LOÜJ by Thomas Lean

LOÜJ is a post-apocalyptic runner.
You play Loüj, a dark magician who wants to live as long as possible in this world.
Legends has it he once said :
"The more distance i travel, the happier I'll be!"
But LoüJ's world is a dangerous place to live in, with its sharp spikes and stuff that kill...
Please guys, make him happy, try to reach 1 kilometer!
———– HOW TO PLAY ——————————————
M TO MUTE/UNMUTE
↑ TO JUMP
↑ IN THE AIR TO FLOAT
↓ TO FALL FASTER
← → TO DASH
You can dash through spikes.
You can't dash while floating.
While floating in the air, press ↓ to fall faster
The Orb is here to indicate when you can use the Floating

Théophile Loaec - Sound Design & Programming Twitter : ThomasLean.
Enzo Regelan - Pixel Art & Animation Twitter : Vlashikito.
Valerian Ferruit - KeyArt Illustrations Twitter : Stupval --- Instagram : ValerianBs
| HTML5 (web) | https://thomas-lean.itch.io/louj |
| HTML5 (web) | https://thomas-lean.itch.io/loujpostjam |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/louj |
Ratings
| Overall | 18th | 4.281⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 21th | 4.156⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 387th | 3.387⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 167th | 4⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 11th | 4.641⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 35th | 4.113⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 33th | 4.15⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 8🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Nice job guys, great entry :)
Controls and movements are fluid and polish, very good job here!
Awesome audio & visuals integration, they fit perfectly and it super cute!
Very good job ! Keep it :up:
The whole experience felt very smooth and polished, and once I got used to the dash/float/drop functions it became a very deep game.
- I didn't like that tapping forward / back could kill you. I felt like it should cap at the edges
- I also would have put a height threshold on the hover so it wouldn't let you do it 2 inches above the ground (sometimes I would hover rather than jumping when I meant to double jump)
On the second point you're absolutely right, we should have though of that :( i noticed it while playing a little bit more but it was too late
Thanks for your feedback i really appreciate i'm glad that you like the art and hope you'll enjoy the game more when issues'll be fix !!
395m :(
Definitely coming back to this one.
There are a couple of things control wise I'd like to point out now that I've completed the game.
* I mentioned on the stream earlier that sometimes when I'd jump, it didn't seem to register. I couldn't figure out why then, but I've found it now. Sometimes, you can trigger the double jump/floating right as you land on the ground. This occurs form pressing up just before landing, which I usually do right in front of a spike where I'm attempting to jump again and can't.
* The dash is pretty much key to winning this. The pickups that are sometimes spawned within the spikes, or extremely close to them make it a necessity. However, there were times where I would time it just wrong and instead I would dash not only through the spike, but through the pickup as well.
Other than these two things, I really enjoyed this game a lot.
Also, since you ask for it, here's some pics for you. I had to capture it fast so not best quality, but died shortly after getting past 1000m

Forgot to add this in with the comment, but here is the link to the playthrough from the stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/300351587
Controls feel great, the visuals and the audio create a great mood, over all great experience !
Amazing job
Here is a link to your segment from the show:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299088812?t=00h48m40s
Here's a video of my play and feedback: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/303342352