love love love love loveeeeeeeeeeeee thissssss! so much fun. it was like an action version of a Heroes of Might and Magic III necromancer run. I'd love to see this expanded if you are into it. Perhaps more raised dead types, i bet you already have tons of ideas though. this is very high up there amongst what i've played in terms of having pure fun playing it. the sprites are great too, love those funky, sassy lil skeletons, and while i realize it was likely a time saving measure, having the boss be just, wizard boi, but bigger, was hilarious to me. Fantastic!!!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Design | #12 | 3.828 | 3.828 |
Artistic | #27 | 3.931 | 3.931 |
Gameplay | #27 | 3.483 | 3.483 |
Overall | #28 | 3.607 | 3.607 |
Technical | #35 | 3.517 | 3.517 |
Theme | #52 | 3.276 | 3.276 |
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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- I reviewed it on my live stream: https://youtu.be/vlsG5hJBtjc
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This is my first and I also had to work a full time job as well. On last nights stream Jade mentioned the intention of the scheduling being anti-crunch, which I appreciate. I'm not sure I ever would have tried to enter if it had been the typical 48 time period that's more common. I got a couple hours in after my work days and then did big pushes on the weekends. It's harder when you need a day job. Congrats to you for managing to get something done, and having it be such a good experience as well!
This feels like a great start for a full game. The mechanics that you introduced are pretty interesting, but maybe too simple, and the game a bit easy, but understandable as it is a jam. The story is also interesting and the pixelart was great. I can see you expanding on this. Great job!
Wow! What a great game! I'm really impressed with how cohesively you delivered the story. I actually want to know what's up with this Lich? why is he so angry? Who was he before he was the king of the undead?
As for the gameplay, it was lots of fun, maybe a bit easy but I never got bored so I can't complain. If you were gonna expand on the concept, i think it'd be awesome if you were able to command the skeletons so it'd start as a shoot-em-up and evolve into an RTS as your army got larger. Another concept that would fit well with that is if the skeletons inherited weapons/attack style of the enemy they were reanimated from. So you could focus on archers if your army needed more archers. It'd also be interesting if you could consume your own skeletons to charge some mega lich attack. Seems like a very lich thing to do :)
Cool ideas, in my initial scope I had actually planned the zombified versions of the enemies. Having done only the zombified warrior, I realised it would take lots of time to work on the pixel art (which I lacked). I also had a lot of problems with the AI while I was coding it so decided to simplify it.
As for why the Lich is angry, he is angry because a group of buffoons woke him up early in the morning. He is just cranky :D Btw It was written in the last sentence at the epilogue screen as a joke but nobody mentioned it so far :P
This is a fun game, reanimating the skeletons in the graveyard was very fun. I had some problems with the game though due to my browser(opera) having mouse gestures with right click, but after disabling those it worked fine.
If i had to say i wish the skeletons were a bit smarter at attacking enemies, as they are just good bone shields against ranged opponents. but was still very fun.
Oh, man. This got to be one of the games I enjoyed the most of all the games I played in this jam. Raising an army of the dead that follows you and help you fight made me feel so badass. I absolutely love the last battle- it just felt so satisfying. The art and the music compliments the style really well. Impressive!
I really enjoyed the music, it added a lot of atmosphere to the game.
Feels really good to have an army of undead under my commands!
But what happened to the rats I resurrected in tutorial? I want my pet rats back. >:(
Awesome concept. I like the powerful feeling after resurrecting dozens of skeletons into my army. To my taste the movement was a bit slow and the boss could have used a health bar. The game has great sound design and atmosphere.
Awesome! I know pathfinding can be quite a nightmare to program, but the game does it quite nicely. My only complaint is that it is hard to know if you are doing well or not (the game is easy, but I have no way to tell if it is because I played it well or if it is intended to be easy). The theme is nice and fitting (but it could have some sort of urgency, like depleting energy or something like that) and it is kinda satisfying to march towards the village with your army of the dead. Nicely done!
Nice concept here! :) Good job creating the atmosphere. Please add more abilities!
Like they said in an old flash parody "In today's episode skeletor chased after too much power, don't you chase after to much power or i'll come after you TOO !" XD
Okay so dumb jokes aside this is really good and i really like the spritework as well, plus the music really sells the atmosphere and this put me in a sorta vibe of the first blood omen game in the sense that, you may be the protagonist but you're not the good guy.
Even though gameplay wise it's not related at all, your game also brought back fond memories of playing Heroes of might and magic 2 when you have a necromancer character and each battle earns you the bonus oh having the enemies revived as skeletons joining your army :p
And i also like the fact that you didn't seem to put a cap on how many skeletons you can have, and this is awesome as you really feel like you're having an army more than just a group of summons.
Really did not have any particular issues with this one, so i don't know what i could say more.
Congrats you did a good job :)
Great Game. It has nice details like the light going on as you pass, the green fire you instantly recognize as a life source. The animation of the skelies walkiing are very good. You can reanimate everything you kill. Well done!
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