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BiblioMania by Raffez

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made by Raffez for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

A Game made by Red Scale Studio using Unity. RedscaleNEWLOGO.png

Bibliomania is a casual 2D platformer endless game. Good luck trying to do your job in the shoes of Violet, a little girl in a colossal magic library. Beware! While doing your normal tasks, prepare to face abnormal and chaotic events thanks to your UNSTABLE curse. Get ready to do the same things with different mistakes, try to beat your best attempt over and over in this crazy mess!

🎮 Controls 🎮​

WASD: Movement

Spacebar: Jump

1, 2 and 3: Interact with clients and shelves

Esc: Pause

Obs: The game has gamepad support!

If the client has a RED arrow on him, you must deliver the book to him. If it's a BLUE arrow, you must receive his book and put it on the respective shelves. Setas.png

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Game Designer: https://twitter.com/lontramarota

Programmer: https://twitter.com/D4rkFaiL

Programmer: https://twitter.com/bomdiajj ||| https://bomdiajj.itch.io

PixelArtist: https://twitter.com/Raffez_xD ||| https://www.artstation.com/raffez ||| rafaconstcontact@gmail.com

PixelArtist: https://twitter.com/RoundPixel1 ||| https://www.artstation.com/roundpixel ||| marcusfrsouza@gmail.com

SFX/Music: https://twitter.com/HecaZer0 ||| leo.v.campos2017@gmail.com

Music: https://twitter.com/ChronoGus

Link https://redscale.itch.io/bibliomania
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/bibliomania

Ratings

Overall 297th 3.867⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Fun 283th 3.839⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 567th 3.484⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 863th 3.417⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 86th 4.484⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Audio 166th 3.933⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Mood 172th 4.017⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 93🗳️ 43🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 250905
04. Oct 2021 · 23:28 UTC
Oh my gosh this is amazing!!! I love it so much!!! My favourite thing about it is the pixel art, because I know how hard it is to make something that looks good and everything in here looks amazing! Unfourtunatly I found a bug where if you're tiny and grow back to normal size next to a platform, you'll get stuck in the platform and not be able to get out... I am so surprised this was made in 3 days!!!
Geared
04. Oct 2021 · 23:30 UTC
I love the art direction you chose! The game looks so polished! I will say though that the latency curse is maybe a little too harsh and makes the game very very hard. Other than that it was an enjoyable time!
TevasLiutauras
04. Oct 2021 · 23:31 UTC
Good idea and execution! Got some strong Celeste vibes which is always a compliment. The player felt a bit too floaty for me but anyways a brilliant submission.
Dylen
04. Oct 2021 · 23:34 UTC
Amazing pixel art wow
tubaDude99
04. Oct 2021 · 23:37 UTC
I like the concept, and the art is awesome. I love the music, it perfectly fits a fast-paced game in a magical library. However, the platforming is a little frustrating (for instance, how long you have to hold the jump button to get full jump), and using 1-2-3 was a little confusing at first (I'd rather just stand in front of the NPC I want to talk to and press one button). Additionally, it's a little thing but it'd be nice if when I accidentally hit the number of an NPC that wants a book, but I'm not holding a book, then it would do nothing instead of reading it as wrong. Aside from those things, it's pretty fun.
Artyom Volkov
05. Oct 2021 · 09:29 UTC
The idea of the game is astonishing. The movement and art are impressive and satisfying. However, the UX is clunky, because I struggle to understand what I have to do with clients. Moreover, I don't like that I have to press 1, 2, 3 to interact. In my opinion, you should have made only one button for interaction.
Lucas Viana
05. Oct 2021 · 15:23 UTC
Thanks for the feedback @tricky-fat-cat ! Our team is already discussing a patch note to improve the UX!
yagovictor
05. Oct 2021 · 17:51 UTC
I found the game very fun, no words for the graphics
Matthieu Riboulot
05. Oct 2021 · 21:48 UTC
Good game but the balancing is too harsh with some questionable choices in the mapping in my opinion. Events are fun and well designed. Is there an ending?
Lucas Viana
05. Oct 2021 · 21:51 UTC
@matthieu-riboulot Thank you for the feedback! No, actually the game is an endless casual.
Khelian
05. Oct 2021 · 21:57 UTC
Nice game, has a good ambiance, art and sound and cool design ideas. A bit too hard, kinda strange mapping (maybe it comes from my controller but ↓ for climbing the ladders is a bit weird).

