Great fun! I was defeated by the boss, but I'll try it again later!

Awesome job! Binding of Isaac but adorable.

Loved the Legend of Zelda vibe. Great work! I didn't try the post jam version, so maybe you addressed this, but health pickups seemed to spawn an awful lot.

WASD... When you have an AZERTY keyboard is not playable without losing much fun. Sorry. I loved the gfx though...

yeah, boss killed me too, but was fun =)

Great... got stuck before the boss room though, rocks in the way and not sure how to remove them.

Loved it! Great graphics and music. Finished but was disappointed about the ending. Anyways, great job all of you!

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Love the look and feel. Music was wonderful. Difficulty seemed to ramp down instead of up though. At the start of the game I was very heavily struggling but as I got pickups I just zerged through until the boss (where I died). I didn't feel as if I could have fared much better against the boss no matter how I played. Didn't play the Post Jam version so that may have addressed some of those issues. I think the game could benefit from some knockback on your weapons or some way to avoid melee damage better. Overall good work!
P.S. Loved the look of the weapons. Very creative :)

Thank you guys very much! The feedback is much appreciated. Hopefully we'll be able to put it to use and make a longer more in depth experience later on.

@Matt Rudder - Thanks! The spawn rates for everything is a bit high in the jam version. The post-jam version is a lot more balanced I think. We're still tuning things.

@Whitetigle - I was worried about that and concerned about that and considered adding a way to rebind the controls, but giving the deadline there were more pressing things to address.

@bastiandantilus - Ah, sorry to hear that that happened. That's what we get for using random placement of objects.I should probably make it account for those specific cases or maybe we'll add bomb berries that you can collect and use to get rid of rocks.

@Jhelle - Play the post-jam version! There's an awesome win screen and music just for beating the game!

@Evil Cult - Thank you for the feedback! The game does get easier as you get stronger since we currently only have one enemy type, but it's sort of rewarding that way. We'll be sure to spice things up more in later versions.

The post-jam version is a bit more balanced in terms of drop rate and enemy attacks. There is better knock back and feedback for the the pushpin in the post-jam version, too. Give it a try!

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Just played through the Post-Jam and I do think I had a better time with it than my first playthrough. Really love that music! Still haven't managed to beat the boss! Perhaps some sort of block could be added to the game? I feel like there's not much I can do against that guy. Still quite a polished and fun game though :)

We considered having a block. The original character was actually designed to have an acorn shield. Maybe we'll put it in later.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33320448/preview/playerDaggerSprites.png

Great graphics. Really difficult though... or maybe I had a ranged weapon I didn't know about.

Very cute and very fun. I only played the jam version and although it was a bit easy and repetitive, it made me want to keep playing more.

This game is fantastic. Among my favorite entries so far. Too bad it's too similar to Zelda/BoI. I love the graphics and music... also, very well polished!

In some ways this is even better than Binding of Isaac, seriously nice work. The boss is so brutally hard!! I like switching between ranged and melee and the pace of the game is really rapid so dying isn't such a bummer. Great work!

Really good game! I can't believe you managed to make Binding of Isaac in 3 days! Take that Edmund McMillen xD

Thanks for all the positive feedback! I thought it would be more difficult to make the game at first, but once the map system was done, everything else sort of just flowed together!

We weren't sure if we were going to participate this time around and didn't actually start the jam until Saturday afternoon >_<

This is awesome!. Gameplay is fun, characters are beautiful and cute, and the music fits /perfectly/. It also really does feel "complete", which is hard to achieve. in LD

that being said, there a lot of shades of Zelde on display :P

Nice work!

Really good game! I liked the graphics and how everything worked well together. Good work!

Echoing the kudos on the art style. You guys did a great job on that, as well as on sound design. Splendid presentation! I felt that in terms of gameplay that the main game was a bit too easy while the boss was a bit brutal in comparison.

That was supposed to spell *Zelda

Could you add yor websites and/or twitter-accounts to the description? I want to see if there's more awesome stuff :)

-Matthew of https://twitter.com/#!/IcarusTyler

@matthias_zarzecki - unfortunately we don't have anything currently setup to showcase all of our other work. However, you can see some of my person stuff here:

http://vuha.carbonmade.com/

It's really only a small sample, a bit out of date, and some mismatch of school work, too. >_< I really need to setup a proper webpage.

Awesome! That was extremely fun and well designed; I'm impressed you pulled that off in such a small amount of time.

I was upset when I maxed out on strength and speed, but I sought out the boss and did my best... and then promptly got owned.

However, excellent experience! I look forward to more games!

Inspired, no doubt. :) Not a bad thing.

