Amazing. Fits the requirement of glitches so well that I think it deserves 5 stars on all 6 categories.
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Null Dagger's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #1 | 4.774 | 4.774 |
| Originality | #1 | 4.452 | 4.452 |
| Controls | #1 | 4.226 | 4.226 |
| Overall | #1 | 4.280 | 4.280 |
| Fun | #1 | 4.258 | 4.258 |
| Graphics | #5 | 4.387 | 4.387 |
| Audio | #8 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot version
3.1.1 Stable
Source
Here it is: https://github.com/Keyband/null-dagger
Game description
It is a experimental platformer where the player can alter the enviroment to progress, by glitching it!
Controls
The controls are on the game page :)
Discord username
Delta-key#2283 and Sklaiser#2335
Participation level
It is our second time participating.
Comments
Hey guys, cool game!
Could have used better jump mechanics on the mushrooms, not gonna lie. If i press up while jumping on a 'shroom I expect to double jump, but first it does a low jump and then a double jump? That was frustrating.
Also you put ceilings right above some places where I had to jump, so this also created sudden unwanted things to happen.
There isn't enough of a visual cue to show that the dagger is on you and not in the ground somewhere, so a lot of "Oh...".
You should probably also buffer the throwing, because sometimes my dagger would be recalling and I'd shoot it out again, but the dagger just hadn't reached me, so nothing happened and I died instead.
With those improvements I think this would have felt a lot better, and my dying would feel more fair. There was a lot of the frustrating kind of dying you got in games of old where you felt like the controls were working against you.
Anyway, overall a fantastic take on the theme and very cool shaders. There were very few real bugs as well (some dying when I shouldn't, some living when I shouldn't). Also well done on teaching the player how to play the game in such an intuitive manner.
Submitted
RaphieWow, thanks a lot for the feedback! It will certainly help us a lot to get better!
I'll try to make the mushrooms feel better, and change the platform positioning on some parts. About the visual cue, we'll think of something. So far the character sprite changes and a sound is played, but I guess some more visual feedback would do no harm. On the input buffering, I'm almost sure I did add it, but I might be wrong hahaha I'll check on it as well, and make it bigger if it is the case.
Once again, thanks a bunch for the feedback, seriously! We really appreciate it!
The last level is kind of exhausting for the eyes. But all in all this is a really great game with a great mechanik and good controls. Nothing to complain!
Submitted
Glitchy GlorbHappy to see you found the game great, thanks for the feedback a lot!
About the last level, I understand your point: we tried to make it clear that everything was slowly getting more and more glitched up, but I guess I overdid a bit on using it at the last level hahaha I'm thinking about adding some option to allow the player to change the strength of the glitch effect, so that it becomes less exhausting or even confusing. Well, once again, vielen danke für spielen!
This has been the best game I've tried so far.
Familiar platformer look, but distinguishing "weapon".
Genuine idea with great execution!
Intuitive, quick tutorial. Simple controls.
It has become too hard when I would have needed to convert those poison plants into mushrooms on the fly.
Excellent game! Keep up the good work!
Submitted
Save Your FatherThanks a lot for playing, and then giving us feedback, it means a lot to us :)
Great to see that you liked it, despite it getting hard to do some of the plataforming (to say the truth, as the deadline got closer, I ended up focusing on bug fixing, and playtesting ended up being a job for Morning Suks, since I kept dying on later stages hahaha). Once again, thanks for playing and commenting, glad you liked it!
Literally the only thing I can say against this is that it would be nice for the camera to follow the mouse; in one or two places it can be a bit tricky to look before you leap otherwise.
Apart from that, it's a great concept, executed well, and with oodles of flair and polish.
Submitted
Infinity Defect
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