Sundial is a top down dungeon crawler where light is your best friend. Use the timepiece to collect light to ward off enemies for 10 seconds. Battle two different bosses on your quest to find the Sundial and restore light to your world.
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Instructions:
Use WASD to move. Monsters hide in the darkness. Stay near they light. Lure monsters to the light if they get in your way! The game has three checkpoints, each unlocking a special item to help you.
Great music, very dramatic. The game achieved a real sense of atmosphere. I particularly liked the writing on the floor. It was a nice way to guide you through the game. I think a little more work on the combat system is required. It's currently a little tricky to hit the enemies. I couldn't get past the ghosts after you find the light for your sword.
The music is fantastic. I would love to hear it with more realistic sounding instruments. As for the game, my only gripe was that it was very hard to tell if there was an enemy coming for you when you weren't right next to a light until it's too late, even if you went slow, making the game very frustrating when I would get far and get attacked in the darkness repeatedly.
Solid solid game. Awesome for 48 hours. You should totally continue work on this. The lighting effects were pretty and the controls where very fluid. +1 internets
Good stuff you have there! I only think that running from ghosts in a dark environment 'kind of' defeats the purpose of exploration. The music is pretty good!
The graphical effects are really cool, and running out of sun gives some serious tension. The zoomed-in rewinding animation feels unnecessary after the first time, though.
That was pretty fun, looked really pretty with the light raycasting and the stopwatch concept was really interesting and really appealed to me. Nice job on that, shame about the ending.
I found this game pretty hard, but I liked the idea and graphics of it. I featured this game in my compilation video of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/okyxuWBF5Yw
Amazing graphics and audio, smooth animations and cool music. I had a hard time finding my way around the darkness, but it was fun running from light source to light source trying not to get caught. The lighting system looked very nice and really helped the mood.
Have played this game probably more than any other LD game. It has just the right balance of difficulty and intrigue. First few attempts were fails and then once I found the watch I was hooked. really great work. As someone who wishes they put a retry option in their game earlier, I thank you for the checkpoint at the watch! great stuff, you should be proud.
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