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A jam submission

The BattlefieldView game page

Submitted by Ste-Gar — 9 hours, 39 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1203.7223.722
Theme#1433.7223.722
Mechanics#1633.5003.500
Sound#2103.1113.111
Music#3143.0563.056
Aesthetics#3803.2223.222
Story#4832.0562.056

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game total?
Just me!

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Characters: https://quaternius.com/packs/rpgcharacters.html Props: https://quaternius.com/packs/stylizedtree.html Level textures: https://25games.itch.io/25games-textures Music: https://soundcloud.com/crusaderp/sets/the-frontier

Link to your source?
https://github.com/Ste-Gar/The-Battlefield

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Comments

Submitted

Good game! Lots of mechanics, and they work well together. It's maybe a little too fast for the genre, you don't have time to think. But overall is nicely done!

Good job really!

Submitted

I enjoyed the mass movement of units in your game. I was working on something similar in mine. Giving your new character some room to breath after possessing him was a nice touch for playability. What would be nice next is a health meter and being able to take a couple hits before dying. Lots of neat ways to keep developing this game.

Submitted

That was a nice little action-packed piece right there.  Everything went so well together. The action was simple and fun, but there was a lot of depth when combined with the death mechanic. Having that shockwave upon death really opened things up and helped with crowd control and made time for you next soldier to dive into battle.  Nice work!

Submitted

Great little game. Sadly, I am too bad to get through it. Really great submission.

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Rest assured you aren't the only one who had trouble getting through the game; I definitely should have tuned stuff to make it a little easier :)

Submitted

That was fun ! Loved the visual, effects, music and sounds. The mechanic of the game is really cool too. It would be great to see in the future archers and other characters that could be picked :) 

Great work ! 

Developer

Thank you!

I really wanted to add more units, but unfortunately I didn't have time. I'll probably come back to the concept in the future though!

Submitted

I love the combat and difficulty of this game! With a strategy and a couple of tries it is just a matter of time and practice before you manage to aniquilate the enemies a bit more efficiently. It's a pretty fun game ^-^
Sometimes during gameplay after the blue shock wave, the game got a bit too slow for a couple seconds before going back to normal, but that probably just happened because my laptop is old as hell haha >_<

But don't worry about it because what I meant to say with this, is that you did a great job by programming something that not only looks this good but that also runs pretty fine on outdated machines like mine, not everyone manages to do this \(^-^)/ 

Amazing job there!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed my little game!

Doing a little testing, it actually seems that in rare occasions there is an issue with the slowdown/speed up thing. I'm not 100% sure on why that happens, as I didn't really have time to troubleshoot that during the jam... but I may get back to it in the future (or, more likely, redo the whole thing over :D )

Submitted

So..... CONGRATZ, you elicited a "Dieeee!" from me as I charged in with my last possession and no more energy. Loved your game. It me a second to actually figure out how to kill them but loved the melee combat in this. Then picking the right guy so you can carry on the carnage. Nice Job, loved this one!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your comment, I'm happy you liked (and maybe raged a little at :D ) my game!

Submitted

Great little game, really tough though, I managed to get past the first lot of enemy's but without any health pickups or more solders on my side I died straight away.

I hope you keep working on, really good effort

Developer

Thank you!

I wanted the game to be hard, but I maaaaay have gone a bit overboard :)

I think I will come back to this concept in the future, but will probably do the whole thing over :)

Submitted

This was a really cool concept and the graphics were nice, It was really hard and I couldn't beat it even after 3 attempts. I would have liked the attack to have a bit more reach, I think that would make it much more playable. Good attempt, keep at it!

Developer

Thank you for your comment!

I wanted to make the game hard to force the player to use the game's main mechanic; I realize now it's a bit TOO hard :)

Submitted

The main idea is really good. I liked the atmosphere of the game when the combat started. It would have been cool to see it more polished, it can even become a full game with a lot of potential.

Some ideas that I think would suit it very well if you keep working on it or expand it:

- Improve the combat with different types of attacks and their stamina response with cooldown time.

- The possibility to dodge, parry or hold with the shield (maybe even a front line of heavy knights).

- That when any soldier falls, his corpse stays there without collisions, but to give the feeling of a real battle.

- It would be amazing to include other types of units archers, cavalry, spearmen, even artillery...

- It would improve the visual differentiation between enemies and allies.

I hope I'm not overwhelming and that you find the tips useful. Best regards!

Developer

I thought of some of those things, but didn't really have time to implement them. I may expand (or do over) the game in the future, so your suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you very much!

Submitted

Interesting mechanic, although I kept thinking I was being attacked by my own army upon revival.  I'd also rework the health bar to make it a bit clearer as to what it represents.

Great work!

Developer

Thank you for your feedback!

Indeed there's a lot of stuff that needs a LOT of work, the timeframe being what it was. I was going for a show don't tell approach as much as possible, but maybe fell a little short of the intent :)

Submitted

Absolutely!  The important thing is that you were able to create an end-to-end experience in very limited time.

Submitted

Good but limited Experience, the Core Mechanic Idea is really cool!

The character handling overall needs improvement in my opinoin and the game needs more gameplay elements!!

Good Work, keep it up!

Developer

Thak you for your feedback!

I really did want to add more content like soldiers with different weapons and abilities, more levels, and to tweak controls and combat, but... I couldn't do that in time :)

Submitted

This was fun, the sound design added a lot to the feeling of being in a chaotic battlefield. I love the concept and I felt like a badass while also being quite fragile.

Developer

Thank you very much, that's exactly what I was trying to go for!

Submitted

RIP my allies :'(

Very neat concept there

Developer(+1)

Thank you! I assure you, no polygons where harmed in the making of this game :)

Submitted

Very clever death mechanic! I really liked the death effects.

Developer

Thank you, appreciate the feedback!

Submitted

The Mac zip wouldn't launch. I'll try it out if you can fix it. :P)

Developer

Thanks for letting me know! Do you get any error when trying to launch it?

Jam Host

Hi, your GitHub is missing the Packages folder. Please update it so it includes the Packages folder.
Here is an example of what it should look like when you are done: https://github.com/icepol/DeathIsOnlyTheBeginning

Developer

Hi Yang, I updated the repo; is it alright now?

Thank you!

Jam Host

Yup, looks good now :)