ZEN

I love the graphics they look amazing! sounds are really cool as well. the character moves really fast which makes him difficult to control. Great job!

Liked your style and realization of the hackaton's theme! Can you build it on macOS though :) ?

I like this game, especially, visuals and sounds. The main idea of core gameplay pretty neat, but WASD controls are cluncky.

I'm so excited of hand-made graphics and flexible gameplay. Wiseacre's moving is cool too)

Very good art.

Good theme usage and interesting graphics. Its difficult to move with wasd whene camera look on you old location and you actualy moving kinda blind

I love the artstyle. It was hard to get some of the demons to try and attack and took a while. I actually liked the super fast moving, but it could have been toned down and made more playable.

> SirRed (@sirred)
Thank you for comments! You are partly right.
But I special made this game more difficult because it's important to transfer right experience of the monk fast movement and difficulty of avoidance demons.

Stunning art and visualization on everything. (And way to go to use GameMaker Studio!!!)

I also really enjoy the game play, as it gets more intense. However, currently, I am kinda stuck on the level where the game introducing the enemy attacking with throwing-stars. Its almost impossible to have the enemy kill himself alone, and I am not sure whether my shield can only protect me, or also deal damage.

Personally, I would make the AI more aggressive. As your theme suggests that these demons are here to distrub me, at the moment, I have to put myself in danger first by getting closer and luring them to attack in order to eliminate them. But if the whole time, your concept is to put yourself in danger first before destroying your inner monster, then I think the AI works great.

And it is really nice to have mouse control along with keyboard. I think the mouse control movement just made the game doable and fun! GJ, guys

Amaaazing art and simple game! Really well polished in all ways!
Remember to play other people's games so they can know about yours!

Cool ink style, could be incredible with great animations ! :)

The controls are kind of twitchy but the art style and mood is the strong point for me. I could imagine this idea being developed further. One of the more atmospheric games i played here! good job :)

Amazing art and atmosphere. If play only on mouse, then gameplay become more meditative for me, may be because Dash speed lower then movement with WASD and all game becomes little slower, that good with that atmosphere and theme idea. But any way, good game :)

Amazing art and atmosphere. If play only on mouse, then gameplay become more meditative for me, may be because Dash speed lower then movement with WASD and all game becomes little slower, that good with that atmosphere and theme idea. But any way, good game :)

The visuals are spectacular and the mood is great. I enjoyed the rapid movements too. The annoyance for me was to try luring the demons to attack, which could take some time. But very well put together, I really like games that conveys an atmosphere and idea like this one!

Absolutely great art! The gameplay was fun but it took a while to get the hang of it.

Very nice art, but controls are a bit strange.

Great game!!! The japanese art is beautiful! Some times i stuck in the rocks when i try the dash but nothing that disrupts the gameplay. Good job

absolutely beautiful art style

Loved the graphics, sound design and mood of this game. Congratulation !
The game is a bit hard IMO, but that's probably my gaming level !
I found a bug where I could go outside of the arena in the level where there is 7 demons.
Anyway really good job, it is simple but very polished !

Awesome!

Loved the simplicity of this game and how its really worked well with the theme and it what wants to achieve!! The graphics and audio is really amazing, one of the best visuals i saw so far here! and the game is really fun! Awesome job!!

Very beautiful game.
In case of your pc have two monitors the game app is minimizing after each level :(

Got kind of stuck on 3rd level - the last shuriken enemy didn't want to die. Otherwise, really great game. I liked the movement of the character, feels like skating on steroids :D

Screw you, demons! I'm gonna chill at the village.

Very beatifull game, that makes you feel calm and infuriated almost at the same time.

I love art so much! Unfortunately i could not figure out where shield must be used. Also i found controls pretty disturbing - character always tried to live his own life. It's really much more difficult than Dark Souls!

Idea is great, and that hand-painting... wow... that's the case when idea and gameplay are fused together - don't fight your demons, just make them pass away. That sounds so like zen... kind of, I'm not into zen :)
But why shield is so useless? It can't stop a single demon!

I just love the graphics style!!!!!! amazing!!! and the music really fits the oriental style of your game!!
The gameplay is very nice with you avoiding the demon attacks while driving them to extinction!
My only problem is the short timer for the shield which make the shield ability pretty much useless for us slow dexterity people :smile:.
I think a small boost in the shield's longevity will make the ability much better! Maybe a small cooldown will offset the extra longevity.
Still an excellent entry!!
You have to make an WEB export (I think you made this with gamemaker - judging from the file extensions). Much easier to play allowing for more people to play and rate your game!!