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Journey to The Core

By holofire and MrDinosaur

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall654.0928
Fun923.9828
Innovation904.0328
Theme774.2828
Graphics3813.7929
Mood3723.5227

Comments

slimothyj 2018-04-24 02:36

Link is broken for me :/

holofire 2018-04-24 02:53

@Rytannic Fixed it now, I stupidly forgot to make the itch.io page public. Derp.

slimothyj 2018-04-24 02:59

@Holofire Not a problem! Just happy I told you about it early on. Played the game! Loved the music and art style. The gameplay was fast-paced and I could feel the pressure when I really needed a particular card. Sadly it felt a bit unfair or perhaps too random? Perhaps I'm just bad though haha. In general, definitely one of the best I've played so far

holofire 2018-04-24 03:17

@Rytannic Aha cheers for playing! Yeah the difficulty is ramps up pretty quickly, I've only managed to beat it without cheating once. I really appreciate the comment :)

mathiouza 2018-04-24 11:27

Cool game, cool music, cool concept, and all of that, but I just made about 120 m ^^' The game is not well balanced I think ^^' I was surprised also when I saw the player just being deformed ^^ Otherwise the art is quite good, and I mainly like the pictures for the cards.

Cool overall game, keep coding :)

imer 2018-04-24 11:35

Damn this one was hard & very hectic

Very well done though

narudgi 2018-04-24 12:07

So damn cool game! 0: I just struggle to get card and energy, maybe I'm just bad ;-;

mau 2018-04-24 12:07

fun, but it's hard to master.

mathijsvissers 2018-04-24 12:10

Works really well. Simple enough to grasp immediately, enough different options to keep you on your toes. Nice job.

killnaprimer 2018-04-24 12:10

By all means, great game! It's fun and fits theme great.

badpaul34 2018-04-24 12:11

Nice game. We thought about a game like that. You did it well, it's clean. Maybe the jump is a little bit too much slow but it had to be like that because of the gameplay. My only regret is the slow pace of the game.

holofire 2018-04-24 12:46

@Mathiouza Yeah the balancing is the main thing I'd tweak if I had more time, it gets really difficult at the end. 120m is pretty good though, the highest Ive seen anyone get. Thanks for playing!

@iMer Aha yep the difficult ramps up quickly, got to have those fast reactions. Thanks for playing!

@Narudgi I struggle to keep my energy up aswell, definitely have to keep an eye on it. If I had time I would have balanced it a bit better to make sure energy was in enough supply. Thanks for playing!

@Mau I haven't even mastered it myself, managed to beat it once before I submitted it. Thanks for playing!

@MathijsVissers Cheers for the comment, I really appreciate your kind words :smile:

@Killnaprimer Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed playing because I certainly enjoyed making it!

@badpaul34 Man the jump physics almost caused me to tear my hair out. I had to jump leave it in the end because I was spending too much time on it. If I had more time I would have balanced it a bit better and changed the overall pacing. Thanks for playing!

holofire 2018-04-24 12:47

Just published a fix to clean up the audio and added a toggle so you can now disable the music and sound effects! Thanks everyone for playing, I'll make sure to play each of your games aswell! :smile:

moffkalast 2018-04-24 12:56

I like the overall concept and it's really fun to play, though I'm kind of bad at it :stuck_out_tongue: It may be wise to group together the same types of cards in a sort of deck where each is offset by a few pixels upwards instead of having the side deck where you don't exactly know what's inside.

holofire 2018-04-24 13:00

@MoffKalast Thanks for playing! I almost removed the deck itself during development as I thought it might be too difficult to understand with the pace of the game. If I had the time I would definitely rework how the deck works and possibly remove it.

pndaa 2018-04-24 13:06

This game is just perfect. Loved it. I could play for hours. Fit the theme perfectly. Really hard but in a good way. Good job.

saberofsong 2018-04-24 13:35

Amazing BGM and sound effects, cool animations, a perfect blend of your two themes. What's not to like?

rocktavious 2018-04-24 14:40

Used a slide card to "slide" over a jump gap! 10/10!

Everything about this game exudes polish and fun! Great job!!!!

The only real nitpick i have is i want 1,2,3,4,etc buttons to use the cards instead of the mouse and i want the cards to automatically slot in next to each other as i use them up. I purchased a "jump" card and it ended up on the next page of cards that i didn't know i had and caused me to fail #feelsbad.

I got ~82m

holofire 2018-04-24 16:20

@pndaa & @SaberOfSong Thank you for playing guys, I really appreciate the kind words you both have said :smile:

@Rocktavious Oh you've just made me realise something about the slide card I overlooked. Since i had to redo it last minute I cheated a bit and just made it so the players hitbox and gravity were temporarily disabled. Forgot that it would cause the player to float :laughing: And yeah, the controls thing I might add today at some point. Thanks for playing :smile:

ragnta 2018-04-24 19:06

It should be a good game, if I can beat my 6m record. This stupid character can't jump the whole pit... :'( I tried 10 times... I think it's not my game :(

holofire 2018-04-24 19:09

@ragnta I am currently working on a fix for that. Im assuming you have a slightly older PC meaning the game has a lower framerate which causes a problem with how the game calculates jumping. Should have a fix out within a few hours.

ragnta 2018-04-24 19:21

As I know, the rendering needs some GPU or Processor. I have i5-6600 and gtx 1050 Ti... If I need better pc for a html5 game, I think I will miss it :D Are you sure in your theory? :o

holofire 2018-04-24 20:04

@ragnta I have just put a new web build up that should hopefully make it so jumping still works at lower framerates. Let me know how it goes if you try it :slight_smile:

ragnta 2018-04-24 20:14

Now it's working fine. Thank you! It contains more fun than before :) Nice job!

holofire 2018-04-24 20:26

@ragnta Awesome, thanks for playing! :smile:

connell 2018-04-25 00:23

cool game!

holofire 2018-04-25 00:25

@Connell Thank you for playing! :smile:

connell 2018-04-25 00:26

your welcome

sammy6 2018-04-25 00:31

Great Game! it was really fun

holofire 2018-04-25 00:36

@Sammy6 Thanks for the kind words :smile:

arzi 2018-04-25 15:51

This was really good. It didn't seem anything was missing or even unpolished, so very well scoped game. The music was a bit too repetitive, but other than that everything was really spot on!

This is one of those LD games that don't really need any extra work.

holofire 2018-04-25 21:30

@arzi Thanks so much for the kind words! :smile: I put quite a bit of time into the polish, i'm glad it shows. Thanks for playing :smiley:

tweedle 2018-04-27 21:02

great idea and implementation, nice work! 🧟‍♂️

holofire 2018-04-28 01:03

@tweedle Cheers, thanks for playing :smile:

mr-chocolatesalmon 2018-05-15 02:40

Haha awesome effort. The deck/hand confused me at first, as I couldn't use any card in the deck pile, and it wasn't really explained. But I caught on pretty quick. Overall, it was simple and easy to learn :thumbsup:

holofire 2018-05-15 19:55

@mr-chocolatesalmon Thank you for playing! :smile: