Keep Him Alive

co-authored: @diw527
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.30
*Night. Street. You hear an angry roar just beside you. But then you see a distant light, a promise of safety. Your wounded ally is tired and can barely walk, let alone defend himself. Will this mansion become your shelter for these hard times or will it attract more unpleasant guests?*

Shoot The Dead


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Build Barricades And Traps



And Don't Let Them Corner You



Coding by lamossus

Art by DiW527

#### Tips:
- Try to stay in longer corridors to give you more time to shoot

- You can shoot through open doors and barricades. Take advantage of this!

- If you think you may get surrounded by zombies try to leave your ally farther away from zombies. You are faster and it is easier for you to run through zombies than it is to your ally

- But don't go too far away either. The smell of blood attracts the dead and they will try to find your wounded ally

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#### Changelog:
-Changed icon and file name to proper ones. Now game uses DirectX instead of OpenGL to fix few graphical issues

-Fixed audio loss and crashes on restart (I hope)
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Credits for audio can be found in a readme.txt file.

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Genres: action
Tools: MonoGame

Comments32

Timbaleek21 Apr 2020, 13:46
A few more things to do would have been nice, but I know how it is. Cool little game.
Quinn_Patrick21 Apr 2020, 13:51
I've played a lot of games on here that are ruined by being way to hard. This one is really hard, but actually in a fun way, so good job! I was surprised by how smart the zombies were, and the controls felt really well tuned to a survival horror type of game.
MickGerritsen21 Apr 2020, 13:51
Nice game. Impressive to make a game in the MonoGame framework. I like the easthetics and overall mood in this game. Shooting also feels good. But it gets really hard very quickly though. And after the screen with the controls I already forgot some controls. But still it is really cool what you achieved during this game jam!
Javad-tab
Javad-tab21 Apr 2020, 13:54
Well done! Those zombies were really scary!
Leonardo Fraga
Leonardo Fraga21 Apr 2020, 14:12
Great game, I did have fun playing it.
I only played a few so far, but this is the best for now!
I wish there was more types of monsters. Just a different sprite, and health.

Great job :smile:
(Lazy King - https://leonmff.itch.io/lazy-king)
Ommadawn
Ommadawn21 Apr 2020, 14:17
Nice soundtrack ! Good gameplay, a bit repetitive
ROBOWARRIOR1982
ROBOWARRIOR198222 Apr 2020, 11:34
Realisation is correct, good pixel art and sound. Very cool idea, but the game is difficult, the resistance of the barricade is not too hight,and it cost limited ressources... that's not effective. You need to adjust the difficulty i think.
kyot23 Apr 2020, 01:44
A little repetitive but the graphics are very nice!
Amazura
Amazura23 Apr 2020, 01:55
Great game.. nice work :thumbsup:
GOD COLO
GOD COLO23 Apr 2020, 12:40
I love the art of the game! And this game was made with Monogame, I guess? :thinking: I've been working with Monogame for a while so I know the effort behind making a game with it. :smile:
Greato Jobu!
Lamossusauthor23 Apr 2020, 12:49
@god-colo yep, the game is made on Monogame. It is rough sometimes but gives more control over how exactly things work than something like unity with a lot of stuff already pre-made, so that why I like it!
Havok0623 Apr 2020, 13:34
The game is looking and feeling very good. The atmosphere is good and it feels well polished.
TeiNRee23 Apr 2020, 13:42
It is a bit unpolished, but overall pretty fun!
Maqo1223 Apr 2020, 13:49
The game is nice but the controls are a bit hard to me, maybe I am a noob :)
Langotriel
Langotriel24 Apr 2020, 13:06
I like the clean and effective pixel art, and I think the choice of audio goes well with it to create an eerie atmosphere; well done there.

I unfortunately couldn't save him in the end :disappointed: But I tried :cry:
Abiral
Abiral25 Apr 2020, 13:44
I liked the pixel art of this game and its really fun to play it, and Yeah the audio was cool. I really enjoyed it. Good Luck for your future projects!
samsdevlog25 Apr 2020, 23:48
Fun game. Quite challenging. My only complaint is adding some more spice to the shooting. It didn't feel like I was shooting something. Otherwise solid mechanics!
sypdev
sypdev27 Apr 2020, 16:56
Cute graphics!
ArtemFTW27 Apr 2020, 22:45
Well done! The graphics are really nice and the game is quite fun.
MabraX
MabraX28 Apr 2020, 14:02
A keep them alive game!!!. Nice mechanics, cool atmosphere, and music. Hard too!!!. Maybe higher resolution settings for the short-sighted older people could be an improvement. Nice work!!
imod
imod28 Apr 2020, 15:48
Good game, i like graphics and gameplay is nice. At first I did not understand that both "W" and "S" used for enter to the door.
GameOverMexico
GameOverMexico29 Apr 2020, 02:16
cool music,nice work and graphics, I feel better when I shooting but the random door it hard whe u try to keep a live.
belowzerogames
belowzerogames29 Apr 2020, 03:24
Really nice little game, music and graphics very nice. I wasn't very good at the game as I always ended up in the top middle room and the zombies would get me.
NiHuShu29 Apr 2020, 23:50
Great graphics and overall a really good mood.
WhatNameGames
WhatNameGames1 May 2020, 06:30
Pretty moody, good job on that, the music is really nice, and the art looks pleasing.
GreenDinoGames
GreenDinoGames1 May 2020, 13:32
Nice game. Shooting is a bit slow when you encounter a lot of enemies, but otherwise great idea! Music is really cool and appealing to the mood of the game.
chromaphase
chromaphase2 May 2020, 04:01
Very cute pixel art ! keep it up !
R3D3R
R3D3R9 May 2020, 16:49
This is a difficult game. I cannot handle that the guy is being so slow, so annoying gosh, love it though xD I am looking forward to see more contents in the future :D
Whismirk
Whismirk12 May 2020, 10:53
Simple yet genuinely interesting idea. I was actually surprised how challenging it got, and how much planning you had to do with the barricades/traps in order to protect the ally, I learnt the hard way that just dropping him inside an elevated room was not going to be enough. Couldn't find the readme.txt file with the credits for the audio, but isn't the music from a Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead soundpack ? If so, great reference here !
Lamossusauthor12 May 2020, 12:44
@whismirk forgot to put readme.txt in archive after updating, thanks for noticing. The song is Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod

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