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A jam submission

DespinaView game page

Mythological puzzle-platformer with a challenging boss fight!
Submitted by Despoena — 1 hour, 10 minutes before the deadline
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Submitted

the character and world design in this game is so nice, and the music is peaceful! the tutorial stages are very accessible and I got the hang of the controls quickly. this is a fun spin on a platformer, with challenging puzzles along the way. boss battle was challenging too!

Submitted

I really liked this game! The puzzels were fun, and the bossfight was delighfully difficult. I would suggest a couple of things:
1. Make the player hitbox smaller than the sprite. Nothing kills the will to play a game as much as being one hit away from defeating the boss and having a projectile just hit you. Keep in mind though, you might break the puzzles if you make it smaller in every direction, so i would recommend having a "hurtbox" for taking damage, and a hitbox only for collision.
2. Make the boss easier. For a short demo like this, having a grueling bossfight like this at the end is a bit too much. I enjoy hard bosses, but this one took me almost forty minutes, more than the rest of the game. One way to do this is to increase the delay between the boss deciding where to fire and it actually firing.
Overall, really nice demo! Ended up playing it twice to get the story because i missed the language options at the start, and enjoyed every second of it!

Submitted (1 edit)

Fantastic! The gameplay was really good, the mechanics are simple but I still struggled with the final level and the boss. The ambience was nice and the narrative was cool. The controls are a bit rough but not too much. I didn't get the language settings until I scrolled through the comments. Overall, great experience. Awesome work!

Submitted

Cool game. I got stuck on the level where I stacked 2 ice cubes and I couldn't find a way to jump up onto the squid. 

the gampelya was really enjoyable and stayed true to the style of old school platformers. Im not knowledgeable enough on greek mythology to comment on the theming of this game but it certainly stands out because of it. Unfortunately i got stuck on one level and at my witts end on how to solve, but the puzzles were well crafted overall. 

Submitted(+1)

Enjoyed it! I completely missed the meaning behind the flags, so I played through not being able to understand the story :D Protip: Click the American flag if you can read this and aren't multilingual 

I really liked the progression of mechanics, it builds really well on simple foundations. I do think it could be more responsive, it feel a little clunky and the keyboard key binds are very awkward. I loved the post-level-completion scene, great touch