Take your place in an angry mob while you climb through Nosferatu's Tower seeking revenge, avoiding traps and looking for other folks to join your crusade and your crowd will grow.
Climb all the floors without falling into traps, reach the top and defeat Nosferatu once for all.
Rescue the villagers trapped by Nosferatu in the Tower and they will join you growing your angry mob.
The game has two button controls and features the Growing theme two ways: the Angry Mob (grows whenever you rescue a trapped villager) and the Music (grows in intensity when you are near the Tower's top).
BEWARE! If you ran away from your followers they could get lost, be sure of getting them back.
------------- CONTROLS ------------- Z -> Jump X -> Change Direction
Reach the top of the tower with the highest number of villagers possible. Traps in the tower will kill you or deplenish your mob. ------------------------------------
We couldn't get the WebGL running with our Deferred Shaders, so we need to use the deprecated Web Player, sorry :(
15/12: - Updated solving two bugs that made the crowd to split under some circunstances.
16/12: - Solved more bugs with the crowd getting splitted - Solved the tutorial getting disabled without completing it - Changed Color Space from Linear to Gamma in the WebPlayer to fix the dark overlay in Mac.
Great implementation of the themes and amazing graphics and gameplay. This is one of the best games I've played so far and I think it is of professional level.
A full version of this game would be really cool, as well as an infinite one.
There were some issues with the controls. At times I was trying to turn and it wouldn't turn, or I was pressing the z to jump, and if I'd just bounced off a wall, it would just run me into a pit.
I also missed a tutorial message when I pressed z to jump over the first lava pit.
I'm not sure if its a glitch or a feature, but at one of the points my party split up and my camera only followed one group, but my other characters continued to react to my mouse button controls.
So this game is a piece of art, it looks great, the audio sounds great, and the gameplay is responsive and crisp. This was overall a great experience, it had some humor elements in there, and the mood was great.
So, I said great a bunch of times, I'm not really sure what to criticize, but I'll try my best.
So for starters, there's a bug in this game that if you lose your followers and they just stand there, the game plays sounds that sound just like you're having porn in your background. It's just like a guy and a girl moaning, having a great time. So yeah, I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but I was streaming this game and I actually had to go and check if porn was playing in my background.
That's a funny bug, but if this was a release title I think having those sounds in there would be a really bad idea. I'm not sure if you guys added that by choice, but it seems that way.
Not a very innovative game, but it was a ton of fun. I would love to see an infinite runner out of this, that'd be cool.
Thank you for a solid entry, one of the best entries I have played so far in this Ludum Dare!
I hope to see you guys make more games in the future as well!
I really like the way how the music builds up the higher you get into the tower, that's pretty epic. The gameplay is also really great, it fits both themes so well.
I'm astounded at the overall quality, the little things like the rain sounds, the lighting, the animations of the villagers. What a great game for only 72h time!
I also encountered a bug: when hitting a barrier, turning automatically and then doing a manual turn some villagers split off and returned to their bound state. If I didn't pick them up again they made the damaged sound throughout the game.
I would love to see more levels and a mobile port, you can do it! :)
WOW! This is probably the most polished game we've seen so far. Production values are really great for a ludum dare entry, congrats Crema Game!
Reminds us of the classic Castlelian. A very smart use of 2 button controls and growing theme! Would had loved an endless mode so we could keep playing a while longer.
Nice, good work! Decently challenging and the art and sound are great.
Looks like a polished entry but also like a project that was adapted to LD and then submitted. The text in the description has the controls backwards. It's really dark and hard to see exactly where to go. Spent some time just jumping around hoping to land on the platforms above.
@tharealjohn this game wasn't adapted to LD and submitted. We created it from the beggining, we were streaming all the development in Twitch and the videos are there so you can check them: http://www.twitch.tv/cremagames/profile
The controls are backwards in the text yes, I just noticed that xD
This game looks great, great job with those shaders.
The characters and overall tone of the game were a lot of fun, too. It's cool you guys did both themes, and the game feels like it could be a lot bigger, too.
I stumbled into some minor bugs, as you would expect, and as someone else mentioned, I missed the jumping tutorial.
Nice take on Nebulus, very well done. Please consider that there are a lot of people with keyboards that have switched Z and Y keys, it's really awkward to play in that case.
The presentation is fantastic, great graphics, great subtle bits all over the place. That's quality.
But.
The game... well, I get that darkness is the theme, but I can't see what's coming up, and progress is mostly trial and error, and I don't know what errors I'm committing. It's not clear for example that the door I keep dying at needed a number on the top left to be 6 to get through, and that I must go backwards from my checkpoint point to collect stuff to get that to 6. And it's not clear that I have to go backwards once I pass that, to jump on to the left into blind darkness to progress. And then die immediately, and then have to do that all over again.
So, I feel like the game should be pretty cool, but I don't feel like I can see enough of what's going on to actually play it well.
Also the nature of the two controls you've chosen means that sometimes I see a thing, hit a button instinctively, then want to turn around, which turns into a dash, then I die.
