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Aether Blade

By neverautomatic

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD44Ever
Overall3273.212433.840.9
Fun1783.392461.964.8
Innovation4402.522412.615.1
Theme1243.662473.963.2
Graphics3363.072425.833.5
Audio3072.712416.924.8
Humor3192.322116.723.9
Mood3702.792317.322.9

Comments

evolus 2019-04-29 16:44 ♥ 1

Loved the lightsager :)

zax 2019-04-29 16:45 ♥ 1

I got some binding of Isaac vibes when i saw the art style ! well made game. keep it up

saering 2019-04-29 16:57 ♥ 1

Nice little game ! Actually the worst thing about it that you did not add the ZQSD buttons for french keyboards, so I tried playing with arrows but it made my web page scroll so I had to get used to WASD. Otherwise it is fun to play, I like the mechanic of the attack even if I think it is a bit hard, and in my opinion, with some polish and more feedbacks the game can become better ! But it already is cool, so good job :)

benjamin 2019-04-29 17:02 ♥ 1

the caracs need to be capped and also investing on max life let the player progress too quickly.

notb 2019-04-29 17:04 ♥ 1

A great game! Pixel art is good, cute little character. I think it would make a great start for a larger project. Nice job on this compo entry

mmason 2019-04-29 17:15 ♥ 1

Overall a pretty good game, I might suggest making the cost of upgrades go up, and maybe reducing the multiplier a little bit

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neverautomatic 2019-04-29 17:46 ♥ 0

@mmason Yeah, I wish I had more time to balance the game. Oh well, I guess that's how compo goes. Thanks for playing! :)

neverautomatic 2019-04-29 17:53 ♥ 1

@saering Oh, I never would have thought of that. I've enabled the fullscreen button on itch.io so hopefully the next person doesn't have to suffer the way you did. Thanks for the feedback! :)

mmason 2019-04-29 18:09 ♥ 1

@neverautomatic don't feel bad I definitely left some important things out in mine

raphael-maia 2019-04-29 19:14 ♥ 1

It's prety fun, i would add a button to get back on game after dying though

jeroenpx 2019-04-29 20:06 ♥ 1

Nice game. It is fun to run around with a lightsaber.

I also had the same scrolling with arrow keys problem (also an azerty user here) but full screen solved it, thanks!

There were some small things that confused me a bit though. In the beginning I was confused that the enemies still looked the same after you hit them. I was wondering, did I actually hit them or am I doing it wrong? But I just tried hitting them again and it worked.

I also found the transition to the shop to be really abrupt. Suddenly the whole screen changed while I was still button jamming to kill the enemy. I was usually thinking: what did I do now, did I die? I think a freeze before going to the shop would have helped.

joemanaco 2019-04-29 20:28 ♥ 1

Nice little game. I like it. A bit frustrating that there is no Retry-Button after Game Over.

annie-owl 2019-04-30 20:01 ♥ 1

Nice compo-entry! It was really fun to waste all of your health on upgrades and die in one hit not realizing how little health you have left.

And i think my final build is too OP 😄

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solah 2019-04-30 21:31 ♥ 1

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Unlimited pawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ah ah, really enjoyed the game, it's simple and addictive and the chara design of the main character is lovely

fashionbatman 2019-05-03 18:12 ♥ 0

This gets addicting quick! Great job! A simple design thats fun to play.

finnhax 2019-05-03 18:27 ♥ 0

Well, the concept is pretty nice and the graphics are neat! But when maximazing the HP it quickly gets ridiculous. To the point where with one click the fps drop to < 1 fps and you can't see anything because the screen is shaking so hard. But tweaking the multipliers and capping stuff like camera-shake and this is a simple, yet addicting game!Unbenannt.PNG

aterlamia 2019-05-03 19:12 ♥ 0

cool game, i would personally like to see that when you hit a enemy they recoil (i almost died the first time because i expected that) however i do understand that not every body will agree. I en joyed playing this nonetheless

eelstork 2019-05-03 19:23 ♥ 0

I nice game that probably deserves pushing a little further as it could upgrade from fun to great fun. Sword effects and nice sound would be welcome. And a little variety of course. But I know... compo : ) - well done!

pixel-boy 2019-05-07 09:32 ♥ 0

simple and effective, fit well the theme, always fun to have cheated stats in a game !