Ludum Dare #44compo

Trading Lives

by meskaline

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Story:

It's been just hours since you and your daughter have been slaughter.
It seems that your gambling addiction managed to cut short a pure life like Lilly's.

You wake up in Limbo not sure how much time you have left, determined to make things right and knowing that your life doesn't weigh to much you start bargaining for her life.

You got a chance: Make your life worthier by freeing people stuck in the Limbo.
The Limbo is a hard and dangerous place to navigate; the platforms are far away and you need multiple jumps. Watch out because you have to trade a portion of your life for every jump.

Good Luck.

Instructions:

- Health bar is on top
- Every jump you lose life
- Regain life by cutting the chains of people stuck in limbo
- Avoid spikes (instant death)
- You can cut the spikes too but you need perfect sync (risky)
- Enjoy! (is the second time i did audio, if you don;t like it, mute it :D )

Controls:

PC:
- UP: Jump
- SPACE: slice/attack

Mobile:

- Touch right side of screen to jump
- Touch left side of screen to slice/attack

Known issues(!!!):

- On Mobile, the menu items's hit boxes don't mach the visuals (because of resize)

Tech used:

- Phaser 3
- Piskel
- BoscaCeoil

Genres: platformer

Tools: Bosca Ceoil, Phaser, Piskel

Comments6

Gruni29 Apr 2019, 13:28

The player feedback lacks a bit, as it all just feels "too floaty". I like the pixel art. It's simple, but lovely. The music however... I had to turn it off. It was too screechy and powerful to fit your story. But there's potential here!

mrnyarlathotep29 Apr 2019, 14:15

Kind of like Flappy God Of War :smile:

Anyone playing on PC finding space is autoscrolling the browser below the game window, left mouse button does the same as space, so you can play that way

elmo4 May 2019, 10:50

music could be better

Cambryx4 May 2019, 11:06

Really cool game. In the beginning the controls felt a bit weird. But after getting used to it, it was a lot of fun! After playing many rounds I started to really appreciate the fact that you developed multiple difficulty modes. This gave you a real feeling of progress and kept the game challenging. It was great feeling when finally the hell dificulty wasn't impossible anymore :) The music was cool and relaxed. Although I think it didn't fit the mood that well, especially when playing the hell level. The graphics are amazing. I have huge respect for everyone that can draw and animate such amazing pixelart. For me this has always been one of the most difficult art styles to create. It is really impressive, how much you could create in only 48h. I worked together with a friend while having 72h to complete our game. Still it got really stressfull towards the end :)
Great Job meskaline, you can be proud of this game.
We would be really happy if you tried out our game and told us what you think :)

Kimily5 May 2019, 08:29

Overall, pretty great for a game made in only 48 hours by yourself! Most people wouldn't be able to do this! Once you get into the flow of the game, it's pretty mesmerizing. (Assuming the audio has been muted, because the audio will chase people away from the game sadly) Some visual elements aren't very clear. For example I thought the sword was a cape (because he could kinda fly with his jumps XD so I just thought he was like a kid icarus) and it wasn't very clear that I could cut the spikes with a sword(in no other game have I played in which you could cut spikes with a sword, also the game didn't convey it to me) or that the vine thingies were souls you had to cut to get HP back. I didn't know that the top meter was the HP bar O.O My favorite graphic was the soul of the daughter. She was really pretty and I wish I could've played as her! XD

Ivan Garcia Filho5 May 2019, 13:39

It's a good time killer, I thin that you could improve your background music to a more procedural loop to avoid repetition, improve the juiceness of freeing the souls by adding some sfx like a chains shacking and an echoing ghost scream, also some ambience sound like echoing whispers, some kind of echoing rocks bouncing, maybe some sand/earth/dust sliding and improve add some vfx to the chains being cut by the sword.

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