Court Mage by urfbound

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made by urfbound for LD35 (COMPO)
The king has been imprisoned in the castle garden by an evil witch! Only you, the shapeshifting court mage, can help him! Navigate the maze and use your powers to win the day!

My first ever LD entry, so i wanted to enter it in the compo. Thank you for your time judging it!

Ratings

Coolness 60% 3
Overall 2.97 664
Fun 2.84 663
Graphics 2.19 848
Humor 2.79 264
Innovation 2.90 596
Mood 3.04 380
Theme 3.52 358

Feedback

LavWa
18. Apr 2016 路 02:56 UTC
I like the dungeon explorer style of the game. The minimap is a very useful tool. Nice use of the theme.
Great work !
ThePaperPilot
18. Apr 2016 路 03:43 UTC
Arrows and WASD don't work. Couldn't play
Dooskington
18. Apr 2016 路 03:48 UTC
I liked the style, fun little game. I was confused by the movement though because the hallways were like, portals?
Daws
18. Apr 2016 路 03:49 UTC
I like the map!
馃帳 urfbound
18. Apr 2016 路 03:51 UTC
@ThePaperPilot did you find the same thing if you clicked inside the game window? I find a lot of web games don't work if you don't; otherwise if you can tell me what platform/browser you were using I'd like to know so i can try to troubleshoot - thanks!
ChronoCrab
18. Apr 2016 路 04:44 UTC
Rally nice minimap!! Like the style too. Great job!
rantt
18. Apr 2016 路 14:10 UTC
Grats on your first ludum dare. I like how the maze changes on replay. Fun little dungeon explorer and cute animals. Nicely done, great job!
David Cookie
19. Apr 2016 路 02:12 UTC
I was confused at first and then I saw the minimap ^^ A good take at the theme, and an ambitious game to do for a first LD. I hope you had fun making it too :)
PeachTreeOath
19. Apr 2016 路 02:37 UTC
Haven't seen one of these in a while, good job!
TechXSoftware
19. Apr 2016 路 03:10 UTC
Nice game, but I see my self just looking at the mini map.
Jordan
19. Apr 2016 路 03:21 UTC
Movement seems pretty odd without the help of the mini map, and it could use a fullscreen mode. Otherwise it was interesting and fun to play.
Cerno_b
19. Apr 2016 路 06:33 UTC
I couldn't play it either. It just loads a view of the maze with the instructions but nothing is happening. I clicked the game to give it focus but it doesn't work.

I'm on Windows 7 / Firefox
馃帳 urfbound
19. Apr 2016 路 11:34 UTC
To anyone who can't get the controls to work - would you mind letting me know if you use a non-QWERTY keyboard? I think that this may be related. Also, please check the minimap to see whether you are moving as well - I noticed it can be somewhat confusing if you move into a new room with doors in the same places. Thanks for your comments everyone!
biscuitdough
20. Apr 2016 路 07:31 UTC
cool little wandering game, curious about how it was made, good first try!
Imperial Unit
20. Apr 2016 路 07:41 UTC
Was a bit overly reliant on the minimap, but a decent shapeshifting puzzle game nonetheless.
TheMightyTeam
20. Apr 2016 路 20:02 UTC
nice game. The idea of the mini map saves it. Maybe you can turn it in a text based game...
Cerno_b
20. Apr 2016 路 21:02 UTC
I have a QWERTZ keyboard and cannot get the controls to work, but usually that's only because y and z are switched. Here, however, no keys seem to work. Mouse doesn't either.
馃帳 urfbound
21. Apr 2016 路 22:02 UTC
@Cerno_b thanks for the feedback! I take keyboard input as keycodes thru the javascript onkeyup event. So my immediate guess is that I didn't put in the right codes to cover all keyboards. Thanks for coming back to respond! Now to test it out myself w/a different layout! :D
kestrelgames
23. Apr 2016 路 17:48 UTC
Nicely on theme. I like that the text in the locations changes depending what form you're in even if it's not the one that solves the puzzle. The navigation is confusing though, would be better if those circular doors were just hallways.
Freank
24. Apr 2016 路 16:20 UTC
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
馃帳 urfbound
25. Apr 2016 路 02:25 UTC
@Freank - of course you can! I'll upload it at your site.
mooncalf
25. Apr 2016 路 23:03 UTC
Well done. Found the minimap essential for navigation. The visuals were hard to track.
Green Soda
26. Apr 2016 路 02:05 UTC
nice game :D
it's rare to see something like this now... good one for a first! keep it up ^_^
excellent take on the minimap, good job
Cerno_b
09. May 2016 路 20:04 UTC
Just letting you know that it still does not react to key presses (just in case you changed something and need some testing feedback)