Downpour

Very pretty and atmospheric. Finished it twice because I wanted it play more :)

Very lovely little game. Nice mechanic and interpretation of the theme and a wonderful atmospheric style. My only criticism is that you maybe didn't make enough out of the sheltering under things mechanic. Like maybe there's some part where you have to wait for something to happen and you have to take shelter under something but your shelter keep moving.

But what's there is very good :)

Great game and very atmospheric. I loved the matches being used as checkpoints. Shame there isn't a little more of it.

Great job

nice atmospheric, I can't find my character at first but great job.

Real good interpretation of the theme. I finished it and wanted more! (a good think) consider continuing to develop this!

Great use of the theme, love the graphics and the atmosphere. You should keep working on this and add more mechanics!

As others have said, great atmosphere! The core mechanic is solid. My favorite moment was when I realized that I didn't have to wait to get small to go under the chain link fence, but could jump through it. The 2.5D style is generally executed well, though I did not at first recognized the puddle after the fence as water at first. Nice entry!

Very Very cool! The Shadow the first time I saw it! wow

Great concept and execution. Only quarrel was the water texture missing. Had fun playing on stream!

Look good, but i don't recognize the dead area (water maybe ?) in the third level.. :(

The controller do the job, i liked the tension when i have to choose between doing the challenge fast and risk to loose or do it carefully and risk to see my fireball get extinguished !

I think you can on level design do multiple ways nicely( like choosing between under a desk or on top, etc..) with risk management :)

Really love this game. It's really cute and the audio gives for this nice mood. My only complaint is that it's too short :P! Great job!

Great idea! Want more levels!

Very atmospheric, I like the visuals and the lighting effects. It's sometimes not entirely clear if something is part of the background or not.

Really pretty! Works great for a PoC and fits the theme well! A+

nice game, the lighting and mood are pretty well done

Love the moving light source! Very difficult game

The graphics are superior man! Good job

I uploaded my gameplay of this game on youtube, you can find it here


Thanks for being part of the stream :)

Some of the best graphics I've seen so far. Usually I notice the lack of music, but on this occasion you do such a good job with the sounds that it does't feel bad at all. Fits the theme very well. Amazing debut. Congrats!

Very good choice of graphics and design to make an ambiance.
Controls feel good but sometime collisions on the ground impedes the movement. I makes you waste the few seconds you need to get to the end.
The start of the second level asks the player too move for too long before getting to the checkpoint.

I loved the can checkpoint.
Good theme respect !

Unfortunately I cannot run this Windows 64 bit exe on my 32 bit machine, could you add another build?

@gonutz Ah, I didn't think about that. A 32-bit build should be up now :)

It's very short and sometimes I got caught in pieces of the level. But it's really pretty and original. I kinda panicked in that final run, really cool.

I love this game. It's simple yet it does an effective job of tying the power mechanic to the story of the game.

My only complaint is that the water in the second level (between the rocks) didn't strike me as water at first, so I kept jumping off the rocks and getting extinguished. Maybe give it a mirroring material? It might be a cool effect to have the flame jumping over mirror-like water.

Either way, I really enjoyed this game. I like games with a story that tell it without any words, and even though this doesn't have a very deep story (or does it :slight_smile:) it communicates it effectively without much prompting. Well done.

Very nice game, great concept and mood.

Very nice aesthetic and mood. Did get stuck in some parts of the level though, but overall, it's quite a good game!

Awesome idea for a platformer, I would love to see this developed into more of a game on put on Steam. I could see this becoming one of those 'standout' platformers like Ori, Unravel, etc.

I am doing a lets play series of LD 39 games, in the latest video I play through Downpour - check it out if you're keen :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChQ4GLJfys&feature=youtu.be

These are my thoughts in parallel to playing the game.

Nice setting and idea, being a flame in the rain, that is really a cool thought for the theme!

The collision detection feels odd, I sometimes get stuck where I see no obstacle really. Especially in the level after the tutorial, where you start at the matchbox, I press RIGHT but nothing happens and I am wondering where I am. I get stuck when not entering the pipe right from the floor, i.e. jumping into it gets me stuck in mid-air. Running out of the pipe I get stuck at the end and have to jump out.

The camera is a little too slow when I drop from some higher height.

It took me a couple of tries to realize I could not touch the ground between the rocks and have to jump from rock to rock. The floor should have puddles of rain there to show me this but it looks just like the floor that I just came from, that didn't instantly kill me!

I love the ending, cool thing I sacrafice myself for the bigger flame :-)

The rain sound effect is very good, sounds like you have taken some white noise and added a couple of drops to it. Very realistic and fits the graphics really well.

The graphics and sound go well together, the 3D models are consistent in quality and the particle-effect flame looks cool. Very good job on setting the mood!

Overall a very cool game, thank you for this and keep up the good work!

@gonutz Thanks :) I'm considering putting some more work into this and developing the game further, and all your comments are helpful. I did figure out the weird ground collision, and it was such a small, trivial thing that it's quite embarrassing :p

I love the idea for the game :) I think that you could take this idea further and make a really awesome platformer!

The second level was actually very hard for me. I kept getting stuck for no apparent reason although I was able to eventually get through by jumping whenever that happened.

I think it'd be cool if there were windy areas that made the fire larger and there were puzzles that would require your fire to be at a specific size so you would have to adjust the size of the fire using nearby water or wind elements.

Really cute game which doesn't need background music with all these good noises. I really liked the jump sound by the way.

Graphics work quite well with the fire light and I like the 3D style platformer view you made, which is impressive for me since this is not my favourite style.

Level design is subtle, we don't need visual cue and it's a good choice, the player has to discover where he can "walk" or not. Collisions are kinda strange sometimes and cost me several tries, but I guess it can be fixed so it's okay.

Great game overall, good job! :D

Really nice work here the game looks great and plays well too.

The 3d platformer style camera and visual style reminds me of Inside from Playdead games which is a very good thing. The concept is cute too I like the idea of the little flame trying to stay lit and its an interesting and original take on the theme.

Only improvements I could suggest is that the fire light up at the end as though that was the flames purpose which is now complete. There was a clearer visual sign that it's water on the second stage cause I didn't realize that the first time and wondered why i died.

Its a small shame that you get stuck on few things from time to time but it doesn't spoil the fun too much.

Those are small complaints and overall its a great entry, well done.

This is a pretty good game.

The graphics are by far the best I've seen this Ludum Dare. The sound effects are great as well - the background noise is very unique as most Ludum Dare games use music.

The main problem I see with the gameplay is that there really isn't a lot of challenge that can be implemented - right now it's basically just "platform your way to the exit with a time limit" which is a legitimate game but isn't particularly interesting and kind of wastes the whole "you can hide from the rain" thing.

The other problem I saw is that some parts of the "death pit," so to speak, in the second level do not appear to be water at all - they appear to be completely dry ground, and it's frustrating to jump on one and lose.

It's very beautiful !!!

very beautifully created game. the graphics are amazing and the game has a great atmosphere. good job :)

This game is beautiful visually. The audio is great too. Nice mood and atmosphere.

This was really clever, enjoyed the concept and liked how you interpreted the theme. One of my favourite interpretations so far. Only wish it was longer cause was fun to play and see how far I could get the flame. Would be nice to see more difficulties in later levels but for a first Ludumd Dare it's definitely impressive. A lot more then my first effort :)

Prettyest game i have seen in the jam so far. The game was simply beautiful, both in graphics and atmosphere. The gameplay was simple but was fun, and the music and effects were superb. Awesome work!