Lunar Burden by Iluvatar

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made by Iluvatar for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

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A very short point & click adventure where you play as the ghost of Gregory Grimshaw - The Lunar Tax Collector. As every year, ghosts of the local graveyard have to pay a Lunar Coin to save their spirit from vanishing.

Game by David Brocek

Music by Daniel Kobylarz

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Ratings

Given 7🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

IndigoWolf
Oct 06th · 16:37 UTC
Really love the art and SFX, good work on this.
SinusQuell
Oct 06th · 16:41 UTC
This was amazing! I don't want to spoil anything, but this looks super polished. great music and sound effects, too.
Jiri Hysek
Oct 06th · 17:34 UTC
Hi Davide! That was awesome. I've red you didn't have much time this time but I definitely wouldn't tell! It was funny little story with great mood. Really engaging and pleasure to play, I love the subtle dark humor :D And the graphics, of course, the graphics was stellar as always :)
Threeli
Oct 06th · 19:22 UTC
Felt like a Sierra classic, if a little short. I would love to keep playing in the world, feels like this game exists on the edges of a bigger space, which is a testament to your worldbuilding here. Brilliant stuff!
Rise12600
Oct 06th · 22:20 UTC
Art was outstanding, with a good amount of time i can see this being a super fun game like Thimbleweed Park great job
Kamilah
Oct 06th · 22:22 UTC
Amazing pixel art and great sound effects. Fun short game. Very clever idea that's on theme.
azahara
Oct 06th · 22:28 UTC
Loved this one, being the moon tax collector so the ghosts don't fade away is such a cool idea. It really reminded me of old-school point-and-click adventures. The art is stunning, the music fits perfectly, and I honestly wanted more when it ended! The only thing I'd say is that I had a hard time spotting the worm at first.
LudumDareDevil
Oct 07th · 04:04 UTC
Love the mood for this one! The art fits together very nicely. I loved the story. The worm was kind of hard to notice at first.
Jin9310
Oct 07th · 12:43 UTC
Hi Davide, again you got me, and again I love it! I must say, that the ending is so cool and funny. Love it! (as they say: only taxes and death are certain in life :D) Your pieces always create such a mood that it feels like you, as a player, are part of it. This time on very minimalistic scene, but that doesnt seem to be an issue. Huge kudos to the music and the art overall! Great job done my friend.
Ira Baciu
Oct 07th · 15:15 UTC
Your game is so wonderful that I even can play it on mobile! :)
Tesseus
Oct 07th · 15:18 UTC
Amazingly beautiful and nostalgic look and genre. Really coherent game with all things fitting nicely together.
Mololo
Oct 07th · 15:18 UTC
I love the pixel art and the sfx. The theme fits well as well. Good job
Syphorce
Oct 07th · 15:24 UTC
I love that you created a Halloween themed game for this jam. This game feels very polished and worthy of a good rating!
🎤 Iluvatar
Oct 07th · 15:27 UTC
@indigowolf Thank you!

@sinusquell Thank you, Im happy you liked it!

@jiri-hysek Ahoj Jirko, thank you for playing! Yeah, I had less time than usual, but I guess I managed, but the game is super short, and also it has only one screen. Which saved me hours of drawing :)

@threeli Haha, yeah, I'm an oldschool adventure freak! Glad you like these games as well. I wish I had more time to make the story more complex.

@rise12600 Thank you! Ironically, me being an adventure game fan, I have never liked Thimbleweed Park haha. But yeah, I would say my game is a very typical 90's-esque adventure game.

@kamilah Thank you! Glad you liked it.

@azahara Thank you for playing! The music is amazing thanks to my main man Daniel Kobylarz, he is a professional musician and he helps me almost every LD event. I love him to death, both for him being my friend and for his beautiful music! Yeah, sorry about the worm, my wife said the same when testing the game, but I really didn't know how else make it more visible. I tried to animate it to make it easier to catch your eye. Thank you for the feedback!

@ludumdaredevil Hi, thank you so much for your feedback and I'm glad you liked the game! As mentioned in my previous comment - Sorry about the worm, my wife said the same when testing the game, but I really didn't know how else make it more visible. I tried to animate it to make it easier to catch your eye.

