Alpacas don't like fire!

by noucake
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.02
My very first time I finished a game for the Ludum Dare. (or a finished game in general)
It was really fun!

I kinda wasted the entire first day, just playing around with the fire shader and creating textures. (>3h for the walls and you don't even see them!). After the first day there was no gameplay and I still had no idea what kind of a game I wanted to create.

I had a little help with the sprites for the Alpaca (but I hope it still counts for Comp).
The end was SO STRESSFUL! I had 2 friend spamming all spelling errors in the dialogs xD that was realy hell.

There is also still one major bug: fire is rendered over the UI. I did some (not really)complicated rendering for the fire, so I couldn't easily fix it and until the end i prioritized other things. (Edit: Actualy, it was easy to fix, but little did i know)

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About the Game:

Play through an awesome story while trying to keep your flame alive!

But wait, the flame is not the only thing that you have to keep alive... ( <- cliffhanger, play yourself to find out!)

Controls:

Camera: WASD

Dialogs: Enter

Move Flames: Left Mouse

Shoot fireballs: Right Mouse

Comments13

PolyPickle20 Apr 2020, 05:13
Enjoyable to play, and challenging. Fun with numbers ramping up, and pretty humerous. Good job! Your work on the fire shows.
Ian Kettlewell20 Apr 2020, 06:12
Cool game! I really like some of the little details. The fire shader is really great looking, I was immediately impressed by it. I also liked the spacing you put on the dialogue, I always love it when games have that feature and it's cool to see that type of polish in a game jam.
JoskerDu
JoskerDu20 Apr 2020, 06:20
Good stuff. Brings me back to the day of Llamatron
watswat520 Apr 2020, 06:32
Looks great, but boy is it hard.
FatEagleGames
FatEagleGames20 Apr 2020, 07:10
Love the alpacas spitting at the fire :smile: Fun game, nice graphics, but it's really hard.
Odeyalko20 Apr 2020, 08:49
love alpacas, but i have to kill them. hard for me
gamurmakesgems
gamurmakesgems20 Apr 2020, 09:19
Nice Concept, good humor, consistent graphics, excellent overall
Bakob20 Apr 2020, 09:20
One of the best games if seen in this jam so far. Its challenging but not frustrating and the dialogs add some humor to it. some sound would make it perfect
zzox
zzox20 Apr 2020, 12:59
Pretty innovative, I think I got pretty far but I lost track of what level I was on. Good work!
munkkeli
munkkeli20 Apr 2020, 13:34
The fire effects look awesome! Gathering the flames also feels very nice. A bit on the shorter side, but still a very enjoyable experience :)
TeamNova20 Apr 2020, 22:52
Very funny ! I love llamas !!!!
yyam
yyam30 Apr 2020, 19:42
Cool game! I'm so upset I had to kill the cute alpacas though :p Good job on the fire shader. Also really good job on the extensive tutorial, a lot of jam games just drop you in with no explanation.

Some things that could have made it better:
- Audio :)
- I found the fire/enemy indicators at the edges of the screen a _little_ bit confusing at first, there was a lot of stuff on screen at once. Perhaps it could be improved by making the indicators more subtle or more obviously related to fire/alpacas.

Good job overall, this felt pretty polished!
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