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「When The Death Arrives」 by roccay

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made by roccay for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

Hello everyone, this is The Death Team.

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(me and my collegues all look the same)

We are happy to anounce that you will be taken to a field trip (nothing related to an actual field trip) through somebody's life! Although, being alive is hard and that is WHY there are so much work in the underworld for us.

What you need to do in this gam--FIELD TRIP:

1) left click to shoot.

2) Press A or D to switch bullets.

3) Observe the stoke color.

4) Delay your death.

Hopefully this meaningful activity will explain to you how fragile your life is and how impressive that you are still alive right now (say THANK YOU to yourself and everyone that protects you). We would like to thank you too, for playing this game!

Link https://roccay.itch.io/when-the-death-arrives
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/when-the-death-arrives

Ratings

Overall 662th 3.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 776th 3.3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 654th 3.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 147th 4.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 765th 3.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 314th 3.725⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 156th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 773th 3.412⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

HGJake
05. Apr 2022 · 00:18 UTC
Neat game, really enjoy the death messages.

I do have a criticism though. It can be a bit hard to aim without a proper reticule, especially with some of the falling "death causes" being really fast.
Escarpoulpe
05. Apr 2022 · 01:49 UTC
I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME!!!!the graphics are so cooool and the concept so original, just the falling death who are really fast but wow
🎤 roccay
05. Apr 2022 · 01:49 UTC
@hgjake Thank you for the comment! We made some last-minute adjustment for the speed (it is probably still gonna be hard since life is tough^ ^).
Viittaa
05. Apr 2022 · 02:01 UTC
I fell in love with this graphics, art is just chic, especially when you lose!!!!
Tano
05. Apr 2022 · 02:02 UTC
You, sir have a great sense of humor. I am an 8 years old girl and die from sexual transmitted disease :))
Great game.
LDJam user 276593
05. Apr 2022 · 02:08 UTC
That was... Dark 😭

"You died of pneumonia at age 12"!

Love the music, and how stressful the bullet mechanic is.
🎤 roccay
05. Apr 2022 · 03:03 UTC
@tano This was not written in the mechanism originally, we will work on this bug.
(Perhaps this game is darker than I think.)
Craig L
05. Apr 2022 · 08:00 UTC
I like how societal problems and injuries are red, physical illnesses green, and mental illnesses blue. Game is hard, trying to deal with my depression and bladder infection when all of a sudden a STD comes flying in, gotta react fast! Art is absolutely amazing.

![ce la vie.PNG](///raw/7b8/54/z/4c687.png)
Cosmicallity
06. Apr 2022 · 06:19 UTC
I died from Malaria at age 8! Great game!
🎤 roccay
07. Apr 2022 · 02:37 UTC
Fix Log:

- fix the problem of not playing audio for one of the endings
LDJam user 243193
08. Apr 2022 · 09:16 UTC
The idea is good reminds me of Rainbow game I've made years ago. Unfortunately, the major issue I have is color. It's hard to identify color border when main color of the "cause" is totally different. It would be better if colors are consistent.
MasterOfCheese
19. Apr 2022 · 03:28 UTC
I died of cancer at around 70 hahah. Really well thought out, and it has some great art! Nice job
Toto_dawg_
19. Apr 2022 · 03:38 UTC
BWAHH THIS HAD ME LAUGHING OUT LOUD WITH THE ENDING CARDS
The idea is really good, though perhaps im just really bad at playing it because i did struggle a bit to make it past 10 years old...........the shame.
Over all this is a great entry i had lots of fun playing! It also looks and sounds great! Everyone did a wonderful job on it.
However i will say that the bullets felt a bit slow/didn't speed up, but maybe its just me being nit-picky and terrible at shooter games
🎤 roccay
19. Apr 2022 · 03:55 UTC
@toto-dawg Thank you for the feedback!!
filgru
19. Apr 2022 · 19:07 UTC
I died from a gunshot at 14! then from a suicide at 47... Cool, quite dark idea for a game!:) I had some problems with recognizing the colors sometimes. Very interesting music! Congrats!
Arihan10
20. Apr 2022 · 12:41 UTC
Nice game! It's a really innovative idea and I had a fun time- my favourite part was balancing the powerups with the death things. I also like that it fit the theme both mechanically and thematically! Not much to critique, good job!