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A jam submission

CastleBreak: Rondo of BoozeView game page

Stealth Platformer about a monster trying to skip their job.
Submitted by pinkSquareGames (@pnksqrgames) — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#54.7674.767
Overall#633.8603.860
Soundtrack/SFX#793.7003.700
Gameboy Soul#1003.9003.900
Interpretation of the Secondary Theme#1343.8673.867
Gameplay#1663.0673.067

Ranked from 30 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's a stealth game about monsters. Although it's silly in it's tone, it tries to bring the "spookyness" to the designs and environments.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Oh this is nice. Simple but solid gameplay, awesome pixel art and good sound with a good pinch of humor. Very enjoyable.

Submitted(+2)

Good gameplay, pixel art, and audio made a  strong gameboy spirit !! 
Funny entry , great job !

Submitted(+2)

The art is amazing.  The game play is fun and harder than I expected.  The theme is also incredible.  "Conscripted soldier fleeing a fascist state" is about as scary as it gets.

Submitted(+2)

The graphics blew me away, wow! Super cool game and clever idea. Would have loved to see this expanded upon further where maybe you could make the gameplay a bit snappier/more juicy. But really enjoyed it, one of my favorites so far!

Submitted(+1)

Funny! The graphic is very nice

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I got stuck in the second stage when I fell to the lowest part, right at the beginning. The jump simply didn’t reach the platform I fell from, and there was no other path. I tried all the commands available in the game, but nothing worked. So, either the height of that platform was poorly planned, or I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do. If you could clarify this so I can give it another chance, I’d appreciate it.

[UPDATE]

I sent it to a friend to test, and he got past the part where I got stuck. He tested it on Firefox on Linux. I played using MS Edge on Windows. I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it, but…

Submitted(+1)

Super nice game with beautiful design. Great animations, very smooth, awesome music. Congrats, great game!

Submitted(+1)

this game fucks!

Submitted(+2)

Probably my favourite game so far graphics wise. Love the character design and overall concept

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

One of the best I've played so far. I would have preferred the controls zx to the numeric keypad if I'm using the arrows, for the sake of gameboy soul, personal preference, but other than that, the animations are great and the music+sfx as well.

A couple of things; Sometimes I would get caught while hanging like a bat. I do not know why. For long levels, I would introduce checkpoints. After the fourth restart it got tiring. Though, some or most of the GB were difficult as well, hmmm.

You did the "mistake" I did last year, while "emulating" the hardware settings. On the console, there is actually only one control for the overall sound. :-D

Submitted(+1)

Your game looks good, I like  stealth mechanics. Furthermore, I thinks, that Graphic looks fantastic

Submitted(+1)

really good for a platfomer, the graphics are great and the gameplay super cool

Submitted(+1)

Charming character design and premise, and the gameplay is pretty tight. The sound cues do help a lot when keeping an eye on the eyes. Awesome music too!

Submitted(+2)

Awesome artwork and audio! This is a pretty solid entry with a nice interpretation of the theme.

Kudos on the game

Submitted(+2)

Very funny, with an interesting mechanic that imho perfectly fits the theme and an incredible soundtrack! Starts easy and becomes more and more challenging as you go on, love it!

Submitted(+1)

I got stuck too in the second room/level. Graphics and music are great.

Developer

Thanks! Sorry about that being stuck part, for some reason the jump height isn't consistent across all computers. :c 
couldn't fix it on time. But thank you for playing the game!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Could be some frame related issue, when I started the game it felt like it jumped too fast, if you happen to create a version with some bugs fixed I could give it another try.


UPDATE: I tried on another browser (chrome) and works better, maybe it has locked fps or something.

Developer

Tanks for the feedback! i'm working on i

Submitted(+1)

Awsome sprite work!

Unfortunatly I got stuck in a hole, and was unable to jump out... I tried every button on my keyboard, but nothing seemed to work.

With that said, the theme and story are amazing! And it might just have been me who didn't undstand the controls properly.

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!

About that getting stuck part, I'm so sorry, the game has an issue that for some reason the jump height is off by a few pixels depending on your computer. Don't worry you got it right, it was the game's fault.

But thank you for giving it a try after all! If you feel like it, start again and try to make that jump without falling in the hole hehe,  maybe you can get some fun out of it!

Submitted(+2)

Amusing, surprisingly intense. Fantastic music and a tight gameplay loop. I love it. 

Developer

Thank you so much!

Submitted(+1)

What a really freaking cool entry. The art and animation is incredible. Snappy controls, excellent stuff!

Developer

Really glad you liked it! Thanks!

Submitted(+2)

this was great, loved the art and music, and general premise made me chuckle too. nice one!

Developer

Thanks! The premise was the first idea we had and it drove all the mechanics and music forward! I'm really glad you liked it!