The Ancient Ones wish to drown the Earth in the tears of their old enemy, but they yet lack the power to do so. As his faithful apprentice, you'll have to run his errands of kidnapping his future victims and performing the sacrifice!
Tactical kidnapping
Seven houses, seven people to steal
Collect items for hidden lore
Make the Ancient Ones pleased
CONTROLS:
A or Left Arrow - Move Left;
D or Right Arrow - Move Right;
Left Shift - Run;
E - Use objects;
F - Pick Up / Steal;
Optimized for 1366x768, windowed and fullscreen.
Hotfix is out! - Improved NPC pathfinding - Fixed item usage radius - Several visual and gameplay bugs removed - Added credits
The Ancient Ones are pleased by your sacrifices so they granted us the permission to give you some clues about your mission.
Just some tips for you to make some things clearer:
1) Gather items for hidden lore (notes and red bags) that appears in the lair. (check the wall too ;))
2) You can run past a confused NPC using SHIFT to hide quickly.
3) Steps while running make noises. Squeaky doors make noises. Use sounds wisely.
4) You can’t run past a triggered NPC, so if you bump into him you’ll lose. Stay calm, stay cold blooded, think about a strategy.
5) NPC will be looking for you if you are spotted. Hide and wait for a while.
6) To finish level you need to kidnap a prey, put him in the cart and run away.
7) We’re sorry, but we didn’t have a time to give you an opportunity to save your game. Play it now and play it until the end.
8) Speaking about the end, the 7th level WILL surprise you, so try your best to play it and beat it ;)
That’s all for now, we can’t tell you more. Embark, hide and kidnap the poor souls! Let the Ancient Ones be proud!
Really impressive submission! Graphics are great. music is fitting (did you source that elsewhere?) Texts are a bit repetetive. The stealth mechanic is simplistic but for the timeframe all in all its a great game!
WOW! The visuals are amazing, animation is well done, the audio is great, this game rocks. The only negative feedback I can give is that the gameplay is a bit simple, but its definitely fun and engaging nonetheless
Wow, that's a very impressive level of polish for a gamejam. You guys worked very hard on this. The game is stunning, from the menu to the text font. Maybe gameplay need a little more feedback on player action, it's sometime hard to understand what we did wrong. Really great game, can be proud.
Fantastic use of the theme, great to see the theme being used to set the entire mood of the game! I struggled a bit at the start trying to capture my first victim, and I had some Benny Hill moments hiding under the bed in plain sight, but once I began to grasp the mechanics I was thoroughly enjoying kidnapping sacrifices!
An absolutely astonishing entry! The graphics are amazing. I love all the little subtleties of the animation. That makes me realize how much love went into this project. The audio is also absolutely amazing. These two things contribute to a truly excellent mood. The gameplay was very good, though the theme of sacrifice itself wasn't too relevant. I suck at these kinds of games, though, so I didn't manage to play it all the way through. All in all, it's one of the best entries I've seen this LD. Congratulations!
Like everyone else I'm very impressed, it really feels like a complete/released game :) There were some characters that got stuck on the second floor during the last level, which made it a bit hard to sneak around (web version), but it all worked out in the end!
The level design, graphics and music is great and well made, it fits together so perfectly.. I love games that requires sneaking with no option of killing, it's so fun! Great work!!
We are very glad you enjoyed our game! About the usage of the theme: the Ancient Ones need offerings, and we kindap people to sacrifice them in our lair.
The last level is a true competion, we know about it. But as the God said in the beginning - you WILL be rewarded, just try your best ;)
I, of course, love stuff about dark gods and such- so I loved this. The graphics were very well done, the music fit well- mainly the music in the gods dialogue, and the font used for that was perfect. The gameplay was nice- difficult at times, but difficulty is what makes it fun :D Great job!
Wow! Great project and impressive character art. In general I enjoyed playing it but the main gameplay is a little slow and sometimes dull. The NPCs can be tricked to easily.
