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You fly a beard through the sky... And there's a neat little backstory. I have brilliant ideas.
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GAMEPLAY STUFF:
Arrow keys to move.
Avoid hitting things. "THE BEARD MUST NOT BE SOILED!"
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I apologize for it being very short. I wanted to do so much more, but the music is banging! I promise that much.
If you don't want to download the game to play it...
at least give the music a listen on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nchae/the-beardest
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[Small update] I lowered the volume of the music and fixed a typo.
Sorry about that...
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Much <3 @EnchaeC
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Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 66% |
| #14 | Humor(Jam) | 4.28 |
| #119 | Audio(Jam) | 3.81 |
| #205 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.03 |
| #223 | Overall(Jam) | 3.64 |
| #262 | Fun(Jam) | 3.48 |
| #304 | Theme(Jam) | 3.91 |
| #443 | Mood(Jam) | 3.30 |
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This game looks great and we can't wait to play! Good luck in the competition! :)
Very fun, nice premise. However I did have to turn the music down to keep my ears alive.
Hahaha this game is funny, 5 stars for humor! 5 stars for graphics and audio as well, both are very well done.
Finally beat it. Most LD entries I skip all the text, but this one I read because it was very silly, nice job with that. However, I really hate the fact that the text MOVES as it's being "typed" onto the screen. It like hurts my eyes or something man.. Also, not sure if re-looping the music each time you die was a good idea. I hated listening to the first 5 seconds of it over and over again.... But I enjoyed the game so whatever!
Gotta love that woman with a flowing beard in the intro! The choice of following the style of Shovel Knight wasn't a bad one, either.
After seeing the graphics and reading THE BEARD MUST NOT BE SOILED I was going to hammer the walls with my fists and bellow curses that this is only available for Windows users, but the soundcloud link calmed the rage.
I would totally give 5 stars for audio if I could play the game.
This is genuinelly brilliant!
It did take a bit for me though to understand that purple = good;
Very fun game, thought the story concept was hilarious. Took me a couple times to figure out the birds were what was causing my doom, thought it to be a bug at first. My only suggestion would be to add some sort of score counter.
This game is nostalgic as hell. From the absurd concept to the brutal difficulty, this game screams NES. The music is great, the graphics are great (side note: what's with classic style games and making me hate ducks).
Overall this game is awesome. It's a tad TOO hard in my opinion, but everything else makes up for it. The controls are tight, the graphics are awesome, it's definitely one of the funnier games I've played in all of the jams.
Great work!
Awesome entry, as two of our team are sporting very large beards we are impressed at the acuracy of beard ownership. In all seriousness it was a great game well executed, I didn't quite get what I had to avoid at first but very soon I was having a blast.
Old-school aesthetic is cool but the text sound is a bit obnoxious. Pretty funny premise, great graphics and music. Horribly frustrating but I feel that's the point. xD
Loved it, but still, games with these funny stories should have a "skip" button, I couldn't pass the second mass of birds. Really cool in every way! Keep up the awesome work!
Funny stuff! Though the long respawn time combined with the irritating BEARD START text got on my nerves. But then I became king. Or something.
That was the most beautiful intro I have ever done seen in a Ludum Dare entry! Nice job! The gameplay felt tight, although the ducks were a bit brutal.
That was really fun ! Even if it's hard at first, it became easy and it quickly become feasible. So, that's short but fun, so that's a good game, thanks ^^
Great introduction to story, poor Mane... Pixel art quality is very good. Gameplay is challenging, and you will die a lot. My only complaint is long time it takes to try again after death, it really breaks the flow.
oooo, i dig the visual, the color pallete remind me of old commodore and NES year, lot of funny lines, and i love funny lines :D
one of the best game i played so far :)
Great art and music, and a fun runner. I'd recommend having the music not restart every time you die -- it makes it much more frustrating to lose and people don't get to hear the awesome music! Also the hitbox definitely seemed to behave oddly at times. I'd love to see this extended with procedural generation. Nice work!!
10/10 for intro sequence! Might seem a little silly but it added a bit to the game play itself in terms of "mood". Music/sound effects were top notch. I preferred the music stop and restart on player death to avoid the infernal never ending loop lol. Intial I didn't know why I was dieing but after a bit I realized it was due to the birds.
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