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A jam submission

Moth and the FlameView game page

Follow Flame and her shadow to complete objectives and fight off enemies.
Submitted by Tsaenami — 5 hours, 48 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#6533.0003.000
Cleverness#7553.0003.000
Playability#8043.0003.000
Artistic Style#9703.0003.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • I like the teleportation skill, but I feel the movement of moth is a bit slow making it take too long to utilize strategically. What does save it is that you can essentially hold down right click and attack at the same time so you're always moving moth around. It is difficult to tell when you land a hit on an enemy and vise versa (outside your own health bar), and so some form of hit indicator would be helpful in knowing the hitbox. I wasn't sure what the goal was either in the game, and did not know what the squares did after collecting them. Giving players direction and informing them of the goals helps motivate players to be invested in completing whatever objective there is. Overall, solid game. Good job.

Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
yes, its in the description!

Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
yes

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
yes

Tell us about your game!
WASD for movement
Mouse1(Right-Click) for shadow movement
Mouse0(Left-Click) for a basic 3–hit melee combo
Press E to teleport to Moths location

Moth and the Flame is a 2D Top-down horde extraction game where you control Flame and her shadow Moth simultaneously. Wander around the map defeating enemies and completing objectives to finally get extracted.

Extra Notes
Currently, the objectives don't have assets, so defense objective is a square, the collectibles are rounded squares, and extraction is a triangle. unfortunately, the kill objective could not be finished and time but is planned to be added later on. The initial map generation takes awhile in WebGL so please be patient! VFX is also not supported in WebGL which we learned a little too late to change. The shadow controls are also a bit slow on WebGL but regardless I hope you have fun, we sure did making it!

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Comments

Submitted

The attack was nicely animated! I really like the main character design so it'd be awesome to see it fully developed with running animations too.

Took me a little while to figure out the controls, but once I learned how to control the orb, it was a little easier. I like the super power mode! Really satisfying to clear the screen and get full HP.

I wasn't able to figure out the objectives so a bit more direction for that in game would have helped. I still had fun in my playthrough :) Nice work

Submitted

This was a fun horde game! I like the main character sprite (when they get their special AOE is cool as well). The enemies blend into the background, tho I think that's intentional. I would have liked more direction in-game of objectives since I wasn't sure what to do at first. Good job!

Submitted

Also! the teleporting mechanic was super cool! Can't believe I forgot to include that! Adds a lot and is super cool to be able to escape when you get surrounded