Great sound and graphics! I included it in part 1 of my Public Domain Jam 2 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/xbZmIYuD92U
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Staying true to the source material | #2 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Most innovative use of the source material | #4 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Sound | #4 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Fun | #6 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Graphics | #7 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Polish | #9 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Sweet, a bard game!
Really outstanding sound design and art! I especially love the fire and sleep effects, along with the bone animations (zombies bobbing and flailing is hilariously perfect) and the strings/drums/chanting, it makes the whole experience mesmerizing, quite appropriate for the source material. Kudos!
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MoonlightReally nice idea! The game mechanics are really fun, especially the kiss thing! I was not sure what the benefit of the sleeping song was compared to the other one, so I killed all the zombies :D
I'm not sure how to win though? Maybe I missed something. I picked all the scrolls and did not know where to go next, and when the time ran out, it was over :D
Anyway, very original take on the subject! Bravo!
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EstrangedClever ideas and inspiration here! Also love those animations; punching, kissing, and playing the harp were always inherently fun given the well-done but simple animation and design work that went into them. I will say that the UI, while clever, did look a little jarring when compared to the color pallete and nice artwork for the characters/backgrounds. Overall had fun with it though; and I now know more about this philosopher thanks to this game for making me curious about her!
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Lair of the MorlocksThis was really cool, nice job. Fun idea using the kiss to get life back. I didn't notice it was giving me life at first, it was a cool "a-ha" moment.
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Captain Hook is Out of TimeThanks for the feedback stephen.gurnett. It was also always the plan to be able to enter the houses (open doors you can't enter is a huge NO-NO in game design) but unfortunately I was running out of time and had to scrap it due to the interior art.
>> Am I a bad person for expecting Aphrodite to arrive and cast Turn Undead?
YES! Evil :P
Norbez You can try the new builds, I have a 64 bit build as well, hopefully you don't get the .dll error again. The game also runs in browser in Firefox.
andyman404 Thanksss :)
Very nice work on the animation and graphics. Good cohesive feel to the world and characters which I think comes from it not being tiled on a grid and the subtle use of parallax scrolling as well as keeping the animations from being too large. I particularly liked the style of the buildings and was a little disappointed I couldn't go in them.
It would be nice if the game paused whilst showing the scrolls... I couldn't read them without being savaged by a zombie horde ;) Though it did mean I had to go and find the original poem which in turn led to others so... mission accomplished?
Also, the camera lets Sappho get ahead so I'm sending her running into the unknown. It's not a big problem since it's not so fast paced that I get into trouble or miss things but it feels a little off.
Am I a bad person for expecting Aphrodite to arrive and cast Turn Undead?
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Werewolves of WarWhen I download and unrar this, & click the icon, I get an error that says Unable to load mono library from "C:/Users/Norbez/Downloads/ZombiesOfLesbos_Win_V1/ZombiesOfLesbos_v1_Data/Mono/mono.dll" (error = 126).
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