The Mysterious Tome: Prologue

bredera 2020-10-06 10:46

Cool little action platformer. It fits the theme. The simple graphics are nice to look at love the bow mechanic and how bloody the enemies get when you shoot them. But sometimes the jump was way to intense. good job with this game!

leggy 2020-10-06 10:53

Hello, nice concept. Quite funny and surrealistic. Unfortunately there is some bug in jump which is frustrating, too much for my taste. Keep going!

chocolat-endive 2020-10-06 10:55

Nice mechanics with the objects, and the bow is fun. I guess the game could use some music? As @leggy said, the jump is sometime frustrating.

donamougou 2020-10-06 11:06

Really nice entry ! Regarding different points :

- Graphics, the different models are really nice - Bow mechanic, simple and quite satisfying to attack with it - Displacement , jump feels a bit tricky, and sometimes quite frustrating - Goal, as I understand it you have to do something with the gems but hints on what you're actually supposed to do might increase the overall experience.

Thanks for the game !

domnomnom 2020-10-06 11:42

Good job finishing a game with a little bit of story! I liked the pixel art at the story moments. For the levels try to keep a consistent resolution rather than mixing high res with low res textures on the same screen.

The main things that I would suggest improving is the movement mechanics: Having no acceleration and more direct velocity control would make the character more responsive. Box colliders are more reliable for players compared to circular colliders in a 2D side-on game. This should also prevent being able to do super jumps on the sides of some objects.

It was difficult to figure out what to do with the gems but I eventually got through it. (be careful of accessibility problems, e.g. hearing-impaired, color-blindness)

I like that everything interacts with the single mechanic of the arrow.