Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
Tags
A jam submission

The Prince and the AdventurerView game page

Will the Adventurer defeat the fearsome monster and return the Prince?
Submitted by KaaSnake — 3 minutes, 8 seconds before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

The Prince and the Adventurer's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#43.5003.500
Graphics#93.2503.250
Theme#93.3753.375
Audio#93.0003.000
Overall#103.2083.208
Story#113.0003.000
Concept#123.1253.125

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you use any optional theme? If so which one?

Rhyming dialogue

What game engine did you use?
Unity

Something you wanna say? ٩(^▽^)۶ (optional)
I love NDGJ!

Discord username (optional)
Steph#1417

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

Submitted(+1)

Really cool, especially for a solo project! The opening and ending  illustrations really added a lot to the game.
The gameplay was pretty good and responsive and the different themes for the levels were nice. I liked how forgiving the health system was up until the boss. The variety of enemies was great, as well. 
The music definitely wasn't bad, but the loop did seem a bit short, especially during the boss, which maybe felt a bit long? The boss patterns were super fair though! I liked how clear they were, both having a clear rhythm for the player to get their own attacks in.

Overall, a solid platformer! Great stuff!
-meido

Developer(+1)

I'm still getting confident with music composition, and I should definitely start thinking about making longer tracks. I'm glad you liked them either way. And I do love drawing pixel art cutscenes!

Thanks for the feedback, will keep in mind for the future. And thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Hi ! I love the world that you created The rhymes where a nice adition cause it fits well the world. I felt the game like a storybook for kids, simple, straight foward and happy ending and that make this a great entry in my opinion, I had a lot of fun and I also enjoyed the story a lot and the world that you created. The artstyle and design were nice and fit the mood.

Did you did this alone? It's AMAZING (:

Developer

Thank you for playing my game!

I also liked going for the fable style and keeping it lighthearted for this one. 

And thanks! I like working by myself, gives me the right space... and I can bring out some good stuff.

Submitted(+1)

It was too easy ;) I never got killed.

Jokes aside. Very nice game! I absolutely love metroid-vania games (My fav game is Metroid so I'm biased) I loved the gameplay, dynamic, fast paced, very good enemies. (The skelletons always got me by surprise!) I was a little lost on the final boss as first I thought I needed to hit his tongue. But the damage animation gave me a clue on how to beat it. (I also never expected fireballs, NICE!).

The writting is very good. I wanted to see more when I finished it! This has the potential of having multiple levels with diferent weapons in a post-jam edition! 

From the coding perspective, everything seemed polished and tested.

Good job! I hope to play more of your games in the future!  

Developer

Thank you for playing, I'm glad you liked it so much!

I always test a lot the games I make by myself, so I'm glad it pays out when the players get it.

I think I'll come back to this to at least cleanup and upgrade where needed - not sure if I'll update it more, but it would definitely be cool to.

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Absolutely loved this game. It was such a simple game, but it was so effective. I think I like the music and the story splash art the most. The story art really got me into the game! The platformer style gameplay was really fun, but I think the inputs could be more clear. Maybe use Spacebar for jump instead of left click. Had lots of fun!

Developer

Thank you for playing! I had lots of fun doing the splash art, definitely.

And good idea for the input - not everyone is used to the same input type, so more options could be helpful.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

A lot of fun, and I enjoyed the old school feel to this one. The music was a bit repetitive but it had such a good groove that I didn't care. The skeletons really kicked my butt a few times. Overall I enjoyed my time playing. Great work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Still rather new to music composing, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

And thanks for playing!

(+1)

first of all THANK YOU! - for binding jump and attack on mouse buttons, such a small thing and almost noone does it. One notion though, i think jump on right button and attack on left would work better.

Game aesthetics felt well put together but levels themselves were imbalanced, trough all 3 levels there was only 2 places where i had to stop and kill enemies, ran trough them very fast - well placed enemies that block the way would solve that. Controls were quite clunky. Skeletons felt and looked like after a while they would ressurect (just gamer gut) and when they didn't it felt off (almost dissapointing) for me.  There's a fine line between hard boss and frustrating boss and this one was definitely the latter - didn't enjoyed bossfight at all. 

All in all game felt like more or less well put together even if it felt rubberbanded here and there at times - good job with that. 

Developer

Thank you for playing! And thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, I worked as much as I can on level design but in the end there's plenty of spots you can just avoid enemies instead of fighting.

And I will remember to switch around the mouse controls: one of my first times applying them but I'm glad they are appreciated!

Thank you again for letting me know what could be improved, I appreciate it. And thanks for playing, again!

Submitted(+1)

I thought it was a bit unclear when the boss was taking damage. Great game though, I had a lot of fun playing it!

Developer

Yeah, more of an indicator for the boss could be an idea.

Thank you for playing!