Lights On by henriquecanella

What is this game ?
Lights On is a platformer game where your objective is to prevent the city lights to be turned off by fixing all the power sources around the level
How to control
To control the character use the arrow keys, Z to attack X to flash light and S to fix the power sources
| Youtube | https://henriquecanella.itch.io/lights-on |
| Youtube | https://henriquecanella.itch.io/lights-on |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/lights-on |
Ratings
| Overall | 566th | 3.394⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 620th | 3.167⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 732th | 3.03⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 931th | 3.061⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 232th | 3.853⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 601th | 2.909⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 549th | 2.683⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 444th | 3.297⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 34🗳️ | 42🗨️ |
Any possible solution??
quite liked the art, bgm sounds like something i'd make sorry :)
* Ooooooo hand drawn instructions! I love that~
* As for said instructions, if you're going for usability ZSX doesn't work too well. ZXC or ZSC works better. My hand naturally falls on C for light... which not saved me from a few deaths.
* The flash is a very good mechanic! I suggest making it a bit less bright cause sometimes the monitor showing pure white in pure darkness is always not a good thing. However, slowly fading it in is always good. A very good move for you to do.
* Maybe flash should be shorter in range too. I didn't expect to flash another guy on the other side of the map.
* Of course like everyone else's feedback, the attack range is too short. Usually the case is that once you touch the enemy you are out of the game, even when frozen.
* Maybe make the enemies unable to kill you when flashed.
* I was expecting them to move again after a short while when flashed. It'll make those multiple hits more satisfying to pull off.
* Unlike everyone else, I think the movement is fine in this case. Being floaty is not bad, just a bit slow, but it does add to the challenge, no?
* Remove the health bar. That's very clear that you're only one hit away.
* I feel the urgency is not there with the current timer to coincide with the theme. Maybe change it so that you have shorter time, but replenishes time when you fix a machine. So like, little generators that work together!
* The game is mostly played using a keyboard. The menu doesn't help with that. If you're making a keyboard-centric game, it's better for you to have keyboard interaction with menus, too!
Despite all of this, this is a very good entry! Great job~
Maybe some feedback are,
- Control a bit heavy and a bit slippery where i sometimes accidentally collide with enemy.
- The keyboard bind feels quite weird.
Anyway, good job!
Faster fixing speed,
Not being able to be killed by an enemy if they are stunned,
animation for fixing,
Sound effect for the process of fixing,
Less floaty Jumping controls,
Those are just the things I noticed. Hope you do well!
Character movement felt good.
I had some issues with the camera.
Gameplay was great,
although it may look like a simple platformer the flash mechanic was something unique
Looking forward to harder puzzles if you decide to continue this game
The buttons to play the game are kind of confusing too, it's kinda hard to jump using the up arrow key, so normally you'd expect to jump using the spacebar, something you cannot do here. Also, why do you need a button to fix the generators? There isn't punishment to suddently stop fixing them or anything, so just do it automatically.
Having to switch between using the keyboard and mouse to press the next level button is really, really annoying too.
But I did like the direction the art was kind of taking, the atmosphere is insane and the "activate the power sources" objective is really simple and has a lot of potential.
With more time, it can turn into a great game.
Onto the positive! I really liked the graphics and the in-game help. I'm not sure if it was just me but I liked the wall jump and I figured it out quite quick because of the level design. The flash mechanic was really cool as well. Nice atmosphere as well.