How I Learned to Stop Breathing and Start Sinning by Kyle Farwell

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made by Kyle Farwell for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

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Due to an unfortunate aerial vehicular collision you find yourself thrown into the most egregious of scenarios. You are in limbo and must tickle every one of your most evil fancies to dive into the depths of hell. Many challenges await you traveler, remember that you must follow the map in the hopes of achieving evil so great that you will be thrown down to the next level.

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD48:

Programming: Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)

Art: Fooglemx, Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)

Music: Alice Dalton (Aliciana)

SFX: Matthew Petry (fireTwoOneNine)

Writing: Ryan Refcio, Phil St. Antoine (Squid), Kyle Farwell (kfarwell), Jared Kelly

Ratings

Overall 1003th 3.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1105th 3.222⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1658th 2.611⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 925th 3.639⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 717th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 358th 3.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 147th 3.889⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1126th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

mmason
27. Apr 2021 · 03:26 UTC
Theres a lot of game here! nice combo of rhythm game and visual novel
SandToise
27. Apr 2021 · 03:29 UTC
Another game using Dante's Inferno and elevators! Great minds think alike, clearly.
The art and music are great, the characters are funny and the little costumes are hilarious. The demon is hot 10/10.
My one issue is that the minigame feels way too long- there's a lot of dead space between segments.
James Kusardi
27. Apr 2021 · 22:06 UTC
good execution, i enjoyed it (although i didn't finish). some additional stuff that i feel like would really liven the game up are indications of when you get the note right (both visual/auditory) and maybe some sort of indication of how long the rhythm portion is?
Trexxak
29. Apr 2021 · 22:38 UTC
I couldn't make it past B2 (I guess due to a previous choice), which is fine because B2 is pretty much the hell I'd stay at anyway :D

Seriously though: This offers so much great art, humour, a great theme and CLIPPI <3 I will definitely try it a second time later on and tell my more VN-liking friends of this. I personally felt the minigame wasn't really bringing anything interesting to the table (except the awesome music) and have to agree with SandToise there that they feel a tad long.

Other than that though: Great effort, great art, great humour, great game!
Aliciana
01. May 2021 · 17:42 UTC
@trexxak So glad you like the music <3
I think if we do a post-LD update I will definitely be redoing all of the note maps to be more interesting!

@james-kusardi Totally agree on the indicators of hitting a note, thank you for the suggestion :)
johnryanaudio
05. May 2021 · 13:22 UTC
Everything here was top-notch. Great art, audio, humor, and interesting story. The only critiques I have are: a) it wasn't clear at the beginning that I'm supposed to be "bad", so the first option felt really forced. Later, I understood the purpose more, so it made sense, but maybe it could be more clear that you're "giving in"? b) Personally, I didn't like the rhythm game at all. And I like rhythm games, I've even made one for a previous jam, but this one was boring, unintuitive, and really felt like it took away from the game. I dreaded each time I'd enter the elevator thinking "Please no rhythm game".

Those critiques aside, I really enjoyed the game and the ending felt good.
Prof.Suarez
06. May 2021 · 03:50 UTC
This game has great graphics, funny story, and the theme was right on. The only thing that took me out of the vibe was the elevator rhythm mini games. Besides that, this game is solid for something done so quickly great job.
Madbarron
16. May 2021 · 03:29 UTC
5x:star:

The writing is super, the art is great, the music is totally radical, and the theme interpretation is spot-on. Well done!

Only issues I had was that several levels had long pauses while it showed the title (loading I guess). And that 1234 was kind of an awkward place to put my hand.

Well done, thanks for the fun game! :smiling_imp:

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