The game was really fun and you had to think, you did all that in 24 hours so i'm really impressed on how smart you were with the time, the music works well, first game I try out and overall it's really good !
I played a few levels and I enjoyed the dialogue quite much. The distinction between combat and move turns had me confused a bit in the beginning, but I figured it out quite quickly.
@lukas-tamayo It was 48 hours, and yeah, I pretty much did everything at once, skipping between art, coding, level design, texts, back and forth. Didn't manage to do all I wanted, and didn't have time to playtest it, so one particulary annoying "design decision" got through to the final thing (the fact that when you die, your bought/sold items get unselected, and you have to click the genie to open the shop on next attempts). But thank you for your feedback!
@kuro I don't remember exactly but I think it was after the second time one could buy stuff and got spawned near the corner and yeah there might have been the first level with red tiles.
Didn't like the flat humor and what seems like last minute written dialogs. But overall gameplay seems nice and the lenght of the game is actually shocking (tnx for the playthrought, btw).
@lesinvisible I actually feel the same way about the humor half the time. You'd really "love" the original "plot", which was the genie wanting you to force the pit lord to give him some wax for his glorious mustache. I dropped it because it was outright cringey (and also I forgot to draw a mustache on the pit lord).
Great game. Loved the art style. Nice and different compared to the rest of the games I've played so far. Enjoyed the tactical (almost puzzle) based movement. Thinking a little ahead came in handy a lot! There were one or two jittery moments between character dialogue where the background room would flash up. But for a game made in 48 hours, its pretty well polished. Nice one!
I abandonned on the first level with the fast thingies, quite a hard level when I didn't know you could pass turn. I've appreciated the art a lot and the beginning of the story is actually working pretty well. With art of this quality, too big subtitles and ugly text are really downgrading the thing :/ Cheers :)
@hugzfnr I used OpenSans, as I remember my colleagues from web development days used it quite a lot. I admit, I'm guilty of not being very handy with fonts and more difficult aspects of UX and visual design, to the degree that I see not much wrong with it. Any suggestions for improvement would be very welcome though.
Amazing work for a compo entry! Looks like a nearly perfect entry for me. I don't know what you would have been able to make more in 48H. I loved the narrative, it's adding so much to a game. Take few minutes to understand the mechanics, but then can't do anything else than finishing the game. I know you were probably short in time but not knowing how far can go each mob is a bit frustrating but maybe it's part of the puzzle. The only real bad point for me is that I don't see how to extend the mechanics to a more advanced one that would give several hours of play (maybe I'm wrong!)
@schadocalex Thanks. I think the + movement (up down left right) doesn't leave much room for an extended gameplay, but works kind of well for a compo entry, and isn't that hard to implement, including 2D sideview for art. It could be worked into more of a puzzle game, which I'm not that big fan of making. I'm thinking of making it into real time ARPG-ish game, some rock-paper-scissors combat mechanics, "magic", and some more thought out story, while keeping the 2D perspective. So it'd practically need a complete makeover :laughing: but might be made into kind of a serviceable game, maybe?
very good take on the theme! I like the combination of items and the choices the player can take to complete a level. One thing I would improve is to add a tutorial in the beginning showing what the symbols in game mean. The last bossfigth was a little to hard but for the rest, perfect entry.
great game! i like how there are several ways for you to complete the level, depending on which upgrades you choose. the last level felt a bit too hard, but that might've been just me :P with a little more information (like knowing the movement of the enemies) you could improve a lot!. the graphics are coherent, they fit together very well!
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and dont worry about the code it can be a spaghetti during the jam :)
Cheers :)
Any suggestions for improvement would be very welcome though.
I loved the narrative, it's adding so much to a game.
Take few minutes to understand the mechanics, but then can't do anything else than finishing the game.
I know you were probably short in time but not knowing how far can go each mob is a bit frustrating but maybe it's part of the puzzle.
The only real bad point for me is that I don't see how to extend the mechanics to a more advanced one that would give several hours of play (maybe I'm wrong!)
Well done!
A *really* good game, in all aspects.
The only thing I missed were instructions -- it took me some time to understand "free moves" versus "normal moves".
Writing was perhaps a bit cheesy/cliché, but worked well. Sound, graphics, mechanics... these were all very good! Kudos!