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The GameDev.tv Game Jam 2022 - Free Course For All Submissions!

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A jam submission

Arena of DeathView game page

Grim Reaper offers you a deal. will you accept it?
Submitted by Zhuraj — 4 hours, 48 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Story#2302.7892.789
Music#2463.2893.289
Aesthetics#2473.5793.579
Sound#2702.9472.947
Theme#2883.2373.237
Fun#3952.9212.921
Mechanics#4632.6582.658

Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Gintoki1234Submitted1 year ago

Pixel art works looks great. One quick fix I would recommend is centring the camera on the player. Also the attack hit box or animation does not work sometime. But overall, pretty good game.

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A Reaper's Job is Tough
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Hey, 

Thank you for your review.  Glad that you like the Pixelart. 

The Camera is centered to the player. But there is a "Death Zone" were the player is able to move in and the camera will not move.

Thank you for playing my game :) 

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Phoenix GamesSubmitted1 year ago

I love the graphics! 

Sometimes it was hard to hit and not being hit!

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Blake the Ghosthunter
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,

thank you so much for your kind feedback. 

Yes i will work on the controls and animation. 

There were no time left while the jam is running for fine tuning this stuff. 

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0nitenshiSubmitted1 year ago

Nice work. The idea is cool.

For me, you should just adjust the blocking feature. Because when you block, you can still move and then make the enemies follow you to a trap, that will kill they for you.

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1 Life 2 Die
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey, 

thank you for playing my game and your kind feedback. 

It's not a bug, its a feature :D 

i want that the player is able to move while blocking. I made the whole Animation wich takes a few hours :) 

Mybe the player should move slower when blocking... 


Thanks again for playing!!

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haozySubmitted1 year ago

Wow for first game and you did all the graphics is impressive. I wish I could do that. Just handling the programming was already challenging for me.

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Nobody Said Life Is Fair
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

hey, 

Thank you so much for your kind feedback :) 

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804 Game StudiosSubmitted1 year ago

Great concept, but I would fix the animations. In Unity, make sure that the "Has Exit Time" is not checked in the animation transition. That may help with making the attack animations more responsive.

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Eatables
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,

 thank you for playing my game. 

Yes fixing the animation and controlls is number one priority after jams end. 

Thank you for the tip with the "has exit time" i will take a lot and check if that is the problem.

Thank you for your feedback :) 

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YACO GamesSubmitted1 year ago

Really cool game and concept! It's  fun, looks good and the story is pretty cool too:D
 I really like the deal with the reaper and how the character is stuck in purgatory until he collects the souls. Great work there!

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Hell's New Strategist
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

hey,

thank you for your kind feedback.  :) 

im glad that you like the game and story. 

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vo0do0Submitted1 year ago

Great idea, altough I had issues playing the game, animations didnt really fired in arena and it was hard to fight, but when you get use to it is fun ;)

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Lost Soul
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey, 

thank you for your feedback and playing my game. 

Yes, i will work on the animations and controlls after jams end.  :) 

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LS MatSubmitted1 year ago

Great Game, I'd say "souls-like" :D!! I found it a bit tricky blocking the enemy attacks when I was moving/approaching, so many times I died because of this. But in any case, An enjoyable experience. Congrats!

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Nanni 2
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thank you so much for your kind feeback! 

Also thanks for playing the game. 

i'm glad you liked it :)

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g3rgSubmitted1 year ago

Cool graphics and theme, a bit of work on the controls and it would be awesome!

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Death Witch - GDTV Game Jam
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for playing my game. 

Yes, the controlls are number one on my todo list. :)

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KepFoxSubmitted1 year ago

Good first release! Impressive!

The controls were responsive but they didn't quit seem to line up with the animations, so for smoother gameplay I'd say that is one of the priorities to get working on :D

The pixelart was pretty good for someone who's new to it, a lot better than I've seen in games over the years (and a lot better than I do myself too haha). Keep practicing and I'm sure you'll be great at it in no-time, it definitely looks like you've got an eye for detail when it comes to graphics!

The aesthetics were nice and did make the game feel dark, which was - I assume - your intention, good job!

Do you have any plans to continue working on the game?


Good luck in future  jams!

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Vampire Overlord
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,

Thank you for your kind feedback.  

Yes the Animation is one of my highest priorities on my looong todo :D.

Yes i want to continue on the game after the jams end.  

Want to implement the "should have" features of the game.(Buyable Gear, different enemies,...) and neccessary bugfixes like the Controlls and the Animation not feels as smooth. 


