Keep your heart beating

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.47
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Wild beasts appeared in your heart, they stole heart sections and escaped in the veins.

You have to go inside your heart to fight the beast and bring back the 4 heart sections in order to keep the heart beating. ❤️

Controls

- Click on buttons with left mouse button
- Move your character with WASD or arrows or left stick from gamepad
- Attack with Q or left mouse button or gamepad right shoulder
- Defend with E or right mouse button or gamepad left shoulder (still no animation but it prevents taking damage)
- Pause with escape or del or start button from gamepad

Comments9

ChristianAufiero
ChristianAufiero21 Apr 2020, 15:09
There's a lot to like here, especially the idea and style, there's a lot I feel could be built upon to make a very interesting game.
For the future, I feel like my big suggestion would be to work a bit more on collision and making your impacts feel crunchy and satisfying, I think that could make fighting the enemies overall even more enjoyable, just a personal tip tho.
Coolo2o22 Apr 2020, 17:20
Cool game but whenever I hit the beast, there was only a 1/3 chance I would actually kill it.
Jofish
Jofish22 Apr 2020, 17:25
I didn't actually do any fighting in my run of this game. Took me a while to realise you have to double-click to attack, so at first I thought the sword was just bugged, but the age-old method of sprinting past everything worked perfectly. None of the enemies could catch me. I also think the art style is a little thematically confused - you play a robot inside a painting-version of your heart fighting what look like werewolves? With all this said, just getting a game finished and playable in 72 hours is a great achievement, and there is a really good game in here if you develop on it. I agree with @christianaufiero that the combat could do with being a little more crunchy. Good luck with all your future projects, and thanks for making this!
SkelleRoznik22 Apr 2020, 17:58
Nice game. I like the idea. But sometimes i have to click a few times to get the character hit. Other than that, game is fun and interesting. Good work!
ludevum22 Apr 2020, 18:52
Was this going to be a VR game? SteamVR started when I launched the game, so I played in VR.
The menus and HUD don't work in VR and the world seems tilted, but I finished the game with keyboard and HMD.
I liked to look around and see the whole map :)

Overall, not bad. The combat could use some work, you can attack an enemy when their back is turned and they wont notice.
I enjoyed playing!
trucverte
trucverteauthor27 Apr 2020, 16:41
Thank you everyone for the feedback!

@coolo2o It takes 2 hits to kill a beast.

@ludevum It's not supposed to be a vr game :smile:
jk5000
jk500029 Apr 2020, 18:35
This is overall a fun little jam game. The fighting mechanic could need some more work, but it is okay for a jam game.
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