{"id":1807,"edition":10,"categories":8,"features":0,"size":12823,"name":"Grave Quest","authors":[{"name":"Graham Reeves","url":"https://newchromantics.com","twitter":"soylentgraham","login":"SoylentGraham","gh":2184197}],"description":"

Grave Quest is a high intensity, first person, voxel-graveyard wave shooter for Desktop & Oculus Quest.

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The instructions are simple; As ghosts rise from the grave, point and shoot!\nJust don’t let them hit your heart and you should survive the night!

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Designed for Oculus Quest; hand-tracking controls also work, just blast away the tormented skulls by pointing your fingers at them!

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Also playable at https://grave.quest/

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Textures seems to be completely broken on my PC (tried on Edge & Firefox on Linux Mint). Unless the floor is supposed to consist of flickering lines…?

\n","games":["Dying Dreams"]},{"at":315648499,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

This looks great. It ran a bit slow for me. I liked the sound effects, music and graphical style. The shots didn’t seem to go where the cursor was pointing so I had to fire then aim later .

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316097767,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"

What a festival of pixels! I enjoyed it on desktop and wish I had a VR rig to try it in 3D!

\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316357912,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"

Really nice and simple shooter game. I did not have a headset, but was still pretty great on desktop. Really nice sounds, particles, and felt good to blast ghosts. Nice job!

\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":316486537,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Very well made, great graphics, sounds! Fast paced and fun! After I got to about 20 score enemies stopped appearing, I cleared all of the stationary items and it seems every enemy.

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"typ":2,"at":316651910,"author":"Marc Neuhoff","url":"https://constructarcade.com","twitter":"MCHoff1","text":"

Topic of death integrated into the game?\nPreventing rising spirits from graves from stealing my heart by shooting them is a very fun idea.\nGame optimized for 13 kilobytes?\nGreat work focusing on the areas where you can save the most. Combined with some ingenuity and a good compression the game has a lot of content in <13kB.\nGame adapted for WebXR?\nThe integration with WebXR is very well done.\nReaching special places by moving towards them would add to the immersive experience.\nHand tracking works very well. The half-extended finger already starts to shoot, which confuses and makes me involuntarily shoot at the ground from time to time.\nDesign of the game?\nThe design fits very well with the setting.\nThe many, bright and different colors add little to the setting and experience. Uniform colors and appropriate contrasts would help a lot with comprehensibility and recognizability.\nGame interface (intuitive)?\nIt is clear what to do.\nDue to the bright colors and the strong scattering effects when objects are hit, it can get very confusing from time to time and I don’t know at all what’s going on and where the enemy is located.\nThe heart sometimes hides the enemies.\nAs mentioned above, an adjusted color scheme and appropriate contrasts would greatly assist orientation.\nGame experience, getting started, understanding, fun?\nThe game is a lot of fun and the ability to shoot everything and even continue shooting fragments is very fun. A timer, points and a leaderboard would increase the long-term motivation a lot.\nThe scattering effect has a very strong influence on the playability. This scattering effect is amplified by: Enemies and objects can be shot into fragments, fragments can continue to be shot at and these move through the room as a result, and the projectiles of the weapons bounce off the ground.\nA reduction or strong visual delineation of secondary objects would increase the fun of the game because the player has better control over what happens and consequently the learning curve is steeper.

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Sezuire inducing fun. Works well with VR, triggers to shoot seem inverted (you always shoot unless pressing trigger, WMR at least), but that might be by design.

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Maybe because I’m not using a VR headset, but I was not able to aim at all. I didn’t see where I was shooting. There were a lot of sound effects, and fireworks of pixel splatter show which was cool. I wish I had a VR headset so I could play it.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":316933272,"author":"Josh Marinacci","login":"joshmarinacci","gh":276938,"url":"http://joshondesign.com/","text":"

I thought the gameplay was excellent. It’s a great new twist on space invaders. The graphics with the stretchy pixel shapes are also great. The weak spots are the audio (needs more background music) and the controls. I found it difficult to see where I was pointing and accurately hit the ghosts. Making the shooter pointers longer would help (right now they are just a single cube each), as would having some sort of targeting overlay. Also, the score graphics get in the way of seeing the monsters. They should have been further away from the action during rounds.

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I really enjoyed it. I encourage you to continue working on it.

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The texture issues are interesting – in Chrome on Mac, it looks OK but there’s a lot of “lines” connecting individual textures together, almost like polygons aren’t closed properly.

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On Firefox on Mac, the textures look perfect, but a “pink wall” keeps covering up the play area so you can’t see it (some kind z issue?)

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Either way, the game seems fun, the audio is great, the look of the flickering ghosts and your gun is nice. Gameplay-wise I wasn’t sure how to avoid getting shot, it seemed inevitable that eventually a ghost shoots you and you can’t dodge or anything (maybe this means I wasn’t downing them fast enough).

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Cool game!

\n","games":["Moth"]},{"at":317162513,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

This looks amazing. It’s a bit hard to aim, at least without a VR headset (played on Desktop). The it’s fun and the sound effects are cool.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"typ":2,"at":317296130,"author":"Fernando Serrano Garcia","login":"fernandojsg","gh":782511,"url":"http://fernandojsg.com","twitter":"fernandojsg","text":"

Superb! The voxelized graphics fits very cool the theme while keeping the space low enough. Especially because this entry doesn’t use any of the recommended engines so extra congratulations for fitting everything under 13kb, the content and the engine!\nIt is very satisfying to shoot objects, even the score, and see how they explode into pieces.

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Oh wow what a blast - really fun gameplay, and crazy satisfying visual effects! I loved the floating UI, too.

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I first tried this on Chrome and found some weird, yet interesting, rendering artefacts. On Safari it works great, though. The audio can get quite annoying, so I found myself muting the tab.

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I love how you integrated the theme in your game. And being a huge fan of retro gaming, I really appreciate the graphics.

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It is a pretty fast pace survivor with its own style and mechanics. I really enjoyed trying to save my heart, Well done.

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Technically, the game is smooth and fully functional from start to end.

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The only downside I can see is the over pronounced effects making it really hard to stay in VR with getting a seizure :-) but I totally get that it is part of the style.

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Well done for this great entry !!!

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