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Beaten the whole game, good job! It was a bit difficult, but nothing crazy. Most of my deaths were caused by performance issues, most likely due to playing in browser. I like how there were risk vs reward choices in routing, that's level design 101 but still good. The one thing I'd add to make this game better (in my opinion) is a dotted line projected from the player character's tip, so that you can instantly tell where is your front pointing at any given moment, because the game can get a bit disorienting if you have to focus your eyes specifically on the triangle and nothing else. Also, it took me an embarassingly long time to figure out that holding forward is required to move, and I assumed I'm homehow supposed to do it all with boost thrusts, which is plain impossible.

lol, yeah, it surely is :D
Enjoy, and if you like it, I have a better iteration of it on the page, it's called Damnation - similar game, but better made.

Aw man, feels bad :D
Feel encouraged to keep on trying, there's a boss at 20,000 points and then you get to keep your speedrunning record.

This is cool. Though it makes perfect sense in the setting, I'm not a fan of the jump - very floaty, sometimes frustrating to land. Also, the spikes have a bit too wide of a hitbox, you can die before you observably touch them. Even if they're pixel perfect, it just doesn't feel fair, and feel is important.
But in general, I liked it.

Maybe soon, I'll be getting a quest sometime near. If there's nothing stopping me, why not :D

This is an interesting game and quite well made two, but being the dimwit I am, I got stuck already at the second level :D

Yeah, the visual feedback sucks for now, thanks!
The artist was trying to get into the Cuphead's vibe, so I'm glad it worked and she'd be too :)

You can be sure we will! :)

Amazing man!

We sure are, but personally, I can't wait to do the post-jam fix, let the game truly shine.

That's a very interesting association, people usually say it looks like Cuphead :D

Yeah, consequences of being hit not being shown is a big problem, thanks for appreciating the game for what it is! :D
We'll surely do a post-jam version sometime, with everything in its right place.

Ooh, didn't know about that, nice :)

What's the technique for creating such amazing textures? Downscaling photos and tinting them? I'd like to attempt the style myself sometime.

This was SO great. The aesthetic is exactly what I wanted to be doing for about 2 years, this is an incredible inspiration. I like how this is basically a very small metroidvania, I liked the thick atmosphere, all around great!
There were some visual glitches when I moved the camera sideways, in which various objects scrolled at different speeds, but it looked uncanny enough to add to the mood :D

You're welcome to try :D

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/460852

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/460852

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First things first - great job! The aesthetic was mostly consistent, and the game works quite well.

Now, both as a fellow developer and a Dark Souls veteran, I'm gonna pick this thing apart :D
The animations are too stiff and weightless, the particles of the chests look like placeholders, the combat system doesn't feel good enough - too little interactivity and impact on hits (like swords bouncing off of shields), enemies deal pitiful damage, your attacks hold close to no risk with their swiftness, having both jumps and rolls is more than enough avoidance, you have to be really bad at games to struggle at that point. The control scheme has some absurdities, mainly roll on Q, like who the hecc does that :D Also, no lock on on Scroll, that's a bummer. Music controller isn't the best, especially with this easily breakable AI, I've had constant music resets. What you copied too faithfully from Dark Souls games is the camera behavior, the hardest thing about the fights was seeing anything at all :D
For the problems, the most memorable one is the rotating of health bar on the first enemy, and the lack of health bars on further enemies.

In summary, it's not there in a lot of areas, but I can say you're certainly on the right track, and you seem to have enough skill to eventually get there. Best of luck to you :)

Very interesting game... once you grasp it. Took me about 10 tries and straight up minutes of looking at the tutorial flowchart to get it, it's a master class in cryptography :D
But after that hurdle, it's a very nice management game, I liked it a lot.

Nice! The shield dudes were quite tedious and I didn't fully figure out how to deal with them. I liked the art a lot and how there are the little  worldbuilding details like the kingdom's banners depicting a perpendicular angle. I ended up running past half of the game though, when all the enemies were the shield dudes :D

Quite confusing and a little bit clunky, and I couldn't really get past the initial area, but I liked the faces based on the robot's state.

VERY well executed!
When you boil the concept to the basics it's almost entirely "a collectathon platformer in which picking up stuff resets your short life timer" which, while quite interesting of an idea, doesn't fit the theme THAT much.

You'd get damage, unless you:
a) are facing the bullet you collide with
b) don't have a bullet ready
Both conditions must be met.

The systems for this are there, only the display broke in the last moment. When you get hit, you don't die, it's only added to the hit count, which is basically this game's scoring system - the less hits you take, the better.

Thanks a lot for playing!

Had a blast! Simple, elegant, and still full of nuance (you can for example do high damage combos by going back and forth).

Overally well done and juicy :)
I'd be even more impressed if it was actually just one line of pixels :D

Both versions don't do anything, sad, was curious what's this about

Welcome to roguelikes :D

This reminds me of the times I was first learning to play NetHack - everything displayed in Matrix-like letters, the whole keyboard is the controls, to know what does what I had to either read a separate book or use the help command which was always ready to overwhelm you with information. It felt like deciphering ancient technology, and I had a blast.
If you have any prior experience with berlinian roguelikes, this game is very obvious, but I can see where does your confusion come from :D

Really enjoying seeing some roguelike representation! Quite fun in its simplicity, I've really enjoyed myself here. The unorthodox control scheme was interesting, a weird marriage of numpad controls with WASD (at least it wasn't vi-keys, ugh). I loved how the monsters can hurt each other too, how you can interact with everything, how there's no real pathfinding so encounters are VERY forgiving, this is one of my faves so far!
The only flaw is that it barely fits the theme at all :D

This was quite fun. Liked the character's animation especially.
What I didn't like is this weird visual offsetting of the bullet, made it harder to predict how will it travel.

Neat!
Simple, but not stupid, speedrun friendly, juicy, enjoyable. Enjoyed it quite much :)
Got a bottled fairy on my first run, no idea what it's form :D

A tiny bit tedious, but the premise was enjoyable enough to ignore that. I love the feeling of obscurity Morse gives, and how you're so commited, even the basic menus are interacted with this way. Veery nice!

Very interesting concept! Wish I've seen it through though, the game locked itself in the "make me not kill him in one work" moment, that's a bummer.

Neat idea, great execution. It's a shame that restarting the room doesn't reset the stuck physics objects though.

Exactly, that hiding guy can only be properly hit from behind. There is health, but it's not displayed, sadly.
First the design was for the player to die and restart the level, then it changed, that if you get hit, you get a point, and the more points you have, the worse is your end score, so the player could strive to do every boss no hit. The score recording is there, working, but we ran out of time to show it properly, so it looks like you taking bullets is consequence free.

Thanks for trying it out!

Weird, when I wrote this there was only one big "The Developer didn't upload the game yet"

Wish there was a game, looks very appealing.

Super interesting as a concept/design, completely not a thing I'd enjoy playing :D
Also, an extra word of appreciation for making it work like this, you're most probably better at programming than me.

Design by substraction is a hard thing to do well. You've basically designed tedium - every tiny move requires a click, and exploring the map is also mostly guesswork I suppose.
Got stuck in the moment when I found the up direction, Alt didn't swap out the arrow, so I was basically stuck in the pit forever. The key bindings are quite funny, not gonna lie :D
Of course, congratulations on making it through your first jam! And the graphics were quite nice too, the camera work was decent, and the idea - maybe had some potential of which I too can't think of.

Very nice and interesting from designer's perspective, a little bit tedious from the player's perspective. Overally: great work!

Man, I SUCK at precise mouse movement :D
Great game though!