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Something about the scythe swing timings was just off for me.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":910345,"author_name":"ImmanentDeath","author_uid":"immanentdeath","epoch":1673397971,"text":"The scythe swings a fraction of a second after you press the button, so you have to attack slightly early to account for winding up before you swing.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":916602,"author_name":"squashi","author_uid":"squashi","epoch":1673548657,"text":"The games visuals got me excited, it looks great. But the gameplay didn't deliver it.\n\nWith the games current state enemies just clump and walk towards you, eventually you don't have any platforms to jump to and you go back and forth to press attack. Not so fun to play.\n\nCould be super fun if it was like fruit ninja, enemies jump at you from all directions and you dodge with dash, move around platforms, slash them like if they were fruits :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":921618,"author_name":"Klaus Peter","author_uid":"klaus-peter","epoch":1673735642,"text":"There is this one platform further to the right where creepers will mostly attack from the left. That was the only spot where I could stand still xD I also thought that it would have been nicer if there were more ways to dodge creepers because otherwise it feels like you can hardly defend yourself properly. But the graphics and music were pretty nice :)\n![bad.gif](\/\/\/raw\/ae4\/61\/z\/56748.gif)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":922460,"author_name":"brainles etertainment","author_uid":"brainles-etertainment","epoch":1673795247,"text":"\"Easy\" is not easy at all as for me :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924591,"author_name":"Avi","author_uid":"avi","epoch":1673946519,"text":"Ooft I got rekt hahaha overall a pretty cool game tho! Really nice visuals :) I wonder if you could get a AI bot to play it\n\nPs love the devlogs :) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":926423,"author_name":"Nikotini","author_uid":"nikotini","epoch":1674200717,"text":"I really love your game. The graphics look so polished which I think is really impressive considering the limited time. I also like the sound design a lot. It is nothing very special but it works well because the sound effects worked with the music. \nAll in all: A well polished game with pretty graphics and arcade gameplay. I like it! :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":929425,"author_name":"Carei","author_uid":"carei","epoch":1674765896,"text":"Very fun and polished game, feels like those old arcade games in a few ways. Firstly, the artstyle and sound effects fit very well together. And secondly, the jam version is brutally hard :)). I can definetly relate to that, since I also end up sometimes with games nobody else can play due to lack of playtesting. If you want to continue working on it, it would be nice to have more types of enemies, or a guide to what each power up does.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":929465,"author_name":"Amolker","author_uid":"amolker","epoch":1674769625,"text":"The art style and music is really great, I can easily see this game on retro arcade machines. The gameplay (especially in easy mode :D) seems solid. Maybe we would like to see a dash ability or something like that, because creepers can corner you and it can be difficult to get out of such a situation.\nOverall a great game! Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":929466,"author_name":"ImmanentDeath","author_uid":"immanentdeath","epoch":1674769660,"text":"I'll put a list in the description of what each power-up does. I think some of them are pretty intuitive, but I was wondering if a couple of them weren't immediately clear.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":929532,"author_name":"Ekoon","author_uid":"ekoon","epoch":1674776350,"text":"Gosh this game piss off with atmosphere ! I love challenges, it gave me Vampire Survivor vibe. 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Like others I found the game very hard but appreciated that you added an easier version for those of us that lacked the skills \ud83d\ude01","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":930298,"author_name":"Mark Winter","author_uid":"mark-winter","epoch":1674849015,"text":"Very well executed 2d HacknSlash.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":930301,"author_name":"profan","author_uid":"profan","epoch":1674849124,"text":"This is a really well put together game stylistically, sound, music, art, but gameplay wise it falls a little bit in that either feels incredibly difficult or incredibly easy (if you stand in a particular place in the game, the AI bugs out a bit and you get only a few of them attacking you at once instead of the absolute swarm you get otherwise)\n\nThis place for me:\n![firefox_N3U2yn9XbG.png](\/\/\/raw\/321\/2\/z\/56dab.png)\n\nIt became a little more doable once you'd stayed in one place for a while and the powerups had dropped and you could recuperate a bit, but I didn't actually realise when I was playing that there were powerups that did anything except restore health, so having that be a little clearer as @lenaschimmel already mentioned :)\n\nNice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaper","text":"Itch.io"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/870187","text":"Newgrounds"},{"url":"https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaperjam","text":"Broken 1.0"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"86794","g_author":"1277535","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"398603","g_title":"Reaper","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"369","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"317834","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"317834","n_urlkey":"398603","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/reaper-1","n_slug":"reaper-1","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"277535","n_created":"1673032464","n_modified":"1779694729","n_version":"1009494","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":277535,"body":"![Thumbnail.png](\/\/\/raw\/f1c\/34\/z\/554bc.png)\n\n## D E L E T E - A L L - C R E E P E R S\n\n\nReaper was made for Ludum Dare 52 and its theme, \"Harvest.