MELT

co-authored: @connorgrail
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.42
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.27
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.53
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.44
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.40
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.22
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Keep your flame alive

Have fun

-Matt

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Genres: platformer
Tools: GameMaker

Comments42

Digitom
Digitom20 Apr 2020, 20:11
Very nice concept and execution!
Casey Macneil
Casey Macneil20 Apr 2020, 23:28
I liked the part where my head was on fire, sick game boys.
ChickenCastle
ChickenCastle21 Apr 2020, 03:17
Beautiful concept, nice controls, atmospheric music, simple and effective design. Really really fun. Great work!
juako21 Apr 2020, 03:58
Super Nice man! love the concept the art and that ending.
mike0912321 Apr 2020, 05:02
Loved everything about this. Puzzles, art, music. Great job!​
Omni21 Apr 2020, 05:27
Cool concept, the character controls felt really good, I love the art.
Awesome job :)
WubbaDuck
WubbaDuck21 Apr 2020, 05:34
This was fantastic! I love the art, music, idea, controls, etc. Well done! I'd love to see more levels. I could burn a lot of time with this game.
Lucien Catonnet
Lucien Catonnet21 Apr 2020, 08:47
Holy shit this is insane! The graphics are really nice, the music and sound are absolutely perfect (the end music blew my ears off), the game mechanic is really neat (and that first level with the music that starts oh my god it's really cool!!!), the level design really works, I could only wish for more. I *DO NOT* regret following you guys from the last Ludum event because you definitely delivered! Congratulations for this wonderful entry :)
Linheha21 Apr 2020, 11:54
Very cool game with great graphics, animations, music: The mood is perfect :) Also the concept is simple and efficient, this is what makes this game really great. I would love to play and see more levels with this game mechanic!
Great job! :)
MKRaw21 Apr 2020, 13:44
This is a true skill based and a puzzle game at the same time done very well!
Rogerup21 Apr 2020, 16:44
Congratulations for the excellent game and perfect implementantion!
unept
unept21 Apr 2020, 17:47
So well done. It's difficult to get a game this balanced in such a short time (something I always fail at.) I really liked the merging of action and puzzle, strategic use of firing the bow, especially with the jumping and moving enemies.
mmatt_ugh
mmatt_ughauthor21 Apr 2020, 21:10
:') thank you everyone.
DaltonLeavey21 Apr 2020, 21:10
Lots of juice. Really dig the colours and those chunky spikes. Just wish there was more of it. Awesome game!
SparkDrago
SparkDrago22 Apr 2020, 03:24
Awesome Game, Creative Idea, Cool Mechanics and Clean Mechanic!
Excellent stuff, Keep up the good work !
Camden Obertop22 Apr 2020, 04:09
Great adherence to theme, great animations and spritework. I really love the way that you adhered to theme of the game jam. Great job guy!
grantimation22 Apr 2020, 04:22
I would love to see this expanded upon. I feel like the only critique I can give is that I want more game to play! This game has wonderful style, tight controls, great sound, and lots of juice. The gameplay has a perfect balance of challenge and the overall difficulty curve is really good. This game is brilliant, awesome job!
picross
picross22 Apr 2020, 04:25
Favorite game so far. Awesome work! Very unique, fantastic level design, tons of juice. Music and sound are great too. Cool graphics/color as well. Great job with this!
illuminegames
illuminegames22 Apr 2020, 08:29
Wow, incredible game! The game just feels GOOD. So much feedback on every action, the gameplay is topnotch! Just when I thought you couldn't possibly do anything new with a 2d platformer... Way to go!
mhykah22 Apr 2020, 08:43
My favourite game of the jam so far, loved every aspect of it. Looking forward to post-jam levels!
JUSTCAMH
JUSTCAMH22 Apr 2020, 08:56
Oh wow, the game feels so dang good to play! This is some of the best sound design I've heard in a long time; that feeling when you die, but an arrow lands and saves you... *perfect*.

