{"id":1889,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":12872,"name":"River of Woe","authors":[{"name":"Matthew Johnson","login":"Pink-Flag","gh":48478974},{"name":"Kristina Petrova","login":"Kristinna97","gh":24214066}],"description":"

You are Charon, the ferryman of Hades. You need to transport souls across the river from the world of living to the world of the dead.

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Collect the souls from the right bank and transport them to the dock on the left side. Avoid the monsters and ghost ships! Collect boosts to regain energy.

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Use Up Arrow to row forward\nUse Left/Right arrow to turn the boat

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Nice music. It felt frustrating to control the boat, as it almost always over-steared. Also, it would have felt better if the ships collided with your boat and did damage instead of attaching to you and draining your life.

\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":315785759,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

I liked this. Found it easier to use arrows to steer and W to move. good fun

\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":316055969,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Cool game but I couldnt turn left or right enough to avoid the enemies.

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Nice graphics and idea, just the controls were very tough.

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316102845,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"

Liked the graphics and sound. My high score was only 6, so probably didn’t see all of the enemies, but really enjoyed it.

\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":316155305,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

Steering was very hard, but otherwise I really liked the game!

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316255480,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I liked the idea of this game, the graphics were good, I liked the particle spray/wash from the ship movements.

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Health goes down pretty quickly when colliding. Adding a level of caution to navigation.

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Given that the enemy boats can shoot you, it seems fair that you would be able to shoot them back.

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Difficult to manoeuvrer, I wanted to be able to steer and paddle at the same time, but it was one or the other.

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Increasing the paddle speed did sometimes become too fast, and I ended up in a constant battle of over-steering one way then the other.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"typ":2,"at":316290165,"author":"Clément Pasteau","login":"ClementPasteau","gh":4895034,"twitter":"ClementPasteau","text":"

Cool game!

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The music is great, it adds a nice atmosphere to the game.\nThe sound effects are really well made, 8-bit but not agressive at all.\nSpecial kudo to the tutorial at the beginning of the game, it’s always important to not throw the player into the deep.\nThe assets are quite simple, but yet well made.

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I got a bit confused by the controls, mainly because there’s so much momentum when you steer that it’s hard to do what you’re trying to.\nIt removes a bit of fun in my opinion!

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As the ferryman of Hades, it’s your task to transport the lost souls from one side of the river Stix to the other. Thankfully, you’ve got a nice speedy boat in which to do this. Unfortunately, there are multiple enemies out to get you. Learning how to control the boat takes quite a few attempts. It was my 4th game before I managed to save even 1 soul. But once you get the hang of it, you can nip around and use the massive over-steering to angle yourself carefully around the ghost ships and fireballs, which you’ll have to do, as collision drains your Energy meter extremely fast, and you’ve got just one life to try this in. The more souls you save, the more things appear, including a spinning vortex that will suck you down into it. On the plus side, saving souls will restore some of your energy. Good luck, you’ll need it!

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This game has lots of potential but it’s gameplay is a bit poor.\nAt first i wasn’t sure what a soul event was. The U shapes on the right bank didn’t look like anything.\nThe enemy boat is really hard to beat and makes the game pretty challenging right off the bat. It makes getting energy bits really important. I guess that can be good or bad depending on your skill :)\nThe controls are not so nice. Having to press several times to turn, and the turn being really slow, makes the game unnecessarily hard. And I always overshoot in the turning, and can’t turn and move forward at the same time.\nOther than that, it’s a cool game.\nEdit: other comments are saying the game has nice music, but I can’t hear any music at all, only the sound effects.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"typ":2,"at":316968064,"author":"Huabin Ling","login":"pandamicro","gh":632460,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/huabinling","twitter":"pandamicro","text":"

It’s quite hard and frustrating to control the boat, that’s the big challenge. But I like the particle water wave and gradually appeared enemies.\nI hope the control could be improved to make player feel in control, then the gameplay will make sense, I think more types of elements and faster speed could make a difference

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Nice design, even if I’d love a more “hell” design, nothing makes this look like Charon or Hades\nControls are a bit hard to manage (spacebar should be better to move, to use both hands for speed or direction). hitbox are frustrating sometime

\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"at":317052016,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Fun little game. Rotating the boat was really difficult. Maybe holding down the rotation key (instead of having to press multiple times) would make it easier to rotate. The particle effects and sound effects worked well.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":317262806,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

Nice idea, and music. I also like the sprites and particles.

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Maybe it would be better playable, if the controls were implemented with a left and a right paddle? This could give it more “simulation”-feeling.\nSo when pressing one button, the boat gets pushed forward and rotated in the desired direction.\nWhen the other button is pressed at the same time, the rotations would equalize each other, and the forward-pushing would add up.

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One could even play with both hands using [A] and [ArrowRight] to add to the immersion)

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Or even more “simulation-mode”: use [Q] & [A] for the left paddle and [P] & [L] for the right paddle, and implement a forward-and backward-paddle-action. So [Q] & [P] results in forward, [A] & [L] in backward-motion.\nThe buttons alone would result in a slight roation and respective forward-backward-momentunm, and the diagonal Buttons would result in rotation without major forward-backward-movement…\nUhm, i’m carried away from the feedback… :-)

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Cool game, overall ;-)

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