Really interesting game. I included it in my Movie Game Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out! :)
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Sword Break's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay Innovation | #4 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Movie Interpretation | #6 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Visuals | #10 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #12 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Audio | #12 | 3.722 | 3.722 |
| Fun | #17 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
IMDb link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4302938/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Movie scene description (plus video link if possible!)
based on the giant skeleton scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdr51Y91SQE
Does your game or video link contain movie spoilers?
Yes (minor spoilers)
Please list any pre-made art/music/other assets that you used.
all done by team.
How many members in your team?
3
Anything you want to say to players before they play?
Ok, here's how you play the game:
counter the skeleton attacks with musical combos:
- when he drops rocks use the BLOCK (1-2)
- when he grabs a teammate use ATTACK (3-6-5)
- between attacks you need to FLY (7-8-9) up to the swords in the skull and try to find the sword unbreakable.
- if you find the sword you win.
- if your teammates' health-bar reaches zero you lose.
Comments
Sorry for the late feedback but I really enjoyed the game and how it incorporated the keyboard as playing the instrument! The Graphics and Music were great however I want to note that ally death happened a bit too quick (maybe more playtesting would help?) and the combination for fly felt awkward when all the other commands were inputed horizontally, but other than that I enjoyed the game it's art, music, and unique concept!
Anyway one thing I do want to mention is I'm going to make a Game Jam Spotlight Video on my favorite games from this jam on my Game Design Analysis Channel Etra Games in a few days! So here's a shameless plug to my Youtube channel if you want to be notified of when the video releases! :
thanks for the feedback! there are a lot of things i would've changed if i had more time (im thinking of doing a mock of how i would've made the game if had actual time to play test and solve problems) but im glad u enjoyed it :)
ur link doesnt work but i'll be happy to see ur review once once its online.
cheers.
Pretty much perfect! :D
Great graphics & music.
Really clever interpretation of the scene into this style of game.
I think only thing that made it harder for me to complete was my lack of numpad (small mac keyboard)
But I persisted and was glad that I did.
Congratulations on a great entry & good luck! :D
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Here Comes The BrideYeah, definitely hard to grasp the controls. This feels like it would have been better with controller support, but I can see what you were going for with playing specific notes in sequence, like Kubo did. I looooooooooove the visuals though.
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Eating MachineReally cool! I l loved the movie and loved this game sequence, felt just like the movie. I constantly hit the wrong sequence of numbers, but I probably just need more practice. I don't think there's much else I could add that others haven't said already, really great job!
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Sharks! In Space?!I haven't watched the movie, but it was a good game design example, good visuals and fun gameplay. Congrats :)
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Not GuiltyNicely done, I like the combat, even though I'm not very good at it. haven't seen the movie so I don't know what to think on that front but it is a good bit of fun.
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Surface to Air PrototypeHah I think I could have saved myself a decent bit of frustration if I'd read the instructions before playing. I really liked the art direction and the sound, but the gameplay confused me a fair amount.
I think a big part of it came down to the controls - I felt like they were unnecessarily convoluted, and without reading the description I wasn't sure what the purpose of Flying even was. So after dying a few times I settled into a rhythm of blocking and attacking for a few minutes and wondering if I was even doing damage. I wondered if you'd just obfuscated a healthbar or something like that.
Simplifying each of the actions to a few buttons (while keeping the combo inputs) I think would have alleviated a lot of the struggle and made me more likely to experiment, but also I think the action keywords could use adjusting. To a new player, "attack" sounds like the action that would do the most damage, whereas "Fly" sounds like a potential dodge move. It didn't appear as if my attacks were being deflected so I assumed that there just wasn't a hurt animation/flash implemented and that my attacks were still doing minute amounts of damage.
Anyway. I wouldn't write this much text if I didn't think there was something good here that could be built upon. I think the base game is still very good and has a lot of potential depth, it's just been let down by a few minor design problems here and there. It's still very good for a jam game and I really appreciate the innovation and ambition - great job
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Mimi's Delivery Dashthanks for the comment. i agree with the fact that the game play is unreadable. the name of the action stayed the same as in the original concet and i kinda got used to them so didnt really think of updating but the plan was to have the different commands revealed as an in-game tutorial that i carefully designed in a way that the player would understand what each did and the timing of it. but due to miss communication with the programmer it wasn't implemented well. by the time i got the build it was too late to do anything about it. ...
i wrote down the directions so ppl could still have a chance to play it but this is definitely not the version of the game i wanted to make.
im glad you enjoyed it despite it's flaws!
Truly inspired translation of the scene to game. Loved everything about it. Makes me wish for a full Kubo game!
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Historical Booth BabesAWESOME! I loved this. I know I should give some feeback, but I have nothing negative to say about the game :)
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