Thanks glad you liked it :D !

Haha I didn't mean to make the ennemies THAT ominous though so i'm sorry if they creeped you out XD i just wanted to experiment a bit with having footsteps cause i wanted it to convey that they were heavy cause made of stone.

Yeah the heartbeat sensor mechanic was quite difficult to make work and cause me some trouble fixing so i'm happy that it's well recieved though not without its flaws as i noted from all the feedback.

Like i said i may have gone a bit overboard with the map's size and thus gamelength so i don't blame anybody for not having played it till the end if they couldn't, as long as you had fun that's what counts, especially considering the game's issues :p

Thanks again for trying it out and your feedback :)

Yeah combat may need some tweaking, however it is still possible but some ennemies are harder without the upgrades, although i agree maybe a bit too hard :/

Hope you still enjoyed despite the flaws, and glad you liked the music, i can't resist having some megadrive - ey - sound whenever i can :p

No problem, your detailed feedback is welcome and sure to be helpful ^^

well the map size is a bit large indeed, like i already joked *George Lucas voice* "I may have gone too far in a few places" i tried my best at putting some landmarks and having the compas pop up so that people could have an easier time navigating by finding the center, but i realize i clearly didn't mark well enough the use of doors and levers and even the fact that they're here at all, which was especially dumb on my part cause when the doors open they hava an animation and well they're so far from the lever that it's not even visible  XD to clarify about said levers, the thing is that there's no complicated combination or anything with them, there's 3 in the map and each open a specific door, then the level design is one of the main reason that probably doesn't help with finding that out.

Still on some of the design flaws, here's how the hearts "spawn", they become visible when you are in a certain circular range from them, the main issue being that i made said range so small that you usually stay in the yellow far too long before it poping up, but then i agree i should probably change this to have them visible permanently, i initially made it like this cause i thought it might be too easy to find em lying around like that. Then the combat i mainly wanted to have the more powerful ranged enemies be a bigger threat to entice players to search for the upgrades, the other enemy may still need some tweaking but i tried to have it possible to beat without upgrades while still have them challenging enough to have a different feel while having the upgrades. And finally the lack of any kept progress upon death is just a simple oversight on my part because of the deadline, but i feel this is one of the main change i should have to ease player frustration, a main fault i'll also admit is that since i didn't anticipate well enough some of the other issues, the playtime ended up being longer than i thought to complete the game. I'll try to experiment with the fixes, minimap or otherwise but i'm taking note of everybody's feedback so far ^^

On another note, glad you still enjoyed the game despite all these issues :p 

I've played my share of Diablo back in the day and i'm humble to be compared to it graphically even though i'm nowhere near the level of blizzard artists XD The repeat use of some elements is also kinda out of necessity to save time cause of the deadline but i always try to see if it looks alright before keeping it that way everytime i do something like this, and hopefully in that case it did :p and while i really love games that immerse the player in it's world, i also have a soft spot for games that have clearly "video gamey" type of items on display.

Thanks for taking time to try out my game to the end, and giving this detailed insight !

Cheers :)

Thanks glad you seem to like it sprites and all!

Yep combat can use a bit of balance more my fault than the player's tbh, although what i intended in a way was that some enemies are meant to be too powerful to face without upgrades so that you can't just empty the map before going for the heart pieces.

Thanks again for giving the game a spin and sharing your thoughts :)

Yeah i feel like i didn't properly indicate that the doors are opened remotely from the levers and it's not helped by the size of the map :/

I tried to have some landmarks but i feel like i didn't do some distinct enough  to help navigating, but lesson learned i'll se how i could improve this.

Thanks for the feedback and i hope you liked the game despite the flaws :)

Thanks willow :) 

Yep that was the inspiration for the mechanics i tried to see if it could fit for 2d gameplay and tried from what i know with the engine to make something similar.

Yeah i think i have the view a bit too zoomed in so it's kinda hard to see the powerups and other stuff which i tried labeling as best i could, but if you ever want to give it another go to see the ending, there's a small hint in the pages screenshots, that could help you find it, and you do have to open a switch operated door to access it :) i admit i might have made the player a bit too weak without upgrades though.

I'm humbled ^^ coming from someone that has such polished projects as you did in the past with your team last jam i saw ! 

Well i'm not sure i'd be good with tutorials but maybe if i find the time i could try finding a way to make some someday, 

if this helps most of the blender side of things comes from tutorials on shaders on youtube like Defaultcube's or Cg Cookie, they mainly focus on ultra high def stuff that personally would set my computer on fire if i tried to render them but the knowledge from some of their stuff can apply to make some more retro effects, and the rest i usually manually finnish up in gimp, takes some time but a whole lot less than animating by hand :p

Anyways thanks again for trying the game out :D

Thanks :)

Yeah the shooting monster is a bit hard to fight, while not impossible even when i playtested i couldn't beat one with just the punch and default hp, the idea with it in terms of balance is that you can avoid it and if you're upgraded you have a better fighting chance against it ^^

Thanks for trying my game out ^^ glad to hear you had a good time, liked the artstyle and name :p

Did the best i could :) 

Yeah that's a bit of a design flaw on my end, the thing is this jam i spent quite some time stuck on some bugs in the project, so i didn't make any kind of menu system, so i just embeded a "START" prompt on the titlescreen not thinking ahead that it would be confused for an actual button :p i should have added a "press space to" to make it clearer, so thanks for your patience and trying the game anyway ^^ not sure if this could be considered a bug so i may not be able to patch it while the jam is still going.

Glad you liked the game itself still, i wasn't sure i'd be able to make many levels with a good enough quality and no proper end, so i prefered focusing on a single map and make it the best possible and i made it quite big (*george lucas voice* "i may have gone too far in a few places") to not have the game be too short (even though it kinda is XD) and the game is finishable this time.

And yeah the indicator how it is now is the best i could do given my knowlege, the jam's deadline and the fact that it had a lot of bugs to fix before release XD

Ranged enemy is kinda hard, but while technically possible to beat with your fists, i made it so that you have a better chance against it with the fire and hp upgrade :)

Thanks glad you liked it !

i tried to have everything be as cohesive as possible , and it's always nice to see that people seem to like the effort ^^

Thanks for giving my game a shot  :)