Theft of the Inferno Heart

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.15
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Steal the inferno heart and keep it (and yourself) alive. Fight your way through brutal arenas filled with deadly enemies, desperate for the next waypoint to guide your quest for freedom.

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Choose between abilities at the end of each stage: will you become an unstoppable juggernaut of power or an awesome behemoth of force?

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FYI, if you finish a stage and end up back at the main menu, you've won!

#### Technology

* Godot
* Sunvox
* Aseprite
* Pixel FX Designer
* SmearFX

#### Development Timelapse

I streamed the whole thing on twitch, here's the tldr:

#### Bugfixes
* I have made several bugfixes since the deadline. For the full list, see the github commit log

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Comments16

WittyCognomen
WittyCognomen20 Apr 2020, 19:50
Great entry, got the heart stuck in a corner though.
jsec
jsec20 Apr 2020, 19:51
cool loking game, i like art style.
Game would have better reach if also HTML5 version would be available (Godot can export to HTML5)
Ioan Pop20 Apr 2020, 19:52
Great interpretation of the theme! The game play and attacking felt great. I think some sounds are too loud tho, maybe they need to be balanced out, and at one point the audio just glitched out! Thought I'd let you know :)
Hedgy
Hedgy20 Apr 2020, 19:58
Really great art!
SoarenDev
SoarenDev20 Apr 2020, 20:01
The true game begins when you understand that you can push the inferno heart with your character #speedrun x)

Really great game, good and polished in every aspect, so nothing more to say that it was really fun to play!

Good job!
cheesepencil
cheesepencil20 Apr 2020, 20:05
Great mood. Nice BGM, too. The anims are slick, too. I had to give up after a few levels because the constant clicking was making my wrist act up, I wish I could just hold the button down! Solid compo game!
Wikers20 Apr 2020, 20:09
very cool game jajaja i loved, the art is very good
Im playing and see the @soarendev comment it was wtf i can push them, Play again :v
Webox
Webox20 Apr 2020, 22:29
Woah, this is impressive for a compo!!! You did a really great job!! cool visuals, cool music, really fun to play.. Great job!! Solid entry
JavaSaurus
JavaSaurus20 Apr 2020, 22:30
Nice one ! I tend to dislike escort mission but this game feels very satisfying :)
Pumpkikin
Pumpkikin21 Apr 2020, 01:29
Really solid game mechanics and pixel style. I dont know if this was intentional or not, but you can move the heart around, practically allowing you to speed run it to the finish, but also if its bumped off course its likely to get stuck and needs pushing off of obstacles.
Yonman21 Apr 2020, 10:04
Cool game! I really liked playing it and the graphics are great!
Frogman
Frogman21 Apr 2020, 10:09
Excellent games! It was really fun, had interesting upgrades and great graphics. Some upgrades were a bit imbalanced (increasing the Heart's movement speed actually makes the game harder), but I managed to finish it on my second try. Very well done!
rk3Omega
rk3Omega21 Apr 2020, 19:03
Very impressive for a compo entry. The game feels really nice and the combat is a lot of fun. Having to rapidly click to attack started to get a bit tiring. The third level just felt like enemy spam and unfair, actually souring the experience at that point.
Nerzal21 Apr 2020, 19:16
Hey, as allways i had fun playing your game.

Here are my thoughts about it:
1. The music was good.
2. The "windy" sound int he menu was very loud - a bit to loud.
3. As soon as i realized that i could cheat by pushing back the Heart as far as possible, to be able to clear the levels of all enemies without having to take care heart the game got pretty easy, as i abused this behavior. The heart also stopped following it's path when doing so, although it did start walking it's path again, when giving it a little push into the correct direction.
4. i like the graphics

Overall i did enjoy the game, and was a little sad, that it ended so fast.
Honest Dan
Honest Dan12 May 2020, 18:40
Marko - really impressive - especially for compo! you always do a great job of art and audio combining together

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