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Girl in a Dungeon

By phoenix-fireflower

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4353.5752
Fun2423.6752
Innovation7062.9952
Theme8012.9852
Graphics3823.7953
Audio5642.8950
Humor5432.7548
Mood6533.2450

Comments

diaonic 2019-10-08 20:13

Nice submission, reminds of the old Adventures Of LoLo game. Well done!

jaspygames 2019-10-08 20:25

This game was so cute! Def one of my faves. There was one glitch in the 2nd level, where I got the coins but it said I had 1 left. But when I died and restarted the level it fixed itself. Otherwise, great game!!!

moddingmachine 2019-10-08 20:33

Super fun and cute game! One bug? i found was when you jump and get hit by an enemy your charecter kinda glitches out and bounces back and fourth.

idontknow 2019-10-08 23:01

Very cute! But luring enemies into buttons gets tedious, and jumping over bullets felt unreliable at times.

arc1llusion 2019-10-09 21:00

Those homing enemies are brutal! Solid entry. I love the art and concept. Simple and easy to pick up and play. Great work!

wakobu 2019-10-09 21:00

Congratulations for making this game! A classic experience, with few risk taking. This game clearly would deserve a more complete sound design. However, at no moment did any problem make me lose the immersion, so that's always a plus in my book.

coachsisyphus 2019-10-10 21:11

This game makes me want mushrooms, and to not be taunted by large cacti rolling pins. I can hear them whispering their sweet nothings. Never trust the cacti. Also awesome style! Congrats on the submission!

alphish 2019-10-10 22:14

That's a nice top-down platformer you got there, you got all this 3-dimensional movement working well, so I appreciate that.

The gameplay generally worked well, though I've found luring the enemies to be somewhat annoying. Still, the game kept me interested enough to keep playing to the end, so good job with that.

I think the graphics fit well together and have some charm to them; animation certainly helps with that, too. The sound effects were alright, but I'd really prefer if there was some matching soundtrack, so that I could adjust my phones volume before getting to the end-of-level sound effect (I had somewhat high volume set, so when I reached the end, I was a little startled by the unexpected sound effect).

When it comes to the theme execution, it felt pretty weak. Many games this Jam try to evoke the "start with nothing" feeling by giving some kind of tangible and permanent progression, so that it feels like the player starts with nothing and works their way up. The closest thing to theme here is that every level you start with no coins and no buttons pressed, which many games do without even trying to match the theme. ^^'

Overall, quite a solid and somewhat challenging entry - good job. The use of theme could have been more prominent, though.

sarah 2019-10-11 20:29

Cute game, and it was fun to play through the levels. But the sounds were a bit jarring without any music to back them up. I didn't really run into any bugs, although the spiky enemies are mean, and scared me when they first came at me haha.

The only thing I'd change is that you can move faster when moving diagonally. There's a really simple mathematical fix to stop that from happening (normalize your movement), so that your character will run the same speed in every direction!

Overall, well done! :)

nurkkacthulhu 2019-10-11 21:07

Great package! Game mechanics were taught really well. I liked the length of the game, it was just enough to get a feel for the game without getting bored. Well done!

dovakla 2019-10-11 21:10

This is great! I love the art and the controls are really solid for a jam game.

My only complaint is that I wish the player was a little faster overall, since some of the levels felt too empty.

Really great job!

terryg 2019-10-11 21:15

I am not generally a fan of this type of game (mostly because I can't play them). But this one was cute. Everything seemed to work and figuring out how to play was easy. Well done!

rhymar 2019-10-12 19:55

normaly iam not that good in those types of games but this game was hard and fair together, simply put it was a fun game thanks^^

fammy 2019-10-12 19:58

This a good game even this is a bit classic in the gameplay. I like graphics and audio ! And you're game is really fun ! Good job !

f1krazy 2019-10-12 20:09

I feel like the brown spiked columns are too difficult. They accelerate when they get close to you, or perpendicular to you, and it makes them almost impossible to dodge, especially once you have to deal with more than one of them.

I like the idea of "starting with no mechanics" and easing them in one at a time, it's a clever interpretation of the theme. The graphics and sound effects are both good, could do with some music but I won't fault you for not including any, it's a hard thing to fit into a 3-day jam. Good job overall!

goupixm 2019-10-13 15:08

I really love the game, the art style and the mechanics ! It is a classic game, but it is hard and fun ! The controls are perfect, I didn't have problem with the controls. I like it ! Good job !

kamuniaft 2019-10-13 16:33

Cool retro-style game. Well-polished. Good level design. I liked columns mechanic. I enjoyed it, thanks! :)

someone 2019-10-14 22:56

Nice game. The brown pillars were a bit fast if you got too close. The turret was sufficiently irritating, especially when it can shoot through walls. I noticed sometimes I died and the last coin I picked up would not be there when the level reset.

afendar 2019-10-15 19:18

Really nice as a game. I feel like I'm playing games that existed on Atari. Well, of course, the graphics need a little bit of polish but it's already a very good start.

eldskald 2019-10-16 03:03

Cool game you got there! The gameplay felt solid, although the brown enemy had that snowball effect on which the closest you were from it, the faster it got. The turret was also weird, since we had no puzzles using it, so it felt like just a reason to keep jumping in a rhythm, and it was very counter intuitive the way it shot through walls. But yeah, nice submission overall!

sylvie 2019-10-16 22:55

This game has cute graphics! I think I would have liked it if the character moved a little faster.

eduardo-yukio 2019-10-18 02:23

Things I didn't like: * I noticed some buggs, like when the brown tower hit me while jumping I got pushed far away, and if I happen to be pushed into a coin, the game restarted with the coin picked up already lol. * The brown tower collides with the green tower, making it stop sometimes.

Things I liked: * The level design is very cool: the mechanic which involves luring the brown tower while not getting too close is fun. * The art is cute and well done!

jonno 2019-10-18 23:03

A nice ramp in difficulty. Graphics are simple but well polished, same with the gameplay. I can see this being a good little game once it has some music, more levels and variance in gameplay.

jakobthequizguy 2019-10-19 14:38

yay.PNG Nice game! Had fun with it, really liked the enemy variety in particular.

abdul-zakkar 2019-10-19 20:03

It was really fun and impressive. The level design and colors of the game were very nice. But there was a bug that caused coins to not appear, and the level had to be restarted. Nothing that broke the game though :)

Overall, good job!

thatmalzan 2019-10-19 21:20

Very nice little game. It can actually get pretty challenging!

cyriaque 2019-10-20 21:16

Good idea to add a layer of difficulty every time

The design is great !

nihushu 2019-10-21 19:55

It has the potential, It could use some music and character could be a bit faster.

squeele 2019-10-23 20:48

The main character is cute, and the gameplay mechanics are intuitive! It lacks some music and a dash mechanic could be useful, but otherwise a really good finished game :)

sokette 2019-10-26 10:50

I enjoyed it even if I could not finish it :D It's basically a dangerous killer totem taming game :laughing:

alchemic 2019-10-28 08:20

Very cute and nice gameplay! I managed to soft lock the game by simultaneously jumping and getting shot, and immediately falling into a pit. But I got pretty far I think, there are a lot of levels for a jam game!