Protect the Candle by rex64

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made by rex64 for Ludum Dare 50 (COMPO)

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PLAY

Protect your candle from the candle blowing skulls!

How long will you last?

Controls: - Keyboard arrows: move your hand - Key Q: Swap between your left and right hand. (1s cooldown) - Key W: Use both hands. (7s cooldown) - Key E: Restore a small portion of your candle. (30s cooldown)

Ratings

Overall 375th 3.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 373th 3.2⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 210th 3.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 439th 3.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 351th 3.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 349th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 453th 2⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 231th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 42🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

OadT
04. Apr 2022 · 08:34 UTC
My high score is 102 seconds! You have to get used to the controls, but once you did you really get in the zone. The cool downs of the actions needs to be better communicated though. They are shown in the corner, but you don't really see them while playing. But overall really cool entry!
gord10ahmet
04. Apr 2022 · 08:43 UTC
Original idea. I didn't find the controls intuitive, though. Maybe we could choose the side of the hands with left-right arrow keys and use up (or down) key to use the both hands?
mgear
04. Apr 2022 · 09:07 UTC
yup, bit hard to control but certainly havent seen similar games : D
DzejPi
04. Apr 2022 · 15:05 UTC
Great mood and the choice of the graphics style. Like OadT mentioned above, it took me a little while to get used to controls, but once you do, they are not an issue. Pretty unforgiving though, the could have few extra "lives." :)
ADerpyChickenStudios
04. Apr 2022 · 23:22 UTC
The atmosphere was awesome the music and the graphics together gave me a haunted mansion like vibe! I got to 70 seconds and was really in the zone great game!
Dan Smith
05. Apr 2022 · 16:14 UTC
Cool, original idea. Gets quite difficult really quick, but maybe I just suck xD Had fun!
Pierre Baudoin
06. Apr 2022 · 13:11 UTC
The game is so hard but sooo coool !
arya-s
07. Apr 2022 · 15:55 UTC
The gameplay loop is surprisingly fun and kept me engaged. I think you did a great job with this little game!
lesinvisible
09. Apr 2022 · 17:20 UTC
Wow, the mechanic of this game feels very unusual and addictive, great work. A think that the mechanic itself deserves a realisation in the standalone game.
Sodoj
11. Apr 2022 · 07:26 UTC
This is amazing! The learning curve is a bit steep at the beginning, but once you get a hang of it, it's tons of fun and I love games with that sort of design!

Managed to score 63 seconds, which is probably not that impressive, but every single second of that time was intense as hell!

Loving this one, good work!
binroot
12. Apr 2022 · 15:11 UTC
Can't say I've ever played a game like this before, haha! Well done, great art, and the hands were drawn well. I would love to read some lore/backstory of what's going on. Very intriguing!
LDJam user 279546
14. Apr 2022 · 17:03 UTC
Really cool and fun idea. I liked the challenge of it. The only thing I would say to change is to make it more obvious which is the temporary second hand. I would sometimes forget and have it disappear as it was about to block something. Maybe by including a timer near the second hand so you know which is temporary and how long until it is gone. Either way, very good submission! Great job!