{"author_link":"\/users\/michaelaranda","author_name":"michaelaranda","author_uid":"1142038","comments":[{"author_name":"RosyMaple","author_uid":"1085751","time":"2019-04-30T06:09:44Z","epoch":1556604584,"modified":1556604584,"text":"I enjoyed this game i wasn't able to figure out if their was a ranged attack though, it sort of seemed like their was but i couldn't find it ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SynysterCola","author_uid":"1138968","time":"2019-04-30T06:13:31Z","epoch":1556604811,"modified":1556604811,"text":"I like the idea, but the early game is really tough! It was hard to tell when or how to hit the enemies. Still - I like the idea of reducing your health to make yourself stronger!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"GeneralBeans","author_uid":"1154453","time":"2019-04-30T06:42:17Z","epoch":1556606537,"modified":1556606537,"text":"@rosymaple \nWe had a second enemy that shot projectiles, but unfortunately we ran out of development time - so we just have the one enemy.\nThe thing I think you are referring too is the player character sticking her hand out - that is the absorption attack that gives you more strength and speed if you use it on a dead monster!\nThank you so much for playing!\n\n@synystercola \nYeah it is hard! We were working on a dash mechanic but just ran out of time! The game is supposed to be kinda difficult but admittedly this was a bit more for the beginning of the game.\nWe really the concept and hope to add a lot of cool features down the line. Thanks for playing!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ash Ketchup","author_uid":"1041595","time":"2019-04-30T07:08:32Z","epoch":1556608112,"modified":1556608112,"text":"Really Enjoyed this game, loved the monster guys and the way they fell down, looked super nice.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Erukolindo","author_uid":"1141576","time":"2019-04-30T07:17:31Z","epoch":1556608651,"modified":1556608651,"text":"I really enjoyed playing this game, though I have one complaint - in some rooms enemies get to attack you right as you enter, making it hard, if not impossible to avoid getting hit.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"beanslasher","author_uid":"1055961","time":"2019-04-30T07:25:21Z","epoch":1556609121,"modified":1556609121,"text":"I had a little trouble getting into the swing of things, but once I did I picked it up quite quickly","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lawrence","author_uid":"1033224","time":"2019-04-30T08:02:10Z","epoch":1556611330,"modified":1556611330,"text":"Cool game, the combat felt nice. It was a bit hard to get what was going on at the beginning and what each thing meant and dead bodies kept piling up and blocking the way. But I completed it first try!\n\n![Sacrifice_2019-04-30_10-56-31.png](\/\/\/raw\/8c1\/8\/z\/23a22.png)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OhFiddleDiddle","author_uid":"1014772","time":"2019-04-30T10:01:05Z","epoch":1556618465,"modified":1556618465,"text":"Very nice game, well done.\nThe art and animation is beautiful.\nThe gameplay could have a little more complexity to keep it interesting, but otherwise awesome work.\nKeep it up. :D","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Raivk","author_uid":"1109702","time":"2019-04-30T10:12:51Z","epoch":1556619171,"modified":1556619171,"text":"SCREENSHAKES ! Oh yeah those shakes are good ! Nice feeling in your game. The progression is cool, I really felt my sacrifices were usefull as I was more and more powerful ! Congrats :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ekx","author_uid":"1144216","time":"2019-04-30T18:26:22Z","epoch":1556648782,"modified":1556648782,"text":"Great audio and tight controls as well. Loved it! My only gripe would be that I would have preferred a constantly following camera over the room based one.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kpedatte","author_uid":"1146073","time":"2019-04-30T18:59:35Z","epoch":1556650775,"modified":1556650775,"text":"Hey nice game. It's pretty fun and well made.\nI would like to play this game with more enemies and levels.\nCongrats","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kyavi","author_uid":"1152753","time":"2019-04-30T18:59:44Z","epoch":1556650784,"modified":1556650784,"text":"great animation and i love the feedback on sword swings and especially on harvest - all very satisfying! balancing stats versus your own health is a good idea! though i didn't realise the health bar was on the left hand side until i was a little bit too dead :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Marsheleene","author_uid":"1142574","time":"2019-05-02T08:20:13Z","epoch":1556785213,"modified":1556785213,"text":"Nice game! The combat feels good. A bit difficult to see when you can hit and when the monster can hit you though. I liked the transitions between the different rooms. First try I didn't understand that harvesting the monsters was the sacrifice. Interesting idea that the healing use that mechanic.