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Knock Knock... The travelling soulsman by Angry Squirrels

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made by Angry Squirrels for LD 44 (JAM)

KNOCK KNOCK Traveling Soulsman

  • “Knock Knock who’s there ?
  • Dave Hill
  • Dave Hill who ?
  • Dave Hill the Traveling Soulsman”

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In "Knock Knock", you play Dave Hill, a little silly Travelling Sellsman in souls stuff at the service of the devil and your goal is to keep your job by succeeding the ultimatum that Satan has given you. You will have to collect more souls than Rodrique the stone by going to propose the best wishes to the humans against a super mega pact ultra cool.

Controls :

  • The mouse (it's your hand), that’s all
  • You can interact with everything beyond your imagination, and by everything i mean some things, like the doorbell and a few elements of the background, but that’s pretty much it.

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The team :

  • Regional Designer : @He_Bola
  • Assistant TO the regional Designer : @sentsu
  • Art Hokage : @megaelod
  • Fairy Fart sounds and storyboarding : @Esquimaupeche
  • Beautiful sounds : @illustrason (we actually did the music as some asked and some are not rating audio)
  • The lonely dev : @tomobodo
  • The part-time characterdesigner / and the rest of the time doing his normal job : @julienlelievre
  • Ghost writer but also the actual writer : @thompico
  • GhostRider : @Nicolas_Cage

* _ Dedicated to the memory of our missing friends : hibouch and yanka (they were on holidays) _ *

* _ Thanks to @mllekarensac for yelling at Thom Pico. _ *

“Wicky wicky, wa wa” - Will Smith 1999

HTML5 (web) https://angrysquirrels.itch.io/ld44-knock-knock-traveling-soulsman
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/knock-knock-the-travelling-soulsman

Ratings

Given 119🗳️ 45🗨️

Feedback

mimusangel
30. Apr 2019 · 09:03 UTC
Really fun, despite my low level of English
cyriaque
30. Apr 2019 · 09:04 UTC
Nice work, the style is very nice and the theme is in, did you made the music ?
I will probably come back later to try all possibility.

Nice job all !
PlusMinus
30. Apr 2019 · 09:07 UTC
Best entry so far. GJ.
SamLeCreator
30. Apr 2019 · 09:08 UTC
I absolutely loved it! Beautiful game, beautiful idea. You've done brilliantly!
Sangemdoko
30. Apr 2019 · 09:08 UTC
This game is great! Everything about it is great the start cutscene, the art, the relaxing music and especially the humor.
Arimie
30. Apr 2019 · 09:09 UTC
Hey ! i really enjoy playing your game. That was really fun. I lost i'm so sad ! But never mind. This was cool. I think you know but there was some bugs when you have to click. When you selected a text, sometimes you broke the window and you don't want it (idk if it's normal) and when you click on the bell, it don't work. I clicked many times but nothing XD !
pepnou
30. Apr 2019 · 09:19 UTC
Great game! I really like the concept of a low level demon send to harvest souls and the art is beautiful!
I failed a the 5th guy ;(
Loganou974
30. Apr 2019 · 11:08 UTC
Daaaaaamn, best game so far ! Such an adventure time mood ! Love it ! Cheers !
RodStar
30. Apr 2019 · 11:35 UTC
BEST GAME ! I Loved the art style !
Ryan Brenner
30. Apr 2019 · 14:24 UTC
The scope of this game is super impressive. The amount and quality of art and writing is unparalleled. And a very clever, unique idea in a sea of uninspired action games. Excellent job!
Nuccia
30. Apr 2019 · 15:01 UTC
Very nice graphics, Fun idea ! well done !
pixelstuff
30. Apr 2019 · 17:44 UTC
I feel bad for the grandpa ashes now! So cool! Much graphics! Very wow! Bien joué à toute l'équipe
Kpedatte
30. Apr 2019 · 20:00 UTC
Wow this game is so cute at every levels. drawings are amazings, music and sounds are nice. Narrative games aren't my kind, but I liked this one.
BUT PLEASE, MAKE THEM ANGRY FOR RINGING DURING AN HOUR (or maybe I didn't ring enough?)
Congrats, it's far from the best i saw today !
roxiemoxie
30. Apr 2019 · 22:17 UTC
One of the funniest game here and elsewhere ! nice work and nice questions !
neonjeff
01. May 2019 · 03:20 UTC
Very nice art and music! I never seemed to disturb people breaking their windows while talking to them haha.
turbogros
01. May 2019 · 08:35 UTC
@cyriaque yes, the music was made by our friend camille (@illustrason on twitter) :) that's a real flute and guitar, almost no vst here.
dougLima
01. May 2019 · 08:45 UTC
Super fun, the art is beautiful and fluid! Stunning work, wow 5/5
Ahmed Ali
01. May 2019 · 08:45 UTC
Super Fun to play....
antoined73
01. May 2019 · 08:53 UTC
Haha super fun and polished ! Music is awesome and graphics too !
Just 2 things :
- Let the player skip the intro if he want to restart the game
- I got this bug when restarting :
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It seems that the scene does not restart correctly.

