Phares by Felipe Budinich

made by Felipe Budinich for LD22 (JAM)

"You are the Lighthouse at Styx River, your job is to persecute souls trying to escape hell, it can get lonely, but jumping on ghosts sure is fun and it's pretty comfy."

The Idea is to bounce on top of ghosts so the lighthouse (you) does not sink on the flames of hell.

Controls:

Click/Tap to make the lighthouse move towards that direction.

Tools:

Frameworks: Impact, SoundManager 2
Language: Javascript
Platform: HTML5, Canvas
Audio: Audacity, Aria Maestosa, GXSCC
GFX: Photoshop CS 5.5
IDE: Komodo Edit

Web	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1043484/games/LD22/compo.html
Web (Postcompo)	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1043484/games/LD22/index.html
Postmortem	http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/12/21/phares-postmortem/
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=2502

Ratings

Coolness	28%	457
Overall(Jam)	2.65	79

Audio(Jam)	3.65	9
Community	3.00	129
Fun(Jam)	1.65	145
Graphics(Jam)	4.25	8
Humor(Jam)	2.00	65
Innovation(Jam)	2.74	48
Mood(Jam)	2.65	42
Theme(Jam)	2.11	111

Feedback

Phen

20. Dec 2011 · 10:04 UTC

Holy cow, the art here is astounding. Loading this page, I thought, "There's no way that's a screenshot," and then it WAS. It's an incredibly entertaining feel, very well executed.

Unfortunately, the gameplay doesn't hold up. The lighthouse moves around, and I can make it go left or right, but nothing it does looks at all like "falling" or "bouncing."
It only seems to move up or down arbitrarily and jerkily, hitting the ghosts yields no discernible correlation. At one point, I just stopped clicking altogether, and it didn't seem to result in me losing. Not that I could tell, anyway. The lighthouse kept moving around randomly.

I gotta give you high marks anyway, because I'm so impressed with the general feel of the thing.

Shigor

20. Dec 2011 · 19:11 UTC

Plus points for art style and mood. But as a game it leaves a lot to improvement.

matthias_zarzecki

20. Dec 2011 · 21:42 UTC

Nice graphical setup. Game-idea is good too, but it was difficult figuring out the rules.

Stavu

21. Dec 2011 · 00:16 UTC

Very interesting game. I've never played a lighthouse before :) Wonderful art and music!!

mes

21. Dec 2011 · 08:49 UTC

the game is trivially easy, but at least it looks cool. i was hoping for a card game after seeing the picture. :p

Pierrec

21. Dec 2011 · 12:04 UTC

I don't even...
What a weird idea! How did it come up ?
Not very fun to play, but perfect on all the other aspects ^^

🎤 Felipe Budinich

21. Dec 2011 · 22:38 UTC

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm aware that I dropped the ball on gameplay, currently I'm writting a post mortem where I'll review those points and options I have for the post-compo version.

🎤 Felipe Budinich

22. Dec 2011 · 01:17 UTC

Ok, posted the postmortem:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/12/21/phares-postmortem/

jfroco

22. Dec 2011 · 12:19 UTC

Hello Felipe, nice to see you here again... very original and art is superb. Congratulations.

SonnyBone

23. Dec 2011 · 02:32 UTC

Yeah I was totally expecting a card game. Those poor little ghosts just don't have the detail of the lighthouse. Maybe that's why the lighthouse wants them dead... again?

Tom 7

31. Dec 2011 · 17:36 UTC

Excellent graphics! The post-compo version doesn't start at all for me in any browser.

🎤 Felipe Budinich

03. Jan 2012 · 00:54 UTC

Sorry @Tom 7, I have not worked on the post compo version at all, pretty swamped with work at the moment :-p

Kitch

05. Jan 2012 · 00:05 UTC

Art and sound was great. Never could quite figure out what was going on with the controls though... no matter where I hot the ghosts, didn't feel very bouncy.