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A jam submission

Blame the Blade: Concerto of SteelView game page

Fight and die in fast-paced turn based duels
Submitted by der Mondhase (@DerMondhase) — 4 hours, 32 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Aesthetics#14.6674.667
Complexity#23.6673.667
Fun Factor#24.0004.000

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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(+1)

Quite fun, easy to get into. I am tempted to suggest -something- that adds variety to the characters beyond the aesthetic, but that's obviously something better served for beyond a game jam. I think you have something really great here that can easily, easily be expanded into a full game. I'd buy it.

(+1)

(replying with my other account) Hi, currently each character has a set of unique skills that change how interactions work in a subtle way (e.g. Lacrima deals double damage to Barrier, Frida's Excel is always automatically amped...). There are also differences in health totals, meter length and barrier pips. While these differences are subtle, they add some complexity to the matchups (e.g. Frida always having Amped Excel makes it so that using Excel against her is more dangerous). I wish I could find some other way to make the characters more distinct without increasing the complexity too much :D

Fire soundtrack, cool charcters, fun mechanics. Another certified Mondhase classic.

Just... every model appears as a pill to me, can i have some help?

Developer (2 edits)

Wait what? how? I have never seen this bug around...?! Let me check again, but I'm sure I can't reproduce it.

Could you try downloading the game again? The pills are only placeholders, I have no idea how things might have got messed up.

Just to be sure, have you unzipped the files before running the exe? Are you using a dedicated graphic card?

Developer

I uploaded a debug build too. Can you run it and see if the problem persists (run the console file in the folder after zipping)? If so, can you show me the console output?

there ya go:

Developer

Which kind of computer are you using? The reference to Google Inc seems weird. Let me see if I can find an answer somewhere, never seen this bug before. But it seems to be something related to the graphic card.

Developer (1 edit)

AH! Found it! It says that your graphic card's drivers need to be updated since they do not support OpenGL3.3.

The second line:

> WARNING: Your video card drivers seem not to support OpenGL 3.3

Seem to be the culprit and causes the rest of the errors, at least from what I can get.

This is how it looks on my PC on my integrated Intel card:

I can try looking for a solution, but I'm not sure what the issue might be here, aside from that one... what precisely is your graphic card model?

Developer (1 edit)

By forcing my graphic card to run the Angle driver, as in your screenshot, I got to reproduce part of the error. Let me see if I can find a solution.
**EDIT:** I FOUND A SOLUTION! I will upload a fixed build in 30 minutes!

Developer

DONE! It should be fixed in the latest build, please check it out and let me know! I just needed to change some toggles for the quality of the exported textures!

Thank you so much for fixing this! I can finally play as my girl Mimi and not as a vitamin!

Also, is this canon in the Schwarzerblitz lore?

(2 edits)

You're welcome, it was a pretty obscure bug I couldn't find documentation on before you posted your error message. About the canonicity question:

The answer is "No, not at all".

Kryzalid and Lacrima are the protagonist of another *absolutely deranged* sci-fi novel of mine (one I am publishing weekly on my personal blog here). 

(Art by Yamda, the dev of Robot Heroes)


Frida is actually canon in the SCHWB lore (see here and following stories), as well as her daughter Akane, though she is just a newborn in the current SCHWB lore :')