Lost Soul by daviddiagonza
You are in purgatory... your soul is detached from your body, but it is still there. Your soul is running out of vital power and you need to find your body before your soul perishes for evermore. You have a chance to find it by possessing other bodies, and absorbing their vital power, but this will destroy them on brief time, don't get distracted, control their bodies and survive. The bodies have different characteristics and difficulties: more speed, tunnel vision, try using them in your benefit. (But try them not to catch you possessing someone... or the things are going to be hard...).
IMPORTANT!! When the game starts, you are a soul that can't move. To START the game you must CLICK on the body that is standing in front on you.
Controls:
AWSD: Movement
Left Click: Move soul between bodies.
Hold down Space Bar: Charging Sonar to detect your body
Notes:
- If you try to possess a body while it is looking at you, it will become angry and will follow you until you die.
LINK WEB PLAYER:
https://daviddiazgonza.itch.io/lostsoul
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/lost-soul |
Ratings
| Overall | 428th | 3.354⭐ | 101🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 634th | 2.818⭐ | 101🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 187th | 3.49⭐ | 100🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 365th | 3.582⭐ | 100🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 178th | 4.13⭐ | 102🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 205th | 3.5⭐ | 100🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 113th | 3.869⭐ | 101🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 61🗳️ | 79🗨️ |
You nailed the feeling of being in a netherworld with the music and graphics. Nice job! :thumbsup:
Great entry :)
The graphics and art style is great, especially the
lighting effects.
It needs more variety, different creatures with unique powers for example.
Hi guys, did you possess the first character that appears at the beginning of the game by clicking on it? When the game starts you are in soul form, and you won't be able to move unless you possess a character.
Please let us know if the problem persists. Thanks for playing! :)
In my second attempt I just walked a few steps and I found my body, it was awesome xD I love the different characteristics of the bodies!!
I think you maybe may put all the rules in the begining screen, like the "don't posses a body who is looking at you" or the one that you have to click the body in order to begin the game. But it just a suggestion, all the other things are really nice and I really enjoyed the game.
Anyways, Great game!
+++ The music and sound strengthen the feel of otherworldliness the game has. It felt like I was traveling in the spirit realm.
+++ Like the audio, the graphics suited the mood of the game excellently. I especially likes the colour theme.
++ The draining bar helped communicate the urgency to find a new body.
-- I couldn't find anyway to track my progress within the game.
Thanks so much for the great game.
I liked the fact that the bodies had different characteristics, made it feel like I wasn't controlling the same character which is what was fun about it. Did take me a few tries to understand how to find my body xD But it was worth it in the end. Great game and solid job!
I really liked the graphics, audio, the mood and the take on the theme.
Some of the bodies are a bit to fast for the camera, otherwise a great job on the game, it was fun :smiley:
My main concerns are that the mechanics are not very well conveyed and polished. For example, the "character who becomes an enemy when he catches you trying to possess him" is hard to predict and avoid.
Also, I found it hard to know which one is your body, making it easier to just spam-possess everyone.
The movement of the AI is very erratic and strange, I don't get if it was intended or if it needs a bit more polishing.
Overall, neat game!
you shall put some "UI" with a range, this we can now when the bodies see us before we transfer the soul.
But nice work anyway !
I feel like there were at bit too many situations where I follow the radar and walk into no man's land and die though.
It took me several attempts to try and understand the basic mechanics, but I had fun. I like the fact that each body has its own properties. I wasn't expecting that.
Graphics are great and really add to the mood.
This game has potential. You should and endgame or victory condition (at least I couldn't find anything else to do other than possessing the bodies).
Nice work!
Overall great game, though with that level of graphics and audio I would have enjoyed if it wasn't that much about replaying every few seconds and more about fewer, longer playthroughs, if that makes sense.
One thing needs to be done is a better instruction on the beginning, as you can see in the comments about. Also the collisions with the trees felt a little off quite often. Maybe putting the collision just on the tree part near to the ground would help.
That being said, very nice game. The concept and the vibe tie together very well. Congrats.
great entry