Overall super nice entry, good job guys !
turbogros
01. May 2019 · 08:55 UTC
@antoined73 Oopsie, thanks for the feedback. Yeah we didn't have the time to implement the "skip the intro". It was intended, but we ran out of time. The assets for two more characters were also ready.
ratz
01. May 2019 · 08:56 UTC
Fantastic! I especially like the graphics and sound. Had a bit of a problem selecting different contracts. Great job overall!
herio5154
01. May 2019 · 09:09 UTC
its very cute but porlem sovleings a bit hard when doing thses kinds of puzzles it might help to hight inportent dialogue to help push the logic along other then that its its nice
Josia Roncancio
01. May 2019 · 10:16 UTC
This was a lot of fun! The door opening and closing is a really clever way of showing the people's reactions to what you say and your overall progress with a person and created a lot of tense moments for me where I knew: If I screw up now, it's over.
I also liked how each of the clients had a different way of revealing what their desires were. The grandma that secretly wanted to dominate the world was definitely a highlight! :D
nicneznic
01. May 2019 · 10:34 UTC
Nicely done! Art style and music stand out, it fits the theme well. Nice experience overall, thank you!
svdvorak
01. May 2019 · 10:41 UTC
Hilarious, beautiful and with surprisingly amount of dialogue and options. And the intro is just amazing. Absolutely love the long scroll of salesmen with you at the bottom :D
Failed pretty spectacularly so trying again now. Oh, and I lost my mouse cursor after restart, seems to be a bug.
TheSunshineRaven
01. May 2019 · 11:55 UTC
Poor demon, never seemed to be able to push the door bell! :D Great into!! Nice idea and I really loved the dialogues and the way of how you showed how people felt about the demon – facial expression, doors closing and opening, ... Nice design! Agree with contract selection being a bit clumsy and somehow, I couldn't escape the fullscreen on my mac. Overall, I had a lot of fun playing this game. Great job guys, I'm happy!
randomphantom
01. May 2019 · 12:23 UTC
Love the adventure timey style artwork, the chill music, the snazzy intro! Nice mechanic with the door opening as well.
I think the UI could be a bit more refined as I feel that trying to select the right contracts was a bit challenging. The dialogue seemed to be a bit mixed up as well (eg for the kid I asked him about games but he seemed to think I was asking if he'd be interested in more money).
Great fun though.
TBaudon
01. May 2019 · 12:39 UTC
@thesunshineraven Thank you for your feedback. About that doorbell issue, are you using firefox ? someone already told me about it but i can't seem to reproduce. Cheers.
TheSunshineRaven
01. May 2019 · 13:55 UTC
@tbaudon I'm using Safari on a Mac. I always had to break something, either a plant or a window to get people out. but it was kind of funny this way and I thought it might be intentional :) I didn't mind it that much
Guerredesencheres
01. May 2019 · 14:20 UTC
This game is awesome :) Wish it was made into an actual game, I would pay money to play this. I just wish there were more things to interact with, but given the time constraint, I get why there aren't more. Artwork is awesome, music is really pleasing too. Might just be my fave from LD44 :)
Merdek
01. May 2019 · 16:48 UTC
Funny art, funny dialogues)
Amber1
01. May 2019 · 17:10 UTC
This game is super lovely and really nice! Didn't think it was possible to make a super good game with the theme of this jam but you guys totally did it! Indeed a bit sad I am not able to restart the game properly or skip the intro but it is understandable to have some flaws in the game when you have so little time. :smile_cat:
josehzz
01. May 2019 · 17:55 UTC
The graphics are amazing, I wish there were more people to take their soul, it fell too short :(
wojciech
01. May 2019 · 20:10 UTC
I got fired but it was very fun! The characters seemed quite interesting. Some of them were hard to read but with some more focus definitely solvable. I liked that there was two way mechanic, first get to know them and open the door then you can guess what they want. The art is also nice, simple and fitting the story. I especially liked the boss and there was some nice humor too!
T-Bo
01. May 2019 · 20:45 UTC
Very funny game ( XD I love the references on the list in the cutscene XD ) ! I love the narration and the music is awesome ! Amazing job ! :clap:
Auzrial
02. May 2019 · 01:12 UTC
wow i really love the art style of this game its very cute! such a cool concept, id love to see a bigger version of this game some day.
yojammerjammer
02. May 2019 · 04:33 UTC
Fantastic! Even though I was fired!
Pixel-boy
02. May 2019 · 17:38 UTC
I finally beat the game after 3 tries, so much polish, just awesome !
redmountainman1
02. May 2019 · 17:40 UTC
I love the cut scene animations, great job!
Rgarbati
02. May 2019 · 19:08 UTC
Wow, amazing graphs here. Your game just look georgous and gg fo the polish of it. Well done !
cnnmon
02. May 2019 · 20:19 UTC
the idea was enough to sell me (haha get it) but to top it off the selling mechanic, writing, art, and music tied everything together perfectly! i think this is one of my favorites, good job!
dk5000p
02. May 2019 · 21:13 UTC
Very good entry. My initial playthrough I got a bug where it split the screen in half so everything was getting cut off so it was hard to play. I also got the blue screen issue that the user above showed. The game was unforgiving, you couldn't even get one wrong to win and am still working to win, but the interactions are funny, the artwork is great, and enjoyed the music.
barret
04. May 2019 · 04:24 UTC
Oh my gosh I love the theme music in this game. I found my self humming it along. Seriously there is so much charm packed into this cute little game. And the intro animation and title screen are superb quality. Looks like that of a full title release.

I totally failed with my first customer and I think there was a slight bug where when I picked choices for dialogue I could accidentally break the window haha, but it was easy to work around.

Thank you for making me laugh and have a really enjoyable play through.
Drauthius
04. May 2019 · 06:53 UTC
Really great mood and aesthetics.
Bakenshake
05. May 2019 · 03:56 UTC
Okay, but the fact that Michael Scarn (Threat Level Midnight?) was on that list made my day. The animations and voice acting of this were hysterical and fun. It fits the theme perfectly, in my opinion, and was fun to play. I did have some issues clicking the right option in a couple of instances, but that was the only thing I noticed. Great job here. Would love to see more polish and more interactive options. Maybe some proc gen responses or people?

Ooo, I was writing this as I was going to restart (I failed first time), and I also go the blue screen bug the previous commenter mentioned. Also yes, an option to skip the intro would be delightful.
Franklins Ghost
05. May 2019 · 08:55 UTC
The character design in this was great. Liked going further and seeing each new door open and seeing who was behind it. Good use of the theme and the written was really well done in adding humour.