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"YiNian","author_uid":"1121558","time":"2019-05-02T08:22:36Z","epoch":1556785356,"modified":1556785356,"text":"I love this idea. At first, I was not familiar with the operation and died many times, but I also challenged many times. Generally speaking, it's really super","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"cee-dee","author_uid":"1145777","time":"2019-05-02T10:12:36Z","epoch":1556791956,"modified":1556791956,"text":"The mood of the game is interesting, although I had trouble finding out about the combat mechanics. I expected a\/d to the strafing since you control the look angle with the mouse. Anyway, I've spent some time with, thank you :-)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mekyi","author_uid":"1119901","time":"2019-05-02T10:29:06Z","epoch":1556792946,"modified":1556792946,"text":"I liked this very much, especially the music and sound effects. Gameplay was kind of simplistic but the experience was overall great. Good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"tangiblegames","author_uid":"1002043","time":"2019-05-02T11:02:25Z","epoch":1556794945,"modified":1556794945,"text":"A nice complete game, dark sinister atmosphere achieved using great sound fx and monster design, plenty of action. A solid entry!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fatPenguin","author_uid":"1009985","time":"2019-05-02T16:12:18Z","epoch":1556813538,"modified":1556813538,"text":"When I first made it to the end I didn't know what to do so I went back and killed the rest of the monsters. After that I went back to that altar and realized I just had to use E again ^^\n\nOverall great game - good job :smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Avoca-do","author_uid":"1143522","time":"2019-05-02T16:27:31Z","epoch":1556814451,"modified":1556814451,"text":"nice game, just my prefernces,\nbut making the character move toward the mouse at W would have been nice.\nbut overall really nice took me some time to notice i was damaging the enemy untill i noticed the blob in their had that flicks ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Beelzeboss","author_uid":"1074628","time":"2019-05-02T16:37:30Z","epoch":1556815050,"modified":1556815050,"text":"Very complete game. Feedback is great. Great job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Nekorio","author_uid":"1144917","time":"2019-05-02T19:34:50Z","epoch":1556825690,"modified":1556825690,"text":"Nice game ! I love the concept of sacrifice our health to level up, totally in the theme.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PixScope","author_uid":"1146490","time":"2019-05-02T20:25:29Z","epoch":1556828729,"modified":1556828729,"text":"Your game is good !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Annie Owl","author_uid":"1053290","time":"2019-05-03T13:30:55Z","epoch":1556890255,"modified":1556890725,"text":"I love games with risk-reward concepts at their core, so I was really pleased with this entry. The gameplay was fluid and well polished, the sound design is on point and the character design is quite interesting. The only suggestion I can give is to add more different enemie types but you probably already have this in plans :slight_smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/149053-d237f8467e0e66bada938205a85f4301.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","text":"macOS"},{"url":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"51812","g_author":"1142038","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"253906","g_title":"Sacrifice","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"23","g_site2_node_id":"149053","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.387419"},"nds":{"n_key":"149053","n_urlkey":"253906","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/sacrifice-3","n_slug":"sacrifice-3","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"142038","n_created":"1556326730","n_modified":"1556737706","n_version":"468088","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":149053,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":142038,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-30T01:40:29Z","created":"2019-04-27T00:58:50Z","modified":"2019-05-01T19:08:26Z","version":468088,"slug":"sacrifice-3","name":"Sacrifice","body":"Sacrifice your health to level up your stats!!\n\nWASD: Move\n\nMouse: Look\n\nLeft Click: Attack\n\nE Key: Harvest (when prompted)\n\nNow available via WebGL!\n\n![Screenshot1.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c2.png)\n\n![Screenshot2.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c0.png)\n\n![Screenshot3.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c1.png)","meta":{"author":[142038,144786,154453],"link-01":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","link-01-tag":"42337","link-02-tag":"42339","link-03-tag":"42341","link-02":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","link-03":"https:\/\/michaelaranda.itch.io\/sacrifice","cover":"\/\/\/content\/295\/32\/z\/23dbe.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/sacrifice-3","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":23,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-03T13:38:45Z","grade":{"grade-01":50,"grade-02":51,"grade-03":50,"grade-04":51,"grade-05":51,"grade-06":49,"grade-07":45,"grade-08":49},"magic":{"cool":112.60733711057,"feedback":43,"given":61.5,"grade":49.5,"smart":20.185042515466}},"text":"Sacrifice your health to level up your stats!!\n\nWASD: Move\n\nMouse: Look\n\nLeft Click: Attack\n\nE Key: Harvest (when prompted)\n\nNow available via WebGL!\n\n![Screenshot1.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c2.png)\n\n![Screenshot2.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c0.png)\n\n![Screenshot3.png](\/\/\/raw\/295\/32\/z\/239c1.png)","title":"Sacrifice"}