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Balthazar The Shapeshifting Wizard

By pyrosneak

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio1623.38
Overall1683.62
Fun2213.48
Mood2563.25
Humor2902.71
Theme3273.57
Graphics3673.27
Innovation5273.00
Coolness144842

Comments

szahn 2016-04-18 01:32

Can't download anything

holdmeimscared 2016-04-18 10:48

Yeah, your links are broken, man :(

qu2 2016-04-18 10:55

The link is broken. It leads to a 404 error

cjkinni 2016-04-18 11:11

The link to itch.io seems broken.

fengol 2016-04-18 11:13

Still missing?

nicoplv 2016-04-18 11:15

Can't download, link is broken :(

crisp 2016-04-18 12:33

Really beautyful style and graphics, I loved it!

crisp 2016-04-18 12:34

I'd love it even more if the download worked! :')

cryogenesis 2016-04-18 15:00

max rateage

saymon 2016-04-18 15:50

Game not working on windows

ohmmus 2016-04-18 16:13

(not scored yet) Crashes on my Win10 PC. Last line in stack trace dump is OpenTK.Audio.OpenAL.AL.GenBuffers(int32 n, int32* buffers)

Looks like your last line called was "LD35.Game1.LoadContent()"

floatingghost 2016-04-18 16:15

Does not work - Uses direct file paths, which don't exist on other people's systems - we don't all have a D:\Game dev you know :D

manabreak 2016-04-18 16:18

Doesn't work; openal32.dll is missing.

vini60 2016-04-18 16:20

Nice little game. You actually had time to level design so I give you props for that. Music is nice and chilly.

cmayhem 2016-04-18 16:23

Nice graphics and music/sound, but a bit short and the puzzles are easy. Also I think you can get stuck in level 2 if you miss the first key. Overall well done!

rossborchers 2016-04-18 16:42

Without modification im getting: Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'openal32.dll'

isasftw 2016-04-18 16:52

I liked it, but i got stuck at one point. But despite that it was cool. I liked the graphics and the audio, and the shapeshifting works well :)

keyboardmonkey 2016-04-18 19:31

Only the source is available for download, I cannot build C# sir.

skipi 2016-04-20 04:18

This is a nice little game. Some of the collision detection was wonkey, but other than that great job!

nihilaleph 2016-04-21 00:12

Nice game! Music was really chill and mechanics are fun! Bear FTW!~ Graphics were nice too, though I missed some animation, but there's only so much time... And you had levels enough I think!

Anyways nice entry!

mightymarcus 2016-04-23 09:36

I played it through. The leveldesign and the game mechanics are great. I really like this game. It has a great retro-feel. I used to play kind of such games on my Amiga 500 in the early 90s. I'd love to play this game too, cause I am a nostalgic. The graphics are quite good.
What's not so good is the small window size and there are no animations. But apart from that its awesome and needs more levels.

holdmeimscared 2016-04-25 03:02

I missed a key somewhere and got stuck, unable to go back and get it as there was no post on the original platform for the frog to move back over, and every other path was blocked.

But other than that (an understandable oversight with only 48 hours), the game is very functional, and the puzzles make sense.

The graphics are simple but cute, though could use a little animation (which I bet you just ran out of time for) - though the sliding bear was fairly amusing. The frog moving so slowly was both a little surprising and kind of frustrating, it meant I had to immediately shift back, not necessary with any other transform. Though it also seemed like the frog got caught up on things very easily - as though his collision box was much larger than his sprite, or as though some items had very large collision boxes relative to their sizes and this was only very apparent with the frog.

Music is decent, and I like the overall feel of the game :) I liked the controls UI in the upper left, too.

Thank you for sharing this! :)

ludumanthony 2016-04-25 19:57

Good concept, but the movement controls really ruined the experience. If I wanted to move up and then left, I would have to release up before pressing left (otherwise it would continue going up). Other than that, it was a fun game.

in3orn 2016-04-25 20:01

Levels could be more tricky, but all other things are just great. I Really enjoyed the game. Great job!

in3orn 2016-04-25 20:22

Ps. You can read my little comment about your game here:

http://krk-dev.com/2016/04/25/balthazar/#more-89

smilingcat 2016-04-26 15:42

The first time I tried to play, I got stuck in the first level after the tutorial - I took the path that led to the water area first, and could not backtrack to get the key that I needed. Second play, completed successfully.

Overall, nice job!

keyboardmonkey 2016-04-27 05:36

I love these puzzler games. Good use of the theme and chilled background music. The first level does a good job to introduce your abilities. It did not bother me that the window is small or there are no animations, the game is playable and fun. Nice entry! FYI The exe runs under Linux WINE.

ziege 2016-04-28 16:26

Good job!
The tutorial like first level is a nice touch.
The ability to change into other for while being in other form (does it make sense?) would be nice.