Ludum Dare #46compo

Blightstone

by nimphious

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.08

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.66

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.44

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.87

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Didn't finish this time. It's pretty fun running around and jumping/dashing though, so I figured I'd upload it anyway. Got a fair amount of work done but the scope was too massive and I ran into some show-stopping bugs which ate up a bunch of hours.

Also I chose to do huge pixel art and that's an awful idea if you want to get it done in any reasonable amount of time.

Controls:

Move: [WASD] / [Arrows] / (LStick)

Jump/Use: [Space] / [Z] / (A)

Dash: [Shift] / [X] / (RB)

Also for fun, some debug controls:

Num 7: Toggle debug mode. (Also DPad Down)

Num 8: Toggle fly/noclip. (Also DPad Up)

Num +: Toggle single-frame mode.

Num -: Advance one frame.

Sorry for people with non-qwerty keyboards. I've only got the key rebinding half implemented. :(

Comments15

Nimphiousauthor18 Apr 2020, 03:54

Some early art:

TheGameGoyal20 Apr 2020, 03:47

Unlucky not being able to get it done but the controls have a lot of potential and the art looks really nice. I'sure the game would have been great if you finished it.

Shouji20 Apr 2020, 03:55

The controls feel incredible, and the artwork looks so good. Absolutely keep working on this! the movement alone makes me want more.

madbookstudios20 Apr 2020, 04:02

The controls are really punch and sharp. I like the dashing art too. In fact, all the pixel art is sublime. Just need some thing to do in the sandbox! Would be super intrigued if you did a follow up to this post-jam.

K4V0X20 Apr 2020, 08:46

Snappy as a Smash Title. Too bad you didnt make it in time. I really want to see if you will continue with this project beyond LD46. Good luck if you do !

Fabrizio Spadaro20 Apr 2020, 10:22

The pixel art are really well done and the gameplay is really polished, looking forward for a post mortem!

Listonos20 Apr 2020, 15:51

Would have been pretty solid entry IMO, nice graphics.

DocGeraud22 Apr 2020, 13:47

The gamefeel is definitely good! It would have been a great game, but it already pretty rad for a jam project.

Wheffle23 Apr 2020, 02:29

Looked promising! I've been there, not every jam goes well. Good luck in the future!

Elemental Zeal Game Studios25 Apr 2020, 18:41

Graphics were great, sad to see it go unfinished, lots of potential here. :thumbsup:

jsmailes25 Apr 2020, 19:07

Shame you weren't able to get this finished in time, but still really impressive! The graphics are lovely, controls are good (although probably worth tweaking so the player only jumps/dashes when you press the button, rather than when it's held), and it seems like you've got a solid text/camera interface going. Looking forward to seeing the game that eventually comes out of this, great work!

Also for some reason the game downloaded *really* slowly (around 15kB/s) - might be worth looking into something like cloudflare for your server?

Nimphiousauthor27 Apr 2020, 05:07

Hey @jsmailes thanks for the heads up. I thought I fixed that but I guess my provider was just garbage so I switched it to AWS.

Fables27 Apr 2020, 16:29

Had fun with what you got made :) The controls feel really nice, and doing a jump-dash-jump-dash combo feels extremely satisfying to cross the gap haha. This felt great to play with both a keyboard and also a controller, so good job on that too.

Also, something often overlooked is the dialogue box and cutscene camera control. I think they both were done well, especially the 'roar'.

If you take this forward, I'd personally like to see the dash being able to be aimed, but that's more of a suggestion than a "it needs this" as what you have still feels great.

You didn't 'finish' but what you did, you did well :D

spthiel29 Apr 2020, 10:40

I really hope you'll continue this as it looks really promising and I can agree to your own statement in that it is very fun to just run around in the empty map

TheWinrawr9 May 2020, 22:46

The platforming controls feel really good and smooth and the pixel art is superb. You could make a really fun platformer with these controls. Even though you didn't finish, this is still really promising!

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