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A jam submission

The Tale of ZukoView game page

Submitted by Akuzi — 3 minutes, 7 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#1553.5713.571
Theme#2083.0483.048
Innovation#2472.9052.905
Fun#3402.7622.762
Overall#3632.7062.706
Game Design#3772.7142.714
Audio#6941.2381.238

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The story line

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
codes yes, assets no

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Submitted

Interesting mechanics and really amazing art and UI! The story is a bit sad and I felt like the game was pretty easy and then took a sudden spike up at the end. I think if you balance the game a bit more, this could be something really spectacular!!

Submitted

Gorgeous graphics - the shader work here produces a nice neon vibe. Could use some bloom. Nice animations and with some additional design, the combat could be awesome (I was able to spam "Q").

Submitted

That jump animation, haha. Great.

I also had issues with attacks entering a que. I didn't realize it was happening for awhile and had to watch like 20 q's, 10 e's and 7 r's. That was wierd. The attacks are really cool though, but they need to be faster. In order to get some of the attacks to come out on time, I had to activate them while the enemy was still more towards the right side of the screen. In a action game where combat is a focus, attacks need to feel responsive and the hitbox should come out in less than half a second. It is okay to have some attacks that activate slower, but slower attacks should be considered heavy attacks that have a lot of build up, but do a lot of damage. That move where you create a rock wall and kick it forward would be a good slow, heavy attack move I think. I like the concept a lot though, This could turn into something really neat. Keep at it!

Submitted

There some good stuff in here,, but its very very clunky (the input buffering especially)

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I love your artstyle! But  lack of SFX is a bit silly. Very nice color pallete and overall vibe!  Good work! 

Submitted

Interesting side scroller with a lot of technical work in the game dev.  I like the shaders being used in the neon/tron world.  The animations are all neat.  The intro scene does help us get a sense of 'feeling' for the character.  It was hard to feel any sense of threat because many of the skills were so powerful they cleared all enemies in front of you and could be used continuously.  It does seem like I spammed some because the attacks got queued up and sometimes I needed to wait for 7 or 8 skills to unwind even when there were no more enemies.  I think you've got the good start to a fun combat game.  To really excel, the combat and not combat will need to fluidly move between the two states (in my opinion).  Music and sound would really help bring the game to life.

Also, you may want to put a content warning that the game includes a visual representation of suicide.

Good submission.

Submitted

I can clearly see that you project is a very early stage of development and has a lot to do. Nevertheless, I had some fun but I found some issues. I won't talk about assets and animations because it's not yours but I the idea of Matrix-style or Code Lyoko-style world is amazing. It looks very good!

Avatar, last Airbender - style game. I LOVE IT! It has a lot of potential with four main elements and their sub-elements. Main character and his master is an obvious reference to Zuko and uncle Iroh and that's a good thing. If you develop yours Zuko and Master right it can be a really engaging story to watch and play. I am impressed how you managed to hide UI, it;s clever and look very good. But sadly, Zuko doesn't uses his fire abilities but it doesn't matter that much. I just hope he will learn how to use it :)

My main issue is balancing. I found that you don't have to use any of the spells (I don't know hot to name it) and simply jumping through your enemies is enough to kill them. Other thing is that you can buffer (saves in memory inputs and later calls them in the fixed order) more than one attack in memory and game won't let you move because mc does his sick moves.

Pretty good but flawed game with room for improvements. Keep it going!

Submitted(+1)

Played smoothly, liked the concept, enjoyed the visuals and playing an Avatar themed game!

Developer

Watching the Avatar again lately inspired me to make this game. Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

It was cool to see the UI on the background as scene elements. It's such a cool and refreshing touch. The cinematic feel at the beginning was awesome and the game looked fantastic!

Developer

I'm happy that u like the aesthetic of the game. Thank you for trying it out :D

Submitted(+1)

good concept

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I've got no idea how you managed to pull off that art style. Really impressive! 

Developer(+1)

By sacrificing the audio i guess haha. Thanks for trying the game out!

Submitted(+1)

daymn the art is cool...... the controls were a bit jittery for me and it lagged a bit... but cool ideas

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! Im sorry the controls are not smooth and responsive. Will polish this part out

Submitted(+1)

Some of the moved took a little too long to perform so I kept getting hit while performing it, but the animations were awesome :). I would suggest maybe putting in a warning for that flashing purple loading screen as that did make me feel a bit queasy...

Developer

Thank you for the feedback and im sorry for not being considerate on the flashing. Will be extra careful next time. 

Submitted(+1)

This looks so epic. 

Developer

Thank you for trying the game out!

Submitted(+1)

I love the UI thing you made

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice! 5 for everything

Developer

Even 5 for the audio too? hahah but thank you!

Submitted(+1)

cool graphics, nice storyline

Developer

Appreciate the kind feedback :D

Submitted(+1)

I definitely wasn't expecting that opening lol. The animations are really smooth and I love the retro aesthetic. The gameplay is good, but can get a little repetitive. I also encountered a bug where my health reached zero and the death animation played, but nothing happened after. Overall, this a great game, well done!

Developer

Oh my sorry for that weird bug. Will have a look on it. Really appreciate taking ur time playing the game, thank you

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