The randomness and the lack for an ending kinda gives it an "aimless" feeling, but I'd overall say it's a solid entry!
potkirland
06. Oct 2021 · 00:07 UTC
good stuff.. art is awesome but controlling an invisible character was too difficult for me
bomdiajj
06. Oct 2021 · 00:11 UTC
@khelian thanks for the feedback! about the you ↓ from climbing, you probably got the "inverted controls" event
CoelhoYu
06. Oct 2021 · 03:14 UTC
i hate the ice event, but is a nice game
AdamCYounis
06. Oct 2021 · 05:28 UTC
Hey there!

I quite liked the visual presentation of this game. The pixel art was really cute and well animated. I also thought the camera was really well-implemented for the most part. I had a little difficulty understanding what the game wanted from me at first. I really think that the game should explain itself, rather than having the rules explained outside. Once I got going though, I found the challenge to be pretty engaging. Adding the different modifiers was a nice touch, although I felt like they definitely needed to rotate more quickly, as the game definitely struggled to maintain my attention as time went on. More frequent switching of powers and perhaps more strategy / planning elements would have taken this game a bit further.

Overall, I think this was a pretty solid entry. Best of luck with future developments!
MsCarrotCake
06. Oct 2021 · 13:12 UTC
I love the art. I also like that each book case has different icon on top of the colour on them. That helps with accessibility. I did get a bug where the event of me getting smaller happened as I am in front of the blacksmith bookcase, then I got stuck inside the platform. Good job on the game!
ReRonin
06. Oct 2021 · 14:08 UTC
Beautiful pixel art! Took me a bit to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do. The 1-2-3 controls threw me off a few times at the start. Always got the reverse-controls curse tho, that one's annoying haha.
Music is also very fitting!
Pink shard games
06. Oct 2021 · 14:13 UTC
Cool game with an amazing art! I loved the event system, because it gave it such a great twist. I specially loved the one which causesd the screen to go dark so that you can only see if there's a candle around. And I think the one that makes you invisible is a bit frustrating. But I had a really good time! The jump was also really smooth. Good job!
LDJam user 233347
06. Oct 2021 · 18:15 UTC
Love the design and audio, but I'm not a huge fan of platformers.

easy to understand what you have to do once you get the gang of it.
no criticism come to mind.
neowhoru
07. Oct 2021 · 19:02 UTC
graphics were pretty great :) nice game
namnam
07. Oct 2021 · 23:39 UTC
Loved it, I really like the take on the theme, the universe is funny and there is a lot of surprise. It was a bit hard and I wish i had more time to explore and discover new maledictions.
minibobbo
08. Oct 2021 · 22:05 UTC
Really nice art and polish! At first the jump was too floaty and long for me, but after a short while I just embraced it and found that moving around the library was a lot of fun! The unstable curses made for some interesting changes and challenges which greatly helped the rather simplistic gameplay. Very nicely done!

One thing that I found a little awkward was using 1 - 3 to interact with the customers and the shelves. Wouldn't one key work for that? Since you are only interacting with one person at a time maybe spreading them out a little (just a single space between them?) and interacting with everything with a single use key would feel better.

Nice work!

EDIT - After a couple playthroughs I got the shrinking curse. That was fine, but when I went to the next curse (invisibility) I was brute forced repositioned into the floor and couldn't escape. I grabbed a screenshot, but of course, I'm invisible, so it doesn't really show you much :smile:
![books.png](///raw/b17/z/47def.png)
Lucas Viana
09. Oct 2021 · 11:31 UTC
@minibobbo Thank for the deep feedback. Yes we are aware of the bug and are currently under development for a fix patch! Again, thank you very much!
Sofimei
13. Oct 2021 · 03:42 UTC
Wow, I love the art and vibes of the game! Its a fun location (magic library) with interesting little details in a lot of places. I found the designs for the different book shelves really pretty, and the characters are cute and unique. Couldn’t help but wonder what some of these crazy books were that the readers were borrowing and returning XD some look very sinister. I could easily see this expanded with some more world building and levels that increase in complexity.
LDJam user 261284
19. Oct 2021 · 16:43 UTC
Great pixel art!
Jump is silly in some cases but okay and time is too limited I barely can be in time to deliver item to customer
But overall it is very cool game!
Kiwi663
20. Oct 2021 · 16:30 UTC
Wow, fantastic pixel art and music. Well done!