Do you think Mortal Komba will be easy? No! The more friends you have, the worse it is!
This a challenging game about skipping rope with cute graphics. It gets harder and harder when friends join you and you have to survive to the three strikes!
How many jumps will you get? Tell us!
Controls: each character has an asigned key which will be shown ingame, so push it to jump.
We hope you enjoy the game, we did it with so much love! ❤️ Thanks for playing and we ask you to give us feedback, please!
Amazing audio and amazing art!!! nice job :D It was really difficult. but i kept playing for the sheer satisfaction that the audio and art were fun to look at
Great Art! Cute Design!Perfect Userinterface for the game. Gameplay is easy to understand and still fun. I am happy to see that others tried to make a Global Highscore too.
One of best submission on this Ludum Dare. Small, smooth and enjoyable game with very beautiful graphics and smart use of theme, as it should be on a short time for jam. Overall great job, don't stop on that, it has poteantial. :clap:
I really do love this game! The artwork is great. I just have the feeling the "bird"character is too easy compared to the others, just because he can fly all the time! Its challeging, but fun!
Great game. We had a very very similar idea, but it went downhill, when we noticed it only worked on ant-ghosting keyboards. But your game is truly great. Love everything about it. Please play and rate our game aswell: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/nanonator
I think the artstyle is the best ive seen so far. The theme is implemented perfectly. Its smooth, its challenging, it looks gorgeous, its different. Absolutely loved it!
The art is really on point, the animals are super cute and their animations are just awesome. The idea is also nice but the design could get some more love and polishing. The game is reallly unfair sometimes and the choosen key layout feels a bit weird.
Artists did a good job! And difficulty is scaling very fast so you should be always concentrated. You deserve your good rankings. I like how you've created simple and fun game.
Loved it. It fits the theme wells and is really simple. I love the fact that you don't always start with the same character, (I'm wondering if it makes the game less ballanced but I didn't play enough to know that =3 ) it makes it less repetitive to try again, and i imediately started jumping again to make a better score.
The speed of the rope is a bit high, which makes it a bit confusing (+ it's small, kinda hard to see but really important in the gameplay) but that's okay, i don't think i would have ideas to make it better ! :)
the art and charadesign is really cute, too ! it makes me feel good.
I scored 40 r 41.. the 3rd character reallys makes it worse haha
Absolutely beautiful art and unique gameplay. At first, I thought it would be extremely easy but when the second character came in it made it so much more difficult!
Also, I love the name for this game, it's really creative and funny!
Lovely graphics and great take on the theme! I was surprised (in a good way) the moment the second character appeared and caught me off-guard. That was clever! :)
I agree with everyone : it's bloody beautiful. Really hard, but beautiful. However, the UI seem a little bit less polished, as it is in a lower resultion than the rest of the game :). Its very hard and fit the theme perfectly. I had a bug : I pressed A for the ranking but nothing happened. Great work guys !
I love the art style in the game as well as the fairly unique idea. I haven't seen anything like this. It's a very fun and challenging game (at least for me).
This is an insanely good entry. It is so much fun and challenging! The polish is real, really good job. The mechanic is so easy to understand but so difficult to master (i've got 30 jumps) that is brilliant.
Aaaaaw! Very cute game! Hard but cute! I would suggest to add some particle effects when you get hit, the animation for it is a little blend to identify.
This game is incredibly adorable with the colourful characters and the squeaky sound effects. Definitely a great job on the visual side of things. I didn't notice the count down at first because it blends in really easily with the bright characters, maybe an outline would make it stand out. It's a very minor issue for such a fun and great looking game.
Me, after the second character came on screen >Whaaaaaaaaaat just happened ???
Like I said about another game, this also reminds of Final Fantasy IX... When you first play with Bibi and you can play this minigame in the city. Yeah, my childhood... But this one pushes the difficulty higher. So thanks for the remembrance and this innocent but hard entry ;)
Super cute art and a unique game! I liked that each character had a different way of jumping. I do agree that it was hard to notice the countdown, so maybe make it a bit more eye-catching?
I think I wont be the first one to say that it has very cool graphics, they make the game stand out a lot, sound gets a bit to annoying but it's very fitting
Really well done and nicely polished. I only wish it was a bit easier at the start because I'm terrible at timing it right even with one person on screen!
The only thing I missed (and this is a tiny detail) was input buffer. I managed to get to 41 jumps and, when the rope goes too fast, you press a key to jump but the character doesn't jump because it's gonna land in the next frame. It'd be great to have some kind of buffer that autojumped if I land on the floor a few frames after pressing jump, the same trick is used with platform games all the time.
But, as said earlier, that's just some minor polish thing. You did an amazing job! :-)
Absolutely fantastic art and the main mechanic was simple at its core but great in execution. Trying to manage multiple characters jumping got very frantic especially with the little cat guy but it was fun all the time. A fantastic entry, great job!
