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Monsters & Portals by Limitless

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made by Limitless for LD 43 (JAM)

You have been banished to a world filled with monsters, ruled by a hungry Demon lord. You have to hunt monsters and offer them as sacrifice to the demon to escape the world. Use portals spread throughout the world to offer your sacrifices faster. If things are going tough, consider sacrificing yourself with other monsters! Enjoy!

Controls:

  • Left/Right: Movement
  • Up/Z: Jump
  • Down/S: Pick up/Drop items
  • X: Attack
  • C: Dash

How to Play:

Kill monsters and take the item they drop and put it on the Altar. Make sure the item stays on the Altar until the Demon Lord consumes it.​ Also, don't stay on the Altar after dropping the item - else the demon might harm you - unless you want to sacrifice yourself! :)

Tip:

Instead of taking items back to the altar by yourself, just throw them into portals spread throughout the level. All portals lead to the altar!

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HTML5 (web) https://limitlessllc.itch.io/monsters-and-portals
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/feeding-a-hungry-demon-lord

Ratings

Overall 279th 3.69⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 324th 3.5⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 726th 2.893⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 328th 3.759⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 153th 4.21⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Humor 759th 2.32⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 399th 3.464⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

izi
04. Dec 2018 · 03:36 UTC
i really like the graphics
Nikolaj
04. Dec 2018 · 03:36 UTC
Wow, great job in jus a weekend
Vasco Borges
04. Dec 2018 · 03:36 UTC
Really pretty pixelart!
HayArt
04. Dec 2018 · 03:54 UTC
Excellent game, graphics, idea, mechanics, I confess that the controls are not my preference, but it is possible to get used to it
🎤 Limitless
04. Dec 2018 · 04:37 UTC
Thanks everyone! :)
adventureislands
04. Dec 2018 · 14:40 UTC
Nice graphics! I think pressing down would have been better key for picking up and dropping stuff. Also the character slides around a lot, making it easy to accidentally hurt yourself when you try to kill creatures.
Fede
04. Dec 2018 · 15:57 UTC
Cool graphics!
bjeaurn
04. Dec 2018 · 16:08 UTC
Looks great! well done in so little time. Plays pretty good honestly, controls felt quite natural and the little slide and hanging animations helped for me to get decent platforming control.

Nicely done!
nuclearfriend
04. Dec 2018 · 16:13 UTC
The platformer feel was really good but wish some more time had been put into making the enemies or the goal more interesting. Still excellent effort for a jam overall!
SandLantern
04. Dec 2018 · 16:28 UTC
Nice little game, I would have like a different control scheme though, that one was really tough to get used to.
Ilseroth
04. Dec 2018 · 16:29 UTC
The graphics look solid, and the platforming has a surprising amount of mechanics built into it climbing, walljumping, it's all there; though I will say playing 2d platformers with a keyboard has never felt good to me, but that's on my end not yours. My main criticism is that you can only carry one monster at a time, so either you juggle enemies back to the boss by tossing them (which feels less like an intended mechanic and more like an exploit) or you run back and forth endlessly. In addition the hitboxes on some of the enemies feel insanely generous (though the hitbox on your sword is pretty beefy too) so they aren't anywhere close to where the pixels are.

All in all a solid entry :heart:
🎤 Limitless
04. Dec 2018 · 21:40 UTC
Thanks everyone!
Eclahn
04. Dec 2018 · 21:46 UTC
It looks very good, the controls are very tight and satisfying (except for this strange decision to not put the jump on UP, I will never understand that). I liked it!

The combat is where it's lacking a bit though. The enemies don't get knocked back when I hit them (and obviously they don't really attack but I assume that's because of time constraint) and it feels a little annoying.

The suggestion I would make would be to scale up the rhythm. Right now the demon's hunger rises so slowly and the sacrifices give so little return that I felt I could as well have waited. Maybe make the hunger start from 0%, grow much faster but the sacrifices actually give you a meaningful 10 to 20% recess ?

Small nitpick : the small slime enemies are the most annoying thing to see!
🎤 Limitless
04. Dec 2018 · 22:27 UTC
@eclahn Thank you for your feedback! I found a bug that was causing all monsters to just give 1 hunger point! I fixed it and re-uploaded again. Now you can win the game :)
Hygon
04. Dec 2018 · 23:01 UTC
The game is really pretty, and it feels great to move around !
I found the controls a bit confusing (i kept trying to jump with up instead of z).
I wish the starting area was a bit safer, I often lost health in the first seconds of the game.
Overall, it's a fun game to play, congrats !
🎤 Limitless
05. Dec 2018 · 00:32 UTC
@hygon Thank you! Up was supposed to jump too. I've fixed it now.
Arvejeitor
05. Dec 2018 · 00:44 UTC
GREAT job with the art, graphics look beautiful
Jared York
05. Dec 2018 · 03:14 UTC
Pretty fun game! The art is fantastic! This is a solid entry.
konstantin_tru
05. Dec 2018 · 11:34 UTC
Nice game))