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Dungeon messenger

By goddoesplaydice, gastar and shamsutdin

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD53Ever
Overall11102.92219.922.3
Fun10042.932218.933.6
Innovation12152.08221.13.9
Theme11093.10229.529.1
Humor10242.08203.513.8
Mood9883.002218.234.3

Comments

hmrpf 2023-05-02 11:55 ♥ 3

Funny game, easy to play, I'm not sure how to regain health, Only to have more maxHP. The mouvement UP is op in a game like this. Could easily be upgrade to a good game with this setup ! Nice entry good job! I also loved the music !

westmave 2023-05-02 15:25 ♥ 3

Hey, nice Top-Down-Shooter with a twist. I really like the Idea! The Bullets seem a little small, I want to feel powerful playing those games :D. However, nice entry!

thegameoverguy 2023-05-02 15:56 ♥ 3

Fun top down shooter :) Great work! Keep it up. I like the sprite work a lot.

yizao 2023-05-02 15:56 ♥ 3

Good work, better if it has more movement.

thomas-karcher 2023-05-02 16:23 ♥ 3

Nicely done, and fun to play! The rooms were a bit boring, though: I'd have preferred some variety in the layout, and maybe even some obstacles you could use to hide behind them.

str8griz 2023-05-03 21:56 ♥ 3

Great relaxing game. The main character looks like the guy from Battle Block Theatre - which is fun. Everything made sense right away which I appreciated! Thanks for providing me with 10-15 minutes so entertainment!

dafluffypotato 2023-05-03 21:56 ♥ 3

Nice game, it was fun. The different upgrades were fun to use, but similar to other people, I didn't see how you regained health. Intuitively I feel like it should be replenished on each floor. I also agree that the game could use some obstacles in the rooms. Going into rooms with just increasingly more enemies got a little bit repetitive. Although I do appreciate the enemy variety.

The artwork and music were great. Overall, good work!

erlioniel 2023-05-04 12:49 ♥ 2

Hi there,

Is it a small dungeon crawler? Ye, it is! 😄

Looks pretty fine even tho it requires a little bit more attention on balance. However it's a responsive and was quite fun to play, good job 👍

geck0 2023-05-05 11:35 ♥ 2

Funny game, nice work!

team-gaivot 2023-05-06 02:58 ♥ 2

Nice top down shooter! A little frame stop when you hit your target would be a really nice addition! Nice job!

kevin-scroggins 2023-05-07 05:27 ♥ 2

Not a bad little game, awesome work! Thank you for sharing.

Some feedback: - No hit indicator, was not obvious when I was actually being attacked. - Could do with some more health pickups. - Text on the player upgrades was really confusing. - Looks like the cursor icon is corrupted? - Would be nice to have the game title on the main screen. - Might want to disable the exit button for the web version. - Could be a little more interesting with some more randomization in the tile pieces.. maybe a map editor like Tiled might be helpful!

ludovics 2023-05-08 04:46 ♥ 2

Sometimes rooms get cleared without removing all enemies and you tend to slow down a lot if you move against the walls

serialkamikaze 2023-05-09 18:47 ♥ 2

Nice little game! Had some problems with the mouse gotting stuck, it did not move at times so it was impossible to aim where to shoot.

likirus 2023-05-10 10:19 ♥ 2

Nice Isaac-inspired game. Although, I would have liked to be able to walk through the enemies (still taking damage of course), but I kept getting stuck on their hitboxes and couldn't escape anymore, so a single hit often was game over.

braveskin 2023-05-10 16:41 ♥ 2

This one was really fun, managed to deliver 5 messages at most after trying quite a few times. I'd have liked if some of the rooms were a little fairer so that a run couldn't go from 'flawless' to 'over' just because a dozen purple hat enemies spawned on top of you and pin you against a wall. Aside from that, I enjoyed it a lot and had a hard time putting it down, nice work.

matt-green 2023-05-10 16:48 ♥ 2

A couple immediate notes:

It wasn't clear if I was supposed to shooting the little dudes or not. Sometimes I'd kill all the aggro mobs but then the door wouldn't open until I attacked a little dude.

Also, very minor, but if I had a powerup with limited ammo, clicking the OK button triggered my gun and I'd lose some ammo.

Otherwise, great take on classic genre!