On an alien planet you must fight the dragon that grows ever nearer.
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CONTROLS: Left/Right arrows + Space
The game checkpoints at 3 places (start, mid point where it gets hard, and boss). There are only 7 screens to play through.
As always I wish I had more time for polish. It's not a deep or complex game but it has a lot of variety and is a complete thought. The game doesn't handhold you and I deliberately tried to keep interface and text off screen. It doesn't tell you to his Space to restart a level, for example, because I feel that's obvious and intuitive. Your controls change up slightly for the boss. Shouldn't be hard to discover.
I put about 27 hours of work into this (Fri (midnight-6am), Saturday (6pm-8am), Sun (2pm-8pm).
Obviously influenced by the great Eric Chahi and his seminal work, Another World (Out of this World).
Beautiful homage to OoTW. Nailed the simple style too. And I love the heroic concept that even us folks with a little too much belly can still slay dragons.
Really nice homage to Another World. Definitely really nice looking, and the ground biters are certainly as tough as the original ones. The game is a bit frustrating tough, especially with the long distance between the checkpoints and the random boulders. Regardless of that, fine work for two days.
Also this went through my head after dying numerous times : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwNaJAH_8-U. It's Heart of Darkness not Another World, but the games are similar.
I wash checkpointing every level but it felt too easy. But I may revert it if people feel that way. really the 1st 4 levels are easy to get through (1st checkpoint). It can literally take 20 seconds. Levels 5/6 are tougher but are in their own checkpoint. And level 7 (boss) is his own checkpoint. So really, the boulders are too hard. Maybe I will slow them a tad more or something to help. Thanks for the feedback.
Falling boulders are a massive spike in difficulty, but the game is gorgeous and an amazing throwback to a bygone era. Really excellent entry, could have maybe used a sombre background tune.
Beautiful homage to Another World! :D It's tough but it's definitely fun. It took me a while to understand where the main character was colliding though ;) Well done!
This is a really nice homage. Probably slightly depressing for Eric to think how much of Another World you implemented in 2 days in 2015 versus how long it took him to make that game :) Ridiculous really.
Shares the same brutal difficulty too. Love the visuals, sounds are spot on too.
Really enjoyed it. It's very polished. I found the checkpointing to be fine. The first section was the hardest for me; took me a couple dozen tries. I managed the cavern on the first try, and the dragon in two tries. Loved the atmosphere; you managed to capture that AW feeling perfectly.
I like the style and the way it builds anticipation, its a clever use of the theme. I died a lot though, the forward velocity of the jump feels a little stunted and took a while to get used to. It was really satisfying to see the blob creatures get smashed by the rocks, because fuck those guys. The end fight was solid too. Great work overall!
My favorite part is the retro visual style. Other than that difficulty of challenge is right. I think it could be longer though but I realize you had to polish it to look nice like this. Clean entry, I like it!
Well made game, I was a bit scared at first when I noticed that dying goes back to the start. But luckily it switched as the game progressed.. other than that, good mood/audio/graphics.. fighting the dragon was a bit easy, but fun. good job! :)
Really nice presentation! Controls are hard but you will get used to it after a while. I don't know if this is intended to be a 100% homage to Another World, but the difficulty curve is too steap in my opinion. It might scare players off.
Really love the graphics. Once you get used to the way the character jumps it's good but I died a lot. I really like the multi-screen approach, very nice!
@GoodwolfStudio...because it's there and for any video game to be good, something needs to die! :) I only regret I ran out of time to put in blood splatter.
I finished it and it was really good. I did like the homage to AW(OoTW), one of my favorite games from back in the day. You really should create an extended version of this game and put it on steam for a couple of bucks. I really think your LD games are getting better and better with each LD. :D
Yeah, i kill the dragon! Wouhou! Great hommage to Mr Chahi! The respawn was a good idea and the boss battle also! With better graphics and animations this game might have been a true roller coaster !
awesome, the visuals are super, and you've emulated the spirit of Another World superbly, well done :) however, the theme gets a little lost. I understand the concept of the dragon growing nearer, but still, I would have liked something less ethereal. I grew up playing your games, it's awesome you're still making them! keep it up ;)
This is a very enjoyable game that is not too hard but not too easy. The old school graphics and screen look is great and everything goes together very nicely. Best thing I've played so far. Excellent work!
I slew the Dragon, yay ^^ Only died like a million times :P
Nice homage :) The graphical effect is nice too. I really think the rocks need to follow some sort of pattern though. Another World was super hard but you could learn it by rote eventually. I felt in the cave sections that I made it through mainly because I just got lucky with the random number generator. I did play it till the end though :)
I like the 80s screen effect and the retro movement was no problem for me as I'm old. Dem kids clamoring for more checkpoints just don't know... Great mood and sound effects were great, how did you make the dragon squeal?
When I saw the pixelated dragons, hero, and monsters with hexagonal pixel filter, I felt intrigued. If you continue to develop this, on the Chrome with an older Windows AlienWare M11x, when the frame rate was choppy and I couldn't jump the second maw on the ground in the second screen after a dozen attempts, I felt discouraged.
Nice game, I liked the different challenges and the mechanics for the boss fight. I think the difficulty was just right, not too hard, not too easy. Also nice visuals.
Interestingly I didn't really like this game much at all. Dodging randomly appearing boulders and jumping over monster things didn't really seem very interesting.
And the theme?
Maybe I need to have played Another World to understand this game?
The game looks very nice and seems quite polished, but the controls are a bit iffy. I imagine I'm missing some throwback to a very old game where the controls were clunky or something, but such are the woes of young people.
Gorgeous homage to Another World with a nice variety of challenges and a challenging but rewarding difficulty! There is a heck of a lot of polish in this game and it was a joy to play!
Loved the graphics, especially the little details like the screen effects, enemies being squished by the boulders, and spears staying in the dragon. The sound effects were great, and for some reason I didn't mind the lack of music, not even noticing until I started typing this.
I haven't played Another World (unlike every other commenter here, haha), but I enjoyed it anyway. Good job!
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Also this went through my head after dying numerous times : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwNaJAH_8-U. It's Heart of Darkness not Another World, but the games are similar.
Thanks for sticking with it. I hope most ppl finish the game.
Short, but due to it's difficulty, I think it was a very good length.
Overall, this was the perfect little LudumDare game, I loved it, nice job!
Nice hommage
Good luck in the compo!
It's tough but it's definitely fun. It took me a while to understand where the main character was colliding though ;)
Well done!
Was expecting a similar control style to AW, but not really a bad thing that you diverged from it. controls work great as they are.
Shares the same brutal difficulty too. Love the visuals, sounds are spot on too.
I don't know if this is intended to be a 100% homage to Another World, but the difficulty curve is too steap in my opinion. It might scare players off.
Great graphics, a bit too hard.
Well done!
however, the theme gets a little lost. I understand the concept of the dragon growing nearer, but still, I would have liked something less ethereal. I grew up playing your games, it's awesome you're still making them! keep it up ;)
Wish there was music and the dragon death animation was more vivid :-)
Nice homage :) The graphical effect is nice too. I really think the rocks need to follow some sort of pattern though. Another World was super hard but you could learn it by rote eventually. I felt in the cave sections that I made it through mainly because I just got lucky with the random number generator. I did play it till the end though :)
Great mood and sound effects were great, how did you make the dragon squeal?
Also nice visuals.
And the theme?
Maybe I need to have played Another World to understand this game?
I haven't played Another World (unlike every other commenter here, haha), but I enjoyed it anyway. Good job!