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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #6898 | 2.034 | 2.444 |
| Audio | #8135 | 1.941 | 2.333 |
| Artwork | #8494 | 2.126 | 2.556 |
| Creativity | #9201 | 2.126 | 2.556 |
| Enjoyment | #9348 | 1.849 | 2.222 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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We take Count Dracula down! Taking the Count Down!
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Lunar Frogs
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The exploration is the best part of the game. It reminds me of classic Atari games, when the multi-room format was first being introduced! I liked hunting around for the drops of blood.
That said, there are a lot of screens where there doesn't seem to be anything specific to do, so you just end up backtracking to pick up more garlic.
The graphics are nice and colorful, but the assets are not perfectly matched. Mixing pixel art in different resolutions tends to create a jarring effect.
Hi FallingWallGames, glad to hear you enjoyed the concept and the exploration!
Yeah, we made the map a little too big and didn't have the time to fill it as much as we'd have liked, the mixing pixel art was another limitation of using premade asset packs for the majority of it. We'd love to come back to this one and really fill it up and give it a makeover once the jam is over!
Interesting concept! I liked the feeling of exploration! Some feedback: I feel like I would run out of garlics quickly clearing doors, and would have no ammo to defend myself and or continue progressing. Maybe adding additional ways to gain more garlics quickly could work! Overall, great game!
Hey Macaroon, thanks for the comment and having a play of our game!
If you shoot the little grave stones you can find around the map with garlic you'll actually grow a restock point so you can refill on garlic. Though note all the chamber doors close when you restock to make exploration a little more tactical. We had a lot of wish list features like upgrading the amount of garlic you could carry but unfortunately never got implemented due to time constraints, but if we pick the game back up it's definitely something we'd love to flesh out more!
-- Chris
Got softlocked a few rooms in when the path had an invisible wall.
Hi, thanks for checking out our game!
I don't suppose you remember which of the rooms this was? I tried to get as many bugs solved as I could before the final deadline, but I've no doubt missed one or two.
-- Chris