Game looks impressive. I was impressed with pixel art, but then I saw it's downloaded asset, then I like the sfx and it was also downloaded asset.
Finally I downloaded credits.txt and I still don't know what part of game YOU did.
I know that it's allowed to use assets, but for me the idea of the jam is to show what you are able to do in this timeframe.
So I think you should stated most clearly what is downloaded asset and what is your work (like inside the game, not in the file that I need to download) and TBH I would prefer simpler art and sfx, but made by you. Other solution to this is to team up with artist and musician.
So generally good idea, but for me it lost the charm as a jam game.
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Hi. First off, thanks for playing. This is a fair criticism, and something that I thought about near the start of the jam. I didn't have any intention of trying to pass off any of the assets as my own creation - in fact you'll see that I have pointed this out on many comments praising them. The credits are not in the game mainly because I ran out of time to properly put them in. I understand that to a lot of people jams are about making everything in the time frame. For me I had the concept and an idea of what the features were that I wanted. In order to make those happen I chose to use 3rd party assets as I am no artist and it certainly would have taken a significant amount of time for me to get the art to what I personally would consider acceptable quality. Perhaps this was an error or misunderstanding on my part, and I'd be interested in getting better at pixel art myself or teaming up with an artist in the future.
By all means rank my graphics and audio score 1/5 (I would have withdrawn from those categories if possible).
As for what exactly is my own doing in the game... Pretty much everything you don't see or hear! All of the code is by myself, save for a couple solutions pulled from the internet. All the scenes, animations (the ones in the animationplayer not the sprites themselves), and game logic were set up by me. There are a few assets that are my own creation, but nothing crazy (the health bar, skill icons [if you count those since they use the sprites], and arrow sprite).
Again thank you very much trying the game, and even more so for your detailed response that you clearly put thought into!
That's ok. You don't need to explain yourself and I don't blame you for using the assets. It's allowed.
I never thought that you tried to ```pass off any of the assets as my own creation```. That was not my intention.
You made credits file so it's fair and square.
I just wanted to know what you did, because it's not stated anywhere and I don't know that you are programmer. I literally look for any information on who you are and what you did in this game so I can check if it's good or not :)
Just a single note that: "Programming and putting all this stuff together by Aether95" will be enough.
Like man... Show off a bit. Tell me what you did so I can praise you :)