Your sister, Lice, is held inside the Hammer Watch prisons. You must sneak inside and find her.
Beneath the City is a turn based stealth game where each move counts. My initial goal was to create a stealth roguelike using a 3D isometric view (see early screenshots). I finally switched to back to top-down view because of the timing and the controls (3D iso is no good with keyboard controls). Beneath the city lacks proper ending, and different enemies, but all the basics are here.
This is brilliant. Great music, atmosphere is really strong. Mechanics are excellent. Really love all the little touches like switching sides when in cover, indicating where guards are heading etc.
Incroyable, comme toujours. J'adore l'aspect infiltration et réflexion de ton jeu et l'effet que tu mets sur les pixels de tes jeux. Tu es l'une des personnes qui m'a motivé à me lancer dans les Ludum Dare et je t'en remercie beaucoup ! (I'm french too :D)
Wow, awesome game! The art is beautiful as usual! The gameplay is interesting, I like the objects that add so much to the game! And it stays really clear, it's easy to predict the movement of the enemies and why they see you. The last level was quite challenging, but I finished it just using the bell, and I didn't expect this ending at all. ^^
I feel divided by this game... I really like this game. But, it's so good overall that I missed even more the lack of a proper ending. I understand, though, that 48h is few time... and if you have to recode stuff, you're probably in for trouble. XD
Controls are great. Graphics and the music are superb... but I missed the sfx. Gameplay was... amazing. I really dig the hiding mechanic, especially 'cause I tried to use as few items as possible.
I'm not sure that I understand all of the mechanics. Sometimes I can be right next to them and they won't notice, or ahead in a straight line and I'm too far away. Another time a guy saw me from something like a 4 or 5 tile diagonal.
Wow, a stealth roguelike. The stealth in this is executed so well. I never would have thought of a stealth game like a puzzle game. This is definitely in my top games this year for Ludum Dare. Bookmarking it for later so I can continue to play.
Very good entry as usual =) Mechanics is clear and interesting. One thing I noticed that "Bell" actually useles and dangerous ability. So I can beat the game only with water arrow.
Gorgeous little demake, seriously needs to be turned into a full-on adventure. Excellent implementation of stealth mechanics with Rogue-like movement. Bravo!
Wow, best game so far. I usually don't like stealth games, but this one really captivated me. The last "real" level was quite hard for me, but I kept trying.
You could really turn this into something. The beginning of the story is very promising. To bad 48h is so little time, the ending is really poor :-p
Only thing I'd change: allow to hold the space bar to skip multiple turns.
Also, I never needed the Dash and Bell abilities, but this might change with even more complex levels.
Very nice game. I really like the tight design, visuals are top notch (the crouching pose behind obstacles is a really nice detail). Been playing this now probably the longest from all entries so far.
I literally don't know how you do this every year ... Great game, really smooth movement and transitions. It doesn't have the jerkiness tile based games usually do. Sounds would have been nice but I am not gonna be greedy.
Really nice game - great graphics and atmosphere. It is very polished and impressive for 48 hours. The Thief-mechanic works well but it gets devilish hard on the lower levels.
The graphics in this are amazing. Combining stealth with turn-based gameplay was a good call. Very sharp gameplay. Just a slick presentation all round really.
The stealth mechanics were really fun, I'd love to see this expanded into a longer game (with a more involved story, too! it got off to a nice start here)
Loved it! I always wanted to make a 2d-stealth game like this, loved the mechanics (and I think this basic turn-based setup could totally expanded into a full game).
Great art and gameplay (though I would have liked to do a metal gear solid-style sneak behind and kill). Hope you work on it some more!
A turn-based puzzle/stealth game with some DNA of the original Thief? This is by far one of the most unique games I've seen for LD29!
I love how your stealth mechanics work, and the whole idea of twisting it into a turn-based puzzle system is truly inspired. Will this be ported into a full game? Please say yes.
The pristine pixel lights enchanted me! If you continue to develop this, when I got to the second level and was detected by guards twice at the same place and was not sure how to avoid this a third time around, I felt discouraged.
The game definitely needs more puzzles that explore the mechanics, but you've built a great foundation in 48 hours, and slapped on a -really- nice coat of paint, to boot. Great work, as usual. :)
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Wonderful job!
The last level was quite challenging, but I finished it just using the bell, and I didn't expect this ending at all. ^^
I understand, though, that 48h is few time... and if you have to recode stuff, you're probably in for trouble. XD
Controls are great. Graphics and the music are superb... but I missed the sfx. Gameplay was... amazing. I really dig the hiding mechanic, especially 'cause I tried to use as few items as possible.
So, congrats for the entry. Great, as usual. :)
The game is simply amazing.
Mechanics is clear and interesting.
One thing I noticed that "Bell" actually useles and dangerous ability. So I can beat the game only with water arrow.
There is nothing to say, your game is fantastic (:
Got stuck some levels down, but the first 2-3 were really nicely balanced in their difficulty.
Don't have so much to comment on, maybe giving the back-pack options some further love as they don't have the same standard as the rest of the game.
You could really turn this into something. The beginning of the story is very promising. To bad 48h is so little time, the ending is really poor :-p
Only thing I'd change: allow to hold the space bar to skip multiple turns.
Also, I never needed the Dash and Bell abilities, but this might change with even more complex levels.
Really good work!
Really nice entry!
Shame the story ends so abruptly.
Great art and gameplay (though I would have liked to do a metal gear solid-style sneak behind and kill). Hope you work on it some more!
I love how your stealth mechanics work, and the whole idea of twisting it into a turn-based puzzle system is truly inspired. Will this be ported into a full game? Please say yes.
I wish the bell dropped an alert marker 10 paces in my facing direction.
The game definitely needs more puzzles that explore the mechanics, but you've built a great foundation in 48 hours, and slapped on a -really- nice coat of paint, to boot. Great work, as usual. :)