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The Day Magic Died

By endurion

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall2823.35
Fun3143.24
Humor3462.64
Graphics3693.21
Mood3872.95
Audio4262.76
Theme4973.24
Innovation6122.88

Comments

edocentrique 2013-08-25 20:19

Very good, will come back to rate it when it's possible !

waave 2013-08-26 02:24

Well done.

verrazano 2013-08-26 02:28

I was having fun playing it until I got to the arrows :\ the arrows were really frustrating I felt like the hit box was really big on them. Other wise the game plays fine. And its pretty alright. However the sound was really loud. :< please add in an option for the sound.

daanvanyperen 2013-08-26 02:30

Pressing E in the main menu gives instant win condition? XD If anyone else is playing: that's not actually the main game! Haven't seen this POV used much before.

megashroom 2013-08-26 02:53

That was quite good, however, note that on the title screen, when 'd' is pressed, the win screen is shown.
Jumping over arrows was quite challenging for me.

teddy 2013-08-26 07:02

haha NICE. The hitboxes for those arrows though... damn that level! XD fun though

donan 2013-08-26 07:14

Fun game :D
Arrows part was really hard :X

zelosfan 2013-08-26 07:47

Really nice game :) The perspective and graphics are really impressive well done. Also it's really fun and is really challenging. Thank you!

moonmagic 2013-08-26 07:53

Very much enjoyed the death music and sound effect, very immediate and authoritative. Wished for death many times while on arrow level.

xaychru04 2013-08-26 09:04

Nice game! The graphic style is original, and it's pretty fun to play. The only negative thing is the hitbox, it's really hard to avoid arrows and flames because you don't really see their exact position with the perspective. Maybe you should have added shadows on the ground to make it easier...

endurion 2013-08-26 10:12

Sorry about the instant win, I forgot to remove D as the test for the done screen :)

Yeah, those hit boxes are annoying. Unfortunately that perspective is pretty bad for 2d images.

eckcz 2013-08-26 10:51

I really like the camera angle. It can be pain sometimes but i liked.

xera 2013-08-26 11:03

Those damn fire walls... The hitbox really seems a bit bigger than it should be. Otherwise really nice entry!

epicspeedturtle 2013-08-26 11:18

After this game i can easily say that i dodge arrows better than any ninja in the world. Yea, the final level was a bit too random. I felt like you could have at least put some pattern on those arrows.
One more thing; if you can, please make shadow beneath the player. In 3d games like this one shadow helps a lot when you're jumping around. It points at your real position.
All in all, a very good game. Kept me playing till the end.

chrisostome 2013-08-26 11:26

It's cool ! (Damn you arrows)!

madk 2013-08-26 13:11

The boulders level can be made easy by jumping on a fence and jumping over the boulders. And is it even possible to beat the fire level? I always run out of time right before I hit the end, even though I never wait or pause for the fire things to move.

tifu 2013-08-26 13:43

That last level is frustrating D: it can be pretty cheap if a crystal spawns next to an arrow spawner :(
Good job though, I like the visuals, though as others said, shadow/circles would help a lot.

zerkruemler 2013-08-26 18:35

The arrows are too hard compared to the levels up to there, therefore I can only rate the beginning of the game.

jishenaz 2013-08-26 18:37

Great art style. In a future version, you should consider a skybox or some other kind of background. My only really big problem was the huge hitboxes of the arrows.

0xc0dec 2013-08-26 18:37

The arrows...

ratalaika 2013-08-26 19:27

Nice work!

doonay21 2013-08-27 13:00

I like the mood there. Well done!

tainted_code 2013-08-27 13:04

Wow, that perspective! That was epic! Well done :D

gamepopper 2013-08-27 19:09

I liked the 3D world design, collision is a bit iffy though, and the sound effects are too loud.

bitserum 2013-08-28 20:19

That was cute. I like your style and what you did with it in such a short time. Good job.

endurion 2013-08-29 05:10

@madk: The fire level is a tight one, you need to run by the fire right from the start, pick the crystal in the back. Run to the bottom right, pick those two crystals. Then inside, fetch they key, and run to the door/exit.
The fires should be out of your way all of the time.

ianmartin 2013-08-29 05:46

I love the flat 3D graphics! Got to the part with the rotating fire walls :)

arrow-x 2013-08-29 11:44

fun game .. but the f#!king arrow man

arrow-x 2013-08-29 11:44

fun game .. but the f#!king arrows man

manabreak 2013-08-29 11:46

Cute! The colliders were pretty large, so in some levels it was a bit tough to get through. Good job anyway. :)

Jeremias 2013-08-29 14:59

Interesting visual style and funny gameplay. Unfortunately, I didn't solved all the levels. The level with the three flame rows, the three diamonds and the red door is really hard given the time needed to complete it. Additional, the hitboxes of my character is a bit too large. Anyway, good job!

adventureislands 2013-08-29 16:01

Not bad, I liked the visual mixup of 2D and 3D.

however the collision areas were very large, and especially with arrows it was very hard to see where they are, so it was incredibly easy to hit them and mess up.

Otherwise it was pretty solid.

hyperbox 2013-08-29 17:23

The camera perspective and blending of 2d and 3d was strangely enjoyable. Nicely laid out levels too, some of them required precision.

tegu 2013-08-29 20:23

Phew, finished the game! As it's been said, the hitboxes feel a bit too big. It makes jumping over arrows and dodging flames/mines very difficult. The perspective is very nice otherwise, but would indeed need a shadow. Also the boulder part can be passed by going to the right side in the beginning and letting them go past you. Not sure if it should be that way as it's a bit too easy. The fence tactic sounds a bit better so that could be let as is.
Apart from the hitboxes it was a enjoyable game. :)

kunonooni 2013-08-30 17:19

Very well done. Loved the perspective!

purplescape 2013-08-31 20:13

The 2d/3d perspective was cool to see, great job on that

finnegan2100 2013-09-01 04:20

Easily one of my favorites! So simple, yet soooo much fun!

dantezack93 2013-09-01 12:59

I like it, it's really well done :)

zeppelincaptain 2013-09-01 16:39

Extremely impressive amount of acceptably polished content. Very cool level design, and nice difficulty curve all the way through. I also liked the retro graphics and audio a lot (although the dying sound was a bit too obnoxious)

foxtacy 2013-09-03 12:01

The game over all is good! Really! i mean it.

But man, i think you could have equalized the sound effects a little.

The music is way to low, and the sound effects are... quite deafening @_@. They kinda scared me when they played.

Also, the hitboxes are not very clear to me on the arrow stage. A small tip: always make the hitboxes a little bit smaller than the actual sprite, this way you'll never miss ^_^

gvmakesgames 2013-09-03 15:23

an adventure? Nice! something good came out of this ld!

mamoniemm 2013-09-04 10:27

Man, i hate your arrows :D
Enjoying game, and loved the 2d character in 3d environment. beside the nice wrapping to the theme.

shard123 2013-09-06 22:54

Really nice work, arrows were frustrating though but otherwise awesome entry!

marbu 2013-09-07 13:12

Nice game, I liked the mix of 2d graphics on 3d levels. The perspective wasn't troublesome to me. And autotracker music, right? :P

I liked the levels, they felt varied enough, but couldn't get past the one with the two fire belts =(

Overall, good job.

endurion 2013-09-07 19:17

Yep, autotracker :)

For the fire belts, there's an explanation up there, it's all about knowing where to run to.

antidote 2013-09-10 19:34

My first impressions of the game :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EiqU-swZC0

gfm 2013-09-10 22:11

Nice game! I was going to say about shadows but then I read your post compo updates... that was my major complaint. xD