Ludum Dare #34compo

Flame Keepers

by honcho

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★40%

UPDATE: Hey guys. Thanks for playing and providing feedback! I really wish I had enough time to get to level design and more background polish, but hey I'm glad the movement and controls are super responsive and tight.

I have decided to spend more time on this project and polish it up quite nicely :D

Hope you guys look forward to the finished product.

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You play a as one of the Flame Keeper's Reapers, a being that travels haunted corridors and collects soul essence. With soul essence a Flame Keeper's Flame will grow and thus the Reaper will grow as well..

The ultimate goal of Reapers is to remove all the tombs within the corridors of the Flame Keepers Dungeon.

GETTING HIT BY A GHOST WILL REMOVE 3 SOULS FROM YOUR LAMP,
IF YOU ARE HIT BY A GHOST AND HAVE NO SOULS YOU WILL DIE.

CONTROLS

'A' 'D' - Movement
'W' - Jump
'Space' - Attack

Comments21

thirteenthspiral14 Dec 2015, 05:22

Can you explain to me how to run this game? I'm not sure how to open the capx file and what software I need to do this. This game looks so interesting but alas, I can't play it D:

John Druryauthor14 Dec 2015, 05:37

You can't play straight from browser?

mukult14 Dec 2015, 07:10

Fun game and nice art!! Love it...
But it gets rather tedious to destroy those pots!! just saying :)
But overall loved it!

fede0d14 Dec 2015, 07:47

I liked the graphics & the animations. I didn't understand quite well the ultimate goal of the game.

Tensoplast0114 Dec 2015, 07:50

Nice game, just a little bit too easy i found. BUT, the fact that enemys are re-spawning is a very nice idea

ondrejbalas14 Dec 2015, 08:17

The movement feels solid and responsive, and the jumping feels natural too. The main thing that I think is lacking is some kind of antagonist to push you towards accomplishing the goal. Nice job!

PowerSpark14 Dec 2015, 08:28

Great art! The pot smashing shouldn't take multiple hits... having to stop at every pot for 3 sec adds up

Tasteslikefuture14 Dec 2015, 08:33

Very cool aesthetic. I tended to get lost a bit, but the combat was pretty fun. Great job!

ChristianBraun14 Dec 2015, 08:39

Really liked the graphics and the sound effect. Some nice dark background music would have done a great job. liked the controls but there is too less inovation in this game

Elenesski14 Dec 2015, 08:49

Liked how the game works and when the souls left the vases and entered the lamps. Good Pixel graphics. I had fun with this. Good Job.

Smirnov4814 Dec 2015, 08:53

Mechanics of souls is very interesting. Not clearly goal. I think the first lamp should be after you collected necessary amount of souls. It'll be more understandable.

Gyfis14 Dec 2015, 09:21

Nice game and art. However, it gets stale quite quickly...

Jstank14 Dec 2015, 12:17

the biggest thing about this game is the controls. I really wish that I could use ASDW to move and jump and like right CTRL to attack, or something along those lines. It really hurts my hands to play it. Otherwise very good platforming basics here. Decrease the pot health to make it so you just need one hit. I just wish that something that made me want to fill the pots, other than just to gain more soles. Lastly moving around the level was a bit awkward as some of the jumps to get back to the top were not very obvious. Great concept and effort here, if it was the 72 hour jam Im sure this would have been a stellar submission! good job though!

johntherobot14 Dec 2015, 21:05

I liked the mood and the really consistent graphics (especially the soul-collection), but it took way too long to destroy each pot. Good job!

thirteenthspiral14 Dec 2015, 23:30

Very fun to play but it gets really repetitive. I liked the power ups though

dusho15 Dec 2015, 12:13

kind of hard to break all the pots.. also level design could have been more varied
game has nice art

bitdecaygames15 Dec 2015, 21:58

you win! :) I cant believe the first time I died when I was less than 100 away from completing the 1k pot.

_HopFrog16 Dec 2015, 05:16

This was really good and satisfing! The audio got a little bit annoying really quick though. But I really enjoyed it overall!

danbolt16 Dec 2015, 16:17

I really liked the sound effects and animations. Or, in some ways it's simple, but in other ways it gives really good player feedback. It was addictive dishing out attacks to things. Well done!