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Unsave the Princess

By karlin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Fun523.64
Theme693.92
Overall743.62
Graphics793.88
Mood833.42
Audio1373.13
Humor1643.13
Innovation2653.08

Comments

solidplasma 2012-12-17 03:51

I love the concept and execution, but I couldn't figure out how to kill the monster shooting fireballs after I used a block as a shield. Still, a wonderful puzzle platformer.

zillix 2012-12-17 04:15

Really neat! short and sweet. particularly had a lot of fun repeatedly warping to travel super quickly.

khaotom 2012-12-17 04:35

Nice little puzzles, perfect game length, beautiful sound. Really good work.

arkeus 2012-12-17 04:53

I loved how even though it was short with limited abilities how you managed to come up with neat little puzzles. I seemed to do things complicated, and afterwards realized what I probably was supposed to do instead. I don't think putting a block on the knight's face was correct though...

deathray 2012-12-17 04:56

Great ideas and wonderful art style!
I got stuck at my first battle with the archer though.

ointment 2012-12-17 04:58

Oh you clever you.

caasi 2012-12-17 05:02

Poor knight, can't go though the wall :p

teh_eria 2012-12-17 05:11

The ability mechanics played nicely with each other once I got used to them. Short and sweet. Nice job.

jmoraguiard 2012-12-17 05:57

I really liked the game. Despite being short mechanics are good and puzzles are nice. A little bit buggy (had to restart some times because teleportation inside castle made the game crash some times :(). But I can imagine a longer game with this plot and mechanics :D

smaxx 2012-12-17 11:46

Really nice game, although I'm having some tiling issue (gaps between tiles running on a Nvidia GTX 680 and 1920x1200 desktop resolution). Think I'd blame subpixel precision on that (make sure to draw your stuff exactly at whole pixels/rounded).

jsmars 2012-12-17 13:14

Great platformer and the tiny feel to the whole experience. Would be fun there was more levels too :)

karlin 2012-12-17 20:02

@Smaxx Thanks, think I've managed to fix it. I'm gonna fix up a few other things and upload it to the main page next week.

steamgirl 2012-12-18 00:02

I can't seem to figure out the controls. If I select 1,2, or 3 it doesn't seem to actually use the spells? Other than that - lovely graphics. Nice touches that make it feel more alive.

edocentrique 2012-12-18 00:06

Spells were usefull, art is great, game mechanics are well done.. a good entry !

salt 2012-12-18 00:07

Really nice and tidy game. Tight design.
Had a small graphical glitch for me which created tiny gaps between the map's tiles.

barkergames 2012-12-18 00:38

I must say, this is the best one I have played so far!
Awesome Job!

saguaro 2012-12-18 01:23

Very nice!

wisegamer 2012-12-18 17:56

Very simple and creative .. I lol at the end

ilo 2012-12-18 23:56

It looks great and the spells complement each other really well! There could have been more puzzles but being short is better than being too long.

blob 2012-12-21 02:39

Hehe, that was funny. The fact that you cant play with Arrow keys and the forced full screen made it very difficult to play on an AZERTY keyboard ( couldnt change the keyboard language mode for this because of the fullscreen). But cool art and I can see how you could use those 3 simple spells for a lot of nice game mechanics.

karlin 2012-12-21 03:13

@blob Sorry about that,

I've just uploaded a new version at http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/20/unsave-the-princess-post-mortem-post-compo-status-01/ which supports the arrow keys for movement, numpad 0,1,2 & 3 for choosing spells and ctrl to restart from the last checkpoint.

bitwise-constructs 2012-12-21 04:15

Perfect small game.

feili 2012-12-21 09:59

Awesome little game! :D

stonemonkeystudios 2012-12-21 10:53

Fun game! Neat little abilities, and it's great to feel largely unrestricted in their use.

fishbrain 2012-12-21 11:01

Excellent! Nicely done - really enjoyed the graphics and style. There seemed to be a bug(?) with the tiles on the first level (they all had small black lines around the outside).

arkadydracul 2012-12-21 16:14

Great game, seriously!

nilstastic 2012-12-21 20:47

Good: Excellent graphics and good gameplay. I (naturally) like that you can change the level. Also, awesome clouds!
Improve: I think there was some grahical glitches (as you stated).

atomic 2012-12-22 01:03

Cool mechanics, reminds me of Trine. I'd certainly play a more complete version with the bugs ironed out. Bugs: tile borders showing up everywhere, when you die the previsouly spawned fireballs are still there.

gornova 2012-12-23 15:29

it's too easy, I mean there is a more difficult mode? Anyway a good platformer!