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A jam submission

Death Is Only The BeginningView game page

The game built for The GameDev.tv Game Jam 2022
Submitted by pixelook (@pavelkoci) — 1 day, 10 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Aesthetics#2043.7203.720
Theme#2383.4003.400
Mechanics#2623.2003.200
Story#3172.5202.520
Sound#3442.7202.720
Music#3862.7202.720
Fun#4212.8402.840

Ranked from 25 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 total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
ModularFirstPersonController, Customizable Skybox

Link to your source?
https://github.com/icepol/DeathIsOnlyTheBeginning

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Comments

Submitted

Those creepy voices really got to me! The controls and the attacking felt satisfying and overall I liked the way it looked. It did get a little silly when the voices started overlapping themselves after lots of the enemies spawned, but that's understandably not priority item to tweak when you're trying to complete a game in such a short time frame! Overall, I had a great time with this :)

Developer

Thanks!

> get a little silly when the voices started overlapping
well, you shouldn't be there :D

Submitted

Nice work! Those whispers really gave a nice spooky feeling.  I really liked the music, the world, and the particle effects.

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted (1 edit)

The controls were very smooth. Good job on the procedural generation, works really well for this game. I had my headphones on, the whispers when the phoenix is nearby were a nice unexpected touch :D I would have maybe liked a larger beacon for the soul, that way you could spot it from a distance and vaguely know where to go, but you'll still have to figure out how to get there through the maze. Good game!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Talking as someone who made a game in first person in another game jam, this game looks very good. The player controller is very smooth, the way the maze is randomly generated is also amazing. I really like how you can kind of tell if you are in danger or not by the voice lines. Great job!

Developer

Thanks mate!

Submitted

Fun game, but I also was not able to find any soul. Only a lot of phoenixes.

Developer

Thanks, hmm damn, i'm pretty sure there was the lost soul somewhere, it's always there :)
Thanks for playing!

Submitted

I liked the feel of the game, and having procedurally generated maps helps to keep it fresh.

I think that it could have done with a little more signposting of roughly where the next soul is, but it came together well as an exploration FPS

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!
Yep, there is lot of space for the improvements :D

Submitted

I couldn't save any souls :( Search around for 5 mins, and didn't save anyone :(,.. 

shooting the phoenix, and it respawning double was a kool mechanic. The gun fparticle effect could do with being reduced though.
Well done!

Developer

Thanks, some soul compas would help probably :D 

Submitted

I liked the feel of the movement a lot. I would say if you can tone down the fire-effect that might help as sometimes it gets hard to see what's in front of you. Overall, great submission and great style!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Nice quite fun to play. The Graphics are good but the sound of the fenix plays a bit too much. But overall great game.

Developer

Thanks, yep that Fenix is making me angry as well! :D

Submitted

the game had really smooth control. sound of the phonex respawn is too much. also i had a difficult to find the souls that needed me. i heard their voice. but i could not find them. do you understand. 
i could...
i could saved them :(( i m joking. thanks for this nice game. congats for your submission :D

Submitted

Very nice graphics and postprocessing. I got quite lost in my first attempt as I couldn't find a soul before encountering the hunter. 

Submitted

Nice aesthetic

Developer(+1)

Thanks :)

Submitted (1 edit)

Nice game. Great spooky vibe and fun gameplay loop. I would add an indicator that you collected a ghost/spirit since I thought didn't do anything. Took me a while to get the hang of things

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for the feedback.
That's true, some indication would be good.

Submitted

I thought the random generation was pretty good especially since you said it was the first time doing it. I think one thing as far as the gameplay goes, I'd suggest maybe making the phoenix a bit more challenging. I know that if you kill it then it will multiply, so I naturally stopped shooting it and just started avoiding it. Maybe as you collect more souls you could increase the speed of the phoenix that way it might force the player to want/need to shoot it in order to get away from it.

Great work though! Congrats on your submission.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback.
Yep, true, some higher intelligence or behaviour would help here.

Submitted

Nice game, it did take me a little while of walking around to figure out what I was supposed to be doing, but when I got it it was pretty fun! Nice work

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Great maze generation, sounds were awesome, wished for faster mouse reaction

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted

It was very scary, all the voices made us not want to play this in the dark haha!

Developer

Haha, "sorry" for that :D