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Darkness in the clouds by Seskon

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made by Seskon for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

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About:

Everything except the Music was created by me.

Fly on a cloud through the Cloudworld. Uncover the darkness by following the guidance of your Ancestors. Can you stay strong?

The overall expierience in v1.1 should be the same, so i recommend you playing that but feel free to choose :)

Controles:

WASD or Arrow Keys

Music:

  • SONRIE by Charles Michel 1994
  • The end of the world by Dicotomica

Changes in V1.1:

  • improoved cloud boat docking
    • added indicator
    • increased collider
    • adjusted size and speed of navigation arrow
  • turned down volume
  • camera now follows player instead of being attached
  • added moving clouds to the background
  • fixed some layer ordering issues where the player was on top of some sprites while flying
  • improved movement
    • tweaked the player controler script as well as the rigidbody
    • added collision mask to the raycast for detecting the ground
    • added another raycast for jumping, so both bottom corners are now detecting if the player stays on the ground
  • added the missing collision to the world border
  • minor story script changes
  • added a second end card, for when you choose stay in the darkness
HTML5 (Unity) UPDATED https://seskon.itch.io/darkness-in-the-clouds-v1-1
HTML5 (Unity) ORIGINAL https://seskon.itch.io/darkness-in-the-clouds
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/darkness-in-the-clouds

Ratings

Overall 428th 3.813⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1361th 3.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 608th 3.479⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 535th 3.917⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 146th 4.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1174th 2.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 70th 4.354⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 23🗨️

Feedback

sebirit
26. Apr 2021 · 21:35 UTC
I love the whimsically small pixelart and jumping contrasting with the sad story. And these cities on clouds are inspiring!
Threeli
26. Apr 2021 · 21:54 UTC
I would love to spend some more time in the underbelly of Cloudworld. As the scope of the worldbuilding continued to expand, I just wanted it to go on and on. Very interesting little experience. No real complaints to speak of, I only hope you'll continue to work on it and expand it!
Slavi
27. Apr 2021 · 08:29 UTC
Marvelous graphic !
Rein
27. Apr 2021 · 08:31 UTC
The art was great and the world was interesting, though there were several places I saw docks and was unable to land at them? The music was also REALLY loud. 10/10 - would hang out in a giant dude's mouth again.
Joni Brooks
27. Apr 2021 · 08:34 UTC
your pixel art is super charming and i love the world building and overall atmosphere of your game! however, i noticed a change in tone around the 3rd monolith. i really like how the story is as important as the art, but i think the overall cohesion could be improved by keeping the story elements centered on the troubles and revelations of the land's citizens rather than directly talking to the player. also, i missed the cloud and fell into the void once lol. other than that, though, i'm completly charmed!
Herbyvor
27. Apr 2021 · 08:34 UTC
That is so good ! the art is insane, and the storry is really cool ! We are totaly imerged in the game, the mood is top ! love it, really great job!
BitLight
27. Apr 2021 · 08:46 UTC
Interesting story and cool notes!
Ambear
27. Apr 2021 · 08:52 UTC
Ahahaha, I felt down through the cloud
10/10 ahahahaha
With no jokes, mood is great, and style, and storytelling, it's scared me sometimes
Great job
Rongefilet
27. Apr 2021 · 11:55 UTC
I really like the way the huge squares turn out to be lovely pixel art once the game zooms out for travel, sadly the web player was quite slow on my computer but cool narrative drive, great entry.
JuliaK
27. Apr 2021 · 14:23 UTC
I really love the graphics ( i would give you six stars if i could), they are so beautiful. The world is amazingly built, and i like that you jump from one door to the other. The ambience is also very nice and the music makes it really engaging. Also the little cloud boat is very cute. What subtracted from my experience was that the story was quite boring in my opinion and just a bunch of tropes lumped together. And i would have enjoyed a little more challenge for the player - maybe making it more difficult to find the monoliths/to get there, or collecting something on the way, etc. But overall i really liked it.
Lunavenator
28. Apr 2021 · 05:28 UTC
I like the pixel style and you did a great job in creating the whole clouds and different ruins, trees etc.
The way you walk up stairs and go through doors was not really smooth and hard to follow.
MarcoValeKaz
28. Apr 2021 · 22:46 UTC
Ok the sound was SO loud, but it actually was quite good.
Nice feeling, graphics were really nice, and overall a chill experience
Kibitz
29. Apr 2021 · 00:16 UTC
I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the game. Your art style was really cute and looked great, especially when zoomed out during the flying cloud parts. You do a really good job of capturing an intense atmosphere as the player descends deeper and deeper.

The one thing is that the landing area for the second monolith isn't entirely obvious. You have to touch the tree root at an exact area. Since you fall through the tree if you don't hit that specific part, I thought the tree was part of the background and it took me several go arounds to land properly. Maybe if you created a specific graphical element like a red dot or a dock to make it obvious where you have to land.

Otherwise, it was a very fun game overall and I enjoyed its narrative aspects.
Adil
29. Apr 2021 · 18:15 UTC
Wow! It feels so smooth and i love the atmosphere and vibes of the game.
Hope you will check music sounds and keep on working!
Great job!
Lazzor
29. Apr 2021 · 19:30 UTC
Alright, first things first - the athmosphere created by the world design in combination with the music and the story feels great. So good job on the immersion part. Also, the game has a polished feel, with the change in perspective between controlling the cloud ship and the player character. Except for the somewhat fiddly jumping, i really love your game! PS, Grüße aus Kiel ;D
juako
02. May 2021 · 15:08 UTC
Intresting game,I like the cloud city and the story. Good work
LukeTobin
04. May 2021 · 13:22 UTC
The aesthetics of this game are incredible, really good job :D
korfi
04. May 2021 · 13:32 UTC
Nice game! I encountered a bug in the jam-version that made me falling through the world after missing the cloud boat, might've been fixed in the updated version?

I really liked the visuals in the game, this artstyle is fantastic and worked very well with your game! Nice story and paired with visuals/audio it makes a great interactive game. Great job! :D
kpded
04. May 2021 · 13:37 UTC
Very nice minimalistic art style and music fits perfectly
Seems like very interesting approach to the jam's theme, would be nice to see more stuff like this
TheCommonThug
07. May 2021 · 02:50 UTC
Liked the graphics, liked the vibe, didn't 100% understand the game, but very cool.
exilegl
07. May 2021 · 16:14 UTC
Cool little adventure game, has a nice happy vibe to it. Floating around on that little cloud was fun lol. Pretty big world too.

yay

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