If you, the sacrifice, want to save your tribe, you'll have to venture deep down trought the Volcano while you collect the soul shard, in order to become tastier to the Volcano God.
Hi~ this is my very first LD, i hope you guys like it... its like, the very first game i made. I'm actually working in other game called "The Chance", but so far this would be the very fisrt done :D
Also, sorry for any grammar issues (: The source, is a .rar with the whole Contruct 2 project
Original idea. Nice looking in game, although the text labels and buttons kinda let down the graphics a bit, and the GM Midi sounding music is a little annoying. A lot of potential
Very good job for a first game ! It works well and it's fun to play. Is the whole thing level-designed or is there a bit of random for replayability ? By the way i like the idea of becoming tastier for a sacrifice very much :D
Yeah, i actually used other fonts, but i mess that up xD. I forget that i should put them onto images and not leave them just as pure text. Is ok to fix that? or i must wait until this three weeks are no more?
About the level, it goes 50-50, in each level of tastiness i told to Construct how many rocks or lava torrent it must spawn, but their location is set to be random. Now talking about the lava torrents, they can either stop you, pull you down or throw you up. At first i didn't like it, i was trying just to trap the player for a short span of time, but while testing the game i realize that if the player gets pulled down and collisions with the detector (which is a sprite moving always upwards, that spawn the rocks or lava torrents) that you can get multiple spawns. So i make the decision to leave it as it was working because i love it. Obviously, since the game its quite easy, it's very difficult to see it, but i think that's okey, because its to much to evade.. that will kill you 90% for sure.... but makes it fun, doesn't it? :D ...(?)
Cheers! :D
*I'm not a natural english speaker, please excuse me for any typos D:
Love the graphics (especially the main character's expression) and backstory. To people wondering if it's possible to die: yes it is, I actually died several times :) Why do those shards like hiding underneath rocks so much?!
It's a bit weird that fireballs just.. stop you, instead of maybe bouncing you off or something. It's easy to get captured on top of a row of fireballs, and little you can do about it except shuffle a bit, wait and hope you pop back down.
The music is nice, but doesn't really fit the situation. I suppose you went for the humor category there =]
The menus are mouse only and ingame is keyboard only. It'd be nice if the menus could be controlled with a keyboard too.
I like the little comic in the instructions screen =)
I could die achieving a lvl10 of tastiness ! I failes 3x 4x times to reach the bottom of the volcano before that. I would never have thought that volcana diving was so tricky :D
I think this is a great start and a really solid first entry for LD. I agree with some people that I wasn't sure what was killing me and I also had a lot of issues with the obstacles being right in the same path as the reward - literally no way for me to get them. That's a bug you'll need to work out.
Overall, I like the idea, but the execution isn't quite there in this version. If I can make one final suggestion, place the player a little bit further away (towards the top of the screen). Right now he's pretty close to the middle and by the time obstacles appear there's little that can be done to avoid them.
That's it. Just keep going! The more you do the better it'll get!
Thanks for sharing and thank you for playing/rating my entry! :)
:D Sorry for the shards hiding behind the fireballs, since the game only have 10 levels, i thought that by not fixing that it will become a bit longer and it will increase the chances to lose the game. Since it seems that everyone suffer with it, i will try to remove it :D
@shadow64 Wow, thank you so much for that feedback (:!
To everyone, thank you so much :D ..and please excuse my english (typos too)
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I love the art and the music ain't bad, but I don't think they really match each other, somehow.
Yeah, i actually used other fonts, but i mess that up xD. I forget that i should put them onto images and not leave them just as pure text. Is ok to fix that? or i must wait until this three weeks are no more?
About the level, it goes 50-50, in each level of tastiness i told to Construct how many rocks or lava torrent it must spawn, but their location is set to be random.
Now talking about the lava torrents, they can either stop you, pull you down or throw you up. At first i didn't like it, i was trying just to trap the player for a short span of time, but while testing the game i realize that if the player gets pulled down and collisions with the detector (which is a sprite moving always upwards, that spawn the rocks or lava torrents) that you can get multiple spawns. So i make the decision to leave it as it was working because i love it. Obviously, since the game its quite easy, it's very difficult to see it, but i think that's okey, because its to much to evade.. that will kill you 90% for sure.... but makes it fun, doesn't it? :D ...(?)
Cheers! :D
*I'm not a natural english speaker, please excuse me for any typos D:
To people wondering if it's possible to die: yes it is, I actually died several times :)
Why do those shards like hiding underneath rocks so much?!
It's a bit weird that fireballs just.. stop you, instead of maybe bouncing you off or something. It's easy to get captured on top of a row of fireballs, and little you can do about it except shuffle a bit, wait and hope you pop back down.
The music is nice, but doesn't really fit the situation. I suppose you went for the humor category there =]
The menus are mouse only and ingame is keyboard only. It'd be nice if the menus could be controlled with a keyboard too.
I like the little comic in the instructions screen =)
The background sound is a bit laggy for me though.
Overall, I like the idea, but the execution isn't quite there in this version. If I can make one final suggestion, place the player a little bit further away (towards the top of the screen). Right now he's pretty close to the middle and by the time obstacles appear there's little that can be done to avoid them.
That's it. Just keep going! The more you do the better it'll get!
Thanks for sharing and thank you for playing/rating my entry! :)
Sorry for the shards hiding behind the fireballs, since the game only have 10 levels, i thought that by not fixing that it will become a bit longer and it will increase the chances to lose the game. Since it seems that everyone suffer with it, i will try to remove it :D
@shadow64
Wow, thank you so much for that feedback (:!
To everyone, thank you so much :D
..and please excuse my english (typos too)