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A jam submission

Lightning LarryView game page

You're Lightning Larry, protect your villagers!
Submitted by Soothsayer — 22 minutes, 1 second before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Concept#173.9233.923
Presentation#293.6153.615
Overall#303.4623.462
Enjoyment#383.2313.231
Use of the Limitation#393.0773.077

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Soothsayer - Programming/Art, Jimmy - Music

Software used
Godot, Aseprite, FL Studio

Use of the limitation
Day/night cycle acts as timer for monster spawns, resources have a limited lifetime, tesla coil has long, visible cooldown before using again.

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Comments

Submitted

Very good vibes! You make great use of small pixel sizes for art and got a lotta polish done for the short time period. I think SFX would go a long way to make this more immersive, like a lightning sound and screams when they die. I really like how the attack is both used to guide your guys to safety and can also harm them if you aren't careful. Good work!

Submitted

Really enjoyed the concept of this game though enemies kept getting trapped behind buildings which I used to my advantage.

Submitted

Lightning Larry is so cute I love his design and animations. This is a cool concept for a game and I had fun playing it, tho it feels a bit slow paced at times while I'm waiting for more monsters to spawn. Some feedback on monsters being hit would be good, I didn't realize I could damage them until I read someone's comment in here saying you could.

I think I ran into a bug on day 4 and day 5 when I killed all my villagers on accident the villager count didn't go down and the monsters just walked off screen, then when a new day started a villager spawned and the villager count reset to 1.

Great job on this!

Submitted

Keep developing this game, I'll subscribe to you! So far, this is my favorite, but the controls are a bit awkward and difficult to play.

Submitted

Really nice concept! Love seeing the little villagers scurry around. I like Larry's design, and the overall style was nicely done! Felt a little bit slow as the levels progressed and I'm not sure if the game wanted me to be doing anything before the shadow monsters arrived. It seemed like the optimal strategy was just to start one fire in the corner to keep my villagers out of harm's way, and then go take out all the monsters with my lightning attack. I didn't seem to need to do much management with the villagers if I just went full murder cloud >:]

Really interesting concept that I'm sure could be expanded in a lot of ways to be a little more management focused if that's what you were going for. The action elements having to zap monsters was a cool second layer of gameplay. Great job!

Submitted

Haha, lol. At the beginning, I guess I'm supposed to kill the human with the rayo.

I enjoyed it.

Submitted

Great game, i think i killed more of my people then the shadow people did lol

Submitted

Im gonna be honest this is probably my favorite game in this Jam,
I love everything about it from the animation, to the art and the game mechanics great work!!!

Developer

That's extremely kind of you, thanks so much

Submitted

GAME GOOD

Submitted

Fun concept, I'd suggest making the game a bit faster because you end up waiting a long time

Submitted

the dualities of lightning/rain, day/night, ally/baddie all add to this being a nice package. Nice work!

Submitted

very addictive game! I like it

Submitted

Nice pixel art, would be nice if there was more feedback for killing shadows & villagers

Submitted

Pretty Neat

Submitted

Good game!

Submitted

I wasn't sure of what I was doing most of the time but being cloud was quite interesting. Music is relaxing and controlls are responsive.  Special thanks for cute pixel art!

Submitted

Loved being a cloud :) The concept is very cool

Submitted

Neat idea with how the cloud mechanics serve so many purposes! Overall, feels a bit like herding kittens haha

I’m not super confident in what exactly the Tesla Coil and the grass does around the map…would love some extra info!

Developer

Thanks for playing! The grass/wheat is a food source for the villagers. They prioritize the campfires but will wander to find food when hungry. The tesla coil wasn't super clear, but using it will kill all enemies in it's AOE. 

Submitted

Cool concept for a tower defense! Loved the pixel art as well.