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A jam submission

Wizard's LifeView game page

Submitted by Asim — 18 hours, 49 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Unexpectedness#393.1213.121
Audio#612.7272.727
Fun#692.7272.727
Visuals#772.6972.697
Gameplay Innovation#792.3642.364
Overall#802.7272.727

Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Please list any pre-made art/music/code/other assets that you used.
About 50% of Premade Sprites are used which include Dungeon, Orc and Player, and Knife sprites. Level music is also premade and some coding help is gotten from Brackeys video.

Credits links are in the game page.

How many members in your team?

Team of 1

List each team member's role, along with their social media / website links!
Asim Rai (Developer)

Anything you want to say to players before they play?
This is a short Adventure game.

Controls: WASD or Arrow Keys to move. Left Mouse Button to shoot.

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Comments

Submitted

Very simple, it has potential. The wizard movement at the platforming level is weird, the game is unexpected but ends very quickly. Is there a way to beat the police?

Submitted

A very interesting game! I wish it could have been longer, but given the number of different playstyles implemented it's understandable. I would definitely be interested in playing again if it were to receive an update in the future.

Submitted

Felt bit hard to play and jump, if thing the acceleration on the character make hard to control, and i died sometimes without knowing why (i guess was the wholes). I like the change on the perspective, reminds me Contra 3. Good effort

Submitted(+1)

Some thoroughly unexpected turns throughout. At first I thought the switch of perspectives was an interesting move, but then the Pokemon style shootout & rebirth?? It was a wild ride (go house Sliderman)

Overall it could use polishing up, the jumping in particular felt very jagged, but the idea was interesting and you took it further than I'd anticipated. Nice work :)

Submitted(+1)

I was smiling the whole time playing this game. Great usage of guilt immediately over the first orc kid. Nice twinges of humor and plenty of unexpectedness.

The 2d sidescolling was a bit fugly to play, but I still endured it because I wanted to see how it turned out. As others said the camera jumping was a pretty bleh and it felt like the wizard should have been moving before he actually is. I think if you lowered your axis requirement for movement it would help? Like it's waiting for input=1 and maybe it should wait for input=.25 or something.

The police fight wrapping it all up was pretty great. This wizard killed many orc kids, it makes sense the police are after him. I really liked the baby flashback too. We never think of our characters as babies. Good entry!

Developer (1 edit)

aww... thanks for the wholesome feedback, appreciate it <3

Submitted(+1)

A funny little game. Well done.

Submitted(+1)

Funny Game, i like this concept of switching game genres, it is really unexpected, no matter if you know that genres changes, you will never know what genre would come next, good job.

Developer(+1)

thanks cute anime girl

Submitted(+1)

The game is very humorous and has some unexpected twists and turns, I love it!! It definitely made me laugh a few times. 

I love how you can shoot yourself in the face lol, I definitely did that more than once because the way the wizard bounced was very funny. 

Picked the good old Sliderman in the end. Great job!!

Developer(+1)

Nice, thanks for playing till the end. I wanted to stop the knife rotation so it doesn't hit the wizard but I failed so you can now shoot yourself with magical knife :d . Good Choice on the House, everyone expect Hubblebuff House is a winner. 

Submitted(+1)

Cute! The tutorial integrated into the level with text was great, and wasn't annoying if you died and went back to it, while still giving all the info you needed. Very much appreciated the humor as well with the orc kid and parent orc. I was confused why nothing happened when I tried to kill the big orc. Having a bit more "looks distracted...maybe you can sneak past" or something would be useful. 

The jumping felt a bit off, which combined with the many holes in the level design made it a bit frustrating. The police fight was definitely unexpected! 

Developer

The game was going to be called "Kill the magic girls" at first, inspired by twitch thots but i didn't want to draw thots all day so I switch the game into something else. I wanted to do something with the big orc but ended up just leaving him to complete other levels. 

Submitted(+1)

In the beggining I was like oh, it's nice you took the time to implement both topdown and sidescroller, then I was like aaah, yeah! Unexpected! In the end I was like: For sliderman! Really enjoyed that xD

Developer

I'm soo happy to hear your feedback even though my game definitely lacks the polish compared to your game. I wanted to make more levels based on your house choice so the wizard can have different endings based on your choices but I got burned out near the end so didnt have time to complete it. Silderman is a strong house but they have alot of bad wizards in that house so be careful.

Submitted(+1)

That was really fun. I was like woah :O  at so many different moments because I wasn't expecting what happened. You made me sad for the orc. But then you put a bunch of orc children in my path! I deserve to be taken by the police for my mass murdering. Anyway, great game!

Developer

Thanks for getting rid of those pesky orcs for me :D. Yes, you do deserve to go to jail for a long long time xD

Submitted(+1)

Noice, Art and music was amazing

Submitted(+1)

Hey - I liked the unexpected police fight because I think that the wizard definitely deserved to go to jail. It's been said before but on the 2d platformer part the camera and the colliders (with the wizard and the ground) felt off. I really enjoyed the joke where when you restart you're just a baby, I was 50% sure it was going to just end right there lol. Well done!

Developer

haha thanks, Im glad you got that far in the game :D

Submitted(+1)

I like the idea and levels! Very nice

Submitted(+1)

Really liked the idea and the art! Also the theme is 100% respected.
Good job!

Developer

aww thanks my dude. 

Submitted(+1)

I'll start saying that I'm fanboy of pixel art, so I love the art!!! :D And the game play look a little bit weird for me like when u jump the camera jump as well, and its a little bit annoying but the overall is really good, I like platformers.

Developer(+1)

I also found it very annoying as well. I spent alot of time trying to fix that but cinemachine doesn't work well with how i set up the knife controls. After a few hours of trying to fix that I gave up and went to work on different levels. 

Submitted(+1)

I got ya, I think u can still give it a try until ratings deadline.Btw I find really cool the ones that build a whole game by themselves. Good job dude!! :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks dude, I can tell that you have a Big PP.