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A jam submission

HeartbeatView game page

Submitted by Dan7shFR (@dan7shfr) — 1 day, 23 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Music/Sound#193.8783.878
Graphics/Animation#234.2934.293
Overall#503.6053.605
Technical Implementation#773.3663.366
Fun/Design#873.3903.390
Theme/Limitation#1223.0983.098

Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game apply the limitation (and optionally, the theme)?
Boss Fighting

Team Size

Solo (1)

What main engine/tool/language did you use to construct the game?
Godot

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Submitted

One of the most fun games I've played from the jam yet! Great art style too. Only two real issues. The spike attack that covers the whole floor seems way harder to dodge than anything else. Even when I would jump to avoid them, I would fall back on them before they retracted. Also, sometimes after a boss phase the game would stop reading my movement inputs and I would get stuck.

Developer

Glad that you enjoy the game

Yeah that is some bug that I don't know how to fix yet.... For now, you just need to press the attack button again to be able to move back. And yes, a lot of people say that spike cover the whole floor is really hard to avoid... Thanks for the feed back... 

Submitted

I like how it looks and sounds, but I personally don't like having to wait to get a hit in. It makes redoing the boss fight take longer when it really doesn't need to. 

Developer

Yeah.. I should make the wait time shorter after you die... My bad

Thanks for playing..!

Submitted

Great work, love the art style and the gameplay was really fun

Developer

thank you :)

Submitted

Very well designed boss fight.  The controls felt a bit stiff at times, and I felt you should be able to attack in the air, but I genuinely had a fun time playing it.

Developer

Thanks for playing... I'll do some fix later :)

Submitted

Beautiful presentation i just love the setting, asethic and colour! Challening but fair too. Only colmplaint is the controlls are just too awkward for me. I would have preffered the traditional WASD with Space to Jump. Other wise awsome job. 

Developer(+1)

Yeah I don't know what I'm thinking... I'll do some change later

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

fun game idea love the art and the mechanics very well made great job

Developer

Happy to hear... Thanks for playing :)

Submitted

Gorgeous art! Really love the style and animations!

Developer(+1)

Thanks.. appreciate it <3

Submitted

It remind me a game from Vimlark about a player catching characters to make a word mixed with Hollow Night. 
The gameplay is great, at times brutal but fun. Nicely executed. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted

The art style is amazing, but the controls are dragging it all down. The movement feels unresponsive, and doesn't do what I want it to do. Also, the fact that you can't attack while in the air really hamper the options you have. All you do is wait until the boss comes down to attack him once, and he flies back up again. Also, the fact that both the entire-floor-becomes-spike attack and the horizontal high laser have the same signal is quite unfair to the player.

But non the less, it is impressive work from a single person, and I hope you are happy with what you achieved. 

Developer

Thanks for advice... I'll try my best next time :3

Submitted

Congrats on the game! Really cool. Reminded a lot of hollow knight, which I love.

Developer

<3

Submitted

Really nice graphics, I love the color pallet and shading style.  Kind of reminds me of heartbeast's art style.  Great job, very fun!

Developer

I think the same thing XD

Submitted

I really like the art style and all of movement feels good on their own, but i can't really wrap my head around the controls when im trying to avoid things and i keep pressing wrong buttons. Might be just me tho and i need to git gud. I still liked it even tho i sucked at it :) Well done!

Developer

Thanks... Appreciate it... :)

Submitted

Awesome stuff. I love the art style, and the sound design is pretty good.

The "rainfall" attack is basically impossible to avoid, however. The rest of the attacks are very well communicated, even easy to avoid. But the way the boss is invulnerable most of the time makes it kind of annoying to have to replay. You also can't attack in the air. And you can't start the fight with a gamepad, no button seems to talk to the boss.

Developer

yeah you right... I'll fix that later on... Thanks for advice <3

Submitted

Cool game!  I'm a big fan of the limited color palette you used here. Music and gameplay pair nicely as well.  I also thought the sprite work was really nice.  Good job!

Developer

Thanks.. Happy to hear

Submitted

fun game! hollow knight meets beat dr.  art style was cool and music is easy listening/catchy.  nice job on the game!


check mine out if you get some time https://itch.io/jam/vimjam2/rate/1200495

Developer

Thanks man I appreciate you playing... and yes i'll check out

Submitted

the full floor spikes is a bit to hard

Developer

thanks for advice... I keep that in mind

Submitted

Really cool Game! fun and entertaining!

all I think could be better are the controls, maybe add WASD? but overall great game!!

Developer

I guess I should give player that option too... Thanks for advice

Submitted(+1)

really nice game! it reminds me of hollow knight, also i really like te graphic!

Submitted

It's a little bit hard, i love the Graphismes and animations, but the inputs are very unconfortable. Good job, i rage quite haha

Developer (1 edit)

Yeah you right.. Thanks for playing :)

edit: love you game btw

Submitted

Very cool!

Developer

<3

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