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And I believe that the game stayed within the theme, there comes a time when it becomes very difficult to keep the light!\n\nArt music and effects fully functional and matching. Congratulations!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":776983,"author_name":"Untitled Studios","author_uid":"untitled-studios","epoch":1649081532,"text":"@very-bad-bunny-studio took a lot of work haha, but yeah :>\n\nGlad you think it fits the theme :))","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":777678,"author_name":"ClaytonRumley","author_uid":"claytonrumley","epoch":1649088420,"text":"Great game...I actually found it really challenging and gave up on the big eyeball boss. I would love to see this expanded to allow for other weapons, powerups, etc. The \"lamp turns your parachute into a hot air balloon\" concept is brilliant!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":781428,"author_name":"Jordan Pavlic","author_uid":"jordan-pavlic","epoch":1649116489,"text":"The graphics and audio are great. It it feels really good to land a shot that passes through the candle and the camera shake was really cool. I would have to say it was way too hard for my taste though. I died a ton and almost gave up before I finished (I discovered that the enemies couldn't see me in some situations so that let beat it). Oh and the parachute that floats with the candle is really a thoughtful touch.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":781461,"author_name":"LanaLux","author_uid":"lanalux","epoch":1649116790,"text":"Great game and really well executed tutorial, it was clear, easy to grasp and fun to learn the new mechanics. Nice polished game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":781975,"author_name":"JCMonkey","author_uid":"jcmonkey","epoch":1649120573,"text":"nice quick little game, and i love the fact that you can use the light to flame up your arrows. the dropping to shoot got annoying some times when the light got thrown, when you just wanted to place it down. but overall nice game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":781985,"author_name":"Mascoll","author_uid":"mascoll","epoch":1649120617,"text":"SUper nice graphics and good feel to the controls!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":793979,"author_name":"ollie_d","author_uid":"ollie-d","epoch":1649185687,"text":"That was genuinely really fun. I'm impressed with how much you were able to get done within the jam period. I do think you could've really easily stuck to the theme if the candle DID deplete and you had flaming arrows that could reignited it. That way you'd have to balance out shooting enemies and shooting your candle to keep it alive. But genuinely well done, my favorite game I've played so far from LD50.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":802450,"author_name":"marcmagus","author_uid":"marcmagus","epoch":1649255463,"text":"Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you\u2019d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1447203076\n\nI enjoyed the concept quite a bit. The controls (particularly click to aim, never my favorite) were a little fiddly at times, especially when trying to position the light and fight in the other direction at the same time. Which is also interesting challenge, but also sometimes frustrating \"hard to get the game to do what I think I'm going to tell it to do\".\n\nMy main suggestion for improvement would be better telegraphing of the \"shoot through the light\" power. Enemy health was also maybe a little high throughout, especially the boss.\n\nOverall an enjoyable experience.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":804391,"author_name":"chusmimax","author_uid":"chusmimax","epoch":1649270468,"text":"Amazing game. It knows what it wants to be and every decision enhances the end result. Concise tutorial, ingame and cleverly display, no walls of text.\n\nI could only find one thing that was making it a bit frustrating at times, and it's the fact that i couldn't not take the lamp if I got too close, too close and i picked it and doomed myself, too far and i was worthless.\n\nStill, really impressive.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":805097,"author_name":"josep93","author_uid":"josep93","epoch":1649275169,"text":"Interesting idea. I like it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":817987,"author_name":"Guillem Serra","author_uid":"guillem-serra","epoch":1649487391,"text":"Very well done for two days! Loved how the game feel of the bow, how it strikes the enemies. The difficulty progression is excelent. I found the rock-picking in the tutorial a little confusing, and maybe picking the light could be a direct player mechanic, like with E button. Amazing job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":822014,"author_name":"Aka Black Dog","author_uid":"aka-black-dog","epoch":1649593614,"text":"really cool game with great mechanics and implementation","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":824734,"author_name":"digitaldude555","author_uid":"digitaldude555","epoch":1649683331,"text":"Probably the most thorough tutorial of any game I rated so far, like the run animation and the sound of the bow, music is relaxing though gameplay isn't. It was a bit too hard for me. I couldn't finish it. Good job.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":830451,"author_name":"Confidant17","author_uid":"confidant17","epoch":1650039811,"text":"controls are responsive, love the graphics, not quite with theme but then again you said it at the beggining, you did a very good  job for being compo. gj overall. you should be proud","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831931,"author_name":"ColeSlaughter","author_uid":"coleslaughter","epoch":1650177520,"text":"[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1457959497?t=01h14m09s)\n\nThis is such a strong entry, especially for compo.  Very nicely polished mechanics and visuals, and felt very unique!  Keep up the good work. :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1t75C0XXRyqTeRNzVcFq9FvzShhWhYt4X\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/199ef2GXgeKjlib6Gi22vO5igKPJ5GpEH\/view?usp=sharing","text":"GMS2"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"67585","g_author":"1051138","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"291332","g_title":"Protect The Light","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"85","g_commentcount":"19","g_site2_node_id":"276839","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"276839","n_urlkey":"291332","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/protect-the-light","n_slug":"protect-the-light","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"51138","n_created":"0","n_modified":"0","n_version":"892654","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"id":276839,"parent":276397,"superparent":9,"author":51138,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2022-04-04T01:40:03Z","created":"2022-03-09T16:14:12Z","modified":"2022-04-05T01:21:14Z","version":892654,"slug":"protect-the-light","name":"Protect The Light","body":"![ProtectTheLight.png](\/\/\/raw\/2c7\/c\/z\/4a261.png)\n\n:warning: **NOTE** :warning: \n\nThis one doesn't really follow the theme \u00af\\\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af\nIt *used* to be about keeping a candle lit when it was inevitably going to burn out, but it didn't really... turn out that way.\n\nAlso, the game might be really quiet. 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