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Metroidvania Month 19

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A jam submission

Tale of a Witch (Game Jam)View game page

Use your broom to vanquish evil in this short metroidvania
Submitted by LevyMarCiS (@LevyMarCiS) — 1 day, 22 hours before the deadline
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Tale of a Witch (Game Jam)'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#393.4003.400
Metroidvania#463.0003.000
Overall#572.7752.775
Enjoyment#692.4002.400
Design#782.3002.300

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Engine
Unity

Team/Developer
Myself

External assets
Total Music Collection, Ultimate Sound FX Bundle, MagicaCloth, Quibli, Skeleton model, Bat model, player model and envelope, heart HUD icon, CloisterBlack font, Cathedral font, Schoonheid font

Prizes eligibility
PlusMusic

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kkairosSubmitted1 year ago (2 edits)

This game looks and plays pretty well!

I'm wary of piling on because I know others have also noted this, but coyote time should not be a requirement to make jumps that early--to be clear, I've made harder-than-intended platforming myself, so I know how it goes!

I wasn't sure where to go after getting the unspecified weapon upgrade in the mines, which is about where my journey came to an end.

The broom powerup and its uses world-design-wise were pretty excellent.

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Millennial Ghost Hunter
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QuivscorSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I was looking forward to playing this game :D Looks awesome and the music is very nice. However, platforming is super super difficult and I feel that in some case too punishing. I wish there were checkpoints (or more checkpoints, I haven't seen any). I've only got past skeleton boss in the cavern, but what I saw to that point pleasant to eyes and ears, but overly difficult.

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Arrow Treasure
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LevyMarCiSDeveloper1 year ago

I am deeply sorry that I unintentionally made punishingly difficult platforming for this game. I want to update the game after the voting period ends with hopefully easier platforming so people can actually play it in full and see what I’ve done.

I’ve also noticed the tutorial doesn’t show up. That was a very dumb mistake in my part (I deactivated the object so I could do some promotional art and forgot to activate it).

Again, I’m sorry about that.

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WigHzSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Cool looks!

Nice that you added coyote time. Less nice that it's impossible to make the first jump without jumping from mid air using that coyote time. Also, the spikes all over the place made me simply turn it off. 

Sid Meyer says "Who's having the most fun in this game? Is it the player or the developer?"

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Little trouble in the big Oak
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Jake Stafford MusicSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I really enjoyed the environment, very nice choice in music.  Those platforming sections right at the start are tough!  Also, I get that it is optimized for controller, but having KB/M controls easily available would be nice.  nice work!

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Noire
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LevyMarCiSDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you :)

It’s not only that it’s optimized for controller, it’s just that I didn’t want to go through the hassle of differentiating between controller and keyboard controls in the UI.

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FallingWallGamesSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Lovely graphics, especially the environment. I want to roll around in that soft grass! Also lovely music.

The difficult jumps start very early, and even after a couple dozen tries I wasn't able to get good enough to get very far.

It would be helpful to post the controls on the game page itself. Ideally this should explain what each button does, not just which key corresponds to which gamepad button.

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Shadow of the Serpent Lord
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LevyMarCiSDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

I’m glad you liked the graphics and the music! :)

I couldn’t get enough people to playtest the platforming and I didn’t know it was this hard. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything more encouraging than “git gud”.

I don’t know why I would do that since there’s an in-game tutorial that appears when needed.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback and I hope you can check out the rest of the game, there’s quite a lot of stuff in there ;)

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FallingWallGamesSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Yes, I had the same challenge! I played my game so much that I got too good at it, and the result was that it ended up harder than I intended it to be. :)

Still, these are learning projects above all, so hopefully we both learned a lot making them. :)

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