Sugar Lake Chronicles

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.28
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★89%
Johnny has fallen asleep again in the woods and his nightmares have come to life. Find Johnny and wake him up. Luckily for you, you've just come out of a candy store and possess a giant lollipop and nightmares are diabetic. Use your lollipop to protect yourself on your journey.

Also, scattered around the world are 5 hidden coins. Feel free to see if you can find them.

Controls:
WASD or arrow keys to move
Space to attack
V to interact

Comments25

William Florencio
William Florencio23 Apr 2015, 21:18
Very cute. A big scenary to slow steps. Where the creatures are hidden? I want to kill more.hehe Good job.
Tayway203
Tayway203author23 Apr 2015, 21:30
Thanks. There's an area in the bottom right that's surrounded by rocks. There's a bunch of enemies there asking to be wacked on the head.
Nikteddy9223 Apr 2015, 21:35
The graphic style is really nice! And also the basic idea of the game!
Maybe the player movement is a little bit slow ^^'
Feyd_Rautha23 Apr 2015, 21:43
The map was a bit large and slow to navigate. Aside from that it was pretty fun. The animations for the creatures were a lot of fun and killing them was satisfying. I really stuck it to em.
Garris23 Apr 2015, 22:29
This is a really cute game! Reminded me a bit of Zelda, map-wise. It was a realllyyy big map, and not many enemies to kill along the way to finding Johnny. Also our character was a really slow walker for the amount of map to cover. But I liked this game! Really nice, smooth controls! And the lollipop was a really cute weapon.
TheMeorch
TheMeorch23 Apr 2015, 22:32
Lovely pixel art! The character movement and animation is a bit jerky and slow, and the world seems a bit empty, given its size -- but I'm sure you could develop on it if you keep working on it. Nice job!
Big Cow
Big Cow23 Apr 2015, 22:34
I liked the intro and the graphics. I agree with what people are saying about lack of enemies for such a large map; I wandered for ages without seeing anything.
tummyache
tummyache23 Apr 2015, 22:36
This player movement is extraordinarily slow. I took forever to find Johnny and I almost gave up. I only fought the one monster on the way which was kind of a bummer, so for me it was just a really slow walk over to find sleeping Johnny.
MrRoboman23 Apr 2015, 22:40
Nice Game. Unfortunately, I never found Johnny. I killed 40 of those shadow dogs, though. They're great.
The twitchy camera movement and slow walk speed were a turn off though.
Great work! keep it up!
Tayway203
Tayway203author24 Apr 2015, 00:55
The enemy spawners were set to some crazy high number so I've fixed that. Now there should be more things to smack and performance should be slightly better as well. Thanks for the feedback!
sorlok
sorlok24 Apr 2015, 00:58
Interesting; I loved the opening! Overworld was very big and a little repetitive. Loved the secret coins and the overall aesthetic.
dcRfj15
dcRfj1524 Apr 2015, 01:13
Great game, was fun to explore and fight monsters. I found Johnny in about 5 minutes (I guess I got lucky because it was such a large map though). I liked the humor though, some of the townspeople had some funny things to say. I found one of the hidden coins (#2). The character was relatively slow though, as was mentioned before, but that is a minor issue.
benmcnelly
benmcnelly24 Apr 2015, 01:15
Geez, I love the contrast of cute lolly pop kid and then holy crap demon horde thingy. Nice work!
rodobodolfo
rodobodolfo24 Apr 2015, 02:00
The combat feels rewarding, the art is awesome. Movement could be a little faster. Great entry!
Pix3M
Pix3M24 Apr 2015, 02:03
Could very easily be a fun hack n' slash if the controls felt responsive. I basically killed the things by running away, facing them, then holding my spacebar as I wait for the attack to fire. Sometimes I tap my spacebar and nothing happens, and it felt like the attack fires only some of the time.
richiebranson24 Apr 2015, 02:26
Definitely feeling the old school action RPG style pixel art & gameplay. The melee attack was reminiscent of Secret of Mana...well executed.
gruhn
gruhn24 Apr 2015, 02:45
A good game with some interesting visual feedback.
SmilingCat24 Apr 2015, 03:30
Nice graphics, loved the art style. Great job!
Davikin9224 Apr 2015, 03:39
I got lost a couple times and once I was able to get out of the bounds of the map. You should make the beasts a little slower because it's too hard to outrun theme. Music is good and the theme is funny. Good job!
Jokerbomb
Jokerbomb27 Apr 2015, 01:58
Cute game =). I enjoyed finding all the NPCs and coins. Attacking seemed to be on a weird timer. Sometimes I could reliably attack, other times I'd push the spacebar with no response. Nice work.
jacketsj28 Apr 2015, 01:14
Why don't the villagers jump into the water :(
mystakin
mystakin3 May 2015, 19:20
Adorable graphics, reminds me of Earthbound mixed with Legend of Zelda. Enjoyed the humor and thought it was a good base for a full game. :)

I would ditch the diabetes jokes, though.

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