Phares

by felipe-budinich

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.65

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.11

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Community★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★28%

"You are the Lighthouse at Styx River, your job is to persecute souls trying to escape hell, it can get lonely, but jumping on ghosts sure is fun and it's pretty comfy."

The Idea is to bounce on top of ghosts so the lighthouse (you) does not sink on the flames of hell.

Controls:

Click/Tap to make the lighthouse move towards that direction.

Tools:

Frameworks: Impact, SoundManager 2

Language: Javascript

Platform: HTML5, Canvas

Audio: Audacity, Aria Maestosa, GXSCC

GFX: Photoshop CS 5.5

IDE: Komodo Edit

Comments13

Phen20 Dec 2011, 10:09

Holy cow, the art here is astounding. Loading this page, I thought, "There's no way that's a screenshot," and then it WAS. It's an incredibly entertaining feel, very well executed.

Unfortunately, the gameplay doesn't hold up. The lighthouse moves around, and I can make it go left or right, but nothing it does looks at all like "falling" or "bouncing."
It only seems to move up or down arbitrarily and jerkily, hitting the ghosts yields no discernible correlation. At one point, I just stopped clicking altogether, and it didn't seem to result in me losing. Not that I could tell, anyway. The lighthouse kept moving around randomly.

I gotta give you high marks anyway, because I'm so impressed with the general feel of the thing.

Shigor20 Dec 2011, 19:16

Plus points for art style and mood. But as a game it leaves a lot to improvement.

matthias_zarzecki20 Dec 2011, 21:47

Nice graphical setup. Game-idea is good too, but it was difficult figuring out the rules.

Stavu21 Dec 2011, 00:21

Very interesting game. I've never played a lighthouse before :) Wonderful art and music!!

mes21 Dec 2011, 08:54

the game is trivially easy, but at least it looks cool. i was hoping for a card game after seeing the picture. :p

Pierrec21 Dec 2011, 12:09

I don't even...
What a weird idea! How did it come up ?
Not very fun to play, but perfect on all the other aspects ^^

Felipe Budinichauthor21 Dec 2011, 22:43

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm aware that I dropped the ball on gameplay, currently I'm writting a post mortem where I'll review those points and options I have for the post-compo version.

Felipe Budinichauthor22 Dec 2011, 01:22

Ok, posted the postmortem:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/12/21/phares-postmortem/

jfroco22 Dec 2011, 12:24

Hello Felipe, nice to see you here again... very original and art is superb. Congratulations.

SonnyBone23 Dec 2011, 02:37

Yeah I was totally expecting a card game. Those poor little ghosts just don't have the detail of the lighthouse. Maybe that's why the lighthouse wants them dead... again?

Tom 731 Dec 2011, 17:41

Excellent graphics! The post-compo version doesn't start at all for me in any browser.

Felipe Budinichauthor3 Jan 2012, 00:59

Sorry @Tom 7, I have not worked on the post compo version at all, pretty swamped with work at the moment :-p

Kitch5 Jan 2012, 00:10

Art and sound was great. Never could quite figure out what was going on with the controls though... no matter where I hot the ghosts, didn't feel very bouncy.