Blood Runs by Sol Roo
You wake up in the middle of the night (every night), starving. You take your keys, and you go for a drive, to satisfy your munchies. Vampire munchies are the worst. The bad news is that the people you feed on, they become ghouls (yuk!) and are just volent empty sacks of blood... just punch those.
CONTROLS: - WASD / Arrow keys to control - Space key / Z: main action (enter/exit car, eat people) - Left/Right control / X: secondary action (punch)
CREDITS: - Camilo ABELAYRAS: Art - Thibault LAINE: Map, Cars (behaviour and AI) - Sol ROO: Characters (behaviour and AI) - Marco BENZI TOBAR: Audio (music, FX, integration)
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| Youtube | https://solroo.itch.io/bloodruns |
| Youtube | https://solroo.itch.io/bloodruns |
| Youtube | https://solroo.itch.io/bloodruns |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/blood-runs |
Ratings
| Overall | 190th | 4.026⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 257th | 3.865⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 918th | 3.434⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 924th | 3.789⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 54th | 4.618⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 143th | 4.066⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 349th | 3.676⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 209th | 4.053⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 44🗳️ | 36🗨️ |
Also the music is really nice.
But... the controls... Damn, the vertical axis inverted is a bug, right ? Also the car is extremely fast and the vampire really slow. Plus it's not clear when the blood bar replenishes and when it doesn't.
I couldn't finish day 2 but I'll be willing to give it a try again if you could fix the axis swap :)
Good job !
Hey, glad you liked it!
Controls: The W/S key invert is clearly a bug (sorry!), because we programmed it for AZERTY/ Arrow keys and added the QWERTY support at midnight... I pushed a quickfix.
The speeds are intentional (to force you to drive around).
I mean c'mon- this is amazing! Vampy GTA?! So- I only made it through two feedings- I didn't eat enough and died in my sleep. Superb art, fantastic music and wonderful SFX- Will be back to see if I can get in a tussle with the cops. This is a perfect idea. Can't wait to see more. Please add more drift. Thanks for the game!!
I think the old-fashion 'tank' controls might have suited it better - but good work!
@delunado @miki-keyo It is
true that the gameplay is a bit shallow, we spent too much time building the engine and the map... But we will work some more on it, for sure!
@kristian-kurktchiev @lintfordpickle controls are not great. Probably testing tank controls in the next few days (thanks!).
The art style it's really impressive as well. PLEASE MAKE IT INTO A FULL GAME.
really fun game !!!
What I said before about the art and the music still stands but now I could appreciate the gameplay much more. The ghoul mechanic plus the car work well together to force you to move to another place.
If I had stuff to nitpick concerning places of improvement I would say :
-I found that you've got a beautiful graveyard and you're not using it, I feel like it's kind of a wasted opportunity
-does the rising sun actually do something ? What prevents us from staying in the city endlessly ? It seems I never died or anything from a rising sun :thinking:
It's an awesome entry! would really love to fight against cops or vampire hunters!
There are ome "flicking" on the tiles and the camera seriously made me get nauseated in the early minutes of the game.... you should try some sort of smoothing with look ahead!