Shadow of the itty-bitties

by kaish

co-authored: @euler-moises

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.06

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.47

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.30

`THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE LIGHT, THE BIGGER YOUR SHADOW GETS.`

*Sometimes words mean nothing at all...
Only the fight matters!
Find something that’s important to you and fight for it.
Even if it’s against huge, monstrous, super dangerous, colossal...bugs.*

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`How to Play 🖱️`

• WASD or Arrows: Walk

• Space: Guide / Battle hits

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`Team ⚒️`

• Euler Moises: 🎵Audio 🎨Art 📐Game Design SoundCloud

• Kaish Kuny: 💻Code 📐Game Design

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Tradução Português-Brasileiro 🇧🇷

`QUANTO MAIS PERTO VOCÊ CHEGA DA LUZ, MAIOR FICA A SUA SOMBRA.`

*Às vezes as palavras não servem pra nada...
Só a luta importa!
Encontre algo que é importante pra você e lute por isso.
Nem que seja contra enormes, monstruosos, perigosíssimos e colossais...insetos.*

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`Como jogar 🖱️`

• WASD ou Setas: Andar

• Espaço: Guia / Golpes nas batalhas

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`Equipe ⚒️`

• Euler Moisés: 🎵Áudio 🎨Arte 📐Design SoundCloud

• Kaish Kuny: 💻Código 📐Design

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Change Log 📃

We changed the guide's movement because it was very confusing for players.

Instead of pointing, it now moves to the target.

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Genres: adventure

Tools: Unity

Comments34

Dfyzet7 Oct 2024, 21:46

The link to itch doesn't work for some reason :/

Cisco9 Oct 2024, 04:30

Loved the graphics and mini game. The audio is top tier! Good job

Haoro9 Oct 2024, 11:12

Nice game ! Everything worked properly !
Keep up the good work !

Andreadbx9 Oct 2024, 15:19

Amazing artstyle! Game a little bit difficult for an old man like myself, but great nonethless :D

Rincs9 Oct 2024, 17:09

I'm disappointed that it took me FAR too long to realize the Shadow of the Colossus reference. XD An awesome, solid little title!!! :D Loved my time with it!

PointMan9 Oct 2024, 18:50

oh wow discover on twitch it's very fun, AD is really good, the mini game is very fun :D really good

Togis10 Oct 2024, 00:38

Super fun mini game, squashing bugs something super satisfying in this game.

I really enjoyed playing it on stream, but I wouldn't be able to finish the last level without the help of @burchyn

There seems to be a delay between the keyboard press and the clap, and I was not able to synchronize it my head. (But that's probably a me issue)

I would tone down the flickering of the screen in that last mini game too, as the large amount of light colours + flickering contributed to me having a difficult time.

However, it was really fun to play, and the ending was really funny!

Thanks a lot! :bug: :butterfly: :boot:

PhoenixStroh10 Oct 2024, 00:41

Let me think, as a veteran souls player I found the sheer brutality of this game shocking. Very gorgeous game and a nice sense of humor. However. I wanted to rip my eyes out on the last level. Great job.

Wendel Scardua10 Oct 2024, 02:00

Concordo com Rincs ali em cima, porque eu também estou desapontado de ter demorado um pouco pra sacar a referência. Inclusive, ao escrever esse comentário é que eu me dei conta que o "radar" também é parte da referência, hahaha.

Apesar disso o jogo se sustenta bem fora dessa piada... E como sempre o áudio muito bom :)

Só uma coisa, o jogo foi atualizado? Aqui na página não foi dito nada, mas quando vi Pomo jogando o "radar" era um mata-moscas apontando a direção, e agora é um "brilhinho".

LilieBagage10 Oct 2024, 05:39

Hey! we met on my stream yesterday :)
I was able to test your little game. I really like the old school graphics! The gameplay is simple but effective (the last 2 levels were pretty tough, especially with the latency, because when you press the key on the keyboard, it doesn't react immediately on the screen and you miss the bugs).
I appreciated having the guide to find my way back. The music and SFX are simple but sufficient. On the other hand, I don't know why, but all the way through I had a white noise that spoiled the atmosphere (I don't know if it was coming from my PC or the game?).
Well, I'm not sure I understood everything in the plot, but at least it made me laugh!
Bravo to you for this game!

LittleBlackDog10 Oct 2024, 06:08

Lol, I had so much fun playing this game! I love the concept, graphics, and gameplay! I got a bit lost in the map, but it was satisfying to finally find the minigame bosses. That ending, too!! T___T

Great job, love it!!!!!

Miku10 Oct 2024, 06:32

Lol, I didn't expect using the chancla on the spider!

I loved all of the graphics in this game. Each enemy you fought was really unique looking and it was also very humorous to squish the buggies. The atmosphere is immersive and the player can go through the main story smoothly! Well done. Some of those bugs were sooo annoying to squish lol.

SBzellex10 Oct 2024, 06:36

On top of the unique gameplay, there's also great aesthetic, music and the audio fit well. Even had me laughing a couple times. Great work!

MrEliptik10 Oct 2024, 07:33

Such a mood! I enjoyed it a lot and the credits scene at the end was the cherry on top ahah. Congrats!

Megurt10 Oct 2024, 20:24

I have some ideas how you did glitch staff and tv effect, probably post processing or well designed texture

Anyway i like this effect and mechanic, really interesting good job!~

Recher10 Oct 2024, 21:54

Really great tiny games, with lots of creepy tiny creatures.
I did not immediatly realized the tribute to Shadow of the Colossus.

