You are some awful creature from a warped dimension who happened to get lost in what seems to be an episode of the old house on the prairie, awful!
Use your dark bile and turn this place into a wonderful place of darkness if you ever want to get home.
Full game with in-game explanation and end sequence. There is even a goat. Play time about 10 mins.
Requirements: HTML version => Any recent browser that is not IE. Firefox won't play audio, sorry. Mac OS X version => OS X v10.7 (Lion) or newer Windows version => Windows XP or newer.
Native versions are stand alone and don't need any additional installs, libraries, etc.
Key terms; * Platformer, 2D, Single Player
I hope you enjoy this! Good luck to all the other LDers!
Very nice, I was annoyed when it ended that there was no more to play :). Really cool game idea but too easy (needs some ranged enemies). BTW, my browser kept scrolling down when I pressed space or the arrow keys. There is certainly a little javascript code to prevent that.
Aswissrole: yeah, I had planned for cherubs to fly around and fire heart-tipped arrows at you but I ran out of time. Figured too easy would be better in this compo than too hard as you can at least finish it.
Nice little game. It was fun spewing around, although some corners were very hard to reach properly. 4 Levels? Yeah it was nice and short. There was even a goat =)
I had fun playing it although it was very annoying that the browser kept scrolling up and down when hitting space or arrow up.
I probably spent too much time on details nobody would notice. E.g. if a tile is corrupted and there's a plant on it, it will die eventually. Also, the hearts die off randomly over time after you finish the level. I was basically experimenting with Minecraft style world updates etc. Damn you, Notch!
Nice game, spewing this black bile to cover the world is fun indeed. Also, you were very creative with the hazard pits -- they fit your concept but that's not something I'd expect to be there.
On the graphics side, I really liked the clouds and the darkening of the scenario. Very cool.
I love the graphics, specially the darkening of the sky and the flowers dying! I had a bit of a framerate drop here, but it could be because I have tons of tabs open...
Hehe nice, reminds me of our entry :D (Ninox the Nightbringer, I'll try to include required libraries) The goat at the end scared me, nice game! I'll read your postmortem, I'm curious how you made it.
I had a lot of fun recklessly spewing black bile out. It was a tad on the easy side, and could use different enemies to toss things up, but I still enjoyed it. The ending was cute. :)
Who knew spewing bile everywhere could be such fun! Cute graphics, the way the landscape was affected reminded me of Terraria and I think I caught a Minecraft reference with the diamonds in the rocks at the end? Very cool.
Great ending! :D I really liked the game mechanic and the controls were smooth and forgiving (it felt like slightly missing a platform still landed you on the platform - thank you for that!) and I loved the art style :D More levels would be great if you want to expand on this game! Awesome job!
that was so good, gongrats, the main character is very charismatic! the vomit mechanic was cool, but a little rough on the edges great game, nice attention to the details, just a little too easy maybe
@chambers, I had planned 4 real levels and then the final level and it hurt to do it but I had to scrap the 4th level because I had a big list of details to fix and tweak and I was running out of time. I will take some time soon to make a full version.
IIIIIIIIIII knew it. I knew there had to be a Stones reference in this one! This is awesome! I really felt I made an impact on this world. Design note: I got bounced off by a heart and got trapped deep below the earth, on level 3, but it didn't spoil my fun at all. Loved the humour, loved the gameplay, this one is getting full marks!
Good: Great fun, nice physics and a nice idea =) Improve: music would have been nice, also i felt that i had to spew to much bile, perpaps a lower coverage % to clear a level? =)
I like the physic of the bile, and the way light decrease, it really create some atmosphere in this game. It was nice to see red shape hearts being the thing to avoid. Mike Jagger could be proud of you.
Never thought vomiting would be so much fun as a game mechanic!
I was enjoying myself right up to level 3 when the heart pit trap threw me underground and prevented me from moving or jumping away.
I kind of wanted to see things like time attack modes, or special objectives while I played. Maybe those were in later levels after the one in which I became stuck.
