Old Techniques: The Last Master is a platformer-fighter about the last human on Earth, battling through an army of robots using ancient martial arts.
The game’s core feature is a combat timeline editor: you direct your own combos by placing moves, transitions, and timing on a timeline, just like in video editing software. Dial in the perfect fighting rhythm and prove to the machines that old-school human techniques are far from obsolete.
Really cool idea! The art and atmosphere looks amazing, I was having a hard time using the crouch feature. It felt like I was still getting damage. Overall a nice game!
Very, very cool! I've never seen a timeline editor used as an interface for a brawler before - incredibly neat choice. The polish in terms of the gameplay feel kept it from being more fun, but in terms of the idea, mechanics, and execution it was exceptional. Thematically I loved the notion of a human being considered "old technology" vis-a-vis robots and AI - a nice inversion of the obvious choice for how to interpret the jam theme. The audio and sounds were very well-matched to the game, and they blended well.
Again, it's a bit of a bummer that the "feel" wasn't as well-tuned as it might have been, because otherwise this is one of the more impressive jam entries I've seen in a lot of ways. That said, our game suffers from a similar "if only we had a couple more hours" in terms of feel, and honestly that seems to be the rule rather than the exception for most jam games, so I can't fault you for it too much.
All that being said, this is a great entry with a lot of polish in the look-and-feel and overall vibe - job very well done!
Man, this is definitely the best game I've played so far! At first the movement and fighting was a bit slow, but it's quite easy to get used to the pace. I ABSOLUTE LOVE the preparation and the fact that you can create amazing combo combinations! The art, storytelling, music and sounds are so good and create this great atmosphere.
PS: My most favorite was "GRAB + YEEEEEEET". I enjoyed throwing the robots on other robots and making them fall haha. It was genuinely so cool and I wish more video games in general had these types of physics and "exploits".
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Again, it's a bit of a bummer that the "feel" wasn't as well-tuned as it might have been, because otherwise this is one of the more impressive jam entries I've seen in a lot of ways. That said, our game suffers from a similar "if only we had a couple more hours" in terms of feel, and honestly that seems to be the rule rather than the exception for most jam games, so I can't fault you for it too much.
All that being said, this is a great entry with a lot of polish in the look-and-feel and overall vibe - job very well done!
The art, storytelling, music and sounds are so good and create this great atmosphere.
PS: My most favorite was "GRAB + YEEEEEEET". I enjoyed throwing the robots on other robots and making them fall haha. It was genuinely so cool and I wish more video games in general had these types of physics and "exploits".