Faith-e-vator by BadPiggy

A short and intense action arcade game
Controls are explained in the game
I made everything except for the audio. That's from Pixabay
| Link | https://badpiggy.itch.io/faith-e-vator |
| Link | https://badpiggy.itch.io/faith-e-vator |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/faith-e-vator |
Ratings
| Overall | 118th | 3.986⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 22th | 4.292⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 390th | 3.319⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 628th | 3.319⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 384th | 3.792⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 351th | 3.028⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 338th | 3.722⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Nice art, SFX, and idea everything feels good!
I just think controls are a bit clunky J, K and Space are too far away from each other...
I liked this short and sweet lil game! It took me awhile to get used to the controls (Using WASD plus J and K felt weirdly cramped on my keyboard), but I really liked how you let the player refill their health bar by slaying demons! With wave attack/survival games like this, I often will take a hit or two early on and feel like I'm playing from behind for the rest of the run, so it was really nice to be able to play precisely and get back to a clean slate after building up a combo. It made it so that the game was testing my ability to string together combos of clean gameplay, rather than being a fight against atrophy. Great design choice! :)
The art style was also very appealing

The game was really fun to play. When I was so close finishing it and failed, I startet again, because I could not let the little demons win.
The graphics are well made. The animations of the characters adds a lot to the style. The blood particles are a nice touch. The game felt very polished. Hitting things felt very satisfying and the music was a good choice for this type of game. You wrote that you got it from Pixabay, maybe you could add the name of the artist too?
Having some Power-Ups after having a streak or killing a certain amount of enemies would add depth to the gameplay.
The "health bar system" is great. I had a lot of fun with your game. :)
really liked the art and the overall feel!
i wished for some more mechanics of emphasising the idea of an elevator. maybe some strangers just coming in and out during some levels, haha just playing with the idea.
amazing little game, well done!
However, it only loosely fits the theme of "depths."
And really like this 2.5 pixel style.

Just another juicy, combo-based high-score action game from the legendary Bad Piggy. :sunglasses:
That sounds condescending, but I'm legitimately impressed how you're able to create such consistently high-quality action games like this. Very nice job on this one :ok_hand:
Oh, and here's my final score:
