Ludum Dare #43compo

Purgatory

by omercanbalandi

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.16

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.20

I had a lot of fun with phaser in my second ldjam experience.I hope you will enjoy it :)

DESCRIPTION

You are a soul who is fired from heaven to purgatory for some reasons.If you want to reach the
heaven again, you should capture and sacrifice souls for the god.

HOW TO PLAY

You should unlock all arenas to reach the heaven. You can capture souls from arenas by
destroying other souls to unlock other arenas to reach the heaven.
Your souls also your hit point, so your souls can't be under 200 while
you are sacrificing souls. If you die in arena, you will lose all progress.

CONTROLS: WASD - Mouse

TOOLS I USED

HTML5/Javascript with Phaser V2

Aseprite & Photoshop

Rytmik Studio

SFXR

twitter.com/obsfx

Play On Browser

Tools: Aseprite, sfxr

Comments29

TheseusInABottle3 Dec 2018, 04:17

Really interesting. I wont lie the lack of instructions telling me what to do or what was going on did confuse me at first, but once I stopped being an idiot and realized you could move with WASD it became very clear what was happening and I really started to enjoy the game. Also I must say I really enjoy the look this game has going for it. The minimal details in each level make it very clear and easy to read what is happening on the screen. I do wish when you died once you didn't lose all your progress, but you can really only do so much in 48 hours so.

paperjack3 Dec 2018, 08:01

It needs clearer instructions. It took me a bit to figure out that the green things are damaging you and stealing your souls and you needed to shoot them.

James Leib3 Dec 2018, 08:12

I liked your game. The sound effects, sci-fi background and minimalist menus were my favourite parts. I would have liked if the enemies were a bit smarter, but I understand the time difficulties of LD :)

SanyingLi3 Dec 2018, 08:16

Good game, as they had mention, a little instruction how to control would be helpful, but this wont effect my rating. I like the arts and sounds part especially, it feels very elegant.

SlizzBen3 Dec 2018, 08:17

Nice job, interesting design and music so good! But in my first few minutes i was thinking that i must be in circle :S But then i realized, that i'm not so smart :D

Sarwin3 Dec 2018, 08:22

It is a good game, the controls are responsive, the shooting mechanic is satisfying.

Fnissalot3 Dec 2018, 08:46

Very punishing, sometimes the enemies spawn almost at your own soul and uo will then die very quickly. Otherwise neat

jharler3 Dec 2018, 15:50

I like the visuals to this game and the music. I also had a hard time figuring out what I was supposed to do at first. Overall, nice work though.

theBOSS123 Dec 2018, 16:02

Finally a game that i like.

Andrea3 Dec 2018, 17:26

Nice work!
I really like the screen to select the arena, and the overall difficulty.
It's sad that you didn't add a note on controls, and that ZQSD doesn't work so AZERTY users have to switch language.
Well done!

BudgieM23 Dec 2018, 22:48

Starting from the very beginning when dying is a bit harsh, but it does add a lot of tension. Great game!

nkrim3 Dec 2018, 23:02

Absolutely love the art, and the difficulty was fun but sometimes getting one shot felt a little too bad, and it was much easier to win the whole thing by just staying in the first arena ( but what's the fun in that :P ). Great game!

mrnyarlathotep4 Dec 2018, 01:04

I have to say, all of the enemies having homing bullets feels a bit unfair in what ends up as a borderline bullet hell shmup... I think it would have really changed the difficulty level just by having bullets move in straight lines and being able to dodge them

Evan Leibman4 Dec 2018, 04:40

I loved the art style and music of this game, it really came together as a whole and sucked me in, that said I either suck at it and couldn't find a better strategy than constantly kiting them in a circle, but it felt like it lacked a little depth in the moment to moment gameplay choices I was making. Perhaps when you need to stop shooting to collect the souls? Something to vary the gameplay. Great job! This could be cool to continue and polish up a bit.

Jeffrey Hwang4 Dec 2018, 08:41

Maybe I'm just bad, but it seems too hard. I was at first confused as I thought I was controlling the ball that was shooting, but apparently it was the ball with red glow that I was controlling. Wish there was a way to see the health of the ball, maybe by changing the glow amount. It was definitely engaging. Congratulation on completing a game!

PancakeFriday4 Dec 2018, 16:53

Hey, so I liked the mechanics, though I think it should be noted, that the player can move with WASD (I didn't know at first). Furthermore,

---- SPOILER BELOW ----

I don't think there's a good reason to play the second level. Sacrificing a lot of souls makes the player plenty powerful to play the first level and farm souls there.

Again, I liked the game and I had fun, especially your background and menu are quite beautiful.

tpamir4 Dec 2018, 17:01

@omercanbalandi Good Job! Some items in the UI are not so clear but over all great game!

Aycan4 Dec 2018, 19:11

control implementations are excellent, so smooth and no glitches. also I loved the dark environment. good job.

Owen Rees4 Dec 2018, 21:04

I spent quite a lot of time playing this game although at the beginning I was struggling with the difficulty. I managed to complete the game by making it to heaven. The colour palette worked really well. I really enjoyed this game. Good job!

hypersnow4 Dec 2018, 21:45

Nice visual style, plays well too. The gameplay loop is a bit repetitive (would have liked more variety in enemies) but enjoyed it overall!

MyFriendTames5 Dec 2018, 00:16

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful game!!!! :smiley:

Wonderful artwork and sounds! The game is very funny to play.

Very good job! :v: :smiley:

Jupiter_Hadley5 Dec 2018, 00:41

Simple graphics, nice game! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/7Oqdb7VuCRQ

velvetlobster5 Dec 2018, 03:26

the mechanics are really good, controls are great! A bit more effects and screenshake perhaps could make this those stressful but dynamic and addictive games

omercanbalandiauthor5 Dec 2018, 10:05

Thanks a lot everyone for your comments and feedbacks! I'm appreciated!

martincohen5 Dec 2018, 12:22

Really nicely done style and graphics. Also had fun to play it!

mrwillowb5 Dec 2018, 14:29

Nice game I loved playing it so fun.

royur6 Dec 2018, 10:13

hard at the begininng. no incentive to go to level 2 (their bullet will always hit you). just collect soul at level 1 until 6666. solid game though. I played it till end. never try to level 3 though..

Arvejeitor6 Dec 2018, 13:17

Nice game! maybe it needs some kind of tutorial. Art style is very nice!

Tim Eriksen31 Dec 2018, 05:14

Very interesting! The graphics look really great and the gameplay is fun. I do feel that collisions are a bit to punishing. Going from 900 score to 150 after colliding for like 1.5 sec does not feel good. All in all a really good game though! It feels very polished.

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