This concept brings me old days.. I hope more speedy transition would be nice btw, Nice work!
Play Run Run
Beyond The Walls's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameboy Soul | #14 | 4.526 | 4.526 |
| Overall | #123 | 3.537 | 3.537 |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #146 | 3.263 | 3.263 |
| Graphics | #159 | 3.684 | 3.684 |
| Interpretation of the Secondary Theme | #196 | 3.474 | 3.474 |
| Gameplay | #226 | 2.737 | 2.737 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game meet GBJam's theme?
it is spooky (a puzzle horror escape room), it is 160x144 pixels, it only uses 4 colors at once, it uses game boy controls
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80 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing, watching someone play is a rewarding insight into the positives and negatives. Sorry you didn't get to craft anything.
I had a look into it and it sounds like it might be a problem on your end caused by browser/extensions. Not 100% sure. You can try the direct link to my game which might work but shot in the dark really :) https://html.itch.zone/html/11550223/GB12/index.html
I'm glad you liked it and thank you for you detailed feeback.
1. Good point I hadn't thought of this, thanks for the idea.
2. That idea was the spark that started this whole game concept, just didn't get around to implement (was meant to collect items from enemies to create a device that allowed you to find holes in the walls to get to the final level (currently lvl 11))
3. This would be nice but idk how i would do it (currently they work like this: Attack; if defeat enemy +3*enemyLevel, Dodge; +1 if fail +3 if success(bad mechanic needs to be changed too OP), Run; -1 fail +1 success). If you have any idea of a nice way of displaying this I would appreciate hearing them a lot :)
4. I like this mechanic, am I just mean?
5. Only one I completely disagree with (sorry). I think I encourages exploration eventually you will either die or get bored of fighting level 1 ghosts and either delete the game or enter the hole.
Really appreciate the feedback, if you have any responses to my responses of your responses or any other feedback that has come to mind I would be excited to hear them. But if not, thanks again and good luck on the game development journey :)
- No problem.
- Ooh, I like that.
- Those sound interesting already, I'll have to play again with those in mind and then see what I think.
- Horribly mean, but now that I think about it I could see myself putting a similar mechanic in one of my games. It's a small inconvenience, but once it happens you can learn to work around it, so I don't mind it anymore.
- I do agree with you, I was wrong on this one.
Thank you for the counterpoints!
I think for the text, the usual way around it is to allow the player to skip to the end instead of needing to wait for it to type out. This is especially true for games with text that repeats. It gets to a point where the player already knows what to do, and doesnt need the text to guide them necessarily. Good luck with the death bug!
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