"Story": Darkling is a game about a unique wood sprite with the ability to vaguely alter his seemingly simple body, but this also grants him incredible abilities. This sprite is searching endlessly for his kin, other Darklings, but they seem to not exist entirely. In the forest, he finds only slight variations of sprites he's already seen which are not much like him: the violent Dusklings and the friendly Evenlings.
With the ability to absorb energy taken from or freely given by others, the Darkling can more closely imitate aspects of other sprites and expand his already unusual set of skills.
This journey has no end, but it is one that must be made.
Gameplay: This game is an endless platformer with a focus on simple, yet pleasant aesthetics and an experimental combat system.
The TEAM: Sloof Games is a diverse team of talented and devoted developer(s) dedicated to bringing new and wonderful experiences to life through gaming; specific credits as listed below:
Direction by Ducky Concepts by Ducky Artwork by Ducky Animation by Ducky Music by Ducky Sound Effects by Ducky Coding by Ducky Press (or lack thereof) by Ducky Jokes that aren't funny by Ducky
Not bad. Gameplay is smooth and the enemy movements look dynamic, plus the shapeshift mechanic is interesting. Only issues are that the music gets tiring very quickly, the executable is quite large, and I get this error when I die: ___________________________________________ ################################## FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Create Event
for object Puff1b:
Push :: Execution Error - Variable Get 20.depth(19, -1) at gml_Object_Puff1b_Create_0 (line -1) - <unknown source line> ###################################
Art is pretty nice, and things seem to run smoothly, but I had basically no idea what I was doing. Apart from the instructions (which didn't seem to help), there wasn't any tutorialisation in the game. I ended up stuck in a form that couldn't do anything and then I died, getting the same error as WeaverDeveloper. Overall, interesting little game, would just like to have a better idea of what I'm supposed to do!
I really like the atmosphere of this game. I'm not sure if I knew what I was doing but it was fun. The only thing I seen was my attacks seems to stop working when I changed forms.
It seemed like a cool concept, but unfortunately on my machine I found that it began to stutter and lag too seriously to make extended gameplay worthwhile. Based on the first minute or so while it ran smoothly, I was thoroughly impressed with the graphics and smooth controls; it seems like a great concept to expand upon!
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object Puff1b:
Push :: Execution Error - Variable Get 20.depth(19, -1)
at gml_Object_Puff1b_Create_0 (line -1) - <unknown source line>
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