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A jam submission

Dreamless ProphetView game page

The Unholy Crusade
Submitted by Gem Atlantic — 2 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Metroidvania#213.6003.600
Enjoyment#263.2003.200
Overall#273.2503.250
Design#323.0003.000
Presentation#343.2003.200

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Engine
Gamemaker 2

Team/Developer
Solo Dev

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Comments

Submitted

Nice entry! I liked the visuals, though at times they were a little unclear. I also had difficulty reading some pits, like others. I ran into a bug where after dying fighting the black box I couldn't move anymore (wasd stopping registering). I also agree with Pixxl's suggestion about introducing concepts more gradually. 

Submitted

Looks good, seems to have a lot of interesting mechanics and such and seems like a metroidvania. Didn't get far as you have space for jump along with WASD for movement and a mouse for shooting and blocking. Moving right and jumping at the same time is awkward and uncomfortable for me to do with my left hand the way you have it setup. Not sure why you couldn't of just used W for jump instead.

Submitted(+1)

Great game! I really liked it, but unfortunately it was a bit too buggy for me to complete it. I ended up clipping outside the world quite a bit, both when traversing the world and when restarting after death. I really feel that if you iron out some of these problems, then you'll have something really awesome!

Other general notes:

Perhaps a more gradual tutorial would be nice, where concepts and controls are introduced a bit more gradually, rather than all at once. Concepts like the inventory were a little tricky for me to grasp as well. When asked by the shop to get certain things first it wasn't really clear what they were. In the inventory and in the world they are icons, but the shop asks for them by their names, which got a bit tricky for me.

Doing things, like combat or clearing destructible walls felt great. I really like the screenshake and sound effects. It was very satisfying!

Upgrading your character to be more potent was really satisfying as well. The gameplay loop of gathering loot and then upgrading your character was really nice. Perhaps the main base should've been somewhere else in the level though? Backtracking through the mountain every time was a bit boring.

One clever thing I liked was how you introduced the destructible walls. Placing a turret on it that you instinctively try to smash was a very intuitive way to discover the breakable walls. Very nice!

I liked much of the artwork, but some of it was a little too noisy in my opinion.

Perhaps you could make it clearer where you can safely go and where a pit is deadly.

I liked the variety in the enemies. Their behaviors were nice and predictable.

I didn't understand that I could fight the black cube.. Maybe it could be made to look more enemy-like?


Some quirks I noticed:

You can heal endlessly in spawn, meaning you can be basically invulnerable in game.

The options button doesn't work, neither in the menu or in game.



If you do decide to work further on it after the jam, I'd be very interested in playing a later version with some bugs squashed!

Submitted(+1)

I really like it ^^ I love the art and theme, with all the scrap parts for crafting. The shield mechanic and healing is well made, makes the moment to moment combat really fun :) and being able to  find the gear you dropped after dying is appreciated.

I had a few crashes and had to start over a few times, I've been trying to see everything and finish the game but I think some of the doors are broken in some areas? I know it was at least 2 of the green doors would take me inside a wall in a random room and Id have to restart right from the beginning again, unless I was doing something wrong maybe?

I think I could fully upgrade from grinding one of the bosses,  but I don't want to win like that I wanted to see all the rooms ^^  regardless of the technical stuff though I still think this is absolutely great. :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that you tried to see everything, sorry about the crashing and room transition bugs,  I didnt end up being able to test some of the later game aspects as much as id have liked to