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Bribery by 360

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made by 360 for LD 44 (JAM)

Hi there!

Grouped up with friends for this Jam!

The event is super fun, yet very challenging.

My top advice is to let your brain gears rest and function more productively by having a regular sleep schedule.

Perhaps your life is currency.

We love participating in Ludum Dare, and we hope you will like our game. :smile:

A short rogue-like game in which.. You are a mouse and you need to find a way home. You're being chased by a cat (orange box) and priests of the chapel (white square). Switch between floors using staircase (brown rectangle)

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It's pretty simple.

Arrow keys to move, space to interact. You lose a :heartpulse: for each floor down.

When you reach "Complete", you have finished the demo.

A sneak peek of our wip https://youtu.be/h-VFSmsRn_U

Leave a like for @petsanah if you have a big heart! :blue_heart:

Leave a comment so we can connect with you :computer:

Follow me @360 and @KrakyCro for more. Thank you!

Windows https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XFSbhKocyvwqDW0tOq1j41F7w9XhiHjo
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bribery

Ratings

Given 69🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

karreg
30. Apr 2019 · 11:44 UTC
I took pleasure with the game :)
Running from the big squares and brain them with the environment is enjoyable.

But some details are pity :
- the door's color is to close to the enemy's
- visiting the shop cost you 2 HP ! It's better for the player to not visit it
- it's hard to understand that you have to go back by the same door in the shop room
- in some stages, the target door is too close from the entry, so the level design passed away
- I didn't understand the end : the game said me "completed" but enemies killed me 3 seconds later...

Congratulations despite of that details :)
Rakowu
30. Apr 2019 · 11:58 UTC
I like the enemy behaviour :D Good job :)
mimusangel
30. Apr 2019 · 12:23 UTC
Minimalist but effective, Good Job
NoobException
30. Apr 2019 · 14:25 UTC
Simple, yet fun!
Finn Truman
01. May 2019 · 10:05 UTC
The game severely suffers from lack of intuitiveness, and more than once I said "what just happened?". It's unclear what the shapes are meant to be, it's unclear that the shop takes away health maximum (at least, i think that's what it does), it's unclear when an enemy is near you (particularly the brown ones, because they blend in with the background and you can't see them in the dark), and even when I got to the room that said "Complete!" I wandered further into the room and was then hit by an enemy and killed. Why? I thought the game was complete?

Some more play testing was necesarry too. The first few doors to the next room don't take health away, even though they say they do, and I had a white enemy hit me through a wall.
🎤 360
01. May 2019 · 18:57 UTC
@finn-truman while we very much appreciate your comment, we all agree to your lack of imagination :v:
thanks for playing our game
PixScope
01. May 2019 · 20:42 UTC
It's a pretty good game!
ryusui
01. May 2019 · 21:58 UTC
I actually really love the graphical style, but I agree that the doors don't seem to do what they're supposed to (unless it's supposed to reduce your MAXIMUM HP?). I also got confused when I found the "Complete!" message and the game kept going. I also reached a door that apparently made my character vanish when I went through it? Is that the end of the game? The talk of a shop has me confused.
🎤 360
01. May 2019 · 22:37 UTC
@ryusui Thanks for commenting. When you reach Complete, the game is finished. We've left the test room in just for fun.

Yeah you pay with health for taking a door, your life is currency.

We put placeholder art and just went on with making the game :)

Thank you for your feedback, all.
ArtofSavannah
02. May 2019 · 01:34 UTC
I felt very confused playing this game, the first time I didn't understand the door was a door even after I went over it, so I walked around the level trying to "Find the door". I also just read the comments and apparently there is a shop?! Maybe a couple of written or graphic queues would help with the intuitiveness of this game. Overall a fun idea, and I actually liked the end room where you just get mauled to death haha!
🎤 360
02. May 2019 · 01:38 UTC
@artofsavannah Definitely. Thanks!
Curled Leaf
02. May 2019 · 03:00 UTC
I enjoyed it. I played and managed to finish.
To improve it;

You can add more levels and make game take less space or put the camera away in some levels it was hard to see the door. Good luck!
digitaldude555
02. May 2019 · 20:45 UTC
I really love that music, graphics were basic but you seem to have opted out of graphics. Theme fits decently but nothing special was done with it. Over all decent game.
Minemes
02. May 2019 · 21:01 UTC
Nice Game. I like the idea.
appix
03. May 2019 · 03:46 UTC
a simple and nice game~
shubart
03. May 2019 · 11:34 UTC
Nice game. Design quite simple but effective. Cool music too and fun to play. Well done. Thank you for your game
petsanah
03. May 2019 · 14:41 UTC
Domo arigato :smile:
ThatSommeS
03. May 2019 · 21:18 UTC
Fun small game, Didn't understand the "bombs"? that went off sometimes
BoxedMeatRevolution
03. May 2019 · 22:01 UTC
Complete!

I had fun playing. I liked the lighting effect, and thought the shop was nice surprise. Game was a little short, but well executed. Good entry!
gurkan96
04. May 2019 · 20:07 UTC
Works nicely didnt understand exacly what the exit looked like in the begining but figured it out
Kaisean Games
04. May 2019 · 20:12 UTC
For some reasons I couldn't see the textured backdrop as shown in the video. My instance of the game was really flat.

Nevertheless, once you detach yourself from graphical elements, it becomes a bit more fun.

I've noticed some bugs tho, like cattangles getting stuck in walls and similar. But that's ok. I can live with that.

The shop thingie was really confusing. It didn't say this was a shop and it refered to life as hearts even tho everything on my screen was a rectangle :smile:

But the music was good :wink:
Attala
04. May 2019 · 20:17 UTC
Nice game mechanics. Fun to play. Not too heavy on the graphics side :) I agree that the axit doors shold not be the same colours as the enemy. Good job though.