EpicQuestEssence

by mikel
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.56
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.06
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.86
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.32
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%
Game in HTML5/javascript
Web is link to play game online
Source is link to .tgz file with full game can be played by opening index.html in browser

EDIT: added a port that uses arrow keys for non-qwerty keyboards (minimal changes to game just keycodes)

Comments20

Catmoo29 Apr 2013, 22:40
Lovely little game, the art style is great and full of character!

Although it's a shame that the collision seems to be very easy to get stuck on, it lead me to my death a few times.
Rongon29 Apr 2013, 22:43
Very minimal and graphics/animations are cute, but there should be a lot better hit-box model (especially for the trees). I died at level 9 :p
deathray
deathray30 Apr 2013, 00:18
Cartoons are amazing! Gameplay was a little fun. It could've used some kind of power-ups or added complexity... I think I would prefer a choose-your-own-adventure comic with this comic style.
Yacodo30 Apr 2013, 16:01
Damn IA, so aggressive for a start ! ^^

Nice job.
sanojian
sanojian30 Apr 2013, 17:59
Really nicely drawn.
rwos
rwos30 Apr 2013, 21:25
The art is just fantastic - if you can step up the gameplay a bit next time, then we have a winner! :-)
sythe
sythe30 Apr 2013, 21:38
Irritating movement sound effects, unfortunately.
The Consul
The Consul1 May 2013, 08:17
Nice drawings. Also I like the take on the theme... boiling a genre down to it's very core.

Perhaps the UI could have been made in a style more suitable to the rest of the graphics.
lotusgame1 May 2013, 17:45
Cannot play because my keyboard fr...
Mikel
Mikelauthor1 May 2013, 20:35
Thank you all for the comments, just added a port that uses arrow-keys instead of wasd for the benefit of non-qwerty keyboards
wallmasterr1 May 2013, 21:51
rely like the art stly and the limited animation is realy fitting with the minimal theme.
TheCze1 May 2013, 22:00
Nice cute graphics, gameplay improvable but gj.
mtthwcmpbll
mtthwcmpbll1 May 2013, 23:20
Loved the art style! I found getting stuck on the trees and mountains way too easy (I'd shrink the bounding box and maybe rotate them 45 degrees so that there's no edges orthogonal to the arrow keys so that the player would slide off obstacles). I also would have had two or three variations on the obstacles and randomly select a sprite to place on the map. That way, not all trees look exactly the same.
madlee
madlee1 May 2013, 23:21
like the visuals, but found the running sound effect a bit abrasive. Also, i think the hitboxes could be smaller, I was often colliding with things when it didn't seem like I should be. Fun though!
finefin
finefin2 May 2013, 06:46
Nice little game. "dark forces again... you know..." hehehe really funny. as already stated by the others, the hitboxes would need some optimization - that'd make the game way less frustrating. anyway, nice job :)
netmute
netmute3 May 2013, 20:35
Art is awesome, sound is annoying ;) (Seriously, that art is so lovely...)
SnoringFrog
SnoringFrog4 May 2013, 23:24
I liked the idea of just looping the levels with additional enemies. Great way to lengthen the game. Things got a little crazy around level 7 for me, ended up failing on 8.
hissssssssss9 May 2013, 02:36
I wish the ghosts wouldn't get stuck on top of the princess so often. Other than that, this was a cute game.
psc199711 May 2013, 17:10
Very good graphics ;-)
Good job ;-)
cakemonitor
cakemonitor12 May 2013, 22:16
I really like the graphical style :)

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