I really liked how polished the graphics, animation, and sound were. The thing I liked the most, though, was how well the game conveyed the happiness of playing (I loved the "what about... jumping!" line at the beginning)! I made it to 38 jumps with one of the easier combinations, but some combinations seemed really hard. Thanks for making it!
This is a pretty fantastic entry. The art is wonderful. I love the animations on the totems, and the characters. The Sun animations when you get hit are a really nice touch too. It's very difficult, and I could not survive with the 3rd character beyond a couple of jumps, but you could definitely get better at this over time, which adds to the replayability.
The music is a little bit repetitive, which fits the game, but may overemphasize the "just jump!" aspect. The SFX are wonderful though.
Pack it up boys, we have a winner. I actually judged it based on the cover, thinking "oh well, at least the gameplay won't be that good" and you proved me wrong. Innovative and fun. Game's too good.
Superb graphics and animation guys! I think it need more feedback when you get hit by the rope, and maybe some pause time or something, usually when lost on try, I lost the others two in a row. Anyways, great game, congrats!
Anata no gemu wa sugoi desu. Getting the feeling of the jumps right on each character must have been hard.
I think the button for what you should press, could be a little faded out, when you cant press it (when the character is in the air). That would help visualizing the exact time when a character can jump and when not. Since everyone has a different timing it would help with the learning a lot.
I like the polish a lot, the characters look really cute and the music and art fit together a lot. The controls are nice and the gameplay is getting hard really fast, which I like a lot.
Absolutely adorable as hell and really tight controls and polish on this one. That little fat one can go to hell though, I just couldn't get the hang of him 😂.
This is the cutest game! I love the art and the music, and it really fits the theme. Some of the characters are significantly harder to play than others, and once there two of them at one jumping it gets really tricky. This would be a really nice mobile game. Congrats!
This is so aesthetically comfy! I really like how difficult the game became to manage when new characters came in to jump! I kept wanting to play 1 more game! I had to force myself to stop! An amazing effort to get done within the timeframe! Congratulations!
Wow. Really cute game with such a beautiful artstyle. And the soundtrack is so upbeat, i want to start jumping immediately! :smile: The only sad part is that i never was good at this, even IRL :pensive:
Genuinely love the cute graphics! The controls seem a little hectic at first but you get the hang of it pretty quickly. Excellent job coming up with a fun concept and keeping your scope manageable, great work! :smile:
Well executed. I sang it's praises on stream, it has a great level of polish. For many,I think the difficulty curve of two characters is too steep, as they have different abilities / jump styles. Maybe to introduce the difficulty more gradually you could introduce another copy of the same character so the player can get used to the multitasking before also trying to take into account the different mechanics of each ones. Really nice game, be proud.
Nice game you have here XD. Love the graphics, sound and idea. However, the game is too hard for me. Kept losing just when the second character comes T_T. Well done with the game :smile:
Good graphics and sweet little voice acting. But i didnt think it was quite innovative in fitting the theme. But it is a well executed game which is sure fun to play with others.
My only criticism is I think it would be fairer to the player for the first jumper to change letters before the second jumper came on so that you know what to expect. That being said, this is a very polished game (and my wife keeps telling me, "it's adorable" and "there aren't enough girl games" - although I do believe that boxers like skipping too, and I realise I'm digging myself into a hole because who says that there can't be girl boxers).
This game gave me serious Warioware vibes! Takes me back...
Anyway, excellent graphics: art and animation is top notch. As for the gameplay concept, it has a lot of potential, and I think you realized a good amount of it! The different characters' quirks really gave the game personality in execution. I would have perhaps made jumpers invincible when new characters are introduced, it could have made things a bit smoother. Overall, great entry!
Very nice game. Spot on with the theme, and the art and audio were both good. It gave me flashbacks to the jump rope in Super Mario Odyssey lol. It got very difficult having to manage multiple characters with different jump styles. Sometimes it felt like my input was missed, maybe because I was tapping just barely too early. Maybe still jumping if the button is hit just barely before landing would be better. Overall very good though!
Adorable artwork. I would advise some other things going on in the bg, but for a game aimed at kids (which I'm assuming it is) this is perfect. A bit more musical variation would be great (try horizontal resequencing, I bet it'll help).
This game was pretty interesting. It was pretty difficult to me to visually see when to jump in the game since the graphics were in 2D. This made the game difficult in the wrong way. However, I did like the music and the cute soundeffects. The graphics though were probably the best part of the game. I liked the polished UI, the lights and shadows on characters, the elegant scrolling background and just the overall childish aesthetic.
Total 5/5 for me, one of my favorites! I loved seeing the progress of it on twitter, all the way to playing the game entry here. It's fun, it's easy to play, it's beautiful, it's great to listen to - loved it all. Great job
Graphics are so cute and polished, makes the game feel very complete! I liked how much personality the different characters had, and that you had to use different keys on the keyboard together. I did feel like regardless of their jump height though, if I timed their jumps at the same time I was able to clear the rope anyway. Great use of the theme!
Not much to say, just love it very much. The art is attractive adn the gameplay is realy simple. But when you put more jumpers in it changes. Excelllent.
