugs removed - Added credits
The Ancient Ones are pleased by your sacrifices so they granted us the permission to give you some clues about your mission.
Just some tips for you to make some things clearer:
1) Gather items for hidden lore (notes and red bags) that appears in the lair. (check the wall too ;))
2) You can run past a confused NPC using SHIFT to hide quickly.
3) Steps while running make noises. Squeaky doors make noises. Use sounds wisely.
4) You can’t run past a triggered NPC, so if you bump into him you’ll lose. Stay calm, stay cold blooded, think about a strategy.
5) NPC will be looking for you if you are spotted. Hide and wait for a while.
6) To finish level you need to kidnap a prey, put him in the cart and run away.
7) We’re sorry, but we didn’t have a time to give you an opportunity to save your game. Play it now and play it until the end.
8) Speaking about the end, the 7th level WILL surprise you, so try your best to play it and beat it ;)
That’s all for now, we can’t tell you more. Embark, hide and kidnap the poor souls! Let the Ancient Ones be proud!
The Rain will last forever!
Ratings
| Overall | 116th | 3.949⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 251th | 3.602⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 373th | 3.337⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 352th | 3.694⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 115th | 4.286⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 95th | 3.898⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 50th | 4.153⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 61🗳️ | 59🗨️ |
Graphics are great. music is fitting (did you source that elsewhere?)
Texts are a bit repetetive. The stealth mechanic is simplistic but for the timeframe all in all its a great game!
@n4tticus @benjouille @sauski Thank you VERY MUCH for your reviews! It means a lot to us! Hope you enjoyed it ;)
The Benny Hill moments are intended :)
The Ancient Ones are pleased!
The audio is also absolutely amazing. These two things contribute to a truly excellent mood.
The gameplay was very good, though the theme of sacrifice itself wasn't too relevant. I suck at these kinds of games, though, so I didn't manage to play it all the way through.
All in all, it's one of the best entries I've seen this LD. Congratulations!
There were some characters that got stuck on the second floor during the last level, which made it a bit hard to sneak around (web version), but it all worked out in the end!
The level design, graphics and music is great and well made, it fits together so perfectly.. I love games that requires sneaking with no option of killing, it's so fun! Great work!!
We are very glad you enjoyed our game! About the usage of the theme: the Ancient Ones need offerings, and we kindap people to sacrifice them in our lair.
The last level is a true competion, we know about it. But as the God said in the beginning - you WILL be rewarded, just try your best ;)
There are just a few bugs that are visible but nothing too important. It's that sometimes I cannot get a key that a personne holds. It says "F" but somehow I can' get it on the first try. Some patrol are random and sometimes 2 people can get stuck in a room and it's impossible to get they key of the boy "3rd level"
and the walking animation of characters can somehow bug and they walk without moving legs (creepy actually :P )
But other than these few little bugs, it is really enjoyable, well done :)
Thank you for playing and your reviews! It means a lot to our team! We know about the slow gameplay, it's intended to be so. It's a TACTICAL kidnapping after all :D You can choose your own playstyle, rush if you want, hide if you have to and have fun ;)
@corbak
Thank you for your detailed review! We are glad you enjoyed our game! You can give it a second chance soon, because The Ancient Ones ordered us to patch the game, so the HOTFIX is on its way ;)
Let the Gods be pleased! Show the game to your friends, share it in media! The Ancient Ones need more, much more!
The big suprise for me was dedication to the game concept and effort that made that game distinguish among others projects on this platform. Music is brilliant serves as a great example of how you should make a music for a game like this, intense, with hints of the threat posed by the player. The interface, pixel graphics are absolutely astonishing and seems almost impossible to achieve in such limited time. Got some technical problems in a web version caused by my brouser, but it didn`t spoiled the aftertaste of the game.
The cons are simple - it`s quite easy to beat, the gameplay can`t stand the test of time, if there were more than 7 levels it quickly would get bored and even a nice style would not save the game
Well done, solid 8 out of 10, can`t wait for the upcoming content!
@steel-dev @maximbegunov @maximiliangeorg @iluvatar @pedro-rosa @azayiah @corbak @artiseki
Good news our fellow-apprentices! The Gods asked us to do it, so we have realeased the HOTFIX for our game!
Now you can play it again and enjoy it much more!
Let the blood rain reign!
For the core mechanics of the game, i think its a great.
And i love the stealth mechanics for a 2D game.
Super polished concept and execution.
It seems quite impressive to do this within 72 hours!
Good job and keep up the good work.
If I had to nitpick, the intro/text sections are a bit slow; I'd like to see more text on the screen at once and a slightly more interesting text interaction, but what you have is a good compromise given your time budget. Something to look into for post compo I suppose! The skip button was welcome.
I don't have much else to add, but keep up the good work and strongly consider fleshing this into a larger experience.
Apprentices! Thank you very VERY MUCH for playing and reviewing our project! We are genuinenly happy to read your kind words and critic!
@willoxs
Yeah, we know there are some mean bugs, we're trying our best to eliminate them! Thank you for having interest in our project, we appriciate it :)
@firesplash-entertainment
Thank you for streaming our game! We still want you to have the best experience a bit later, so you can play it after the stream, we're sure you like it, promise ;)
Let's try our best to please the Ancient Ones and drown the world in rain! We are close, I can feel it!
Thank you for playing! Yeah, we planned to add a distraction mechanic by throwing a special item that makes sounds, but didn't have much time for it, so we had to get rid of this idea :(
Maybe we add it later... we'll see
- nice artstyle
- good atmosphere (I love games set at night and rain :) )
- a lot of lore (for a gamejam game)
- good choice of music
- polished feel
Admittedly, The gameplay itself didn't feel particularly exciting.
Thank you SO MUCH for your feedback! It means a lot to our devteam!