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The Quest for the Mighty Battery Charger

By solah and solnak

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2703.5949
Fun1623.6149
Innovation5042.9349
Theme5813.2550
Graphics2823.8750
Audio1123.7649
Humor2542.8448
Mood2333.5648

Comments

mrerdalural 2017-08-01 10:16

Pretty good game but I think it is too short. I liked the boss fight a lot! Thanks for the game!

jajo 2017-08-01 10:20

I had to give you 5/5 for Graphics. I'm a sucker for that kind of pixel-art style. The gameplay was enjoyable, but not particularly varied (one enemy, one attack). However, it is rare to see a game in which you literally roll into enemies. Seriously, it's good. :)

baconinvader 2017-08-01 10:30

Good game, if a little short. The movement felt pretty good and the enemies were fun to defeat. It's just a shame that my real game boy battery pack broke...

2017-08-01 10:43

I'm not sure if this is intentional or if it's an issue with the Linux build or what, but it seems like movement is REALLY REALLY slow - like "a few pixels per second" kind of slow.

I like the audiovisuals (+1 for using Krita and GIMP!) even though it's not the kind of retro I personally grew up with. Still, the controls just kind of break it for me right now, but I think that it's overall a fun concept!

lythom 2017-08-01 10:45

** What I liked **

__ + __ Musics and sounds __ + __ Mood __ + __ Just the right difficulty ! The mechanics are puzzling and once you figure it out you can beat the game. __ + __ The sudden power cut felt sooo true. It triggered memories…

** What imo could be improved **

__ - __ Graphics, they are not that bad really ! But could be better. __ - __ Content. The game have very few element of content. They are sufficient to make the game fun and enjoyable but there could be more of it !

** Overall **

Nice entry, fun to play, not much content but I enjoyed the experience alot. Thanks for the game !

clutterarranger 2017-08-01 10:52

Really enjoyed rolling around. With a small content game was truely fun.

solah 2017-08-01 12:09

Thank you all for your nice comments! For next LD we'll try to put more content in our games, I promise ;)

@nullconstant I'm sorry for this buggy Linux build, I actually can't test it. Thanks for reporting this issue ^^

kappalite 2017-08-01 12:32

very fun !! only problem faced me was moving between scenes as most of the time i'd find someone instantly rolling on my face .. I had to face that

spice135 2017-08-01 17:08

Nice game, took me a while to figure out exactly what was happening, but I did enjoy myself. Good work!

diptoman 2017-08-01 17:20

Pretty short, but super fun nonetheless! Why was the bossman chilling in abandoned market lol. I'd have liked it even more if the boss had some special attribute other than being a larger version of his minions.

pedro-miranda 2017-08-01 17:20

Nice, love the graphics and the sound. Took me two tries to kill the boss and find the mighty battery! Awesome Job.

ramou 2017-08-01 17:42

Very nice ! great job !

miltonnh25 2017-08-01 17:53

Good job with the game. It felt nice to control, the boss was cool, and you did a good job getting that retro vibe. I wish there were more levels to this game but what you have is pretty solid.

trasheur 2017-08-01 18:02

Whaouu plein de zolie pixel et une maniabilité ireprochable !

Whaouu full of prety pixel and an impeccable maneuverability!

@Ramou toujours devant moi .... pour trouver les jeux coool grrrrr !

trasheur 2017-08-01 18:02

Whaouu plein de zolie pixel et une maniabilité ireprochable !

Whaouu full of prety pixel and an impeccable maneuverability!

@Ramou toujours devant moi .... pour trouver les jeux coool grrrrr !

trasheur 2017-08-01 18:02

Whaouu plein de zolie pixel et une maniabilité ireprochable !

Whaouu full of prety pixel and an impeccable maneuverability!

@Ramou toujours devant moi .... pour trouver les jeux coool grrrrr !

trasheur 2017-08-01 18:02

Whaouu plein de zolie pixel et une maniabilité ireprochable !

Whaouu full of prety pixel and an impeccable maneuverability!

@Ramou toujours devant moi .... pour trouver les jeux coool grrrrr !

naya-rangel 2017-08-02 00:44

I really enjoyed the retro mood of the game! Great art and music. I would just tweak a little bit the enemies, sometimes when I go to a new sector, there is an enemy ready to roll over me. Great job overall!

flukeshot 2017-08-02 10:59

This captures the feel of the games you mentioned you were inspired by. The rolling is actually really fun to use as a main mechanic. I suppose, in some sense the character is a pacifist, ha-ha. For a first LD this is amazing. The graphics and sounds you produced are good. The boss battle music did its job especially well. Like others have said, the game had me wishing for a little more content. Well done to both of you.

