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A jam submission

Dark NightmaresView game page

Fight against a dark nightmare, and don't let your light fade in this thrilling boss battle.
Submitted by @giodev12 — 4 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#63.9333.933
Polish#83.9333.933
Overall#103.7333.733
Theme Interpretation#143.7333.733
Creativity#233.3333.333

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • A good little boss battle, if a little easy on the aiming. I did manage to beat the boss's second phase! Creativity was ok, a simple boss fight not to complicated but not really pushing anything new. Gameplay was great, loved the character movement. The aiming was a little to easy. Would have loved to see more complex mechanics with the boss as well, forcing us to have to make better aim than just leaving my mouse over the boss. Theme interpretation is great. Fight the darkboss and keeping your light. Polish was there (I even know what itch io packs you used xD love it!) I would have loved a more direct understanding of my health. The light was just not clear enough. I counted how many hits I could take before dieing XD

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

wow this is so fun it remind me of cuphead a bit. this is super fun grate job

Jam HostSubmitted(+1)

Interesting concept. Good interpretation of the theme. The nightmare killed me game after game, but the reason is probably because I'm a terribly bad player. Great game!

Submitted(+1)

Very fun but it's a little bit difficult.

Great entry!

Submitted(+1)

This was a lot of fun! I love little boss rushes. Great vibe, love the visuals and mechanics.

Submitted(+1)

Here I was thinking that the game was really easy, and didn't work properly when I won. Then he came back up, and made me reconsider lol. It wasn't terribly challenging, but for a jam, it was pretty close to perfect. The progression is really well done, and the attack patterns were very intuitive to learn. My only recommendation would be giving a way to see the player's health. Great work!

Developer

Hi!!! Thank you so much for the comment! I also wasn’t very happy with the player’s life mechanic. My idea was to use the theme so that the character’s light would fade as they took damage, but in the end, it didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped.

Submitted(+1)

nice game, good visuals,good music,interesting boss fight. Good luck!

Submitted(+1)

Solid polish, particles, and lighting effects.  Fun little entry.

Submitted(+1)

Neat game! I really enjoyed the polish you got.. good stuff!! The lore was pretty well presented as well! GG..

Submitted(+1)

this also works fine! but i'm not good to fight using right hand on mouse and a single left hand to move and jump ( normally WASD is for exclusive use to a single hand ). perhaps button settings with attack on left mouse button and jump on right mouse button sound better 

Submitted(+1)

This is a pretty fun little boss battle! wayy better than mine lol

Submitted(+1)

It was great! Was a bit unsure at what you’re supposed to do at the start, though. Since the dimmed-out boss sprite kinda gave the impression that it’s a bit farther into the background than it is. Other than that, it’s a fairly decent experience.