Great job clever idea :D I really liked the art and sound effects too
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Lurking in the Dark's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Design | #21 | 4.491 | 4.491 |
Overall | #43 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
Originality | #114 | 4.396 | 4.396 |
Adherence to the Theme | #293 | 4.314 | 4.314 |
Ranked from 159 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This has to make it into the top games of this jam! The ambience is amazing, art and sound fit very well together, the main mechanic is simple and easy to understand but leaves quite some room f or clever and suspenseful realtime puzzles and each level challenges you in a different way. Much love!
First off, this game is by among one of my favorites of the jam. It goes beyond the rating categories. The design, adherence to theme, and originality are the best I've seen in the jam. However, it continues to impress me with the atmosphere, music, art, etc.
I am surprised how little entries were horror themed, because the theme was only one. Typically giving the player only one of something they usually have a lot of lends itself to making the player feel powerless. I am huge fan of horror games. Although few actually scare me nowadays, and I'm not ashamed to admit that this game's atmosphere and sound effects were effective enough to unsettle me. Despite it's cute art, which I believe provides a beautiful contrast to the narrative and atmosphere, it is scary. In my opinion, this game is excellent beyond words and I am craving more of this game.
My only critique is that the mechanic of killing the same monster the same with the spikes would get too repetitive if the game was longer. However, the game was short enough it did not over stay its welcome. If this game were to be made into a full game, I would love to see different creatures and different ways to kill, run, or hide.
really simple yet challenging mechanic. Also you added a bit of scariness with the monsters. I loved tricking them into the spikes.
My 5 year old son and I played this game all the way through 3 times. It scared the crap out of him but he loved it. Great job!
Very nice and well tuned mechanic! Fits pretty well with the theme. I definitely got a bit spooked the first time I saw the monster though haha
Nice one! Took a second to figure out the mechanic but it was pretty fun once I did. Also like, legit scary. The graphic on the monster's eyes in the dark is really creepy. Not 100% sure how close to the theme it is, but my game completely ignored that so I can't really talk haha.
Great art style and atmosphere. I especially like the planning skills required to be able to safely move in the dark and kill enemies at the same time. I'd love to see how this idea can be developed further. Well done!
Awesome game! I love the style and that wobbly light effect really make the atmosphere!
Wow, I love this take on the theme, very original! Very detailed, polished, and immersive for a jam game, which really helps sell the spookiness. It's designed very well, I was able to figure out the puzzles on my own which is perfect, makes the player feel clever :)
I felt like I was able to cheese things a bit by getting to glance at the diagonal tiles while I switched between orthogonal facings, not sure if that was intentional. However I think without that the later levels might have felt a bit too much like simple trial and error? Hard to say, and it's all just a nitpick anyways, amazing job!
Feel free to check out our game Einnsamr as well <3 https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/463168
That scream spike hit effect got me the first time lol. The game has a unique vectorish style really cool! Pretty polished feel with the cutscene between levels.
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