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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Technical Implementation | #8 | 3.967 | 3.967 |
| Fun/Design | #22 | 3.922 | 3.922 |
| Music/Sound | #31 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
| Overall | #40 | 3.680 | 3.680 |
| Graphics/Animation | #90 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| Theme/Limitation | #105 | 3.178 | 3.178 |
Ranked from 90 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game apply the limitation (and optionally, the theme)?
Your mind is being controlled to do the things your hate making you be on the edge of doing something you will regret for the rest of your life. The Flesh (the boss) is the one responsbile for this and it is up to you to find the armor of God to use against the Flesh and bring peace back to you.
Team Size
Pair (2)
What main engine/tool/language did you use to construct the game?
Unity/Photoshop/Audacity/Premier
Which diversifiers did you use, if any?
8 Bits, Retro Palette
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Love the ambience and the retro style! Good job! :)
Thanks!
This game is amazing in all categories. It had great music and that feeling of getting stronger and stronger felt amazing. The boss, music, and gameplay were great and the powerups felt fantastic to obtain. Definitely one of my favorite entries, amazing job!
Great! Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing :)
Oh, this one I liked. Good music and sound design and excellent game play. Great work :)
Thanks! Thank your for playing :)
I really like this game. I think it was a lot of fun and challenging at the same time. I really like the Nintendo-style cover as well. Nice touch. I look forward to seeing more of this. I think this has the potential to be an awesome game with more worlds to explore and having that boss be the antagonist the entire game. This almost has a wizards and warriors vibe to it. Nice work! I can't wait to see what you do with future updates.
Yay! Someone got our Nintendo reference! :D Wow, I think you nailed the direction we want to go very well. Thanks for playing! :D
I had a lot of fun with this. Please post updates in the future. I would love to play again with more exciting new stuff. I can't wait to see what you do with it.
Amazing game. I do say that the shield powerup might be a bit broken, especially if you find it early on. But that is a very minor gripe. More annoying was how sharp the opening music was, which made it uncomfortable to listen to.
Sorry about the music. Hopefully the sound controls made it easy to adjust it to a more comfortable volume. The shield is intentionally OP to give you the sense of power of the enemy if you use it strategically but I understand where your coming from. Thanks for playing!
A beautiful small metroidvania.
On my first run I had fun exploring the dungeon, but when I noticed that the upgrades could be collected in any order, I had much more fun finding the optimal path. The challenge didn't come from beating the game but from beating it quickly. However, if that was the goal of the game, it could have been implemented better (for example with a timer on screen or a reward for a low time). In contrast the belt and the helmet are really useful only on your first run.
Also I liked how the combat can be strategic if you want to complete the game without deaths.
Thanks. I love that you took the time to think about how to speed run the game because even I haven't considered the optimal path but did play with the idea of "how could this game be speed run" :D The goal of the game was to mix dungeon exploration with roguelike elements that rewards you with upgrades that hopefully encourages more exploration. The "completing the game in the fastest time possible" I think is a more of a "self-imposed" challenge which, again, I love that you did that!
Also, you are the first to comment of the possibility of beating the game without dying which it is...just challenging and you need to be strategical about it. Nicely done!
Would love to know what your optimal strategy was but don't want to spoil it for others who haven't played yet ;)
Very cool game, had alot of fun with it!
Great! Thanks for playing :D
Absolutely enjoyed the game! the art is cool with a retro vibe in it, the controls were straightforward and the gameplay is awesome! Keep it up!
Woot! Thanks for playing! :D
A truely great game. Loved the unique gameplay, the tile moving system, and the music. It was kind of upsetting at the beggining because I was forced to take some damage even if I managed to get the priority of attack but you get pretty quick that the death isn't a problem. Just a little thing, the belt changed nothing for me as the map was already revealed. Also, the boss was a bit too simple to defeat. Otherwise, great job guys.
