Ludum Dare #42compo

Full Grave Panic!!! (Compo)

by ittinop

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.47

The graveyards are fuller than ever!!!
In this game, you manage a graveyard town, carefully balancing resources between gold, limited space, and coffins.
Coffins drop onto your town and you must clear them away to avoid losing health.
Coffins spawns exponentially faster as the late game approaches, so be prepared.

Test your skill on hard mode:

Copper: 40 Coffins

Silver: 80 Coffins

Gold: 120 Coffins

Platinum: 200 Coffins (You are better than the creator...)

The game was made using Unity, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and blender.

Note: would really appreciate if you can post your high score in comment. That could really help me understand how to balance the game.

Tools: Blender, Unity

Comments25

FrostedSentry13 Aug 2018, 00:36

This is really slick! Great work!

Ittinopauthor13 Aug 2018, 05:44

@frostedsentry Thanks you very much! A big relieve to hear that after pulled an all-nighter to get the game to this state :smile:

Mazzletov13 Aug 2018, 07:01

Great artwork and 3D modelling! It's a great idea. It would have been more fun if the spawning rate of the coffins was higher and/or the timers were lower?

Ittinopauthor13 Aug 2018, 07:06

@Mazzletov Thanks for the comment! The difficulty scales with time (eventually forces you to lose). Can I still make adjustment to the game? (new to this). I think it would be nice if I can add difficulty rating.

Mazzletov13 Aug 2018, 07:09

@ittinop yea why not. You won't change anything to the core gameplay, just tweaking it :smile:

Ittinopauthor13 Aug 2018, 07:10

Sure, will do it now thanks :smile: @Mazzletov

Truc_e13 Aug 2018, 07:13

Very well done! It has great graphics and good gameplay, at least at first, tt gets very repetitive after a big because its too easy the only times I lost health were because I didn't know a coffin was low (You should make the seconds more red or something the closer it is to zero). Also some creepy atmospheric music would have been cool.

teddynashor13 Aug 2018, 07:20

Nice job! the isometric land creation is very cool. Would build more on that! ... did feel pretty easy though (at least for the couple minutes I was playing)

Ossi13 Aug 2018, 07:44

This game is amazing! I love the graphics and the concept! Kudos on putting a tutorial in there that nicely explains the mechanics. I feel like the beginning of the game is fairly challenging since you can't generate gold quick enough forcing you to consider where to put graves and flowers. As the game went on I found myself just filling up spaces for houses and butchers to prevent coffins from spawning. It started to get a bit too easy by the end but I am super impressed that you got this much done in such a short amount of time! You nailed the theme, fantastic game!

This is how far I got before I stopped.

FreezedIce13 Aug 2018, 07:55

Really impressive art and concept. Also thanks that you had time to make tutorial because a lot of jam games definitely need tutorials. I think that coffin spawn rate is really slow and it makes game too easy.

Ittinopauthor13 Aug 2018, 08:27

Thanks a lot for all the comments :smile: @freezedice @ossi @teddynashor @truc-e @mazzletov

Updated the game with new build:
- Chooose Difficulty Settings!
- coffin timer is red when less than 10s @truc-e

@ossi That is a pretty nice town! glad you enjoyed it!

@truc-e Want the music too, unfortunately I have close-to-zero music skill lol :laughing:

I tried playing on hard mode and got to this point before it spirals. Hard enough I had to pause like every few secs.
Let's see if you guys can do better :D

Truc_e13 Aug 2018, 08:33

@ittinop Nice!

FrostedSentry13 Aug 2018, 11:11

@ittinop You might explore http://getsoundly.com/ for help with sounds!

Ittinopauthor13 Aug 2018, 18:07

@frostedsentry Thanks a lot for your sound suggestion! Just looked at the Soundly website and it looks very interesting. Is it allowed for Compo though, since it seems to be a library?
Regardless, it will be very useful for me in future for other projects for sure :smiley:
Thanks!

mike_inPrinciple14 Aug 2018, 05:25

Very impressive for a compo game. Great art, alright sounds, good learning curve and difficulty curve as well. I can see myself playing this more as it is, let alone more polished. Well done.

14 Aug 2018, 06:18

@ittinop
Not sure if you know, but after the time is up, you are only allowed to update the game when having major bugs that blocks from playing. Any other features should be clearly marked as post mortem in the download section (and not overwrite the original one)

Ittinopauthor14 Aug 2018, 06:29

Oh sorry, are you sure about that?

From Mazzletov's comment:
@ittinop yea why not. You won’t change anything to the core gameplay, just tweaking it smile

If you are sure, I can remove the two changes. (which are just UI/initial coffin timer)

ahcahttan14 Aug 2018, 06:52

Awesome! Great graphics and interesting concept! Love the city-building strategy elements in it.

HailBurns14 Aug 2018, 09:19

Love the game. Really challenging as the time progressed. Loving the tutorials given. Music would improve the game :).

Akros14 Aug 2018, 17:27

This is such a great idea for the theme!

Akros14 Aug 2018, 17:27

This is such a great idea for the theme!

AwiX15 Aug 2018, 07:20

A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good.
Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)

Ittinopauthor15 Aug 2018, 09:32

Thanks for the feedbacks :smile: @hailburns @ahcahttan @akros @awix

@hailburns @awix: Sorry there is no music at all, I have no idea how to do music lol, and 48-hrs is just too short. :owl:

Anna Petrova16 Aug 2018, 13:29

Good game. Graphics cool!

paulhocker22 Aug 2018, 02:25

well i played it for a long time so i must have liked it - beware the butcher - thanks for making it