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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #30 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
| Audio | #47 | 2.762 | 2.762 |
| Overall | #54 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
| Historical Accuracy | #81 | 2.476 | 2.476 |
| Thematic Relevancy | #85 | 2.762 | 2.762 |
| Graphics | #96 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
On what countries' history is the game based ?
Canada, Greenland
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The game is based on Leif Erikssons journey to Vinland. It is believed that he was the first European to visit America. Leif travelled from Greenland to Newfoundland, Canada - and back again.
Credit the makers of any assets you used below:
Broughlike tutorial by Jeremiah Reid:
https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/
Music by Jackson F. Smith - "Cantina Rag":
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jackson_F_Smith/Jackson_Frederick_Smith/Cantina_Rag
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Dang thats a lot of spells for a game jam game its also impressive to make a procedurally generated world.
Thanks! Procedurally generating a world is actually easier than designing it yourself :)
Really fun to play!
Great to know!
This was really really fun! :D A very fresh mechanic. Almost like some sort of puzzel/adventure thing. I think I would've loved some more in-game explanation of some sort what all the spells did, at the moment it was a lot of scrolling between the game and the description. I think a very nice addition here would be to perhaps add more spells as levels increased and each time you picked up a new one, you'd get some sort of description.
All in all, the fact that you could push so many spells and content in "just a jam game" is really admirable! :D
Well done!
Happy you like the game. Perhaps I will add explanations of the spells. Most of the spells were in this tutorial but I added some of my own:
https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/
This was really fun, I enjoyed this one a lot. The spells give it that extra bit of depth, and I found myself saying "just one more run" whenever I died. Those moose though, so strong.
The moose gains energy by eating walls as you probably noticed. So just kill them early and you will be fine. Thanks for your efforts.
Interesting combat mechanic. Visual feedback of player damage enemy and enemy damage player effects would be helpful for player in understanding what action took place.
Additionally found a game glitch where on completing the level with no hearts left (and player not dead) in next level with this condition player never took damage. Basically the player could never die in future events.
One note to take away is when making simple games is to avoid unnecessary or excessive amount of game content as this will have unknown affects on your gameplay in your case it are the spells. There are just too many of them to understand how and when to use in a turn based game especially when the game is fast paced.
Overall a basic and simple design, interesting gameplay, fitting art, and a work well done.
Thanks, I will look into the glitch. The game is turn based so you can take all the time you need and choose the correct spell. By playing many times hopefully you will learn to use the spells correctly. Anyway, I agree in priciple that too many spells is overwhelming. In an eventual update I would add monsters but maybe not spells.
This was fun! Some of the powerups were a little confusing, but I appreciated the description on the game page. Did a few runs, and got wrecked by a lot of angry mooses.
He he, the angry moose is my favourite. I agree the spells are confusing.
yo it was fun actually.. some of level get so difficult at some point but overall fun experience
Thanks for writing. Yes, it quickly becomes hard but the idea is to have a short time per game round and improve by playing many times. Setting a correct difficulty level suitable for most people is almost impossible.
Honestly, the gameplay is really nice ! Like the game !
Thanks a lot!
Nice game!
Thanks for playing!
Nice game!
I really love the gameplay mechanics and the powerups are great too! I realized that the level in this game is procedurally generated? That's awesome. Great game.
Happy you like the game. The levels are procedurally generated but I didn't write the algorithm myself. Check out the tutorial:
https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/stage2.html
This game reminded me a lot of crypt of the necrodancer. I love that kinda combat, and this game has a unique take on it. Enemies don't hit you if you hit them first, so you can always beat a guy 1v1. BUT - once you get surrounded you get overwhelmed. And a lotta the spells help out when you do get surrounded. This game has some solid mechanics.
I think the visual presentation felt a little bit flat. If you did another passthrough of the pixelart of this game with shading/lighting, it would really pop out!
Overall, great job!
Thank you! Yes the visuals are flat but making nice graphics takes ages and I only had a week. Will consider making some better art.
Loved the rogue gameplay and enjoyed it enough to repeat it until I beat it. The spells were a bit iffy sometimes, not sure if it was me misunderstanding their usage maybe lol. Fun little Star Wars song too. :) Well done!
Great job reaching the end. I know the spells are strange so here is a short summary:
Wind: Move player to a random location.
Quake: Damage monsters based on number of adjacent walls.
Storm: Move monsters to random locations.
Restart: Fresh start of the level.
Heal: Add health for player and adjacent monsters.
Flee: Go back in reverse direction.
Browse: Eat herbs and regain health.
Gold: Heal monsters and place treasures.
Alchemy: Make gold of adjacent walls.
Power: Extra power in next attack.
Regain: New spells.
Stun: Stop all monsters temporarily.
Bolt: Shoot ray in player heading direction.
Cross: Hit monsters with cross rays.
Ex: Hit monsters with X-rays.
Good luck!