In Bread Ninja, you play as Vittle Victual, a vassal of Lord Breadbaker. He has deemed neighboring duchy owner, Duke Fishmin, too dangerous to live, so he sends you to assassinate him.
Menus are controlled with the mouse. Left and Right arrow keys control movement. Up arrow is jump. Down arrow activates ovens. Z swings baguette. X throws Muffin. C uses flour smokescreen. S eats muffin. D eats flour.
Features: 4 levels. 2 bosses. Unlimited fun!
Made with Game Maker.
Version 1.0.1 released. Changes:
-Fixed a bug where you could eat items despite not having any. -Fixed a bug where you could get stuck and be unable to progress in some places. -Fixed a bug where muffins wouldn't explode on the final boss.
The title screen alone is pretty hilarious and this is probably the only ninja game ever made where you can also bake muffins. Cheers.
A few things to consider: Baguette range is very short so you have to get uncomfortably close to things to attack them. Also, for a ninja the character moved pretty slowly and stiffly. It seems like you might be tying input directly to movement, though I could be wrong, but consider tying acceleration to input instead. Holding left/right would then increase the character's x-velocity up to a set maximum. Then, when not holding a direction key have velocity decrease by some amount of friction. You'll want to tweak the acceleration/friction values until they feel just right--too low and your character will feel like they're on ice. I find this sort of movement makes action games feel a lot better to play and not so stiff.
I'm surprised with the amount of content in the game, although that may be because of its difficulty. Ultimately, found it to be interesting in certain implementations (ovens to regenerate more weapons, weapons used as consumables) that could have used a little more tweaking. For example, it's weird that both flour and muffins consume the same amount of yeast. Additionally, enemies can hurt you for two hearts, yet consumables only recover one: this makes the game a little too difficult.
I highly recommend making the ninja move faster, and fall faster. It'll also be great if you add strategies on taking out archers.
Quite the silly and fun game! I included it in part 8 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Fg_0-yj__pU
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I'm drawing a blank on giving any feedback. xD
The menu screen was so awesome. :P
It's a bit sticky - Moving is really awkward ... I love the art. Though how to win isn't obvious ...
Couldn't get the game itself to run with Wine on Linux unfortunately :(
A few things to consider: Baguette range is very short so you have to get uncomfortably close to things to attack them. Also, for a ninja the character moved pretty slowly and stiffly. It seems like you might be tying input directly to movement, though I could be wrong, but consider tying acceleration to input instead. Holding left/right would then increase the character's x-velocity up to a set maximum. Then, when not holding a direction key have velocity decrease by some amount of friction. You'll want to tweak the acceleration/friction values until they feel just right--too low and your character will feel like they're on ice. I find this sort of movement makes action games feel a lot better to play and not so stiff.
I highly recommend making the ninja move faster, and fall faster. It'll also be great if you add strategies on taking out archers.