I completely get it and it is a rather different approach to a more traditional free moving game where you can dish out damage and avoid being damage if you are skilled enough. This follows more the movement/combat rules of a roguelike which means that enemies with more health will always land a hit unless you are well equipped which can turn some people off...I know it did to me at first until I learned how to dance around this enemies to defeat them with little to know damage (but that's not fair since I am the dev and have plaid the came hundreds of time lol). :D
Thank you so much for playing and for your comment. Yes, the boss could use some more TLC. :D
The only issue I have is that before you find the shield, it's a bit tedious cause you physically have no way to survive, other than that great game :)
I hear you and that is something we greatly considered by ultimately liked the idea of the strategy behind choosing when to fight, reset the room, and/or flee. However, I completely understand where you are coming from. Thanks for playing :D
With enemies that have to get two hits before dying, you're pretty sure to die multiple time before clearing the dungeon. Since there's a respawn mechanism that allow you to keep exploring without respawing the enemies, I guess it's a design choice but it felt a bit boring to me.
The gameplay is quite good tho, and the overall design of the game is great (even the audio). It feels pretty well executed.
The game is designed to emulate roguelikes and so in that sense the intention is not to have you fight all the enemies, though it is most definitely and option, but I understand the sense of "oh, great, now I have no choice but to take a hit and die" that comes with the early game until you are more powered up which was also designed to influence the strategy aspect of the game combined with exploration hopefully leading you to make choices about when to strike and when to flee when you enter a room. However, I completely understand what you are saying and that is something we would like to explore more.
Thanks for playing!
Absolutely beautiful presentation. The Kenney sprites are very good, but the way you used them and added animations was great.
My main question is about enemies not respawning. It made it feel like a battle of attrition. Is it possible to clear the game without dying? It felt like in some rooms all I could do was kill one enemy, respawn, walk back, and repeat until the room was clear. If that's not the case, then having the enemies respawn would help communicate that I'm doing it wrong.
Some of the items were really interesting, especially the belt, shoes, shield, and helmet.
The Gnostic theming was... interesting? I feel like it didn't particularly correspond to the themes of the jam, but it made for an unusual experience.
Thanks! We discussed to have everything but key items respawning when you died and I had it on my "to do list" but in the end, at least for the purposes of the jam, fearing it would cause players to die too often, opted for not respawning them mainly because killing all the enemies is not a goal in the game and you can completely avoid them though eventually I would like to flesh that out more and have a system implemented where killing them all is a goal. Thanks for playing :)
I really loved this game, all of the mechanics fit really well together. I specifically liked being able to trick enemies into falling into pits, that was super satisfying. The variety of enemies was nice and the metriodvania aspect was really cool. I specifically liked the Helmet's power (not going to spoil it), I was surprised and really enjoyed it. Nice use of the Kenny 1-bit art (I've used it myself several times). I also loved the theming of "The Armor of God". In February I made a game of the same name and similar concept. I'd usually ask you to check out my game and rate it from this jam but I'd rather you try my take on the Armor of God: https://iangogo.itch.io/armor-of-god . Overall, fantastic game and God Bless!
Isn't it wonderful how God works? I had no idea that someone else had done a game in the similar vane with almost the same asset pack! lol I definitely want to give it a try and I will (I'm also recording my playthroughs and putting them on youtube so it will take me a bit) and will also play your jam entry. Thanks for playing!
Vert interesting metroidvania/puzzle. Really enjoyed playing this one
I like that you called it a metroidvania because it was never our intention to make it so but I love metroidvania and the thought that someone considers this to have elements of that makes me smile. Thanks for playing
Cool idea to mix exploration and that puzzle turn base combat.
Cool game !
Thank you :) Thanks for playing
Really nice little game you made there, it feels polished and i enjoyed evey minute of it, Well done !
Sweet! Thanks for playing :D
Really awesome idea and the visuals were stunning. I really can't think of many complaints. I loved how you were able to connect the theme and the limitation so well!
Glad you liked it and thanks for playing!
God is the Ultimate boss! nice job on the game, liked the art style and I enjoyed the dungeon crawling experience.
check mine out if you get some time https://itch.io/jam/vimjam2/rate/1200495
Amen! Of course I will and when you post a comment it already shows me your entry for me to click on and play. It is not really necessary to ask for a play/rate as that is expected from a jam already :D
Ahh yeah I figured that out later, first JAM, still learning the ropes!
Really challenging game, nice design!
Thank you and thanks for playing :)
Awesome level design! I loved every bit of this game!
Wow! Thanks! :D