This game is really great! Love the idea.

The comic style was really sweet. I liked the sudden change in pace with the introduction of the space ship.

The fact that you were the one making the sacrifice to summon the evil monster was also quite nice. But the mechanics of the game itself didn't focus too much on the theme.

Great job, I had a lot of fun playing the game.

Great game! Amazing idea

Great game, was super fun to play through! Cool art style as well.

I like the graphics and the overall feel

The art was amazing and I really loved the style. My only problem with it is that the boss was too hard. Not sure if I was doing something wrong but couldn't beat it :(

that game looked realy good. I liked the story telling. This Comic style was greate.
the game mechanics could have been a bit better.

Pretty cool game ! At first, the graphical style was "meh", but the comic effect was a really cool addition ! The game was quite fun, a bit challenging at the end and I loved the fact that you mixed multiple gameplay styles ! However... Even if there is one human kill at the beginning, I don't find it enough to totally be in the theme... I was a bit disappointing to not be able to kill all the other humans, but otherwise, that was really fun !

Loved it :))
A few areas could use some polish, but they are not important, not gameplay wise though (the "Going to work" scene contains a running man getting stuck when runs to the end left, and the small screens before the Spaceship you can jump and the character will go over it, but won't get stuck so it's ok).
I couldn't get the final? ending as I am too pleb to beat the boss. He seems way too powerful.
Overall, great game, great art, noice simple story with multiple endings, and multiple types of combat. The sound effects are welcome and are a nice addition.
This game needs to get a greater deal of attention.
"Vanilla ES6 Javascript" => Now you have my utmost respect!

The boss is absolutely unbeatable :laughing:. Very good game :wink:

Thank you all!

@thevinter @mrgrimace

The faster you attack the boss the more it retaliates, so it's a bit easier to attack it bit by bit before nuking it.

@metalfox-dioxymore

It was possible to attack other humans at first, but I removed it because I didn't want Sven to seem like a monster.

This is probably my favorite one so far!

I think you should add the tip to beat the boss in the description because it can be frustrating if you don't know it.

@alexisdupuis Done! Cryptic hint added.

This is so freaking well made, mate!! I'm super impressed. 5 stars from me.

Dudeeee not comments yet? So many twists, awesome fucking mood, one of the best stories of the LD43. DAMN. This took me by surprise. What a turmoil of events. kicked ass dudes.

Absolutely amazing game. Stands out . This should win.

At first I was like "another hand drawn thing". But then boom! The animation is superb the changing levels via panes is done really well. It's so cool.

And then the gameplay. So much fun, such a great progression of ideas. The different enemy attacks is really neat and the reuse of the base elements such as fire makes for a rewarding, logical experience.

The use of sound is excellent too, great choice.

The story and exposition, with the npc in the world makes it great too. The player having the knife during the action sequences makes it easier to tell which one you are which is great.

Technology. I can't believe you wrote this in pure JS. Amazing. It plays so well! This is the first time I've actually downloaded someone's sourcecode to take a look!

Great job!

P.S. Yes the last boss beat me into sacrifice, I tried! But he wore me down. May do another play through later. I really like that I can see there is another ending via the panels. SO COOL!

An amazing game, only problem was that I didn't realize you attack with X (I only understood it after literally pressing every button on the keyboard to see if it does anything). Then I understood that the weird, non-responsive close button in the "lamb" frame was actually telling me I should press X...

Art style is uniform and unique, gameplay is quite funny and satisfactioning. Glad , that you decided to make it in 72 hours. The game is really polished.

This would be awesome as an animated comic :D

Interesting game, I enjoyed the hand drawn art style

Pretty nice seeing a story game in Compo (or even Jam, to be honest) :).

My mortal mind cannot comprehend how unbelievably amazing this piece of art is.

This game is awesome! Really well done. I love the art style and the movement between panels is a great idea. The animation is very nice and the music and overall vibe of the game is great!

I too had a hard time figuring out the attack, even though it was RIGHT there in the corner (for a second I thought it was a broken "exit/escape" button). Maybe you could find a way to bring more attention to the X, for the dummies like me who can't take a hint? Haha.

Anyway, overall, this was a wonderful game and I loved it. Great work!

Nice idea, super impressed!

Thank you!

@yoni @johara-dutton Yeah I should have made the X attack button clearer. During development there was a couple of times when I reflexively tried to click the X. That should have been a sign!

