The Denevetable by Tricky_Fat_Cat

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made by Tricky_Fat_Cat for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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Boney is a powerful mage, who has managed to delay the inevitable death via an ancient artefact. The problem is, that only 20 seconds of her life left, and without this artefact, she'll die! But there is yet another problem, many heroes are looking for this artefact.

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CONTROLS

| Control | Action | | :--- | :---: | | WSAD | Movement | | Mouse | Aim | | LMB | Icicle spell | | RMB | Star spell |

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OST

You can listen to the game music on Soundcloud of:

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VISUALS

3D models are made by Kay Lousberg.

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TEAM

Ratings

Overall 247th 3.891⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 414th 3.625⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 597th 3.406⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 567th 3.766⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 150th 3.984⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 219th 3.969⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

MDX
05. Apr 2022 · 17:16 UTC
Well done game !! I had fun :)
The 2 problems in my opinion are :
- The pixel art make my eyes hurt a little bit after like 10 min playing
- The enemies knifes (throwing one) are to hard to see

The rest is nice, music is good tho :)
JakubBala
05. Apr 2022 · 17:21 UTC
I really enjoyed the gameplay. I thought it was very fun and challenging, and I loved the idea of a "mobile-area-defense". However, I thought that the graphics would have been great without the pixelation, which seemed unnecessary. As well, the knife projectiles were difficult to see some times

Overall, really fun and super well made and polished!
Mr.KitKat
05. Apr 2022 · 17:29 UTC
The aesthetics of this game are gorgeous. The cute little skeleton, the massive castle and the spooky music, all super cool. However, when it comes to gameplay I don't really understand what's going on or what I'm supposed to do. There are coloured stars all over the place, but they don't seem to do anything, and the safe zone flies all over the place. Some sort of descriptive text or instant feedback could maybe have helped.
Really cool game nonetheless!
Vilmantas
05. Apr 2022 · 18:27 UTC
What a fine game! Really enjoyed the playthrough even though after 5mins on the second level i decided to end myself because it got a bit too repetitive, but that's okay. It's the longest game I've played so far and enjoyed all of it. Really liked the main skeleton character!
Artyom Volkov
06. Apr 2022 · 06:34 UTC
@mdx thank you for playing!

@jakubbala thank you for the feedback.

@mr-kitkat thank you.

@vilmantas much appreciate your feedback.
simex
06. Apr 2022 · 12:40 UTC
dude the design on this is spot on! even without a proper tutorial I was able to figure out how to play on my first try. I'm still not sure what the green gems do, also on like my 3rd 'loop' the game stopped spawning enemies for 1 min or so. And not for nothing, but check out this score!

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this was really fun, good job guys!
Artyom Volkov
06. Apr 2022 · 13:07 UTC
@simex thank you for playing. Green crystals restore 5 seconds of your life.
LDJam user 269161
06. Apr 2022 · 14:45 UTC
Nice Game with cool music! Thank you for the plugin :smile: I will definitely check it out!
TomatoLamp
06. Apr 2022 · 23:05 UTC
I love the aesthetic and the level design makes fantastic use of that asset pack! Overall, the game feels tight with a great presentation - nice work everyone!
Artyom Volkov
07. Apr 2022 · 06:12 UTC
@erikengineengineer thank you for your stream!

@tomatolamp thank you for the feedback.
stephenwhoskins
07. Apr 2022 · 14:36 UTC
I really loved this game! The atmosphere created by the audio and the character designs were all perfect. Great job!
ReRonin
07. Apr 2022 · 18:32 UTC
I like that the leaderboards seemed to be per level!
If you do a post jam build, a level selector and a few extra spells might be nice.
Steve7411
07. Apr 2022 · 19:09 UTC
Nice take on the theme. I like the follow-the-magic mechanic
JavaSaurus
07. Apr 2022 · 19:51 UTC
Very nice spin on the theme ! Enjoyed it, it looks amazing and the camera/shader combination is on poin. Really enjoyable ! Minecraft Dungeon vibes right there. SOLID entry, thank you so much for sumbitting this ! :)
Kaldrin
07. Apr 2022 · 21:19 UTC
22:35 !
Enemy variety and 2 different maps, with nice animations, projectiles, different powerup things to pick up, impressive entry for a jam!

The difficulty doesn't increase though so it's easy to have big scores thus it becomes a little boring
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JUSTCAMH
08. Apr 2022 · 11:25 UTC
Hey team, I played your game on stream and really enjoyed it! The enemies, design, music and particularly the shaders were all amazingly well done. You can watch what happened on the vod here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1449607637
elysiagriffin
09. Apr 2022 · 11:32 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=0h16m31s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
marcmagus
09. Apr 2022 · 15:29 UTC
Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1449912082

Chasing the annoying ring of light turned out to be pretty interesting base gameplay, and you got some clever level design that interacted with it in interesting ways. Nice work.
HopeLessCatE
09. Apr 2022 · 23:59 UTC
GGWP
Xeke-Death
19. Apr 2022 · 22:51 UTC
The man mechanic was good at keeping me moving, because if I didn't, then it's game over.
What the pickups do isn't quite obvious enough. I couldn't work out what the stars did, and I assume the purple pickup is a shield of some sort, but I don't know how long it lasts.

I did see a few different levels, which made replaying it more interesting.
Good work overall, I like the idea and you executed it pretty well.
Proz
21. Apr 2022 · 15:14 UTC
Nice art and style! Especially nice to play a game from teacher)