The swarm is quite intense, never a dull moment for sure! but yeah the gameplay loop is very good, it is really engaging and I think this is one of those that is worth pursuing further.
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Dracs After Dusk's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #25 | 4.328 | 4.328 |
| Mechanics | #46 | 3.853 | 3.853 |
| Overall | #50 | 3.957 | 3.957 |
| Sound | #66 | 3.664 | 3.664 |
| Fun | #77 | 3.819 | 3.819 |
| Aesthetics | #89 | 4.138 | 4.138 |
| Music | #151 | 3.552 | 3.552 |
| Story | #229 | 2.983 | 2.983 |
Ranked from 116 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
3
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Fonts, Color Palette from Coolors, SilentWolf BackEnd for Leaderboard
Comments
Hey zaapp_games,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Loving the overall mechanics, flow and style of your game. Very good job on it.
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Curse You HeroHey 3D and Go,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Very fine game! Love the retro feel, reminds me of the games I played on my Amstrad as a kid. Good mechanics, good graphics, good music! Congrats!!
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I'm the FirewallHey Munsa,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Congrats on your submission! This was very addicting. I had to stop myself so I could try other games haha
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Skeleton Panic TDHey lyghtkruz,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Really unique game here! The game mechanics feel smooth and polished (love the ability to repair windows). Definitely a challenging game. Great job overall!
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Breaking DuskHey KevinZer00,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
This is SO sick! The pixel art is so good, and the little animations, I'm obsessed with the raven. I also love the little detail of the tumbleweed blowing across the screen. I played the first level with no trouble, I didn't even realize you could move your character because I didn't have to. I thought everyone complaining about the difficulty was just suffering from a skill issue. Then level 2 started lol.
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The Last (Hotdog) StandMan that's so awesome to hear, thank you!!
And yeah I had a lot of fun with the game, it has really solid gameplay and it looks fantastic! Am I seeing right that this is your guys' first game? I don't see anything else on either of your itch pages.
And do you think you'll keep making things? I'll drop you both a follow, I'm interested to see what else you come up with!
that is so kind thank you!
This is our first finished game as a team (Eric and I are identical twin brothers and our youngest brother Brian does all of the sound effects and music)
We have been working as a trio for about two years now but to be honest we are quite shy by nature and the thought of entering a jam was always just so daunting. But after having participated it has just been the most awesome experience.
And I really have to shout out folks like you, Cam (the creator of The Witch’s Last Spell), crazyhounddesign, (the creator of A Last Stand Story), and so many others who created the community posts asking for games to rate. It inspired us to do the same with our thread and has helped get us out of our shells a bit! So again can’t thank you enough for helping to foster such a positive first jam experience for us.
😃
Hey Seedborne,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
I love being a floating mustachioed cowboy. That said, overall, I really enjoyed this game. I feel like the reload mechanics were more than a bit punishing whilst simultaneously trying to fix windows/doors. I do like the claustrophobic feel to really add the tension of "these doors and windows need to hold, or I die." As a sound designer, I wish there was a variation in the enemy death noise and the gunshots, but that's a nitpick. Solid entry!
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Anomalous IntakeHey swordofdestiny,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Very well execute game. It's quite challenging! I love the pixel art, especially the elements in the borders of the screen. Good job!
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A Day At SeaHey ivanlanc,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Really cool idea. I liked it. It had a lot of interesting mechanics. It was a bit on the hard side tho.
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Skeleton Panic TDHey thanks for playing Osmicow!
Ultimately I do wish that we had dialed in the difficulty a bit better, or at least given some options so that more players could have enjoyed the later parts of the game.
I did however get to enjoy all four units of your tower defense game Skeleton Panic TD! I put my thoughts and rating over on your submission page 😃
I can see in the comments that there is a day night cycle of some sort, but I wasn't able to survive long enough (for now). I liked the artwork and the audio. Am I supposed to be able to shoot through the windows?
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A Last Stand Storyhi crazyhound! Thanks for stopping by to play :D and yes you are correct the basic flow of the game is a day/night cycle.
Nighttime- shoot those ugly vampires and defend your saloon! You can shoot through the windows and doors so you can pick those suckers off before they start tearing down your doors and windows. However, should the little stinkers do damage to your windows or doors, you can repair the damage by walking over to the hammer icon and holding “e” to board them up.
the first day phase happens when the score hits 60, but you only have 20 seconds of respite before the next night begins. Hope that helps you gauge how far you need to make it to 😃
I'll try being funny another time (my last comment was intended to be cheeky), I really did like the set up of the game and, if I get the chance, I will try it out again. As it's my first jam, I'm trying to play as many games as I can and rate them. The community here has been great, as a new developer and participant, I picked the right jam to start with.