I absolutely loved this game, the art style and the story-telling in comic style contributes to greatness of this game. It also feels so finished and polished unlike many other games ( including ours :P)

the art in this was amazing. i couldn't figure out how to get past the blobby thing that comes down and kills people. seemed like i couldn't kill them myself so wasn't sure how to progress.

It's short, but this idea is great. But some object flickering on HTML 5

Loved the graphics, audio, and storytelling. This game absolutely killed it for me. Amazing job! I think the x control could've been stressed a bit more and the web version had flickering, don't know if that's an issue for all versions. But besides that, I have nothing complain about. Well done!

Amazing Graphic and Overall moods! ㅑmpressed with the cartoonish style.

Most stylistically distinct game in the comp

Very good work! Loved the graphics, simple but nice!

It's one of the best game I played this LD! Amazing art, gameplay and story! Very good job!

Awesome work ! Very original and interesting :)

I loved the idea, though i don't think it was a good use of the theme.
The graphics is simples but great, loved the animations as well, the fact you have 3 different endings(if i didn't missed any other) is also very good and clever used.

One of my favourites thus far, has it all! Very good work!

The entire game being framed in a comic was awesome, Sven had one hell of a day. Managed to beat the boss too. While the gameplay was great, the theme was bit tacked on. Awesome entry regardless.

Not many content at all but Dude! Graphics and gameplay is really cool! I like how you combine platform gameplay and comics design. You MUST continue this game and add new stories! I would enjoy this gameplay one more time for sure)

Love it! MSPaint is my jam! Real neat and unique. Good job!

Very cool! I was just thinking I did not see a good storytelling game yet, and boom, here it is. The storytelling and switching of mechanics are great, and so is the choice of music. Also, the controls are really tight, I think a lot of lack in this departement, but you've nailed it. After trying 8 times to beat the boss I got what to do, and I got the link with the theme.

Overall a great game!!

@banjoduarte Thank you! I originally started working in ms paint, but I then found a program called "piskel" which I used to get frame-by-frame animation + onion skin. Still looking for even better alternatives which also support multiple animations per file.

An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)

Best game I've seen in this Ludum Dare so far. Putting the game in comic book panels is genius. Overall the art direction is great, I like the three-color color scheme with all the animations with a hand-drawn crisp look. I did manage to beat the boss too, so definitely not totally unbeatable. :)

If you like to code close to the HTML5 platform level, check out my collection of reusable game utilities by the way: https://github.com/oletus/gameutils.js/ Some of it might be useful.

Very Innovative, loved the sketch style and yeah as others have said, the final boss is too hard :P

Beautiful!

Love the transitions! The writing made me want to finish it and did! great job mang!

Well, that escalated quickly!

Super impressed with this. the art style, the animation, the comic book layout. Well done!

Really enjoyable !!

it make me think to Comix Zone on MegaDrive ! ;)

Great game design !
I loved this comic strip narration, coming along with expressive animations. The minimalist and 2 bit style makes it feel even more like a storyboard or a raw comic.
The blood animation and sacrifice part feeling make my sociopath side wish I could have sacrified more NPC XD The spaceship part is quite surprising, I couldn't beat the boss, I've understood I should kill it slowly but I don't have patience and keep blastbeating fire key at some point...
Good job !
Cheers!

so by chance how many times do i have to hit the boss cuz ffs its so hard....... this game a soooo amazing like wow

@zayah0-0 60 times. Try hitting it slowly for half its HP and then burst it down.

That final boss is too difficult for me, but overall great artstyle and animations all around!

What could I say? Amazing entry, I loved it! It is very polished, you're great at design. I really liked the animations, the sounds, the comic-strip storyboard. Make more games :)

The only minor downside is that the key to use the knife wasn't written on the game tutorial. Apart from that it's really great, the comic book art style works great and I love how the story can branch according to what Sven does. Great job !

Adorable and I love it! :D

Lovely art style and a full story ! Amazing

Wow this was pretty cool! Very well done!

really impressive design. Nice job. It just miss an indication on how to show/kill.

I did all three endings and I liked a lot of things in this game: the comic style, the story, the story that the environment tells that differs slightly (such as everyone running away while the narrator just tells Sven’s story), the artwork, the no-kill ending, the general mood, the constant surprises such as the shmup sequences… The theme is only present as a story element and not really as a gameplay mechanic, but I guess that still counts. A very good entry overall.

had so much fun, saw 3 endings not sure if there was more options. Awesome animations and storytelling. GJ.

The pacing, perspective and mood of this game is chillingly brilliant. The presentation brings me back to Comix Zone while utilizes panels in such a fresh way! Excellent job with this! I thoroughly enjoyed it!