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Knight In Shining Armour's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Innovation | #1 | 4.366 | 4.366 |
Overall | #5 | 4.268 | 4.268 |
Gameplay | #10 | 4.195 | 4.195 |
Theme interpretation | #15 | 4.195 | 4.195 |
Audio | #49 | 3.683 | 3.683 |
Graphics | #89 | 3.707 | 3.707 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository
https://github.com/marc-jones/game-off-2022
Comments
Fun game! Slightly buggy but the puzzles were interesting and innovative.
A great mechanic for a clever, clever play on a cliche! The graphics are simple but effective. There's just the right amount of radiance to the light elements, and I love the little light charge up doodads. That design is just plain cool. Good choices were made with the pre-made sound assets, too. Nothing feels totally out of place.
The mechanic is such a good idea, and I love that the game didn't feel the need to hold my hand. It gives you the controls but lets you figure things out on your own (like pushing the boxes, etc). That agency made solving the puzzles so satisfying.
Also enjoyed the variance in jump vocalizations; that gave me a good chuckle, especially paired with how bouncy the knight sprite is. For what seems to be a one-man operation, this is a killer game.
My only suggestions would be to fiddle with the sound balance a bit and add some visual interest to the knight and the backgrounds. The light charging sound, for example, is pretty loud compared to the music. The backgrounds are also quite cavernous. Tossing some shapes and details in there just to mix things up would make a difference.
Thank you for your detailed feedback! Haha, I never pass up an opportunity to make some sound effects, so I recorded myself grunting and randomly pitch shifted them; I kept chuckling to myself when I put them in so figured they should stay! Thanks for the feedback on the audio levels, I found it difficult to balance as it sounded different on different computers / speakers.
Very interesting gameplay! Just don't know why the open door can't go to the next level
Fun game! The levels really made me put on my thinking cap. The sound effects were very nice as well.
Please become a game designer. Please become a game designer. Please become a game designer.
Now that's been said, great game! It was original and very fun! It's a bit weird to say, but it is very "natural" / easy to understand. When you see the light reflecting, the mirrors and the door, you know what you have to do.
One thing, I would just tuned up the volume of the audio a bit. Maybe it's just my computer though.
Other than that, it was a nice take on both the theme and the gameplay!
PS: Please become a game designer. Thank you.
This was really cool! A great take on the cliche, great puzzles that get harder as you go along - the only problem I ran into was on the level with the moving platform, the platform got stuck and there didn't seem to be a way to fix it.
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