So a lot of it feels like a memory rather than a reaction exercise :/
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Vitet15 Dec 2015, 19:58
@Tuism that seems like a bug. Try a standalone version or go fullscreen in the Unity web player, there is no darkness in this game that prevents you from seeing anything
@Tuism does your game looks like the screenshots we posted? Or darker? There's a bug in some devices (specially Mac/Linux) making the game darker, maybe that's the case?
Okay! Got the Mac version and it looks much better, I can see where I'm going.
Some concerns remain the same though: - How do I know that gate kills how many of my guys? Some obstacles kill one of them, some kill more than one, I have no indication of which ones are what. I know I should just avoid them all, but the feeling of "argh I hit something", expecting to lose, then the game continuing, makes me panic because I was ready to restart but I can't now, and possibly end up dead because I was not paying attention anymore. - I never felt comfortable with the controls, I had to think about a sequence of actions before I did them, which made me feel quite silly. I think the combination of dash and turn around in one button made it really hard to get to grips intuitively.
So a great game, great execution, but the flow of it felt unintuitive to me.
Awesome game! You guys made great use of both themes and the graphics are amazing. I couldn't make it all the way up to the tower, but I kept trying, and I had fun
Amazing job! Really loved this entry. I think making the player go up and down was a neat progression on the level that could be exploited more for mazes. Great idea. Graphics were awesome. Pretty tight control.
I think this is the most polished game I've played yet, very nice work in every aspect! If it would have nice replayability (random tower generation or something like that), and a ranking, that would do it.
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LxStudio16 Dec 2015, 12:16
Very fun game. The additional dash mechanic with the two-button control scheme works very well. Good stuff.
Great game, great concept, great gameplay, great controls, great music, great sounds (love the "uuuuuuh", I can't help but do sprints whenever I can!! Everything is great, very good job, compis españoles :)
Really nice, good implementation and graphics and sound. But it REALLY needs some kind of checkpoint system. I got tired of starting from the start again.
¡Es genial! Perfecta integración de los temas "dos controles" y "creciendo". El nivel técnico general es impresionante para un juego de jam. Quizás el bucle de la música es algo corto, pero mola. El guiño final al Super Mario es increíble. ¡Gran trabajo!
The overall game and mood are absolutely awesome. You combined it with humor, and the "whoooo" sound could just become a meme in the LD community. Everything is smooth, and well-fitted. One of the greatest game I've seen so far. Thanks for the experience :)
Very incredible work! The gameplay is nearly perfect, and all the art feels polished and moody. I love how the game is challenging, but fun - especially in that you can try out different paths to progress. Keep up with the great work!! I can see this potentially being a successful game in the market. :D
Amazing game and very polished! The graphics are very nice. It's very fun to play and has an addictive gameplay. I think it will be in the Top 5 at least! :D
WOW. This game is really impressive. Very similar to Mr. Crab but surprisingly with the same level of polish and tightness. Nice work. Love the aesthetics.
Great stuff... don't know what to say apart from that it's superb all over. One minor bug I experienced was when the front of my mob wasn't the main dude I was controlling, that was weird. I fell down a hole but then picked up my mob lying on the floor later :P
The good: -felt great to play/good controls -fun level design -stylistic tweaks and different uses of mechanics we've seen before ex: the tail of mob members that both grew (like in snake/work) and how you lost members who got hit and could recover them (yoshi's island maybe?) - looks super polished -sorta hit both themes without making it seem shoe-horned in
the bad: -not super innovative (which is fine) -wish it was longer (which is also fine, a game this polished can't be super long with only 72 hours to make it)
Wow! I am amazed how much you were able to pull off in only 3 days! It looks great, it sounds great and all in all it's enjoyable experience with simple but effective game mechanic (i.e. not too hard). Thanks and congratulations! <3
What the HELL is that ?! How could you make a so amazing game just by the time allowed on a LD ?! Great job ! I love this one ! ... Even if I sucks at this kind of games. XD
One of the best games I've played so far. Looks great. The ambient noise is pretty good, but I would love more music to it. I will definitely be coming back for more. I was a little unsure about some of the obstacles. I thought I had to avoid them altogether, but I guess I could break through some of them...or maybe I had to collect something to break through...not sure. FUN Though!
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nl_ant120 Dec 2015, 19:16
Three Thumbs up, loved it, streamed it. The first time i finished it till the end. The second time i wanted to get more of the Villagers, and with that i made it myself harder and harder.
Cool game. I had a hard time convincing my brain that the controls weren't left and right, so messed up a few times because of that. Very nice graphics. Good use of the theme. Nice job.
Perfect five. From art and music to game mechanics and level design, you've crafted one of the best games I've seen this entry. You should keep working on it and develop it onto a full game, the idea is already proven.
I was playing the game and enjoying my coffee at the same time, nice and smooth gameplay with two button controls!
It kept reminding me of our game visually, and you guys did a great job. Not many developers make nice looking 3D games during the LD but you managed to achieve that.
Very cool! Cool graphics, great tune. And it's 3D! The mood is also fitting.
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Nekete21 Feb 2016, 10:09
I just can't believe it have been done in so little time. It's a great production work here ^_^ Great overall quality. Hope to see more ludum dare submits of you! ^_^
Really nice graphics, awesome game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/BZOhspy6Kt8
A full version of this game would be really cool, as well as an infinite one.
Buen trabajo!