That was a fun little game. The difficulty ramps up a ton after the first wave.
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Dracs After Dusk's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #25 | 4.328 | 4.328 |
| Mechanics | #46 | 3.853 | 3.853 |
| Overall | #50 | 3.957 | 3.957 |
| Sound | #66 | 3.664 | 3.664 |
| Fun | #77 | 3.819 | 3.819 |
| Aesthetics | #89 | 4.138 | 4.138 |
| Music | #151 | 3.552 | 3.552 |
| Story | #229 | 2.983 | 2.983 |
Ranked from 116 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 in total?
3
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Fonts, Color Palette from Coolors, SilentWolf BackEnd for Leaderboard
Comments
Hey ifman1,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Fun game but quite difficult. Maybe having the character repair the walls automatically when he's near them would make the controls easier instead of having to press a key.
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Get to the last stand !Hey Serioussamko,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey 5StoneGameStudios,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Good game. I particularly liked the fluid animations and the tense music. I found it a bit difficult, but I reckon that with practice and given time, one may fair better. Great job!
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Location DustHey lorporlem,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Really dig the art style and concept! I like how it's a defense game but with a twist
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Code ArcadeHey remarkablegames,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Bite the Living is our most recent game. You can find it on our profile page: https://remarkablegames.itch.io/
Sweet! We'll definitely check it out! Also in case you're interested, we got a discord server dedicated to dracs after dusk if you ever want to join in on our community/provide feedback, or just hang! https://discord.gg/cd7xeD2THD
217 was my best, it feels very polished in all aspects, I would say that maybe some turret spots are weaker than others making said turrets almost useless, I wish they could shoot inside aswell. The best part for me is shooting the revolver it feels very good ! Visually its nice and coherent, great sfx and music aswell.
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Benkei BridgeHey samu1407,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Such a well-designed game. Purrfectly on theme and incredibly pretty and unique art style. Love the setting and animations too, so much detail and polish! Great game.
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The Last Music StandYes we are! Andrew and I (Eric) are twin brothers and we both do programming and art (although my brother is wayyyy better at art than me) and Brian is our youngest brother who is really into music and luckily for us to make games also sound effects. Brian went on a work trip right as the game jam ended so he hasn't been able to post in the forums much but he's looking forward to trying all the games Andrew and I have found while he's been gone including Music Stand!
It's great you have this relationship and shared passion for game dev. I hope to see plenty more from you guys! This submission is so polished I was surprised it was the only game on your itch pages. I hope I can get the Music Stand update out for Brian's turn on the game so you guys can finally play and see the full gameloop and ending. Thanks for the chat, hope to see more from you guys, possibly crossing paths again at some future game jams!
Hey putti,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Aww really?! I am so humbled. I really went into this blind and everyone has been so kind. :) If you guys ever want to collaborate on something for a jam, look me up! I've been checking out the visual novel jams coming up -- there are some amazing/challenging sounding ones! :D (and I would 100% recommend Ren'Py for engine ... once you explore it a little you'll know why it's the visual novel engine go to). :)
Hey Teharra Rose,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Amazing game! Too bad I'm terrible at this type of game :( But I liked how complete it is, the consistent style, and the desperation when reloading bullets hahaha. Congratulations!
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Night of the living mathHey Mayra,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey iN-Studio,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey sairamyadla,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Your game is fantastic! Had such a great time, challenging and addicting. Inspired design choice to add black jack as an additional player decision and stress during the downtime, gives your jam a fun personality. Love the cowboy and the colorful mustache makes him pop. The way you implemented reload can easily be taken for granted for players but again, very smart immersive design that adds to the strategy.
Nice jam guys, thanks.
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Turtle Troublethank you for that kind review rasblo! Funny thing about that Blackjack mechanic. So Eric and I are identical twin brothers and when we were in college we rather spectacularly flunked out of an Intro to Computer Science Course. The assignment that sealed our doom…a simple command line Blackjack game. We just couldn’t figure it out and we both kind of said “well I guess we aren’t CS guys” flash forward to about a decade and a half later and we spent the last couple years learning programming from online resources and we decide to enter our first game jam. The Coup De Grace for our jam…a full implementation of Blackjack in our jam game! We feel redeemed! 😂😂😂 so anyway all that is to say that you enjoying our game and especially enjoying the Blackjack feature means a lot to us!