I liked the gameplay and the graphics are great. The audio is really cool. I had a bit difficult to play the game at the start because it was a bit too dark.
Well it is impressive to have made such a game in a short time frame. The pixel art is cute, the music ambiance and sounds are coherent, animations are funny, and it is stressful to go on a mission. There are just a few bugs that are visible but nothing too important. It's that sometimes I cannot get a key that a personne holds. It says "F" but somehow I can' get it on the first try. Some patrol are random and sometimes 2 people can get stuck in a room and it's impossible to get they key of the boy "3rd level" and the walking animation of characters can somehow bug and they walk without moving legs (creepy actually :P ) But other than these few little bugs, it is really enjoyable, well done :)
Thank you for playing and your reviews! It means a lot to our team! We know about the slow gameplay, it's intended to be so. It's a TACTICAL kidnapping after all :D You can choose your own playstyle, rush if you want, hide if you have to and have fun ;)
Thank you for your detailed review! We are glad you enjoyed our game! You can give it a second chance soon, because The Ancient Ones ordered us to patch the game, so the HOTFIX is on its way ;)
Let the Gods be pleased! Show the game to your friends, share it in media! The Ancient Ones need more, much more!
Hello there. The big suprise for me was dedication to the game concept and effort that made that game distinguish among others projects on this platform. Music is brilliant serves as a great example of how you should make a music for a game like this, intense, with hints of the threat posed by the player. The interface, pixel graphics are absolutely astonishing and seems almost impossible to achieve in such limited time. Got some technical problems in a web version caused by my brouser, but it didn`t spoiled the aftertaste of the game. The cons are simple - it`s quite easy to beat, the gameplay can`t stand the test of time, if there were more than 7 levels it quickly would get bored and even a nice style would not save the game Well done, solid 8 out of 10, can`t wait for the upcoming content!
Very good entry, apart from minor bug (showing how much visible you are doesn't work properly in WebGL version), it is quite polished and quite complex. It was missing just some voice acting!
It seems quite impressive to do this within 72 hours!
Very cool! I loved the audio - it does a great job of setting the mood of the game. Also, the walk animation cracks me up when your characters eyes thin out haha.
Great job end to end on this! The art, music, and gameplay all work very well together, and produce a rather fun little stealth game.
If I had to nitpick, the intro/text sections are a bit slow; I'd like to see more text on the screen at once and a slightly more interesting text interaction, but what you have is a good compromise given your time budget. Something to look into for post compo I suppose! The skip button was welcome.
I don't have much else to add, but keep up the good work and strongly consider fleshing this into a larger experience.
There is a bug where the "enemies" glitch around the doors and you're not able to get past them and sometimes the "e" was shown but pressing it didn't do anything which is frustrating (So that's a "-" for fun). But otherwise the game was great! Awesome graphics, fitting sound and intense gameplay. You even made bonus-content with collectables ... A great job in so little time!
Apprentices! Thank you very VERY MUCH for playing and reviewing our project! We are genuinenly happy to read your kind words and critic!
@willoxs Yeah, we know there are some mean bugs, we're trying our best to eliminate them! Thank you for having interest in our project, we appriciate it :)
Thank you for streaming our game! We still want you to have the best experience a bit later, so you can play it after the stream, we're sure you like it, promise ;)
Let's try our best to please the Ancient Ones and drown the world in rain! We are close, I can feel it!
Nice graphics, great music. The mechanics of hiding, stealing and NPC hunting is great. A nice addition imo is adding a distraction mechanic, maybe throwing an item you have picked up. Nice job!
Thank you for playing! Yeah, we planned to add a distraction mechanic by throwing a special item that makes sounds, but didn't have much time for it, so we had to get rid of this idea :(
Really impressive! The art and audio design is perfect for such a cool mood. But I felt stealing keys from the unpredictable AI was pretty challenging. Other than that, i played it for quite a while, great job!
Graphics are great. music is fitting (did you source that elsewhere?)
Texts are a bit repetetive. The stealth mechanic is simplistic but for the timeframe all in all its a great game!