Ludum Dare #42compo

Leiden's Quest

by hiinds

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

What is Leiden's Quest ?

In this game, your inventory is running out of space because there are too many treasures. Your mission is to select the best items to get the best characteristics and to kill the monsters. There is intentionally not that much control during fights so that you must optimize your inventory to win.

It's an endless game, just go as far as you can and share your score in comments :)

#### I am looking for feedbacks so that I can improve my game dev skills.
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Post jam message (please, play the game before reading this) :

There are main issues with the game on this version, but the idea of the gameplay is here. I will fix it in a new version when the game jam will end. The main problems are :

- Luck is not implemented yet (if you have luck, you will find more treasure)

- Starting with an empty inventory is not very fun (I will add a "pick item A or B" phase before the dungeon so you can have 3 or 4 items)

- If you reach agility 20, then you are invincible (send me a screenshot of your inventory on Twitter to show me it's possible ! @blogcreationjv )

- Removing HP when removing an item that gives HP is a bad idea

- A bug in the inventory can help you get +999 in each characteristic (can you find it.. :p)

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French speaker

Vous pouvez retrouvez chaque jour un conseil sur le game dev sur mon compte Instagram https://instagram.com/creationdejeuxvideo

Vous pouvez aussi me suivre sur Twitter : https://twitter.com/blogcreationjv

Links - Where can I play Leiden's Quest ?

Tags: #dungeon crawler, #pico-8, #pixel art, #roguelike, #strategy rpg

Genres: adventure

Tools: PICO-8

Comments28

12 Aug 2018, 20:41

This is a really fun game, i actually bookmarked it to play it again later. Art looks great, sound is great, and again, it's really fun. Good job dev.

Hiindsauthor12 Aug 2018, 21:16

Thank you for your comment ! I really appreciate. Some things might be better but I think the game is fun with this version.

fantasywiz5412 Aug 2018, 21:53

This is a great game. I love the dice rolling animation and the inventory management. The art looks really nice as well.

Magi13 Aug 2018, 01:58

Great concept ^^
However, you can break the game with high agility and crit because these stats grown very slowly for monsters (if they grow...)
Is it possible to have the source code ?

Sthor72613 Aug 2018, 20:04

Really liked this game. Definitely one of the better ones I've seen

NOTBADGUN14 Aug 2018, 09:14

Pixel art looks really nice as well!

GuardHei14 Aug 2018, 09:20

The combat is just a piece of video (just kidding). Better to increase the chance to treasure rooms, I don't really fall in troubles with package space because I died way earlier. So sad. Overall, well done!

deniskazantsev14 Aug 2018, 09:23

I can't figure out what to press right after title screen when dice rolled. I tried all keys on my keyboard but without result. Please let me know what controls are, I really want to try your game.

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 09:24

@guardhei the "Luck" was meant to increse the chance of finding treasure. It's just not implemented in this version :( But thanks for playing !

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 09:29

@deniskazantsev It's the right directional arrow ! :)

matzetoni14 Aug 2018, 09:33

My highscore: 900 at room 22 :)

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 09:34

@matzetoni Congrats ! :clap: I hope you enjoyed playing it !

Fryderider14 Aug 2018, 09:39

Fun game, I like it! The pixel art looks great as well.

Minor thing, when the inventory is full you can't see the stats on the picked up item unless you drop it so it ends up below your inventory. Took me a while to figure that out.

Other than that, great job!

matzetoni14 Aug 2018, 09:47

@hiinds Well done, only thing that bugs me is, that 'continue' and 'trash' have the same button. I kept throwing away stuff I really needed :P

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 09:52

@matzetoni haha yep that's the limitation of PICO-8 (4 arrows and 2 buttons). I must add a confirm step when deleting an item (but actually it's part of the gameplay, you feel more frustrated haha :p )

sprvrn14 Aug 2018, 10:00

I kept dying and I don't really know how to beat the game. But that was a rather innovative system (or at least, I don't see that "tabletop rpg"-like in videogame mechanics often). Also really fit the theme well. Good job!

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 10:10

Thanks for playing @sprvrn. The game is not really balanced (it's kind of hard in less than 48 hours) so yep, if you are not very lucky with dices, you can die quite often but some runs may last longer ;)

Ever14 Aug 2018, 10:55

You really nailed the pico8 style, love it. With some balancing there really is a lot of potential there!

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 11:07

Thanks for playing and for your kind words @ever ! I will definitely balance everything and fix big issues for the release :)

deniskazantsev14 Aug 2018, 16:13

Very minimalistic dungeon crawler, definitely like it. Looks pretty solid, but not enough game progression. I'm also didn't had time for it :(

Hiindsauthor14 Aug 2018, 16:33

@deniskazantsev thanks for playing ! At least you understood the concept, the game is kind of limited actually so I will make a new version :)

WongKongPhooey14 Aug 2018, 21:15

Nice! Quite a lot of depth of a jam game, and always nice to see ones made in Pico-8! The dice rolling animation is nicely done, and I didn't come across any bugs etc. Well done!

Kubenexion15 Aug 2018, 10:29

Really nice game, especially for a compo!
Highscore at 1000 room 23

It's a bit hard to see your new item stats when your inventory is full.

namnam15 Aug 2018, 15:04

Rrès chouette aussi. J'aime beaucoup l'aspect minimalist que ce soit au niveau du graphisme ou du gameplay avec le ptit aspect rogue like par dessus. Manque ptet une ptite musique épique par dessus ^^

SuperQGS15 Aug 2018, 15:42

Took me awhile to find out that I was supposed to use the right arrow, but after that it was a great experience!

monetai15 Aug 2018, 15:43

A PICO8 game YEAHH! It was fun! my best was room 16 =) The gameloop is fun and clear and the graphics are very cool. The sound design is maybe a little to simple. A solid entry anyways!

Hiindsauthor15 Aug 2018, 17:12

@wongkongphooey Thanks for playing and for those kind words ! 💪

@kubenexion congrats for reaching room 23 ! 🎉 I definitely have to find a way to show the new item stats when the inventory is full. Thanks !

@namnam merci beaucoup ! J'ai encore pas mal d'expérimentation à faire pour créer de bonnes musiques sur PICO-8 :p Je vais essayer d'en faire une pour la sortie officielle

@superqgs thanks for playing ! You are not the only one that struggled with the right key haha

@monetai thanks for your kind words 💪 hope you enjoyed it !

lonewookie19 Aug 2018, 03:09

Cool idea! I was looking forward to playing LD games that used limited inventory for the theme! The graphics look great and I like the die rolling graphics and sound. I got to room 10. I'm not sure if there is a way to heal your HP? It seemed like I didn't have much control in the game and there was a lot of luck involved. Otherwise I think you did a great job!

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