\" It's a brutal, fast-paced hack 'n' slash about the reaper eliminating creepers and claiming souls and power-ups from them.\n\n### [Play on Itch.io](https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaper) | [Play on Newgrounds](https:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/870187) | [Broken 1.0](https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaperjam)\n\n\n### How to Play\n- WASD\/Arrow keys = Move\/Select\n- Space\/Up\/W = Jump\n- Enter\/K = Attack\n- Esc\/P = Pause\n- Back = Unpause\n\nPress \"L\" on the title screen to toggle scan lines.\n\n\nPower-ups\n- Movement speed up\n- Attack speed up (hold to attack)\n- Damage up (kill every creeper in one hit)\n- Kill all creepers on-screen\n- Invincibility\n- Extra life\n\n### Known bugs\n- Creepers still rarely get stuck in corners\n- Creepers and power-ups can appear over the player health bar and score display\n- The Y position of digits in scores and high scores is sometimes slightly off\n\n### Changelog\nv1.1\n- Added easy mode\n   - The player\u2019s attack speed is slightly reduced, and the amount of time their attack lasts slightly increased\n   - Creepers spawn naturally (not by replication) every 1.5 seconds instead of every 1 second\n   - Creepers have 50% less base speed and a 50% slower replication rate\n   - The maximum number of creepers in the scene before they stop replicating is reduced from 20 to 15\n- Replaced \u201cPress any key to start\u201d text on the title screen with difficulty selection\n- Scan lines are now toggled on the title screen by pressing \u201cL\u201d instead of \u201cS\u201d\n- Added high scores for each difficulty mode that are saved at the end of a game\n- The player\u2019s score at the end of a game is now displayed under \u201cGame Over\u201d\n- The current difficulty mode\u2019s high score is now displayed on the pause menu\n- Added icons for extra lives that appear under the health bar when the player obtains them and disappear when used\n- Fixed a bug where creepers would deal knockback to the player in the wrong direction\n- Fixed a bug where creepers would always jump if they approach a wall, so the player could stand next to one and avoid all damage; now creepers won\u2019t jump if the player is close enough\n- Fixed a bug where creepers could still replicate themselves after they\u2019re defeated but before they disappear, also making it possible for the replicated creeper to get stuck in tiles\n\nI said before that high scores were secretly saved as of v1.0.2, but it turns out that was a lie because there was a logic error that prevented this. Whoops. Sorry about that.\n\nv1.0.2\n- Scan lines can now be toggled by pressing \u201cS\u201d on the title screen\n- Score digits now have scan lines if scan lines are on\n- Fixed a bug where creepers wouldn't replicate themselves\n- Reduced the total number of creepers there can be for another one to spawn naturally (not by replicating) from 20 to 10\n- Creepers no longer have a random chance to decide to jump\n- Fixed a bug where creepers would struggle to jump over tiles if they hit the tile sideways first\n- Fixed a bug where creepers would sometimes get stuck in corners\n- Fixed a bug where creepers would sometimes face the wrong way\n- Fixed a bug where creepers wouldn\u2019t be killed by the power-up that kills all creepers that are on-screen if they had already just been damaged by the player\n- Fixed a bug where getting a power-up while that same power-up is already active doesn\u2019t reset the time before it runs out\n- Fixed a bug where score wouldn\u2019t be given and no sound effect would play if the player got a soul while at full health\n\nv1.0.1\n- Fixed a bug where score wasn\u2019t reset after a game over\n- Fixed a bug where the player could still take damage during their invincibility frames after taking damage, and while having the invincibility power-up\n- Creepers now also take knockback from the power-up that kills all creepers on-screen, so anything they drop is less likely to get stuck in the floor\n\n### Devlog\n[A job that is debatably well done](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/reaper-1\/a-job-that-is-debatably-well-done) - 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A L L - C R E E P E R S\n\n\nReaper was made for Ludum Dare 52 and its theme, \"Harvest.\" It's a brutal, fast-paced hack 'n' slash about the reaper eliminating creepers and claiming souls and power-ups from them.\n\n### [Play on Itch.io](https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaper) | [Play on Newgrounds](https:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/870187) | [Broken 1.0](https:\/\/immanentdeath.itch.io\/reaperjam)\n\n\n### How to Play\n- WASD\/Arrow keys = Move\/Select\n- Space\/Up\/W = Jump\n- Enter\/K = Attack\n- Esc\/P = Pause\n- Back = Unpause\n\nPress \"L\" on the title screen to toggle scan lines.\n\n\nPower-ups\n- Movement speed up\n- Attack speed up (hold to attack)\n- Damage up (kill every creeper in one hit)\n- Kill all creepers on-screen\n- Invincibility\n- Extra life\n\n### Known bugs\n- Creepers still rarely get stuck in corners\n- Creepers and power-ups can appear over the player health bar and score display\n- The Y position of digits in scores and high scores is sometimes slightly off\n\n### Changelog\nv1.1\n- Added easy mode\n   - 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