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ZEN

By katamary and zhanna

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1883.8639
Fun4253.4339
Innovation3583.4539
Theme3683.5838
Graphics14.8239
Audio1113.9039
Mood484.1638

Comments

bredera 2019-10-07 20:55

I love the graphics they look amazing! sounds are really cool as well. the character moves really fast which makes him difficult to control. Great job!

portablewaffle 2019-10-07 20:57

Liked your style and realization of the hackaton's theme! Can you build it on macOS though :) ?

tricky-fat-cat 2019-10-07 21:03

I like this game, especially, visuals and sounds. The main idea of core gameplay pretty neat, but WASD controls are cluncky.

cax 2019-10-07 21:55

I'm so excited of hand-made graphics and flexible gameplay. Wiseacre's moving is cool too)

2019-10-08 08:51

Very good art.

captandrey 2019-10-08 12:39

Good theme usage and interesting graphics. Its difficult to move with wasd whene camera look on you old location and you actualy moving kinda blind

sirred 2019-10-08 18:45

I love the artstyle. It was hard to get some of the demons to try and attack and took a while. I actually liked the super fast moving, but it could have been toned down and made more playable.

katamary 2019-10-08 18:57

> SirRed (@sirred) Thank you for comments! You are partly right. But I special made this game more difficult because it's important to transfer right experience of the monk fast movement and difficulty of avoidance demons.

nero-cao 2019-10-08 18:57

Stunning art and visualization on everything. (And way to go to use GameMaker Studio!!!)

I also really enjoy the game play, as it gets more intense. However, currently, I am kinda stuck on the level where the game introducing the enemy attacking with throwing-stars. Its almost impossible to have the enemy kill himself alone, and I am not sure whether my shield can only protect me, or also deal damage.

Personally, I would make the AI more aggressive. As your theme suggests that these demons are here to distrub me, at the moment, I have to put myself in danger first by getting closer and luring them to attack in order to eliminate them. But if the whole time, your concept is to put yourself in danger first before destroying your inner monster, then I think the AI works great.

And it is really nice to have mouse control along with keyboard. I think the mouse control movement just made the game doable and fun! GJ, guys

rayne 2019-10-08 19:08

Amaaazing art and simple game! Really well polished in all ways! Remember to play other people's games so they can know about yours!

vhalenn 2019-10-08 19:09

Cool ink style, could be incredible with great animations ! :)

hartvichio 2019-10-08 19:16

The controls are kind of twitchy but the art style and mood is the strong point for me. I could imagine this idea being developed further. One of the more atmospheric games i played here! good job :)

chivatateo 2019-10-08 19:33

Amazing art and atmosphere. If play only on mouse, then gameplay become more meditative for me, may be because Dash speed lower then movement with WASD and all game becomes little slower, that good with that atmosphere and theme idea. But any way, good game :)

jakob-willforss 2019-10-08 19:48

The visuals are spectacular and the mood is great. I enjoyed the rapid movements too. The annoyance for me was to try luring the demons to attack, which could take some time. But very well put together, I really like games that conveys an atmosphere and idea like this one!

hatten 2019-10-08 20:10

Absolutely great art! The gameplay was fun but it took a while to get the hang of it.

uchiro 2019-10-08 20:26

Very nice art, but controls are a bit strange.

plepletier 2019-10-08 23:04

Great game!!! The japanese art is beautiful! Some times i stuck in the rocks when i try the dash but nothing that disrupts the gameplay. Good job

hkspadez 2019-10-09 07:33

absolutely beautiful art style

antoined73 2019-10-09 11:01

Loved the graphics, sound design and mood of this game. Congratulation ! The game is a bit hard IMO, but that's probably my gaming level ! I found a bug where I could go outside of the arena in the level where there is 7 demons. Anyway really good job, it is simple but very polished ! zen_Y08sglHDYZ.jpg

krakadushka 2019-10-09 17:29

Awesome!

asturk 2019-10-09 20:33

Loved the simplicity of this game and how its really worked well with the theme and it what wants to achieve!! The graphics and audio is really amazing, one of the best visuals i saw so far here! and the game is really fun! Awesome job!!

karyna 2019-10-09 22:09

Very beautiful game. In case of your pc have two monitors the game app is minimizing after each level :(

sigod 2019-10-09 22:25

Got kind of stuck on 3rd level - the last shuriken enemy didn't want to die. Otherwise, really great game. I liked the movement of the character, feels like skating on steroids :D

annie-owl 2019-10-10 20:11

Screw you, demons! I'm gonna chill at the village. scrn2.png Very beatifull game, that makes you feel calm and infuriated almost at the same time.

asfdfdfd 2019-10-12 20:23

I love art so much! Unfortunately i could not figure out where shield must be used. Also i found controls pretty disturbing - character always tried to live his own life. It's really much more difficult than Dark Souls!

wolf4d 2019-10-13 18:33

Idea is great, and that hand-painting... wow... that's the case when idea and gameplay are fused together - don't fight your demons, just make them pass away. That sounds so like zen... kind of, I'm not into zen :) But why shield is so useless? It can't stop a single demon!

negator2vc 2019-10-19 16:53

I just love the graphics style!!!!!! amazing!!! and the music really fits the oriental style of your game!! The gameplay is very nice with you avoiding the demon attacks while driving them to extinction! My only problem is the short timer for the shield which make the shield ability pretty much useless for us slow dexterity people :smile:. I think a small boost in the shield's longevity will make the ability much better! Maybe a small cooldown will offset the extra longevity. Still an excellent entry!! You have to make an WEB export (I think you made this with gamemaker - judging from the file extensions). Much easier to play allowing for more people to play and rate your game!!