I always wanted to be king of nothing.

The game seemed worth the installation process. Turns out it was not. Joke aside, I love the game. The presentation is super cool, both visuals and sounds as well as the king's comments, and it's really entertaining and dynamic, the different enemies and screens are super fun to deal with and the difficulty is perfect, it was satisfying to beat. No weak part, the game is very well-rounded.

Super cool game, I had ton of fun playing it, thanks for sharing.

The game looks vibrant, the music is cute, and the dialogue and character design is a lot of fun! It took me a moment to realise that it's essentially a rapid-fire memorisation game, but once I figured that out, I was able to get through the majority of screens without too much hassle: there's a commendable variety of enemies and the dialogue adds real charm to the experience.

I have to admit, though, I gave up on the final boss and found several other boards very frustrating (and I say this as a diehard Crypt of the Necrodancer player!) There was one toward the end I even skipped, after dying right at the last enemy one-too-many times. The combination of staggered, tile-based movement with lightning pace made it tricky to "read the board"... what I instinctively wanted to do was confront those crazy combinations of projectile patterns, get a feel for where the attacks intersected, and strike a clean path. When that all worked out, it was a real pleasure. But because the projectiles operate with the same rapid tempo and shares the same set of limited spaces, tiles alternate very quickly between safe + dangerous in a way that makes it hard to associate those threats with the individual enemies.

Thinking ambitiously, players tend to adjust more easily to fast+frenzied experiences  if there are some grace mechanics (like death replays or practice rooms.) But such mechanics are obviously way too ambitious for a game jam project, so maybe the easier alternative here would either be to slow it down a touch, or to expand those enemy-packed later boards to have safe intermediate spaces, so that a player can break up the challenge of defeating that board by "getting here first, then getting there." Just throwing around ideas anyway, because I really do love the intent and creativity here.

Best of luck with future development, and thanks for sharing your game!
- mothgram

I got it! i was needed idle python and also import pygame using pip . I like dynamic music and gameplay  also like how goblin king is commenting how you beat levels ! I had fun , Good job!

So I accidentally skipped almost every level because I was trying to us WASD to move and pressed S. Should probably make that a different key. The boss was basically impossible. The game was fun though, despite me only playing like 10% of it. Once I realized what was even going on I actually enjoyed it. Cool combat system.

Cost me a keyboard and I still couldn't beat the boss.

Its a real shame about the installation difficulties. This was definitely a nicely polished game. The difficulty was really hard though. I feel such a difficulty is not warranted for a game jam game as most people will only player for a couple minutes and it took me a bit longer than that to make it to the boss. For the enemies before the boss, it was both cool and annoying how it was basically a memory game on where to go as I had virtually no time to react to things. I think it should have either been easier or at least started off easier and built up to that level of difficulty.

I really like the art, its cute. The SFX fit nicely and the music was entertaining. The gameplay idea was really neat, it was a lot of chaotic fun.

I couldnt get it to launch either :/

Game wouldn't launch so I try launching it with IDLE and here's the error

Very hard, couldn't get past the bullet barrage, once got rid of the ghost and the two side reds, but didn't succeeded to take on the blue one on the right side.

Hey, I downloaded your game, but was unable to load it, please let me know how so I can rate you game :)