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Volatile Valkyrie

By madjackmcmad

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall973.8636
Fun444.0136
Innovation4242.9236
Theme4872.7236
Graphics1263.8437
Audio2143.3035
Humor2202.9235
Mood1523.5335

Comments

pvp 2021-10-03 23:28

Top 1 on Leaderboards for now :D. Great game it was fun following your stream. Ps: FF12 for life!

ludokultur 2021-10-04 06:35

Really fun one that gave me Joust vibes (which way too few games do these days). Also love how juicy dying feels - BLAM! :dizzy_face:

guine 2021-10-04 15:47

A five star game! Amazing work!

0x-void-x0 2021-10-04 15:49

One of my favorites so far, Ill definitely check the source code as well, very impressive

rzfmzn 2021-10-04 16:33

Liked the game, found a bit difficult to reach some platforms, but as someone in the comments said, lots of Joust feelings floating around :D Great work :)

patsui 2021-10-04 16:34

Gameplay kept getting more in-depth which is what I liked!

I think the difficulty was too hard for a jam game and the audio could use some work. Well done!

mascoll 2021-10-04 16:37

Nice retro feel! The spritework is impressive! Cool weapons!

silkworm-sweatshop 2021-10-04 16:45

Nice stuff. Really feels like an old arcady game. Super polished too with lots of content.

pbg 2021-10-04 20:02

Really fun! and it has scoreboards!! I was a big fan. I thought the projectiles from bad guys were a bit much, but it was still really fun! one of my favorites.

madjackmcmad 2021-10-04 20:40

@patsui You might be right about the difficulty. I wanted players to engage in the blocking mechanics as well as attacking, so the projectile rate is Real, but the rewards for parrying them are pretty sweet too.

aaron-smith 2021-10-05 12:20

Nice deeply retro experience right down to the unforgiving controls. I don't want the "unforgiving" to feel like a criticism, it is (just like the deeply retro pixel art) right on point for the game design and felt great. Nice entry!

paroxysmal 2021-10-05 14:14

Great entry and fun to play. Love the animation of the explosion.

As a note the MacOS version doesn't work, this tends to be an issue with Godot, that a Mac version has to be compiled on MacOS. I tried to run from source but it has missing dependencies.

madjackmcmad 2021-10-05 15:13

@paroxysmal ah, that explains it! Dang. First time with Godot, I didn't know that.

mikouaji 2021-10-05 17:25

Very cool graphics and sound design, plays really nice, the only problem I had I couldnt get used to the controls for a while, maybe its better on a controller :) The leaderboard is a very nice addition!

BTW Since you used Godot you can easily export a HTML5 version :)

fabdynamic 2021-10-05 22:23

I like how much combat this game managed to squeeze into a weekend. There are lots of different maneuvers and I like the idea of discrete rooms. It also seemed like I could get bonus points by getting more coins. I didnt initially like the keyboard controls but with some remapping they would have been fine, and I thought there was a certain floatiness in some of the jumping moves but all of that would be ironed out easily and I liked it overall. Its a cool game with lots of neat combat. Nice work!

fabdynamic 2021-10-05 22:26

@paroxysmal and @madjackmcmad Good news: I got this working on mac just now. I'm on Mac OS X Big Sur 11.5.2 on a 2017 macbook pro. I moved it to my desktop and then ran these two commands and then it worked great: ``` sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "/path-to-game/Godot\ Testing.app" sudo xattr -cr "/path-to-game/Godot\ Testing.app"```

I hope it works for you and others too.

qookie 2021-10-05 22:37

The game is quite fun. I really like the art style. The online high score is a very nice touch.

lesinvisible 2021-10-06 21:11

Very nice and fun game, I liked the retro art style and overall mechanics.

hoeleboele 2021-10-07 13:51

Very good game. Art is great and the animations are smooth. Controlls could be a bit more flued and some music would make the game complete but still best game i have played so far.

madjackmcmad 2021-10-07 23:17

@pvp I finally, *finally*, got on top. Barely. Your turn ;)

pvp 2021-10-08 03:19

@madjackmcmad haha challenge accepted.

monkybusines 2021-10-08 05:43

Really awesome game! The combat felt good and the animations are well done

lychee 2021-10-08 05:43

For a compo game the fighting and animations felt well fleshed out! I liked the extra stuff you added like the parry and how attacking/blocking in midair kept you floating in the air a bit more. It felt kind of hard to kill the enemies quickly enough once I reached the "unstable" levels but maybe I wasn't doing it right. Great job overall!

nyxkn 2021-10-08 14:10

Very cute game. Lovely art and animations! Fighting the projectile monsters felt a bit annoying. Some of the controls like the down+attack seemed very unintuitive.

chesiq 2021-10-09 17:48

Really nice game and great mechanics. Damn I now wish I also added online highscore...

madjackmcmad 2021-10-09 23:19

@chesiq Check it out here: http://dreamlo.com/ I've dropped it into Unity and Godot as well, shouldn't take you very much to get it running.

solah 2021-10-10 15:59

Great game! I love the art and animations, the gameplay is great, well done!

kiwi663 2021-10-12 20:55

Very nice game. I love your style.

cassio-eduardo 2021-10-16 00:07

Always love the arcade-y feel of your games.

Really impressive amount of content for the compo. I think the movement feels a bit janky, specially the jump which feels very linear. Sometimes when you do a jump attack it comes out the wrong way.

Other than that the game is pretty fun, great job.

madjackmcmad 2021-10-16 18:00

@cassio-eduardo Thank you! Yeah this is the first time I went platformer instead of topdown shooty, and there's some places where the polish is lacking. Those airattacks aren't the very best, lessons learned for next time!