Nice little entry. Visuals and sound design blend really well together.
Keep up the good work!
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Crimson Survivor's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #150 | 3.723 | 3.723 |
| Enjoyment | #263 | 3.745 | 3.745 |
| Visuals | #566 | 3.638 | 3.638 |
| Audio | #580 | 3.170 | 3.170 |
| Overall | #639 | 3.238 | 3.238 |
| Innovation | #1127 | 2.532 | 2.532 |
| Theme | #1250 | 2.617 | 2.617 |
Ranked from 47 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The game is harder during the day than in the night, but more rewarding, and also you can exchange HP for mana, making it more risky.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Some assets that will be included in the game description
How many people worked on the game?3
Comments
Fun game and i liked the different attacks you could do! I liked the art style you guys went with and the deign with showing how everything works right away was helpful
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A Knights AmorThis was one of my favorites. Easy enough controls and HUD to jump in and immediately understand, but with enough depth to really bite in and enjoy more runs. I absolutely LOVE this concept and the way you've implemented the vampiric systems, the random-rolling upgrade systems, the missions, the combat, and the day/night cycle and its significance. This is just a really, really polished and enjoyable game from start to finish.
Masterfully done - incredibly impressive within the development window and an absolute blast to play! I really love this entry!
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Crumbs of ChaosNice game, the combat is well executed and some cool visuals and effects, great work :)
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Golden TrialVery cool combat game! I really like the abilities and the way they were implemented. Also very helpful that is says the controls and cooldown at the bottom. Good job! :)
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Avenge that Cookie!This game is very fun and gives you the feeling of progression very good. Balancing could be better, I think first map and final boss was a little bit easy because enemies and their projectiles can be kited very easy but second map's balance was good. Overall very solid and fun game, nice job.
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Crimson MistA well-balanced yet very challenging game. It reminds me of Vampire Survivors, pretty cool.
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Cathedral KeepIt's just a slang for taking a risk for a reward, but I know a lot of people took it literally. You can check the post they made here: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-14/topic/5250651/clarification-about-the-theme
Really cool take on the Vampire Survivors formula—more interactive and nicely adapted to the theme. I liked the “risk” idea of pushing forward for bigger rewards. I barely used the HP→mana trade; personally I preferred advancing and earning more rather than swapping health for mana.
Skill feedback and the art are great (especially on the second map)—I genuinely enjoyed those.
A few rough edges I noticed:
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On the same map, it could ramp up harder over time (more enemies, modifiers, maybe some procedural variety).
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Possible bug: after selecting a skill, if I keep clicking while the card is fading out, I can take the skill multiple times without paying. This made my run much easier—maybe that’s why the early difficulty felt low. I even kept playing after finishing for the power fantasy. At some point I wasn’t taking risks anymore; I was the risk for the enemies. 😄
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A dash that lets you hop over obstacles would be a great addition; once the character gets fast, rapid map clean-up would feel extra satisfying.
Overall, a solid concept and a very good jam entry congrats!
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BiscultThank you so much for the feedback!
- Sadly the second map we didn't have the time to add more quests or enemies, we even planned a 3rd one but didn't do it in time.
- We actually noticed that on the reroll button and made it unclickable in the fading phase of those upgrades, but I guess we missed the actual upgrades! We will fix these once the jam is over.
- The dash is for the day, in the night it becomes a blink. The idea was to have more mobility and and easier fights in the night so you can get to the loot and the objectives easier.
Overall I feel like if we had testers before the submission we could've detected more bugs, but sadly we are just a small team XD.
Overall I enjoyed the game, congratulations for releasing such a product on a jam!
Few notes:
- Sometimes enemies a getting stuck next to the tile corner. While technically it's a bug, it's fun, so not sure if it has to be addressed:)
- When casting the fireball or lightning enemies start approaching you before they are getting the damage, this for some reason feels wrong.
- Fireball has a max range that is not identified in any way, so it is hard to plan the battle in advance from time to time.
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Sweet Sky DiveAmazing feedback, glad you liked the game!
As for your notes:
- An obvious solution is a pathfinder algorithm, but due to time constraints we just did a simple distance check and chase.
- We added the damage tick in the middle of the fireball frame and the lightning when it hits the ground, so the game checks only 1 frame to do damage instead, that's why it's so easy to miss spells that you somehow see them land, and the spell hitboxes are very on the animation so maybe making those hitboxes bigger makes it feel better. The obvious fix is to check multiple frames of the animations and register the damage if the enemy is inside at least one of those frames but its also not easy to make in such a short time XD.
- For range there isn't a good way to add it (maybe hold the spell shows it, release casts it, idk how to make that on the fly tbh) and we just decided to let the player get a feel for the range overtime.
After I got the first crystal, I died, and when I respawned, my crystal count was reset. When I went back to collect the same crystal, it wasn’t there. Other than that, the game is fun — I’m just curious about the ending.
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Miner's BurdenThe game is very fun and polished, and I find myself playing for quite a long time! > v<
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OPERATION CRUMBLEGreat art! The spells were awesome. Those goblins are mighty quick.
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UNCLEAR FISSIONI liked it! Haven't played much of Vampire Survivors so I don't have a good reference but the game was solid, although I didn't feel too much of a reason to take risks. But definitely would play again
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The Paper ThroneFont is a bit hard for me to read, may be a skill issues on my side dunno. Great game, spells, visuals and audio feel amazing
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Biscuit ChamberThat was actually quite relaxing to play, with soothing music and cool sound effects.
At first, I didn’t read the instructions and killed all the enemies before going inside. But eventually, I prevailed.
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No Pain No Game
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