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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #10 | 4.510 | 4.510 |
| Overall | #101 | 3.735 | 3.735 |
| Is the graphics 1 bit? | #103 | 4.784 | 4.784 |
| Originality | #127 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Gameplay | #144 | 3.314 | 3.314 |
| Theme | #148 | 3.784 | 3.784 |
| Music | #315 | 2.353 | 2.353 |
Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Very unique restrictions that made this 2d fighter a lot more strategic than other games of its kind! I really wish there were 3 difficulties you could choose from though because the enemy AI is can get very aggressive which makes it hard to acclimate to the game when you first play
Thank you! I'm glad you had fun with it!! I'm glad I managed to reach my goal, I wanted to make it strategic while still keeping it as simple as possible. I definitely need to work on different difficulty levels and balance them properly!
I'd love to see a 2 player version of this game!!! It can even be on the same screen with different buttons to control each player.
Thank You! A local 2 player vs mode exists in the game, but I broke something in the code at the last minute and couldn't manage to fix it in time for the Jam's deadline so I just kept it hidden. You can access it by pressing 2 at the Title Screen, and Player 2 uses the left and right arrows to control his character. Keep in mind it bugs a lot, so you may need to reestart the fight sometimes, by pressing R.
After the Jam is completely over I plan to go back to this project and fix all these issues so everything works properly.
Oh, that's awesome! A hidden mode of sorts until it gets fixed xD
Looking forward to the game's progress! It's gonna be awesome if you'd release it on maybe steam or so with some more options, characters etc.
Exactly! Thank You!! It would be amazing if this eventually turn this into a bigger game that I can release there!!
The gameplay is simple but very good, I really liked the way the theme was used. The artwork is sensational, incredible, fantastic, I loved every detail you put into the game. Personally, I found it quite easy, I believe adding a little more difficulty would make things much more interesting. But as mentioned, the game is great, congratulations on the project!
Thank You so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I need to find a way to balance the difficulty better, as some people have found it to be quite easy while othera felt the complete opposite, so I'll need to invest a lot of time on that either finding a perfect middle point, or adding different leves of difficulty for the player to pick. I'm super happy that you enjoyed the art so much, specially because the art in your game is completely amazing.
I liked the minimalistic approach, really cool graphics too! Good job!
Thank You so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!!
I made a top ten video of the games from this jam. (Spoiler alert, this game is in it)
If you like the video, please feel free to share it :)
Check it out!
Amazing!! Thank You so much I'm honored to have been featured in this video!!
the artstyle is fantastic! and the premise is pretty cool!
Thank You!! I'm glad you liked it!!
The art is incredible! Fantastic game!
Thank you so much!!
Very clean fighting game, and a really unique take on the theme! Really well done!
Thank You!! I'm glad you liked it!!
One of the best arts I've seem so far in this jam. My most preferred gameplay style as well! I love parrying mechanics and timed movement. My Darkness is very hard to beat though, I wished I could've beaten it with timing and fast reflex, but I only got it by button smashing the X. Would love to see all the features you planned fully implemented, consider adding after the jam. An idea I had, that maybe you could invert the colors for your darkness? Just so they are a little different to look at. Lovely submission, congrats!
Thank You!! That means a lot to me be, because your game also has amazing art!
After so much positive feedback I have received I definitely want to work on this again on this at some point, add all the missing features and improve, tweak and polish the gameplay and difficulty to avoid this kind of button mashing situations some players found themselves in.
I originally wanted to make Darkness look different by either adding a dithering overlay over it, but the sprites ended being so tiny that I don't think that would work well without detail getting lost. Then I thought about making it flash quickly between white and black to make it look gray in a way (like you did with in the first letter you receive from Mad King) but I wasn't sure that would work well on different screens with different framerates (some old games did it with great results and others with awful ones). Inverting the colors didn't cross my mind, but is a great idea! I have a lot of things to experiment with!
Agan, thank you so much!! I'm really glad that you enjoyed this game so much!
Loved this.
Very simple, but clever take take on the theme.
The attacks and animations feel nice and punchy.
Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
With some balancing this could be a seriously fun experience. Especially in 2 player mode! If you polish it, you'll have a seriously fun vs. experience without the complexity/barrier to entry of fighting games. (and the art is amazing) Seriously good work <3
Thank you so much!! I'm super happy that you enjoyed it!! Definitely will get stuff balanced, fixed and polished as soon as possible!! Thanks for the feedback!!
Small but fun and intuitive gameplay! Amazing!
Thank You!! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!!
The aesthetic is great, and I love how minimal the controls are.
My only critique is that the resolution and palette are so limited that its very difficult to know an attack is coming. Perhaps a BIT more telegraphing beyond the audio cues would be helpful.
Thanks!
Thank You!! Glad you liked it!!
You have a great point there, making the attack animations more flashy so they are more easily noticeable is something I'd like to do.
This game is amazing in very points but it is a lot hard
Thank You!! I definitely need to tweak the difficulty a little bit!! Thanks for the feedback!!
Very interesting take on the Theme for the jam, good job :)
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!!
I would like a 2 player mode :)
2 player mode was meant to be in the game, but at the last minute I broke something and made it very very buggy, and wasn't able to find how to fix it in time. You can still give it a try if you want by presing 2 at the title screen, player 2 controls are the left and right arrow keys, but again it can get very very buggy. Definitely something I need to get fixed asap!!
Very very hard game, great job!
Thank You so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting strategy game disguised as a fighting game. Graphics look amazing and the animations are smooth. I wish there was more music.
Thank You so much!! I'm glad you liked it! Definitely need to add some music to it at some point!!
I'm amazed at how much you were able to simplify fighting gameplay, and the art is fantastic too! Felt like I was at an arcade losing all my quarters to a cheating AI. Well done :)
Thank You so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!! That arcade feeling never gets old LOL
A fighting game was a surprise. I lost every match lol. Great visuals and animations.
Thank You!! I'm glad it managed to surprise you!! Hope you had fun playing even if you couldn't win!