Killing in the name of... by sver
You’re the shepherd of your flock. Of course peaceful island living comes at a price... Your God (enter your favorite deity's name here) demands some offerings every once in a while, otherwise she or he will bring doom to your beautiful island by flooding it with hot lava.
You take the heavy burden upon you to select who your faithful priests will bring closer to your Lady/Lord. Ungrateful as they are, some of your people might get upset by the fact, that you are fulfilling your duty as a deeply religious leader and will try to tear down your churches!
You’d be wise to pick those first, as in your Gods eyes every life is equally expensive. Sounds might hint you towards these rascals, knocking down your sanctuaries.
Scroll left and right via the arrow-keys and select your sacrifices by clicking on them.




| HTML5 (web) | https://loganthemanster.itch.io/killing-in-the-name-of-ludum-dare-44 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/killing-in-the-name-of |
Ratings
| Given | 52🗳️ | 37🗨️ |
Bug Report: One guy keeps on floating above the abyss, maybe the gods want to spare him? :wink:
Really creative idea! I love it!
Very nice art style and animations, loved the screaming sound :stuck_out_tongue:
I've killed in the name of THE MACHINE. :robot:
The concept is great. When I first heard the scream, I could not hold the giggles.
Music works well, like the graphcs. I think this would be better if it was a smaller play area, so you could avoid moving the camera around the island (but this is up to debate). Congrats!
@all Thanks for all the nice comments :)
I actually found a unintended bug myself... the map is a tile too high... pushing the down-arrow seems to let you peek below the lava, where the victims fall for all eternity 👿
This exposes, that we're not cleaning up at all... we'd deserve to be sacrificed for that...
But a great entry! I'm very glad I played it :)
People started beating the church at the right side of the island, so I tried to sacrifice them, but my priests couldn't get to the volcano in time. This was pretty close to the start of the game too. At one point I sacrificed someone and the lava came up rather than down, and I couldn't figure out why.
The art is clear, but very small. I kind of wish things were at least twice as big. The music is excellent, the screaming as the sacrifice is thrown into the volcano was very funny.