This was my second Ludum Dare. I was amazed that I managed to finish before the Compo ended. Last time I didn't almost make it to the Jam! But the game is still missing intro/opening scene, which I just don't had time to do. Please read the games story later in this post!
This time my tools were: Bfxr - effects Bosca Ceoil - music Game Maker Studio - everything else
Game - Green Knight
Opening scene: The Green knight is fighting with the evil wizard. The wizard laughs at the knight and casts a spell that transforms the knight into a small bird. The knight/bird runs away from the caste and flies to the forest. The wizards spell was not cast properly and the change knight turn back into the human form. He decides to go after the wizard again. Then he turns into a bird. Then into human. then into bird... the game begins.
Have fun!
Keys: Arrows -move X - jump/fly C - attack (down attack - down + C while jumping)
tip: the bird can also attack
Edit: web option added Edit 2: fixed bug from web (HTML5) version where knight couldn't hit after down attack.
This was entertaining. The bird was a little OP for the platforming part, you could mostly just fly past everything and not deal with the enemies. I couldn't figure out how to kill the wizard at the end though, nothing seemed to hit him? I had been super hoping that you needed to have him throw his "fireball" thing at one of the chandeliers and have it drop on him.
This is a great concept! I got really into this, trying to fly away from the bat was intense! I love how the prevalence of slime enemies really seems to emphasise the limitations of being unable to fly when human, despite being able to fight: slime makes it quite hard to get around, which makes sense!
The biggest flaw was that the bats were almost useless. Because they didn't do much, you can fly past most things pretty easily. I did like the fact that you don't control the shape-shift. On the wizard fight I died AND killed him at the same time twice :(
Cool idea in the mechanic, i really like that it's on a timer rather than a command. Sprites look good, especially for 48h. Biggest gripe are controls and their responsiveness. The flappy bird style mechanic put a smile on my face, it was unexpected.
Controls were a bit heavy, and hitboxes during fighting occasionally made me rage, but I otherwise had fun playing your entry.
The core idea is pretty funny and interesting, and the knight attack animation is well done. Though I prefer killing enemies by picking at them with the bird form :-D
I really love the sprites you've made. If you keep working on this, I would look into allowing the player to attack while moving and having the player and enemies visibly react to getting hit, so players are more aware of the current state of things. Great work!
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Freank25 Apr 2016, 10:22
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Good job on the art and the overall level design :) but i felt that the shape shifting taking place on its own without the players control is unfair to the player.. and also creates an imbalance in the game. But over all with the different enemies and everthing good job. The game could have been better with the freedom given to the player to shape shift with interesting puzzles.. :D idk I fell so, but overall great game and all the best mate :)
And another shapeshifting platformer. Granted, this one uses involuntary shapeshifting rather than player-controlled, which is a bit of a change.
That aside, the gameplay was somewhat solid, though perhaps not quite smooth. The graphics and audiovisuals weren't great, but worked well enough. I'd have liked some indication about how much health I've got, though, sometimes it's hard to tell if the enemy chipped a bit away or not.
Good Game! I enjoyed the pixel art graphics and the animations. Good Idea to don't leave the choice of shapeshifting to the player. I found however the control maybe a little too rigid and a little UI (for life counter) could have enhanced the whole feeling. But awesome work ! Good job
The sword's attacking range was absolutely slow and terrible so most of the time I pretty much ended up waiting to transform into bird form and just fly to the end, avoiding combat. The involuntary shapeshifting is a nice twist although it could use some more visual cues (Also the solution to the boss battle was rather clever albeit a bit cliche).
The mechanic of gameplay was good. But as a bird, you can skip all a level pretty easily, and the hitbox of the knight's sword is litt-le. But the idea was good. The music does his jobs. And the graphisms are very beautiful ;)
I love the Knight/Bird character (the bird is absolutely adorable). Very interesting mechanic swapping between the two. Also the environment was wonderfully done.
haha that bird looks like a little kiwi! :D (but with wings) Nice game. The idea that you can't control the shapeshift make it more enjoyable. I liked the graphics of the character, but I think the background doesn't fit well with it. Maybe you could use a different color palette?. It was fun to kill the wizard that way :D Nice game!
Bird is OP! :D As the knight, he moves a bit too awkwardly and has too little HP to be helpful. I just waited until bird mode before flying across the levels as fast as possible, pecking eyeballs as needed. Wizard fight was awesome, however.
Very cool game mechanics! Great theme interpretation.