The mood is really nice, with old-timer computer look, the music, the colors, etc.

You already know it, but there is a little bug with Firefox. The cut-scene images doesn't display.

And the ants seem a little "buggy" too. Sometimes, they don't move from a point to another, but they just move from a point to the same point, so we just see them glitching a second.

I loved the end too, but I won't spoil it. I just incite you to play the game until the end, it's not that long.

LDJam user 27362611 Oct 2024, 13:50

Another wonderful entry by Euler! And Kaish! Playing a little kid just squishing bugs like little kids do. I loved the earie music playing off and on. The squishings were challenging. But I bet nobody else got the last one first try... doesn't matter that it was a complete accident on my part rofl. Thanks for the great game!

OwlyCode11 Oct 2024, 15:39

I love how the game is coherent and feels polished. You can tell this is a work of love. I had to figure out at first I had to squash the insects. But once I got that the game unfolded smoothly. The conclusion made me laugh and I had a good time! Congratulations!

FAOFiD11 Oct 2024, 20:50

Right after the first creature when I realised it's all a reference to "Shadow of the Colossus", I laughed so hard! Making a game for "Tiny creatures" by reverting Colossuses formula - that. is. so. genius! I would have never thought of it, and was so surprised to see such game, and a so polished one! I like the simple visuals, I like that bugs move differently, I even struggled a bit. I wish they could give me a challenge by fighting back, but that's okay - I am still happy that they were different in terms of how I should deal with them. The one thing though that was way off the theme - death sound. All the other sounds fit quite good, but not the fart one :sweat_smile: Still, I'm impressed how you handled the theme, amazing work!

ColeSlaughter13 Oct 2024, 03:14

Thanks for submitting your game to stream!

As a huge fan of Shadow of the Colossus, I am frankly embarrassed at how long it took me to notice what you were doing with this game. :rofl:

Great job all around!

NuiN13 Oct 2024, 03:27

I wish I was a shoe

MisaRavensoul13 Oct 2024, 04:07

Great fun! I liked the surprise ending and it was really easy to vibe with this game!

Ategon13 Oct 2024, 17:16

Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod of the stream (timestamped to your game)

Also Wanted to ask if youre fine with me using gameplay from the game in this LDs score chasers tournament intermission video. (Would play in the breaks of the tournament on my stream). Last year for reference

Euler Moises13 Oct 2024, 17:59

@ategon You can use the gameplay Of Course!

PhilStrahl14 Oct 2024, 01:23

What a moody and stylish 2-bit take on that PS2 classic! Thank you for not making this punishingly hard. Very cool entry! For your records, here's my playthrough:

LDJam user 25042614 Oct 2024, 08:48

wow what an ending haha! great work with the sounds and all the lil minigames. The visual style is awesome too ^_^ that last buzzy guy took me so long to get xD

Avi14 Oct 2024, 22:25

oh noooo we got squashed :) that was a cute game -- made me smile but also get rather frustrated with the fly. Well done!

Thomas Gelman15 Oct 2024, 05:46

This game is awesome! Love the graphics and audio, helps create a really solid mood for the game. Not much to complain about, gameplay is simple in a way that is easy to vibe with and intuitive to follow. Well done!

Drinlan15 Oct 2024, 13:38

Wow, I loved the pixel art and how it's complemented by the screen shader effect. It looks great.

I destroyed all the tiny bugs, but man that final boss was fast. It felt like a real battle against an actual mosquito.

Overall, the game feels very polished. It's a short but complete experience. I enjoyed the music too, nice work there as well.

Also, my favourite weapon was the almighty chancla, without a doubt.

Moments before the Big Foot incident:

yancharkin15 Oct 2024, 17:59

I love the aesthetics, sound design, and music. The gameplay, while simple, is also enjoyable. I'm very impressed!

NBumgardner16 Oct 2024, 03:37

This game's humorous context was the highlight of my day. The mini-games require increasingly good reflexes and timing, so I am glad there were infinite retries. Would definitely recommend everyone playing at least the first 2/3 of the game, and after that point you might as well see it to the end.

Empyreans19 Oct 2024, 18:24

Thank you for bringing your game to the stream :)
Yours was the first one I've played!

~ XpMonster

Jcourt25 Oct 2024, 04:45

This was really good!

Since the gameplay was pretty simple I was expecting it to get boring, but I think you designed each fight to be pretty distinct, and the difficulty adjusted nicely. I like the Guide feature very much.

Also, as others have said, the art is really nice and I like the style, the slight... "TV screen effect"? (how it looks like the middle is bowed out a little, and maybe scanlines?) is really well executed, and I think it adds a lot to the game visually.

I also thought the credits with a whole animation and all the bugs' names was a nice touch.

cassowary25 Oct 2024, 18:38

This one was awesome! It reminded me of the game "Minit" a bit. I did not expect that ending, very good.

Some of the timing on the later bugs was pretty tight, and sometimes it felt like it was more about getting lucky with where the bug showed up than it was about actively hitting the bug.

Audio was amazing. I really appreciated the attention to detail here with the different sounds, music, and stuff that was going on. The graphics were also good, and I appreciated all the different little scenes where the bugs were hiding, the little cutscenes, etc. Lovely work!

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