Bard is an unfinished game. I feel like uploading it anyway because it has a basic gameplay and feel about what it should be.
The game revolves around Bard, being the guy with the guitar, that fights the evil awoken musical instruments and radios that threathen the world with noise.
I could not manage to put in audio, most of animations are unpolished. The game feels really wrecked and i'm sorry to deliver such poor quality, even if this is my first Dare and my first ever "completed" game. Not making any other excuses, enjoy the game!
It's been a fun challenge and i grew a lot. I hope to get your reviews to grow more and more.
Controls: Arrow keys to move
A to charge up the heap S to shoot D to jump F to shield from bolts
Holding A and pressing D jumps higher Holding A and holding F charges up a burst of awesomeness
Sprites, pixel art and coding by me, @StrayByte Static Art and Menus by my wife, @WestBrightStar
Your parallax-scrolling moves faster than your foreground, completely shattering the illusion of depth that parallaxing is supposed to do.
Also there's no indication that you shouldn't leave the screen to the right to continue the game, but when you do you can't get back on and the game is now broken. A simple solid object should fix that.
Great job! That's a lot of work you put into this. Cool character design, and I love the guitar solo magic attack! It does feel like a missed opportunity to have a game about fighting with musical notes and not having any sound. Also the parallax is a bit jarring. I would also recommend keeping the dead bodies of enemies around, it gives a sense of progression and "badassery". A couple bugs to note: At one point the enemies stopped showing up, and my character wouldn't stop moving to the left. But like I said, a wonderfully themed game and great visual designs. Keep it up!
As the others said the parallax is very odd, also the controls are a bit buggy... well maybe all the game is a bit buggy but i had some fun trying to discover all the bug.
Voted 5 for mood because this https://twitter.com/StrayByte/status/590965725998776322 [If a non italian speaker what to know, here a rough translation: It was exiting, i shouted code while my wife shouted illustration. It was pure magic]
Great work! I like the idea and I thought Bard's animation was pretty cool. I do think audio is a big component to this so I would have liked to see that in the game.
Really fun graphics! :D Though would've loved to hear the audio that you were going to use (as it seems to be a music themed game). Don't worry about running out of time, we uploaded an unfinished game as well. :P
Cool idea and really unique art style! Great use of the theme, as well.
It seems like I was taking damage from bullets below me when I was jumping while pressing A, but I didn't investigate it much further, as I was busy shooting up robits!
Also there's no indication that you shouldn't leave the screen to the right to continue the game, but when you do you can't get back on and the game is now broken. A simple solid object should fix that.
You have the start of a game. Develop it further.