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Jimmy The Knight by torvik88

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made by torvik88 for LD27 (JAM)
First jam for me and among the firsts in game programming too. My friend, the other programmer, is at his second jam and it was his idea to get together and do this. We were joined by another two designers, one of them who unfortunately didn't finish what was needed of him (the sprites for player and enemys) so i ended with the task of doing them.

There was much slacking/cursing/working but in the end we pulled it off. I found the event quite fun and can't wait for the next one.

We used FlashDevelop, CitrusEngine,TexturePackerm,Gimp.For sounds we took samples from http://www.freesfx.co.uk/, soundtrack generated with autotracker.py .

Characters from wulax on opengameart and hetboss from http://www.dumbmanex.com/bynd_freestuff.html



Team:

Vlad Rusu - Programmer

Victor Radutiu - Programmer/Designer

Alex Coman - Designer

Radu Ciortea - Designer
Web http://bit.ly/15rmZr9
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=27021

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.26 226
Audio(Jam) 3.00 226
Fun(Jam) 3.24 168
Graphics(Jam) 3.74 162
Humor(Jam) 2.50 262
Innovation(Jam) 2.71 396
Mood(Jam) 2.91 290
Theme(Jam) 2.85 413

Feedback

LD_LAN_Party
27. Aug 2013 · 01:17 UTC
Love the artwork and the fast paced gameplay.
Recursiveanomaly
27. Aug 2013 · 01:22 UTC
Really nice game! I love the top down dungeon explorers. I wish there was some way to see how much health I have left. The grid the player walks on is different than the tiles on the floor, which was a little confusing.
RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 · 13:16 UTC
JAMES THE KNIGHT IS MY NIGHTLY SLEEP-AID
Zephyr89
27. Aug 2013 · 13:23 UTC
That snail! :)
Bmanrules
27. Aug 2013 · 13:24 UTC
Very nice! Knight is a bit off the grid and causes you to get stuck in doors at times, but very nice idea!
kristof
27. Aug 2013 · 13:25 UTC
Nice game. I would have liked to see some feedback on when I got hit. Nice visuals and music!
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
27. Aug 2013 · 13:36 UTC
Cool job guys. It needed juuuust a little larger attack radius, but the zelda-style dungeon is well done!
Red Mike
27. Aug 2013 · 13:51 UTC
Fails to load for me. White screen, right-clicking brings up Flash context menu. Running Flash 11.8.500.115 in Chrome.

Good to see fellow country-men as well. :)
Zekyon
27. Aug 2013 · 14:11 UTC
Good game for kill time, congrats
Broxxar
27. Aug 2013 · 14:17 UTC
A lot of fun, but I couldn't always understand why I had died. Great sprites though, really well done there.
TeamFlare
27. Aug 2013 · 14:20 UTC
Nice art. Bit difficult, but love it :)
Dry Tree
27. Aug 2013 · 14:30 UTC
Some indication of the player's health would have been nice because it felt a bit like I was being taken back to the menu for no reason (I assume I was being beaten by the skeletons?!) Great graphics, and overall a good effort.
🎤 torvik88
27. Aug 2013 · 14:56 UTC
Thanks for the feedback mates. The problem was that one of our artist didn't do the sprites so i had to do them (first time attempt and pretty crappy too), but the point of the game is to be hard as nails but not impossible. That is why you don't see the life of the player. You win or loose the game u get thrown back in the menu...a kind of silly cold joke.
zkenshin
27. Aug 2013 · 15:42 UTC
Enjoyable entry, nice audio (:
flamecow
27. Aug 2013 · 15:51 UTC
Link doesn't seem to be working, can't play the game.
Will Edwards
27. Aug 2013 · 15:53 UTC
A fun little top-down flight; Very very fast scrolling. I kept finding myself in rooms I'd already cleared. There was no heath score that I could spot?
designatius
27. Aug 2013 · 15:53 UTC
Can't see it, only a white page. I'm using Mac and Chrome : /
OneL3gend
27. Aug 2013 · 15:56 UTC
Very good idea, only the mving through the doors could have been smoother, and an ending screen would have been nice
🎤 torvik88
27. Aug 2013 · 16:41 UTC
>>> Apparently the hosting is crap so it takes a while to load the game :((( <<<
sittaman
27. Aug 2013 · 17:11 UTC
good take, a bit too hard, but definitely good!
Alexander Ponomariov
27. Aug 2013 · 17:44 UTC
The castle looks fantastically cool! The graphics and sound are very beautiful!
supersammy7000
27. Aug 2013 · 19:03 UTC
I love this style of game. and you just made it so good.
RennFarnell
27. Aug 2013 · 19:36 UTC
nice game, only thing id suggest is come kind of health indicator because i was dying but i couldnt tell when i taking damage, how close the enemy had to be so i couldnt learn to survive longer etc

also, how the hell do you kill that boss xD gameplay was fun and interesting i liked the procedural nature of the levels =D
Brainless Games
27. Aug 2013 · 19:47 UTC
Love the fast pace of the game and the graphics are really nice too.
flavio
27. Aug 2013 · 21:24 UTC
I like the use of the theme and the speed of the game.
I was confused about dying as we have no life clues
Beardbotnik
28. Aug 2013 · 01:39 UTC
Great artwork, interesting gameplay. Really wish I could see my health somewhere, it's weird fighting something and just instantly going back to the main screen. Since I can't see any health bar its hard to tell how careful to be, which is important when its a raise against the clock. Other than that and the little line artifact on the top and bottom doors of rooms I thought it was an interesting simplification of the classic Zelda dungeon set up.
ramoncb
28. Aug 2013 · 02:45 UTC
I like the feeling of nonlinearity and something procedural, very addictive!

I just think that perhaps the gameplay is too fast

but really love the idea, good work!
Snky
02. Sep 2013 · 18:37 UTC
Hey, It's a pretty cool idea, I love the way the doors open, and you actually see the character going through it without any fade or hidden transitions also glad to see the Citrus Engine being used, I've just started using it myself.

I could do with some help for Citrus, I'd love it if some programmers from your team could assist me with a couple small problems.

Steam: pr_jas | Skype/Web/Ludum#27: www.Snky.tk
lordjosephdeburg
15. Sep 2013 · 00:00 UTC
on the difficult side with great graphics, good game guys!