Taoreta Mura by farzher
My goal for LD50 was to learn how to make a good looking game. This is my first Unity game & first jam entry.
Controls are MOUSE ONLY. Character follows your cursor. Click to dash. Kills reset your dash.
Fight for your life and your village... or try to run.
Push for a highscore on the online leaderboards. Goodluck! Havefun! Ganbatte!
The game has a 40 second intro sequence to show off the art style!
Play in Browser


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IbuE0UuPg
Changelog:
- replaced the PLAY button with a SKIP button, since nobody seemed to know there was an intro sequence, oops!
| Link | https://farzher.itch.io/taoreta-mura |
| Link | https://farzher.itch.io/taoreta-mura |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/taoreta-mura |
Ratings
| Overall | 227th | 3.912⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 173th | 3.895⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 600th | 3.402⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 474th | 3.842⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 671th | 2.962⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 238th | 3.939⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 84🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Game-play wise, it's fun, enemies can be challenging but their pattern and attacks are predictible, so it's only a matter of skill. I would have like more abilities and/or updgrades (like a longer dash, a cooldown-free dash after a multikill...)
@bozarre cooldown free dash after a kill sounds awesome, and it's not too late for me to add it in!
EDIT : its better with the windows version.
Amazing work on your game! I loved it. It was a ton of fun to play, and I actually kept playing because of how fun it was. The overall mood and aesthetic was nice, and the whole game fit the theme nicely. This is another one of my favorite jam games I have played so far.
The last thing I would recommend is adding the high score/time alive incentive somewhere so the player will be able to see how good their best score was. This will help even more with incentive to keep playing.
Keep up the good work :D
Also, I am proud of the fact that I am in the top 3% of all players (At least right now!)

Also I believe I'm your 20th, congratulations!
There is a slight pause after you dash, I think if you can remove that the feeling will improve a lot. Neat game tho!
Nice art, cool music, hard but interesting gameplay, but it's me or the map is really not explorable at all ? From what I tested I can go out the "first" screen ?
new highscore :)

That being said, it was super hard, and I was not better than that many players 😔
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You said your goal was to learn to make a good-looking game and boy did you nail that!
It also plays solidly and sounds good, overall excellent work. I enjoyed the dancing in the intro as well.
My big "I wish this had gotten in" is that archers currently spawn looking like swordsmen rather than archers, which is jarring and makes it harder to plan your moves.
I'm a little surprised you've opted out of rating for graphics?

It was very simple concept, but really well executed. Loved the overall mood and models. Wish I was good at the game, but this was all I could do. Dash isn't supposed to kill enemies right? I need to make them kill each other? Great game and awesome idea! Well done!!
I think the biggest area for improvement would be making the gameplay last a bit longer, I feel like it could have been really fun if the rounds were a bit easier or if you could survive more than one hit.
Really solid entry for 72 hours!!
I didn't have too many suggestions on stream, but here's some I remember:
-hit effects
-more sound
-communicate current scores together (time and percentile), and same with high score. right now there's numbers all over the death screen
-change the telegraph color to purple (the color of the roofs maybe?) so it stands out more against the background or change the color of the background to be darker could work too
Hope to see more games from you in the future!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450162412?t=01h19m33s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Awesome job!