Thanks for playing the game and for your feedback !


That means a lot to me...

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JoeRaigSubmitted1 year ago

Nice pixel art, keep practicing! Fun fact, I was in the middle of two skeletons and when they attacked, they killed each other (I hate it when in other games enemies don't hurt each other)

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Soul Guardian
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for playing my game. 

Yes friendly fire is active :D 

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Kaelmix StudioSubmitted1 year ago

That was fun but really hard! I tried to gather the 1000000 souls but could not more than 20 :o)

The only drawback I could see so far is that the pace is a bit slow.

Keep it up!

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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for playing my game. 

Yes i will work on the pace. i actually wanted to add different weapons with more power. And other enemies whos dropping more souls. But then came the deadline :D

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HenRMJSubmitted1 year ago

This was a massive undertaking. It's amazing you attempted something like this. And I did play all the way up to level 9. I don't know if I was doing something wrong but progression felt like it was taking forever. So maybe balancing the game to scale faster would be cool. I found myself at level 4 feeling like I hadn't made any progress. There were a handful of glitches too. But the art style, the animations. They were all really great!

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Soul Collector
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,

Thank you so much for playing the Game.  Yes i will work on the balancing of the game. It was planed to add more enemies wich drops more Souls and buyable gear from the Reaper to get stronger and so on. 

A lot of work to do :) 

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FXPirateSubmitted1 year ago

Nice game.


It seems like you sometimes get damage before the enemy hits you.

I found a spot that allowed me to run out of bounds

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Death and the shrine of life
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,

Thank you so much for playing my game.  

it could be that there is  a problem with the animation. 

The attached collider is activated at one point in the animation and deactivated again at a later point. Maybe there is an error in there. I'll take a look. 

Thanks for your feedback!

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bjorvackSubmitted1 year ago

Nice game, controls are a bit hard to master. Maybe some tuning in the reaction speed would help

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Spectro, Deaths best friend
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey, 

thank you for playing my game. I had not so much time to balance the Controls. 

I will update the Game after Jam with better Controls. 

Making all the Animations and Graphics and the Programming of the game was a litte to much :D

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PteropusSubmitted1 year ago

I like the look and the mood of the game

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Tommy Double Dead
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey, 


Thank you for playing my Game.

 Yes it was my first try into Pixelart. I only use one color Palette for the hole game. I think I will do it again next time. 

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DeathJehutySubmitted1 year ago

maybe i'm missing something, how do i go back to level? The mechanics are nice but difficult to master. Good idea of the stamina bar to always keep under control

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Nanni 2
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

hey,

thank you for playing my game. You should be able to go back to the "Level Area" on the top right of the map. On the same spot where you come from the area you can press "E" to go back. 

I added a screenshoot. 



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GIGATANK 3000Submitted1 year ago (1 edit)

Just a heads up, got this error when it started to load. I'll try another browser.
"Your browser does not support graphics API "WebGL 2" which is required for this content."
Running on Mozilla Firefox 100.0.2

Works fine on Edge for those wondering.

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Gore Tank
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Oh thank you so much. I didn't test the game on Windows. Just with Safari on my Mac. I will try to figure out why this happened. 

Thank you so much for Testing :) 

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PenthusSubmitted1 year ago

Had fun playing it and enjoyed the planned game loop. Also really digged the art you made.

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MyFirstGame GameJam
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago

Hey,


Thank you so much for playing my Game. 

It was the first time I publish a game. I learned a lot. 

To make all the Animations took a lot of time. :D 

Thanks again for Playing :) 

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RicoTVSubmitted1 year ago

I found it hard to play which was a shame because it presented very nicely and the story got me excited.

Sadly I think it is highly unlikely I could gather 1,000,000 souls, did you manage it?

What I saw that I am often guilty of that could help improve your game is the different pixel resolution characters, UI, BG etc. are all different it felt quite jarring and was a good lesson for me - so thank you for that :)

Solid concept and some great mechanics.

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Death Starter
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ZhurajDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Hey thank you so much for playing and rating. No I think its not possible to gather the 1mil souls yet. I didn't manage to implement more different enemies.  Its planed to add stronger enemies who will drop more souls . And also the possibility to buy gear and upgrade your avatar to gather souls faster. 

Thank you for your advice with the different resolution. I didn't noticed that. 

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RicoTVSubmitted1 year ago

You are welcome at a glance you game really excited me very nicely composed and I could see your plans for expanding (upgrades etc.) we are all guilty of a little overscope going into these jams :). 

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