Hi there!
First of all: Congratulations for your first game jam ever!
Here's some room for improvements:
1. Don't insta-die when you hit an enemy.
Plan some death animation and a graceful "retry" screen, an instantaneous interruption is kinda rude!
2. Play with font, color and spacing to improve readability on dialogs.
Also, put a border over your buttons, to tell the player that they are buttons!
3. If you plan to start your game with a long dialog, put some clarification screenshots/images under that. A black screen is not pleasant and can be a little annoying.
Top points:
1. Arts are very good! They reminds me some sort of Blackthornprod style with a personal twist.
up!
2. The overall mood is ok and the story behind is clear and focused. You got a nice take on the theme!
Thanks for your work and go on with gamedev, destroy your limits and improve yourself! :D
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Hey there memel06!
First and foremost, thanks for the congratulation!
I see that you've got some feeback on the dialogue system in the beginning of the game. I was actually planning on making some small animations in between the different sentences, but the time wasn't there to do it. In the full game I plan on adding in images and some little animations that fit the sentences nicely and display the message really clearly.
I am not that good at picking fonts, but I will try to improve it, only problem is I don't exactly know any good websites where I can get free fonts. I also tried to make my own cartoony font to fit the art in the game, but that failed horribly, as I don't have a very good handwriting, but that is something I'm working on at the moment.
The death animations I will try to implement and find a place for, maybe even make the buttons in the menus pop out when highlighted, instead of just setting the color to be a bit darker.
And as you said, the art does look a bit like Blackthornprod's but I just feel like it is the most fun to draw, one of the reasons being that it is so flexible and rewarding to draw. It is not something highly detailed where you get frustrated when the lines wont match up and be as straight as you want them to, just my opinion tho. Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the feedback, I really do appreciate it!
(Wow do I feel like I just wrote an essay lol)