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A jam submission

The Night is DarkView game page

Survive the long darkness
Submitted by CoderHog (@CoderHog) — 3 hours, 12 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#34.3334.333
Controls#133.6303.630
Fun#153.5193.519
Overall#253.4133.413
Originality#353.5193.519
Accessibility#502.7042.704
Theme#533.3703.370
Audio#572.8152.815

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.1.2

Wildcards Used
White-Out, Blood is Fuel and Trash Everywhere

Game Description
A short survival game where you need to defeat monsters near your camp while keeping an eye on your body temperature and hunger

How does your game tie into the theme?
There are two areas, the camp and outside the camp. Outside the camp there is no campfire, there is no light, so monsters will appear. They will also destroy the fireflies that provide light that warms the player

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
coderhog

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
This is my first Godot Wild Jam

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Comments

Submitted

In its current state, this game has issues. The players resourced drain far to quickly early on making it difficult to progress far at all. The potential for something great is here, just needs to be polished and balanced.  The concept is fantastic would love to replay if this ever gets updated.

Submitted

I had written up a long comment about how I think you could improve the balance but it got deleted on accident so uhhhh in summary:

- the hunger mechanic punishes you for being hungry by making it so you can't eat. feedback loop.

- losing hunger in the camp means you have no time to take a breather and that's exhausting

Good job with the graphics and polish, really charming and shows a lot of promise! uh oh stinky

Submitted

great art and lots of cool ideas in this one, congrats

Submitted

Nice survival game. The "cards" mechanic is cool but the game is really hard (night 2 max for me) and could be more balanced on hunger and hypothermia. Good job on this game.

This seems like a really ambitious game with a lot to do. I really liked the pixel art graphics, and the visual and audio effects. I wish I had more time to do things before hypothermia set in, so I didn’t get very far.

Submitted(+1)

A really great entry for me!

A little punishing but its understandable because of the jam timeframe also. This would be a really good game to expand upon.  Cheers!

Submitted(+1)

Cool one. Not balanced, but you know that probably. It would be fine if the upgrades persisted even after you died, kinda like in vampire survivors, things you buy for coins there. Still I would like to see this game got more work and get released. Well done.

Submitted(+1)

I personally think it's to hard. Couldn't pass night 2. It's not clear to me where the hitbox of the sword is and it is very unforgiving to being hit.

Submitted(+1)

Looks cool but the second I leave camp it just closes the exe so I dunno

Developer

Thanks yes'sn't! I didn't even notice it. I will fix it after the jam is over

(+1)

good art , nice ideas ! im wait  for updates

Submitted(+1)

Although I think it doesn't fit the jam's theme very well I really liked this entry. 

It seems to be very well polished, the art is very fine and consistent, also the animations and sound design are very nice. 

I like the game loop with random upgrades buy.

Anyway I think this game is a little bit too difficult.

Submitted(+1)

really really fun and amazing art. game felt super polished. it was really hard though

Submitted(+1)

Loved the game. Loved the art and the gameplay feel, the game loop is good. Attacks feel impactful. Sound design goes well, could use some music. The game feels polished in general. Great job.

Some things small things I have feedback about. Food depleting in camp sucks. cold meter going. It was hard to start playing with so little food at the start.

Submitted(+1)

Really nice entry, i really like this survival concept, and i love the art style! it was a bit hard at the beginning. Really good implementation of dialogs.

Submitted(+1)

Very cool entry! The graphics are great and the gameplay good, well done! I Played a few rounds and reached night 4 which I almost beat. I loved the idea of going to collect stuff then getting back to camp! It was a bit difficult to beat all the enemies every time, and I think there should be a health bar for that, in addition to the temperature bar.

The stinky poopy was amusing lol

Submitted(+1)

Cool game! really unique idea!

Submitted(+1)

Good game! I liked the graphics and it's fun to play! But I think it's more hard than should be. The delay of the weapon and quantity of hits to kill the enemies at first levels it's a bit frustrating...

Sometimes on later levels, a group of 3 or 5 enemies spawn exactly where the player is, applying some unfair damage. I played a lot of times to finally win the game, feeling that at this run, the game randomness was on my side (there are some "trash" upgrade cards and some very necessary and powered cards). Also, I feel the only way to beat the game is attacking a group of enemies at same time, otherwise, there is no time to beat the enemies and collect wood and food before frost.

Anyway, nice entry! =)

Submitted(+1)

I really liked the art and the movement i think its to hard with the hunger in the beginning 

Submitted(+1)

Hey i really like the game, kinda hard but you can adjust those things. I like the the art and the cards theme