Thank you.
I've only been here for a few days, saw a lot of people were doing it for their first jam, like me, and saw that people want to share and participate. After getting some feedback on my game, the confidence boost and the affirmation that I can make a game worth someone else's time that it gave me felt good. So seeing the number of games submitted and the "low ratings" category, I thought why not help others in the same way. There's nothing worse than taking a chance and it not being noticed.
Enjoyed playing this! Really liked the day and night cycle approach. Was kinda hard though, ngl! :D
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Tiny Survivorsthanks for playing! And definitely props on staying alive long enough to see the day/night cycle. Our game is quite punishing on the difficulty so thank you for staying with it!
Edit: Hey! I just came back from playing some Tiny Survivors! I really liked how you handled the difficulty setting at the beginning with the dice rolls that was super clever!
Excellent, really good. Only thing I'd recommend is making the first couple of levels slightly easier.
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Chicken! The Last StandThanks for playing montheponies!
I think your comment on the first levels is totally fair, I wish we had at least had a better variety of difficulty settings so people could see more of the game. My poor brother composed three whole tracks but they are hidden behind the later levels
😆
Ever since I saw the title of your game I've been chomping at the bit to give it a try. Going over to your page now to leave my comments and rating. 👍
I really need some tips - I can only consistently get to level 3 :D
Couple of other suggestions would be to have say 3 lives, so you can restart at later levels or make that something you can buy and maybe make the room just a tiny bit wider so you've got a little more room to avoid the ghosts.
But honestly it's an excellently executed game - have to go back to work 30min late due to playing it :D
and thanks for trying out my game, appreciate the feedback !
Hey Montheponies! Honestly getting to wave 3 is quite an accomplishment in it's own right, I don't even get that far all the time. I'm tracking down some of our top players in the comments via their leaderboard names and trying wrestle some of their secrets out of them. Will report back with my findings 😄
You might already have figured these tips out but here are three things that tend to help me:
1) The corner turret slots might be the best places to start putting turrets as they can often defend a combination of West/North or South/East, whereas the turrets in the middle can really only shoot North or South.
2) The dawn phase is incredibly short (only 20 seconds) so I like to kind of plan out what my dawn phase is going to be before it hits. And since I can at least repair during the attack wave, I usually use the first 7-8 seconds of an attack wave to go around and repair. For example I might go "okay when I make it to dawn, I'm gonna do one round of blackjack and if I win I'll buy a holy water turret in the SouthEast).
3) You can figure out where you are in the game one of three ways: the music, noticing the sun coming up from the bottom of the screen, or looking at the score directly. Score goes up once each second from the start of the game. Each attack wave lasts 60 seconds followed by your 20 second rest phase. So after some playthroughs you can sort of calculate backwards where you are at in the wave, sometimes its just about running for that last 5-10 seconds and staying alive til the sweet rays of dawn vanquish those bloodsuckers!
I hope that's helpful!
P.S In the future we will definitely be implementing some of those features you talked about! I think giving the player the option to not have to start over every run via some type of life system is a great idea 👍
Hey montheponies,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Great game! Really had me counting my shots, making sure I knew exactly how many bullets I had left.
The art and game controls were very good! Awesome job!
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Last Pin StandingHey Bat754,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Liked the theme and the fact that you could gamble to get some of the money back. It's quite difficult, I wish I had some more ways to fend off the horde at an early stage.
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The Last HopeThis was a very fun game to play! The mechanics works really well, awesome work!
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The Last MarineHey struntprat,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
very well done, love the take on the western theme and the color pallet.
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Old west gunfightBoobisgaius! I was hoping to see you around these here parts, seeing as how you are a fellow Wild West enjoyer :D
We loved your take on the theme with Old West Gunfight. For any others who like the Wild West theme but find our game a bit too chaotic and frenetic, I definitely recommend checking out what Boobigaius has submitted.
Hey Lucas Albano Jansen,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
really loved the music, and gameplay feels like you are all alone and incorporates well with the theme "Last Stand"
One thing I noticed was after death enemies keep spawning.
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The Last GrabHi Dark Soul Studios!
Unfortunately you were the victim of a bug that I have been trying to track down for days and I still can't quite squash it :( I will keep trying though! Thanks for playing and I hope you had fun!
Really impressed with your submission The Last Grab and congrats on making it to the deadline. It's no easy feat!
Hey Muhammad Mustafa,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
best one played yet. it was like cod zombies but in 2d and old west setting. really awesome
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The Battle Of HeartsHey NS Studios,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
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