Hey Rasblo,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Really impressive game! I like that the enemies break through the walls and you have to repair those while being able to purchase turrets to help with defense. The inclusion of Blackjack adds a nice risk vs reward aspect with the money that could be used on turrets. Great job!
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The Archer of EbondaleHey mindenknight,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey Sminthophilia,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Loved playing the game. Had a unique experience. Nice mechanics of Wall repair and shooting. Keep up the good work :)
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Survive The HordeHey Falconovag,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Wow, what an outrageously fun little game! There are a ton of great design choices here that add up to something really fun. Running around and being able to fix up walls while only having six shots before you have to reload and having to remember to only fire a certain number at each enemy, plus the turret mechanics. Really fun little mash up of genres in a compelling way. I love this one, thanks for sharing! Also, any chance for a download of the game? Couldn't get this one to full screen right in my browser. Thanks again!
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Spoony Boy's Last CrusadeThanks for playing and the kind words Bearshaman!
We can definitely look at providing a download I just wanted to double check did you try clicking the "Fullscreen" checkbox in the Video Options? Many people have struggled to find this because our UI design needs considerable work (I was the one responsible for this, so I have to apologize to my two brothers >_<) I just am curious our Fullscreen option in the game settings menu is not working properly so I can investigate that. If your tried that and the Fullscreen is still not working for your browser, please let me know!
Hey, it worked! I couldn't actually see the tick box in my browser it was kind of hidden. Thanks, sweeet. I made it to the casino, I'd like to get further after trying some other games. Hey, I'm thinking of making a game jam highlights video on YouTube where I bring up some games I found particularly compelling from this game jam, would it be okay to show your game? I really enjoyed this one. Thank you for your time.
Yay I'm glad the Fullscreen option worked. So unfortunately out of our 3 brother team I was in charge of the menus + settings which is like if the Seven Dwarfs putting Dopey in charge of something.....the UI is one of the top priorities we will improve after the jam.
Also as my brother said we would be honored if our game was shown in your YouTube video thank you very much!
Thanks for making a really neat game! Your team has a great sense of how to put together, and refine, a bunch of mechanics and values to make something really compelling, and I'm looking forward to seeing more cool experiences from you all in the future! That was me playing in the video, I realized after I said it the reason I hadn't heard the music that far is because I had turned it off after a certain point and put on some emergency concentration power metal. Also, sorry for calling the Dracs "ghosts," I realize that was inaccurate. Thanks again and looking forward to seeing more from the Haugens!
Hey Bearshaman,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot! It was so awesome to see your videos on youtube streaming our game!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey man!
I'm honored to have played a role in the development of your game! It was so much fun to play and I still think about it sometimes. I would love to check out the new version and see how the game has changed since then. I'll definitely check it out and let you know what I think. I'm so happy to hear you guys are releasing a full version of the game, that's awesome!
Thank you so much for the kind note Bearshaman, we appreciate you!
By the way, we’ve got a Discord server dedicated to Dracs After Dusk if you ever want to share feedback, hang out with the community, or just chat about the game. We’d love to have you there!
Here’s the invite link: https://discord.gg/cd7xeD2THD
Thanks again for being part of the journey! 🦇🎮
Hey argylepear,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey LiZZarD_Ros,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Hey IC Industries,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
Nice game. Love the MC with his glorious moustache! It was a fun challenge to keep up with defending and repairing.
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GameDev.tv Jam 2024 GameHey Theoxeny,
About a year ago, you took the time to play Dracs After Dusk during the 2024 game jam. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for supporting us back then—it truly meant a lot!
Fast forward a year later...we’re excited to share that Dracs After Dusk now has a playable free demo on Steam! That game jam version was the very beginning, and your feedback helped shape what the game has become. We’ve added tons of new features, updates, and polish—and we’d love for you to check out how far it's come. If you're up for it, you can check out the demo on Steam here (Feel free to wishlist too if you enjoy it!)
Thanks again for being part of the game’s origin story—we can’t wait to hear what you think of the updated version!
– The Olive Hill Studios Team
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