Thanks! I meant to add a way to speed up the dialogue by hitting enter, but I didn’t get it quite worked out before the jam started I’m afraid. It’ll be in the post jam update!

Thanks! Yeah a tutorial and a more considered control scheme would have been better, I was trying to copy the PlayStation style one but something different tight make more sense. Tweaking controls, adding a tutorial and also supporting mouse input are all in my post jam plans!

Thanks! Me too, it ended up being harder than I expected to integrate with the rest of the systems, so spawning enemies always broke something else. I’ll be working on adding it (among other things) for a post-jam update though which should make things more interesting!

Thank you! Ah I didn’t think about the double binding of escape, that’s a good point! I was always testing it in the Godot editor or standalone, so it wasn’t an issue there. I’ll be rethinking the control scheme as a whole so it’ll be a good opportunity to try and sort this out too. I’ll definitely be coming back to this game since I had so much fun making it and want to explore the mechanics further.

Thank you, and well done! My play testers often took a little more so it’s definitely a victory. Implementing the tactics gameplay was a lot harder than I expected, but the deadline really helped me double down on some parts and keep trying, plus some creative use of Godot’s tilemaps to store state allowed me to solve some things more easily in a slightly hacky way. Definitely worth giving a try if you’re interested, I learned so much!

The cursor navigation is a pickle, I always found this with the original FFT as well. There were some good suggestions in some of the comments so I’ll definitely look at rejigging it after the jam!

Thanks a lot! I really enjoyed using Godot for this game so it is definitely going to be my engine of choice going forward.

Thank you for the kind comments! It was far more challenging than I expected, but it also ended up being very fun to figure things out. The different control scheme is a great idea, I’ll definitely use that in the post-jam update. There was mouse support but getting it to play nice with the keyboard resulted in lots of bugs so I ended up cutting it in favour of the cursor based input. The visual confusion is something I only realised towards the end when I was showing the game to other people, so it’s definitely something to fix post-jam, hit flashes and stronger animations are a good idea!

Thank you! I’ll make sure to pass on your compliments to the artist!

Thank you so much! I definitely will continue working on it, I learned a lot making this as my first proper game in Godot, and I have so many more ideas I want to try and figure out how to accomplish. I’m not sure if it’ll become a fully fledged game, but definitely a more robust prototype.

Thanks for all the kind comments, and all the best to you as well! I would definitely be interested in expanding the game out a bit more, it was a lot of fun making it, but to fit with the theme we focused on that middle slice for the jam. I had hoped to add little mini cutscenes at points for more character development but we ran out of time :(

Thanks a bunch! Unfortunately the enemy respawning logic broke and I couldn’t fix it before the deadline, but that was the original intent!

Thanks a lot! I have not gotten to play into the breach yet but I have seen the style and the gameplay, and that type of tactics game is definitely an inspiration, I’m just a big fan of them when executed well.

Thanks! Initially there was mouse support, but I had some trouble getting both the mouse and key support to work together at the same time, so keys is what I went with to get the old-school feel, but mouse would definitely be something I’d want to add back! Hotkeys would also be good, I’m a big fan of them in games like Civ and they shouldn’t be too hard to add, thanks for the idea!

Thanks a lot! Originally the game was meant to keep spawning enemies when you defeated the current ones, but unfortunately the respawning logic was bugged and I could not get it to work properly before the deadline :(

Yeah, this was always one of my favourite and least favourite parts of the Fire Emblem series (I play on classic mode). It hurts to lose characters but it really makes you think and take things carefully, which I quite enjoy! The post-jam balancing should help make it a bit more manageable, but the futility/difficulty element was part of the ‘Last Stand’ idea.

Thanks! Originally I had wanted to include an ability system, which would’ve made some characters like Kit more useful (being able to do buffs/debuffs), which would’ve improved the balance, but I ran out of time. It’s definitely going to be something I’ll come back to expand on more since I learned so much doing just this base. Part of the ‘Last Stand’ idea though is the futility/difficulty of the battle, originally it was meant to be endless. I’ve never heard of shining force but I do love these types of tactics RPGs, so I’ll have to check that out!

Thank you! There were definitely way more gotchas than I expected, transitioning between different selection modes was a big one I didn’t expect to be so difficult, but I learned a lot and I really feel like I got a good handle on how Godot’s node system can make some of it easier.

Thanks a lot! I had considered making a bit of a tutorial, but unfortunately I ran out of time :( Might look at it after the jam though!