theflyingkeyboard 2017-08-02 11:05

Nice retro feel of the game, with awesome graphics and sounds. Enemies mechanics are simple, but very innovative and fun. However, adding more enemies, some pickups and maybe creating bigger level would make this game more enjoyable, because it gets monotonous very fast.

yvanor 2017-08-02 11:13

Great little game ! I loved the graphics style, and the music fit the retro mood. The gameplay is simple but is fun, and replacing life by the energy left is a good idea. A bit short, but fine anyway. Good job guys !

repusv 2017-08-02 11:22

Very good game! I liked the corrida like mechanic, it's very fun.

lajazuve 2017-08-02 12:36

it's good the inspiration of zelda work very good ! very good graph !

ledez 2017-08-02 20:04

Like the retro style and the gameboy look on the frame. I almost run out of time, but I got the mighty battery charger. Added to my favorite LD39 games list.

sophus-mit 2017-08-02 22:48

Wow! I love how the game is easy to pick up. Very good job!

sir-daniev 2017-08-02 23:20

Awesome gameboy-color like game. Completely into this kind of game. I thought the controls were a little floaty while walking but the sonic-spin roll was amazing :). It just lack any sort of ingame tutorial tho...

yuigoto 2017-08-03 06:36

The game's really short but, as I kinda really lived part of the first GB era, it totally catches the feeling of playing a gameboy game! The visual style and overall feeling do feel a lot like Link's Awakening, which I played a lot (and got totally lost since I only had the japanese cartridge of it!

Controls and audio also really have the feeling and, while there's not a great variety of enemies, you really did a nice job wrapping up the game! And a great entry for being a first LD too!

Congratulations, and keep making games! ;) Good luck there!

huvaakoodia 2017-08-03 12:17

Short and simple, it just works.

The boss design clearly takes cues from the book of boss battle tropes. It could have been something more interesting is all I'm saying.

Pretty ok job all in all.

finlal 2017-08-03 12:28

Cool Zelda style game. Music and sound are good too)

dioinecail 2017-08-03 15:12

I hated this boss so much... :D his vision field is bit too small, i think he should just use a few patterns no matter the distance to the player instead of rushing at close range.

solah 2017-08-03 16:11

@dioinecail, the boss attacks when you're on the same horizontal or vertical line than it, it does not depends on the distance. Hope you could defeat it anyway ^^

david-broz 2017-08-03 16:14

Nice game but it sometimes feels unfair when you enter the level and enemy hits you without any chance to react.

colozz 2017-08-03 16:48

I loved it:

- The graphics are excellent - The style is super cool - The audio is awesome

Maybe a little too short, but very good!

papykent 2017-08-03 18:20

Not sure how but I won :D. Music and art are very cool, objective is maybe a bit unclear but for a first LD it's a very great job !

pilarius 2017-08-03 20:11

good job. A bit too short as already mentioned ;)

chris-coe 2017-08-03 21:02

ROLLING EVERYWHERE! More games need rolling.

You could definitely expand on this concept, get rolling powerups, maybe another power or two. You've got a good grasp on FamiTracker since the music sounded like it could've come from the Zelda Oracle games. Wonderful art, too!

gil4 2017-08-04 12:01

Nice, love the GB/GBC/GBA feels, was playing those games a lot at some point. :) The game is a tad short, but I guess it's cool in a way, got to the boss and experienced it all thanks to that. The controls were fluid enough, the graphics/sound reminiscent of the good old days, and the gameplay pretty fun. Good job there!

jin47 2017-08-04 17:30

This is a super nice entry. I loved the game boy color feeling of this game. Even the sound design remind me of the kind of sound used by the game boy. Super job on the pixel art. A shame that it is a little too short though. Awesome job!

ferminho 2017-08-10 21:01

You nailed the retro style, music is superb, and although it took me a while to understand what to do and how to kill the enemies, soon I was craving for more, too short I'm afraid! :) very fun and playable Also, a finished game with even a boss is not easy to find among the entries, congratulations!

badly-drawn-rod 2017-08-12 20:24

Now I can play for evaaaah! This was really nice to play, it had that retro feel and it had good controls. Also, the sound was bang on for the genre. Great stuff!

coauctor 2017-08-18 10:31

Nice little prototype you have here! Visuals and audio hooked me so I played longer than usual.

The game lacks variety, but the enemy behavior is interesting enough. It was fun luring enemies to hit rocks or collide with each other. The global timer did not matter much to me, so I didn't feel the global progression.

I'd play post-jam version for sure. :) Thanks for the game!

joebeard 2017-08-22 03:21

This had some simple but well thought out mechanics, and the sound and graphics were really great as well. The game over effect was suitably abrupt, damn that giant... rock ball guy! Hopefully you guys do something more with the game, since it could work well on just about any platform.