This game is so damn cute :) The graphics are great and the gameplay is simple and enjoyable. Also is very very difficult, at least for my and my lack of coordination, lol.
Hey guys! we just wanted to thank you all for the kind comments and criticisms, it will help us improve a lot for the following jams. We are surprised by the amount of visits and votes that Mortal Komba is having, so the only thing we can say is THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME! :yellow_heart::yellow_heart:
We are preparing a postmortem version with some fixes that solve problems that you've noticed. Maybe in future we could rethink a bit more about the mechanics, it's true that it have clear issues but we think we can close a good minigame for kids and enough challenging for olders.
WOW, just wow. This game is outstanding. The graphics are great and adorable and the polish of the game is clean. The gameplay of the game works really well. Unfortunately, i wasn't good at the game. i always failed when the second character came in. My brain and my fingers just couldn't cope :sweat_smile:. Anyways this is a great game, i hope you guys continue work on this game. Maybe add other little minigames. Other than that, this is just an awesome game. Congratulations!
Top ART and music! I can easily see this game on any App Store. Just need a little tuning on the controls, imo. It's a little hard to control more than one character at a time. Maybe on mobile you could just touch on a character for it to jump.
Awesome art style. The game mechanics are simple but effective. Love the way you used the different characters to introduce different abilities. Keep it up!
I'm terrible at this game, but I think it's a great use of the theme. The art is great as well. The controls did feel slightly stiff...a bit of forgiveness when pressing to jump would have made things seem a bit smoother.
Super cute, challenging little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVo2wMAhnxM
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Quite difficult with the character whose letter changes.
Liked the bird flapping mechanic.
It was really difficult. but i kept playing for the sheer satisfaction that the audio and art were fun to look at
i guess that some audio feedback when you miss the rope would be an good improvement.
Great, dudes!
Its challeging, but fun!
Please play and rate our game aswell: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/nanonator
Great music, fun gameplay and really follows the theme of this jam!
Absolutely loved it!
But it's too hard for me !
So it's a perfect mini game ;)
And difficulty is scaling very fast so you should be always concentrated. You deserve your good rankings. I like how you've created simple and fun game.
The speed of the rope is a bit high, which makes it a bit confusing (+ it's small, kinda hard to see but really important in the gameplay) but that's okay, i don't think i would have ideas to make it better ! :)
the art and charadesign is really cute, too ! it makes me feel good.
I scored 40 r 41.. the 3rd character reallys makes it worse haha
Also, I love the name for this game, it's really creative and funny!
Brilliant entry, congratulations!
The mechanic is so easy to understand but so difficult to master (i've got 30 jumps) that is brilliant.
Wonderfull gfx.
A perfect little game for a jam.
It's hard to reach 30+ pts ^^
My best score is 34.
>Whaaaaaaaaaat just happened ???
Like I said about another game, this also reminds of Final Fantasy IX... When you first play with Bibi and you can play this minigame in the city. Yeah, my childhood... But this one pushes the difficulty higher.
So thanks for the remembrance and this innocent but hard entry ;)
Congrats on doing such a great job.
The only thing I missed (and this is a tiny detail) was input buffer. I managed to get to 41 jumps and, when the rope goes too fast, you press a key to jump but the character doesn't jump because it's gonna land in the next frame. It'd be great to have some kind of buffer that autojumped if I land on the floor a few frames after pressing jump, the same trick is used with platform games all the time.
But, as said earlier, that's just some minor polish thing. You did an amazing job! :-)
The music is a little bit repetitive, which fits the game, but may overemphasize the "just jump!" aspect.
The SFX are wonderful though.
Overall great job!
Oh fk please make the music at the same pace as the rope, PLEASE?
Congrats! Very nice and polished entry :)
If you have time, come check ours
I think the button for what you should press, could be a little faded out, when you cant press it (when the character is in the air). That would help visualizing the exact time when a character can jump and when not. Since everyone has a different timing it would help with the learning a lot.
I like the polish a lot, the characters look really cute and the music and art fit together a lot. The controls are nice and the gameplay is getting hard really fast, which I like a lot.
Well done!
Also, if possible, check out and rate my game I made with a few others. It's a card game with a twist: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/smash-smash-destroy-the-west-jangnanmon
Excellent job coming up with a fun concept and keeping your scope manageable, great work! :smile:
Harder then I imagined... But very fun!
Anyway, excellent graphics: art and animation is top notch. As for the gameplay concept, it has a lot of potential, and I think you realized a good amount of it! The different characters' quirks really gave the game personality in execution. I would have perhaps made jumpers invincible when new characters are introduced, it could have made things a bit smoother. Overall, great entry!
Aside from that, really great job!
We are preparing a postmortem version with some fixes that solve problems that you've noticed. Maybe in future we could rethink a bit more about the mechanics, it's true that it have clear issues but we think we can close a good minigame for kids and enough challenging for olders.
Kitty is pretty difficult to play with, but that makes for a great change of pace.
Well done.
40 jumps for me :)