Well done, the art is pretty great. The only thing, in my opinion, that would make the game a lot more intuitive and relaxing (and also easy...) would be controlling the shooting angle with the mouse pointer. Great game you've done!
Very clever little idea and very nicely implemented! Really liked how the world changed as you covered more an more of the area. A few tiles I couldn't seem to change (usually before a step), but aside from that a very nice game, well done! :)
I got a bug, after touching a white living circle (don't remember the name ^^), i get invisible or outside the level, don't know. Anyway, i liked to convert the landscape into darkness ! A good potential :)
The ending cracked me up. I liked the particle effects, but I wish I could aim straight up sometimes. The idea of corrupting everything is neat, and I think it has potential to work alongside other game mechanics if fleshed out some more.
Sorry about the problems getting stuck, of course I never encountered this problem but given the spit and duct-tape physics code I can imagine how it would happen :)
I rated all games of people who commented here. It's great to see all the diverse projects and ideas in an event like this. See you next time!
Great job for 48 hours. It was fun to run around and shoot bile. The level design was nice but I would've liked some more tricky levels, maybe for a post compo version?
@rvmook, I was struggling at the end figuring out how to make it more challenging within the time that I had. I was going to add flying enemies with arrows but the clock was merciless. I will see if I clean it all up and add some more.
heh seems you had very similar idea to mine but you approached it from a diffrent angle. IMO your game turn out to be much better. Great work, I love to vomit evil! And the ending make me laught :)
Evil vomit is evil. I enjoyed the game a lot, but sometimes I felt frustrated because I was "shooting" right to a tile and it would not become black...
I loved spewing bile all over the place! I would have covered every surface if allowed - sometimes it was tricky to darken a ground tile that was in a corner. The little details you added made up for the additional level you didn't have time for.
Sweet, I won a goat! I like how the global light diminishes as you spew more darkness. I definitely enjoyed the spewing mechanic. It was just a tad bit tedious on certain spots, mainly on corners.
Thank you for this, zenmumbler! The vomiting mechanic is very gratifying because we've all played games with annoying, cutesy characters and saccharine worlds. :)
The attention to detail was really nice to see, and the way gameplay mechanics were tied in to the theme, like the darkness of the sky standing in for a progress bar.
As others have said, it would have been nice if it was easier to hit the corners, and I don't know whether the bile really needed a cooldown; as a player I just wanted to be able to vomit constantly. But still, a really nice job. Well done!
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but nice idea!
PS. look out for diamond ore!
Good find on the ore…
I had fun playing it although it was very annoying that the browser kept scrolling up and down when hitting space or arrow up.
On the graphics side, I really liked the clouds and the darkening of the scenario. Very cool.
https://github.com/zenmumbler/MakeItBlack
I also wrote a postmortem:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/18/make-it-black-postmortem/
Thanks for playing, everyone!
the vomit mechanic was cool, but a little rough on the edges
great game, nice attention to the details, just a little too easy maybe
Improve: music would have been nice, also i felt that i had to spew to much bile, perpaps a lower coverage % to clear a level? =)
I did get stuck in the wall on level 3- got hit by some hearts in the ditch and threw me into a wall.
I was enjoying myself right up to level 3 when the heart pit trap threw me underground and prevented me from moving or jumping away.
I kind of wanted to see things like time attack modes, or special objectives while I played. Maybe those were in later levels after the one in which I became stuck.
Great concept!
I rated all games of people who commented here. It's great to see all the diverse projects and ideas in an event like this. See you next time!
Funny game, I liked it !
Reminds me of some of the bitter indies in my social networks.
Great work, I love to vomit evil! And the ending make me laught :)
The attention to detail was really nice to see, and the way gameplay mechanics were tied in to the theme, like the darkness of the sky standing in for a progress bar.
As others have said, it would have been nice if it was easier to hit the corners, and I don't know whether the bile really needed a cooldown; as a player I just wanted to be able to vomit constantly. But still, a really nice job. Well done!