My one critique is that the level design didn't feel particularly inspired, I didn't feel like the mechanics were fully explored. But tbh, that's me digging for something to critique, it's pretty hard to say anything bad about your game! :heart:
RedDashGames
RedDashGames22 Apr 2020, 09:49
Wow so much juice for such a little game, a real joy to play.
Sigo
Sigo22 Apr 2020, 12:53
Great game ! Congratulation, nothing to say.
Akusan
Akusan22 Apr 2020, 16:18
This is one of the best games i played so far :D
great use of concept, theme and fun too. nice music to match it too.
kodran
kodran22 Apr 2020, 20:27
Amazing work! Super fun and really pretty. The movement and everything was super satisfying and worked really well.
Rigolus
Rigolus22 Apr 2020, 21:25
Awesome idea and realisation. The first tutorials to introduce the mechanics were so well done. The art and audio is top notch too, really nice !
Matt Lowe22 Apr 2020, 22:13
This is the first LD46 game I've come across that I've actually wanted to come back and play again! Simple yet creative gameplay and the music is great as well. From one Matt to another, great work!
CosmicCrystalGames
CosmicCrystalGames23 Apr 2020, 08:01
Absolutely incredible entry! Such a fun and fast-paced twist on classic platformer gameplay. Graphics were great, very stylish. The sound design and in particular, the walking as your flame gets weaker was just perfect! One of my top picks for sure.
EreHuc23 Apr 2020, 10:47
Damn, art is nice, audio is nice, levels are not easy. Love how the sound change when the flame decrease. Still not understand why you can still shoot an arrow when you are dead but hey it's magic ! Amazing work for an amazing game. Hope more levels and boss fight will come later
purenickery23 Apr 2020, 17:42
Fantastic jam game! I loved that you could still shoot an arrow when your flame ran out and that it only lowered while you were moving. Level design was wonderful and it was fun to play. Only suggestion would be that I wish there were more levels, but I know the time probably limited that!
HyperBabyDuck23 Apr 2020, 18:02
Impossibly frustrating and yet I can't stop playing it. I think you are on to something great here!
sndr
sndr24 Apr 2020, 07:43
The mechanics are incredibly interesting, and the visuals/audio create a fantastic mood.

My only criticism would be around the very first level. Felt it could've been good to have the candle visible on the first half of the level so that it could've been immediately introduced as a mechanic - or maybe have a level 0 where that was simply shown, and then proceed with level 1.

It became quite confusing when I was shooting the arrow (trying to aim at the candle) with the candle being off screen - and upon seeing that was not helping my own light, I thought I had to do something else - to realise eventually that I was right and had indeed to shoot at the candle BUT it had to be on screen. - This probably wouldn't have happened if I knew for sure that was the actual mechanic and my intuition was correct.
Not sure if any of that makes sense. :see_no_evil:

Anyway, overall it's an amazing entry. Don't let my long piece of text above imply otherwise. It's clever, it's pretty, and everything works together very nicely.
thebreakfast
thebreakfast24 Apr 2020, 21:42
WOW I think you have something truly special here, this is a very unique mechanic and I think it's a lot of fun. It has a catchy title and logo, the music is WONDERFUL, the character is charming. Great job. Absolutely blown away.
barret
barret25 Apr 2020, 00:09
probably one of the best games I played. the only issue I had was for some reason when I first played I couldn't even make it to the fire you shoot so I kept dying over and over and I was like I do not get this game. I restarted the game and then bam I had enough flame to walk to it. I dunno how to reproduce the glitch.

Anyways the sound effects and music and graphics and mechanics just all shined very much in this game. I feel like this has the potential to be a full game.
Vesper25 Apr 2020, 11:52
This was great! I absolutely loved the overall atmosphere, and the graphics were spot on, but the gameplay itself was fun and challenging enough that it compelled you to keep going. The whole core concept of keeping your little-candle self alight is wonderful, and I'm really impressed with how balanced you managed to make the levels feel considering the time restraints. Well done.
Nuanda79
Nuanda7927 Apr 2020, 21:03
Good job! Really interesting, a small piece of art.
Alexascher27 Apr 2020, 21:58
Best game so far!! Next level of dynamics and mood
Veka
Veka28 Apr 2020, 18:23
At first I wasn't sure what's going on, but once I figured it out, it was a blast. Well done!
JMad
JMad28 Apr 2020, 21:50
Lovely game! Very nice gamefeel and gameplay mechanic, beautiful music, efficient & pleasant art.
Strega
Strega10 May 2020, 00:43
Great execution! Fit the theme really well. Puzzles felt good. The art was well done, the flame effect especially. I think the music and audio effects really make it stand out for me. Was really anticipating a boss at the end there! :P

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