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The Shinobi Trial

By foxtacy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness280
Humor3612.50
Theme3693.51
Mood5412.82
Overall6063.05
Fun7242.74
Innovation8202.45

Comments

itay2805 2016-04-19 01:14

Nice and fun game, Really likes the music xD

foxtacy 2016-04-19 01:15

Thank you so much! How much does the bad graphics bother you? :x

bobsleigh 2016-04-19 01:28

The game is quite nice! I like the music and sound effects, they are very fitting. I found ONIs hard to dodge, especially those you needed to jump over. They look like you can slip under them just barely but then you die trying.

foxtacy 2016-04-19 01:29

^ AHÁ! there are ones that you need to go below, and other above :D

foxtacy 2016-04-19 01:51

AH CRAP. Found a bug on score screen :'(

gurkenlabs 2016-04-19 01:53

The audio of this one was really catchy ;)

ruthiepee 2016-04-19 01:54

I dodged 4 oni and destroyed 6 blocks! Fun little game, I really enjoyed the music and the nice parallax scrolling. My only problem was I kept forgetting which color destroyed which color.

namrog84 2016-04-19 01:57

vbn was difficult on split keyboard :( it splits between b and n and is far apart.

took me way to long to figure out how to play and realize there was even a how to play section. neat game! i love the ninja!

buddydoq 2016-04-19 02:00

Dodged 10 Oni and Destroyed 20 blocks once I got the hang of the basics. Not a bad start, needs a good helping of juice to help with the feel. (Camera shakes, more vfx). Wish I could see the score during the gameplay screen. No crashes or weirdness on my end, good work!

foxtacy 2016-04-19 02:01

@ruthiepee hahahahaha, yeah i had the same problem, my logic for setting up the buttons was like:

V = Violence = Blade
B = Boulder = Rock
N = Neither = Leaf

(no, i'm kidding, i just made those up :D)

foxtacy 2016-04-19 02:02

@Brian Mayberry VERY GOOD advice! i will take those into consideration and i will do it after the judging period is done i guess i have no choice but to wait :(

foxtacy 2016-04-19 02:03

@namrog84 the idea was to use 2 hands to play it. W to handle the jumping, and VBN for everything else :)

foxtacy 2016-04-19 02:04

Fixed the score screen bug :D

pixelgriffin 2016-04-19 02:41

I had a seriously hard time with the controls, but I really love the music haha. Me and my girlfriend both love the "yooo" sound too haha.

jungle 2016-04-19 03:18

Nice game. Reminds JANKENPO concept. Fits theme well. Great work.

16bitsofawesome 2016-04-19 03:22

This was great! It became too easy once I got the controls down. Maybe it should speed up every once in awhile?

Dodged 21 Oni and destroyed 25 blocks :)

redpillgamedev 2016-04-19 06:37

O got a little addicted on it! But i think it should be easier to dodge some enemies. But for 3 days is a nice game! Keep work on it!

reyn 2016-04-19 19:36

The music, sfx and art brought across the feeling of anime ninja, well done. Took a while to get use to what beats what, I think if the sprites were more specific it would have been easier to get into, eg. If the silver that beats green was an axe and the green looked more like a tree or something.

foxtacy 2016-04-20 01:52

@16BitsOfAwesome but it does, but the progression is a bit slow :D

cosmologicon 2016-04-21 02:12

Hey sorry I'm on Linux and this shows up on my queue because you said the word "Linux". I'm just commenting to clear it off. Good luck! :)

foxtacy 2016-04-21 02:21

Ahhhh, sorry about that... can you please test something for me? try to download the source and compile a linux version, and if you can, link me the build on a dropbox or something? So linux users can enjoy too :D ?

weeping-rupee 2016-04-21 02:25

cool game! I wish it were a little more difficult. The blocks came from so far away and so slowly that I had ages to get ready to change form.

magicagrilsdoinggamesforsenpai 2016-04-21 02:27

Very nice, i really like the animations and the sound.
with more variation on the gameplay this could be a realy great game.

foxtacy 2016-04-21 02:31

magicagrilsdoinggamesforsenpai XD First of all i love your username

Thanks guys! thank you very much :D

asturk 2016-04-21 02:35

Great job, the game is really fun and has a very good mechanic. I only suggest that you left a hint on the interface during the game, remembering the player which abilities counter which color of walls. Also, try to create some news obstacles during the gameplay to create some dificult during game progression! But anyway, thats really a nice game, i really enjoyed the music!

egos 2016-04-21 08:57

love graphics and sound
Not a big fan of install procedure ;)

vini60 2016-04-21 19:59

Nice game. Catchy music :).

foxtacy 2016-04-21 23:15

@Astruk Great idea! how didn't i think of that XD

You're a genious! :D

foxtacy 2016-04-21 23:15

Thanks everyone for all the feedback so far :D

blennosoftgames 2016-04-22 02:57

I dodged 10 Oni and Destroyed 13 Blocks! Took me a few tries to learn which form to use on each trial, and to judge the height of the Oni, but one I got the hang of it, I really enjoyed it.