@jin9310 Ahoj Jindro! Thanks a lot for playing the game. Yeah I wish I had more time to have multiple scenes, I would LOVE to add something like graveyard church or mausoleum. Maybe next time :)

@ira-baciu Thank you for playing! Wow, it actually worked haha. I ticked the mobile option while exporting the game, but I didn't actually test it. Im so happy it works then. Thank you so much for feedback and for doing the testing for me haha.
Grizwhirl
Oct 07th · 15:32 UTC
That was awesome, art and sound were stunning
Khamekaze
Oct 07th · 15:33 UTC
You really captured the essence of the point-and-click games from the 90's and the art is amazing, would love to see this expanded into something more
Mihu
Oct 07th · 15:40 UTC
While short, the game is really good. The art is amazing, the sound is on point and the story is funny. Great job!
Khton
Oct 07th · 16:00 UTC
This was incredible! I don't want to give anything away, but the level of polish is stunning. The music and sound effects are also top-notch.
recursor
Oct 07th · 16:46 UTC
This was a great and short little experience. This is point and click gaming at its finest. The puzzles were just enough to be interesting but not too hard to make me give up. Excellent job!
harujam
Oct 07th · 17:29 UTC
As a big fan of Lucas Arts point and click games I enjoyed this a bunch! Pls expand to a full game :)
Psevdonim
Oct 07th · 19:44 UTC
I love well-crafted pixel art, and the visual style here is great.
The game takes place within a single scene, but it’s well thought out and fun. Definitely a thumbs up!
denilseven
Oct 09th · 13:33 UTC
It's amazing how you did so much worldbuilding in a single scene! Enjoyable to play and easy to digest, but still leaves you wondering about the rules of this world. A stellar job especially considering your limited time on this jam :waning_gibbous_moon:
(SPOILER: ~~the raven is my fav character k~~)
Tomssuli
Oct 10th · 20:39 UTC
Very nice job! Apart from being short (as you already told so it was expected) great and polished game in all areas!

I really like the the retro style with "voices" for everything. The big and bright texts bring old Indy adventure games to mind. Plot was familiar silly stuff from that era. The pixelart is just lovely.
Euler Moises
Oct 10th · 22:19 UTC
Beautiful art and a great atmosphere.
I really like point-and-click games. Even though it's a short game, it was fun to play.

Congratulations!
Stingdragon
Oct 11th · 19:15 UTC
This was a fun little puzzle! Great work!
Roroto Sic
Oct 12th · 12:36 UTC
haha funy ending ^^ Short but entertaining ! :)
it was quite hard to know that we had o talk back to female ghoste after talking to thief.
(i had to watcht the video in comment to find it)
Wouter52
Oct 12th · 18:33 UTC
What a fun little game this is! I saw part of your lifestream when coding myself. It looked very beautiful to me. I must be honest, I was wondering if the game would be fun to play as so much time was spent on graphics. But my gosh did you deliver. A nice point & click detective style game with gorgeous graphics and fitting music / soundeffects. I had fun playing this one :-)
YibiRabbit007
Oct 13th · 10:45 UTC
I completed the recovery mission, the bag fell and knocked out the thief. The pixel art is impressively skillful! Thank you for bringing us this simple yet fun story!
Hjalte
Oct 13th · 10:49 UTC
Lovely graphics! I wish it was a bit longer, but it's a nice little puzzle and funny ending :)
Hap
Oct 13th · 11:35 UTC
I love the art of this game and I enjoyed it a lot! I would definitely play the longer version with more developed story.
Frau Blut-Kranz
Oct 13th · 11:52 UTC
Very nice point and click game. The graphics were done well. The music was spooky. I like the little bits of lore and personality the characters had. Wouldn't mind a sequel. 10/10.
ThiefViolinist
Oct 13th · 13:03 UTC
Probably the most polished game i played this LD, well done
Sheepolution
Oct 13th · 14:03 UTC
Lovely lil' point & click game. I will admit that it was a bit frustrating, because the solution was pretty obvious, but I had to go through quite some text to get to it. It helps that the storytelling was nice. The graphics are great, the music and sound effects complement the mood really well, and the ending was funny. Good job!
LULU_hihi
Oct 13th · 16:24 UTC
where is frank????
Kalbshack
Oct 14th · 19:56 UTC
Nice visuals. Good work.
BryceLTaylor
Oct 17th · 01:21 UTC
Really nice! I like the art style a lot. The story is fun and I like the characters. Some of the puzzles were tricky to find what I was supposed to do, and I tried to click the bird too early and it didn't do anything, so I ruled it out at first. The worm was a little frustrating to find. But I thought it was funny and fun overall. The mood was great.
Aviv Levy
Oct 17th · 14:44 UTC
Love point and click games, and the art is really good!! The game could have more puzzles, but it was still an enjoyable experience :)
LeReveur
Oct 18th · 14:20 UTC
P'n'c are my game type of heart, and even if this one is very short indeed, I loved the old-fashion mood and arts. Maybe a last scene would have be good, I really was expecting the grave robber becoming a ghost and having to pay the lunar tax :laughing:
ShadyShade
Oct 21st · 19:26 UTC
It was pretty fun, short and polished experience, I like it! :purple_heart:
thegrottman
Oct 21st · 21:11 UTC
Wow, what a solid entry! Loved the vibe, the music, and the old-school graphics. It made me want to play some point-and-click... Great job on that!
Wouter52
Oct 26th · 07:57 UTC
A sub-10 for graphics and half of the categories 4 or more stars, very well deserved! Congratz!