This is an extremely polished game, but the story vexes me. The good magic user is called a wizard, and looks the part, but their magic is described as holy, which implies they are in fact some kind of divine caster, such as a cleric. Likewise, the enemy is called a witch, but looks like the grim reaper and summons what appear to be undead minions, which is more of a necromancer thing than a witch thing. The actual gameplay is tight, tho!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun/Engagement | #2 | 3.897 | 3.897 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.483 | 4.483 |
| Art/Graphics | #3 | 4.276 | 4.276 |
| Audio/Music | #3 | 3.897 | 3.897 |
| Overall | #3 | 4.138 | 4.138 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- The gameplay on this is fairly well done. The sprite art works well and all the minimal animations on the characters is really well done as well. My main issue is the difficulty curve. The game is really easy, which actually works well for a jam game, but the time limit is pretty long and with waves of the same 3 enemies appearing over and over again it gets pretty tedious. Something to keep the player moving around instead of planted in the middle swinging their sword the whole time would have been a really fun addition. Maybe crosses randomly appear around the arena and collecting them speeds up the timer or something like that. Overall though, great job on a well polished game!
- Great game ! The art was great, the music and SFX were great and fiting, it felt very polished with the knight and enemies wubbling when walking and the attack felt good. My only nit picking is it felt a bit repetitive toward the end, the enemies archetype didnt feel that different and seemed to spawn at random and I was kind of expecting a boss fight with the witch, but it was still great.
Did you work alone, or as part of a group? (If in a group, list their names)
Alone
Disclose if you used any public domain assets or not.
Everything created by myself except the music which is public domain
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