Good graphics music, and animations too. Everything fit together really nicely :)

A running timer in-game to see how long you've lasted so far, would be really cool. Although then I might never be able to stop playing :P

biscuitdough 2016-04-24 20:11

Music was nice, takes a little while to get challenging

knason 2016-04-25 18:23

It was hard to know how what controls to use, some guidelines would have been helpful, I liked the graphics, too bad I could not vote on that. :-)

foxtacy 2016-04-25 18:25

@Knason, well there was a how to play screen somewhere there i even showed it on the screenshots XD, but that's ok, i seriously need to teach the player how to play better. How to play screens are easily ignored T_T

aidanmarkham 2016-04-25 18:33

I liked this! I feel like it needs some way to make which form breaks through what more apparent. It took me 4 or 5 tries before I started to get a hang of it. The graphics are also pretty rough, and could use improvement. Try paying attention to your color pallet, and making sure all of your different assets fit the same style.

ziege 2016-04-25 18:43

Fun game.
Took me a while to realize I have to hold the key to stay shape shifted. Some (better) difficulty progression would help a lot. Other than that, it's solid base worth some further work.

foxtacy 2016-04-25 19:01

I guess my difficulty progression is a bit slow then right? :) very well thanks for all the feedback everyone.

Would it help if i did "what breaks what" the same colors?

jk5000 2016-04-25 21:43

Hallo Foxtacy

Here are some random thoughts on your game. Hope it can help your on your future development of the game.

Good:
- The music and sound are super fantastic. And not only is music fantastic, it also fits the game very well.

- The graphics and animations are good, but not super great.

Bad:

- I was not able to see that the 3 shapes are a Blade, a Leaf, and a Rock, if you had not told me. And I need a reason why the various symbols breaks through the various walls.

- It is sometimes hard to know if I is suppose to jump over, or just run underneath the monster.


Ideas:
- Give the game a story. The story can give player a reason to play the game, and explanation why the ninja needs to run?

- Consider to make some pictures for the animation, which makes the transition from ninja to symbol more fluid. I believe one ore two pictures is enough.

- As the game is is now, at least 50% of the screen is blue sky. I would prefer that the button area with ninja, instead takes up 60-70% of the screen, and you remove the blue sky part, but still keep the top part with the clouds.

- Make many more houses and trees, to make the background more interesting to look at.

- You have made some really great music, so why not try to incorporate it into the gameplay. E.g. the ninja has to punch the walls on a specific drum bit.

anaguilefdez 2016-04-26 00:09

Cool runner and interesting theme. Nice one.

foxtacy 2016-04-28 07:57

Whoa jk5000 Thanks for taking your time to give this amazing feedback!


- I was not able to see that the 3 shapes are a Blade, a Leaf, and a Rock, if you had not told me. And I need a reason why the various symbols breaks through the various walls.

I thought about a Rock Paper Scissor logic. That didn't work quite well, i guess matching colors logic would have done it better...


- Consider to make some pictures for the animation, which makes the transition from ninja to symbol more fluid. I believe one ore two pictures is enough.

Well that was the initial plan, i just had to cut those out to get the core mechanics working ^_^.

- As the game is is now, at least 50% of the screen is blue sky. I would prefer that the button area with ninja, instead takes up 60-70% of the screen, and you remove the blue sky part, but still keep the top part with the clouds.

You're absolutely right about this, maybe i'll make the sprites bigger on the next version ^^

- Make many more houses and trees, to make the background more interesting to look at.

AS you see, art is my weakness

- You have made some really great music, so why not try to incorporate it into the gameplay. E.g. the ninja has to punch the walls on a specific drum bit.

Thanks, i guess music is my strenght, along with programming.

Hey, keep in touch, i'd love to have your engagement on the next versions ^_^

mayank-technical 2016-04-30 11:22

Nice game with rock leaf and blade.The music really suits the game,cool concept.

yuigoto 2016-05-06 06:13

Nice take on the infinite runner genre!

The overall style of the game is really nice, in both audio and graphics (though you're not being judged in both). I really liked the ninja's animation! :)

There's challenge but I feel that you should give the player that feeling of "progression" in-game, as the game starts to get a bit repetitive after some time.

I don't know how good is everything I'm telling ya, but I hope you DO keep working on the game! As it does have potential.

The game really felt like "Rock, Paper, Scissors" meets "Canabalt" :P

P.s.: Bom trampo! Ficou bem bacana, continue! ;)