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Keep the flame alive by Mcreamer6

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made by Mcreamer6 for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

Left and right arrow keys to avoid the rain.

I've only ever used gamemaker to make any games before so i decided to use ld46 to learn lua through pico-8. didn't go too terribly... Apologies for the music it can get a bit repetitive over time.

Particles library used: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=34520&tid=28367 Pico-8 engine: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Youtube https://creamerlad.itch.io/keep-the-flame-alive
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-flame-alive-1

Ratings

Overall 783th 3.132⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 749th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1063th 2.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 481th 3.722⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 330th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 734th 2.278⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 396th 3.368⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

Matt Burton
20. Apr 2020 · 16:43 UTC
Good Stuff!! I wish it started off a bit more difficult, but the art, animations, effects, style, is SPOT ON. Would really like to play this on my phone. Keep it up!
DeSpiciestBoi
20. Apr 2020 · 21:38 UTC
Your sprite work is phenomenal!
tomdeal
20. Apr 2020 · 21:38 UTC
Interesting idea. Could use a more challenging aspect, since it is pretty easy to avoid the rain drops. Maybe add multiple at once or faster.
anchoredtoad
20. Apr 2020 · 21:40 UTC
Love the graphics on it - I realized after a little bit though that I could camp the corner and rarely anything dropped there until it really started speeding up.
goffmog
20. Apr 2020 · 21:42 UTC
This is an example of game jam games done right. No-nonsense mechanics and scope, fun gameplay, high level of polish. Great job!

Music actually works by being repetitive and a bit hypnotic, fits the gameplay.
MrSchlag2
20. Apr 2020 · 21:42 UTC
Nice simple yet effective idea ! Cool graphics and effects. Difficulty could kick in earlier. Thanks for the game !
PerfectSquare
20. Apr 2020 · 21:46 UTC
The style is fantastic and I love the way you did the smoke for the fire. In terms of difficulty the ramp up felt a bit slow until around level 8 but after that it got challenging pretty quickly.
Tomáš Selmeci
20. Apr 2020 · 21:49 UTC
As steted below, i can totally see this as a mobile game! The pacing was too slow for my taste but thats just about balancing. Overall very pleasing experience
Adam Clayden
20. Apr 2020 · 21:51 UTC
Great to see a Pico-8 game! It's quite nice but the difficulty could be scaled a bit more. It's fairly easy and I don't think it rises in difficulty by too much. I liked the particle effects and gameplay was good!
talslain
20. Apr 2020 · 22:02 UTC
Seems like it would be an awesome phone game to play repeatedly. Maybe it could be more punishing but still a good fun game. Well done!
Reef
24. Apr 2020 · 04:15 UTC
The music wasn't too bad actually, if you made it loop a bit cleaner and added a flourish or two it would fit really well. I enjoyed the smoke effects a lot. If you made it a bit more challenging, speed up faster and then add multiple drops, you'd have a really great little game!
Monish Vyas
26. Apr 2020 · 10:41 UTC
Loved the game art and animations. Looks beautiful. Felt a bit easy but enjoyed the game.