The story is super cheesy, love it! The graphics and music are cute too. The controls could be better as a platformer. just a bunch of small stuff though. overall, good job!
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Once Upon Another Time's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Graphics | #272 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
Audio | #386 | 3.209 | 3.209 |
Overall | #619 | 2.988 | 2.988 |
Fun | #662 | 2.884 | 2.884 |
Game Design | #692 | 2.930 | 2.930 |
Theme | #802 | 2.651 | 2.651 |
Innovation | #859 | 2.512 | 2.512 |
Ranked from 43 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does you game fit the theme?
The game follows a knight who is unwittingly stuck in a simulation. You can break him out by finding all 5 keys - there is one hidden in each level.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes
Comments
Loved the little story and “glitch moment” at the beginning, to set up the game. Alas, I haven’t been able to play much because the controls feel finnicky and the screen doesn’t have the “look-ahead” feeling that would help me see what’s coming up. It was very difficult to get far, so I gave up before I even finished the first level. :-(
I’d love to come back and play when the bugs are fixed! Let me know if you’d like my complete notes, especially if you’re considering to continue the development!
Good job on this entry ! :)
I couldn't see much of the right of the screen (about 10%) but I managed to finish the game !
Jumps were a bit inconsistent too, some platforms weren't reachable when we touch them while jumping. I think if you remove the friction, it will fix it.
But overall, it was a nice game, good job ! (°w°)b
Hey, I just played your game and I really loved it! I have no feedbacks the game looks stunning and perfect to me. Good luck with the jam and please be sure to rate my game.
RATED!, a perfect bundle to a good game, I can see you put a lot of effort on this one, minor nitpick is about the camera, overall, nice job!
also, will you help me rate mine too? I'd really appreciate it if you do, Thanks! :)
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1415313
Parallax backgrounds were great. Player movement and attack was really hard to understand and control. Color theme was right on point!
This was very good! I loved the story, the little blip in the intro was good to keep me hooked on the fact that something isn't how it seems.
I like the artstyle, but found it too hard because the camera zoom and follow makes it hard to see what's coming up.
I jump on head of my enemy and we fall togother, lol.
In general i die more 20 times in first lvl.
I not understand how end the lvl.
But it was fun.
(Sorry for low english)
really liked the style of the game!
Because the camera is so close to the knight it is hard to anticipate what is coming up next. If the camera would move with the knight up and down as well, it would have given me a better idea of what is around me. But besides that, very nice game!
And I like the addition of a secret. it gives the game replayability value :)
the game couldn't quite scale right to my screen, so this might just be an effect of that, but I felt like this game could benefit from a lookahead camera, because I felt like I didn't have much space to see things coming onto the screen in order to react to them. On that same note, I felt that the character moves a little too fast, and i was just falling off of platforms. But the art and music are nice, and it has a fun retro feel.
Very cool game! Love the nostalgic 8bit style in the graphics along with a really nice soundtrack and sfx as well! I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very good at the game, but the game itself is very cool and fun! I agree that some checkpoints could help, but otherwise I thought y'all did a great job!
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