Book of Death is a Bullet Hell game. Your goal is to return lost souls to the realm of the dead. You can do so by writing their names into your book of death.
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\nNice graphics (if a bit small on screen)
\nIt took me a while to realise you had to move the square with the arrow keys onto the cross to get the names which you had to type in.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":315749574,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Great concept! Reminds me of Typing of the Dead in a way. Could use some nicer graphics and polish but the concept is so cool I had fun regardless!
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":315877864,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Really cool idea. The level increases for each level too. After level 11, it became too repetitive for me, but I like the concept.
\nMaking the game area larger would help I think.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":315957651,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"Very original idea. I thought I could trick the system by choosing a long name, but it didn’t work. :D
\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":316561969,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"At first I didn’t understand how i could find their name. I don’t understand what the particles are, and I though i had to catch them, which is pretty hard to do.\nWhy can’t I back-space on the names? What happens when I write the wrong name?\nThe music is really nice, maybe a bit too upbeat for the theme.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316772953,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"I made so many typos in my book of death! I wish backspace was implemented (at least when naming myself ahaha)
\nIt’s easy to game the system once you realize a very long name gives you more hit points ;p
\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"typ":2,"at":316815342,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"Well that was unexpected but very welcome, never expected to be cosplaying Anubis but very happy to have!
\nThe concept is really interesting and your take on the theme is really cool. I went from a really nice easy name on level 7 to something very long on level 8 and I feel like I barely scratched the surface of that game. Bullet Hell mixed with typing is very stress inducing but it works really well.
\nThe graphics are simple but really effective, you get everything you need to across without having to rely on some super fancy UI. The simple colour change of the blocks is enough to let me know that the level has swapped, but the pause and reset after each level is nice. Possibly (for the future) having an endless mode could be fun where the name location changes each time on the screen, but that’s not for this.
\nReally nice job!
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\nI’m making sure that the games I’m evaluating receive a complete feedback and sometimes they are going too deep. The website has a limit of 2048 characters so I’m putting the feedback into pastebin. I’m very sorry for making you leave the competition website, but I think you really could benefit for a deeper insight.\nAlso, I’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)
\nWith those points, you can find your feedback here: https://pastebin.com/4v8B2Rk2
\nI hope it helps!
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\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":317263553,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Gnahhh!!! Ducking ectoplasma AND typing names! What a stressfull type of game!\nBut it is fun ;-)
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