Rather nice graphics & music. Could use more gameplay diversity/difficulty balance but that's the sort of thing that takes a whole lot of playtesting to get right, so given the time limits, great job!

Nice fun game, enjoyed playing it until the end :-)

This one has a standout style, great job! This has a lot of potential and I'll love to see where it continues to go. When it's filled out with more content and it's refined even more I bet people will go crazy over it.

Excellent presentation! The art and music would be great even for a non-Jam game; Rose's visual style is sweet and infectious (the main character is so cute!) and Hal and Johan did some nice mixing for the soundtrack; I'd say the instruments are easily on par with the Zelda synth music from, say, Wind Waker. I love how you can tell it's kind of making a nod towards Zelda's style of music in its melody! Or at least, that's how it seemed to me. Maybe I'm too impressionable.

I noticed the rooms were randomly generated without many stand-out structures or formations- I'm sure as you add more stuff to spice it up it will get more and more intriguing with ease. :) One thing that made Binding of Isaac's rooms great was the organic feel to them (every single room in that game is hand-made)- when you see patterns and stuff in a room layout, you get more of the feeling you're in a meticulously crafted world. Centered, symmetrical and checkerboard pattern layouts for room elements (even if still mostly randomized) would give it a bit of that hand-crafted feel! It would also harken back a bit to the interesting room design of Zelda 1.

I'd also add in that it's a bit of a cheap shot when an enemy spawns on you when you enter a room. I don't think it makes the game less fun (it's easy enough to regain health)- but it's always best that the player has a chance to avoid everything. I'm sure you already have plans to fix this, but just thought I'd note anyway.

I also think that it would be great if attack speed were upgradeable, or if the current attack were modified to fire off more swiftly when you hit the key. It feels a bit swooshy and I think you might find it an improvement if the feedback was a bit faster- if perhaps the slash was immidiate with a short cooldown afterwards.

I'll definitely be watching how this game progresses, and I would really like to see more of it! :)

Easy but really great! You did something impressive in only 3 days!

very nice! I died on the boss and being reset to the start was too much for me to try again (mostly I just didn't have enough time to try again, but also pretty tough fight). Sounds, art, gameplay. all came together nicely. some struggles with using the pin in the right direction. nice job!

Lovely, and the difficulty was perfect to me (not too hard, not to easy) I only used the bow because I'm a coward (except for mushrooms, mushrooms aren't scary ^^)

I'm glad you guys are enjoying the game! All of your comments are really flattering. We'll be working hard to make it a more complete experience in the future.

@Pierrec - I'm glad it was a good balance of difficulty for you. The jam version's random room generation makes the difficult curve completely different for everyone. The think the post-jam version more or less scales with the player's progression.

Great graphics and lots of fun. Bit Isaacy/Zeldary but great game!

Very nicely put together entry, good stuff! Art is gorgeous, and I enjoy the violin. I wanted to complete it and would have been glad of a "well done" but I see you've addressed that post jam, all good :)

I really like this! Nice concept of course, and the execution was great. At first I thought it was way too hard but then I got better at it and it was very fun. :D
When I got the 3rd firefly I finally realized there was a map, it made more sense. Hehe. No real glitches that I can see. Sometimes a Str would spawn on top of a rock or something but they were still collectible.

Nice graphics, didn't get to play it with sounds, though. I might try it again later.
Anyway, nice work. :)

Whoa! A little Legenda of Zelda / Bindings of Isaac here! Also I love forests/fairy/mushroom graphics. My only concern is that sometimes there are too enemies at once and they shoot in a crazy high rate.

This game is adorable. Zelda-esque, with rpg elements and super cute graphics. Really well done.

died at the big love bug :( fun game!

Excellent game, great work :)

Beautiful game!!! :).. I like it very much! The graphics style is awesome! And the character is very cute!! :).. Great job! :)

I thought the style of the main character was cool, very interesting and unusual :)

Yeah man! That's some nice work!

Real good for the limited time!

Only suggestion might be more varied weapons... I never had a reason to actually use the sword to fight anything. Maybe if it had a longer reach...

Good entry, assumed Zelda-style, fun to play and very nice art. I couldn't beat the ladybug boss, nothing that could hurt it. It was probably a bit... bugged :)

gameplay is a bit repetitive, but the graphics are amazing.

woah, nice graphics!! Music and sounds fit well. Had a great feel to it. I found it extremely easy, but I didn't try the post-jam version (which you say has been re-tuned). Good job for a jam!

Really cute game! Well done. You might have made the end boss perhaps a bit too tough because he and his minions take helluva lot of punishment before dying. But I liked the game, like simples Binding of Isaac. Also, great music! Good job!

Fun Fun Fun game!! Loved everything about it! I hope for more games like this!

That was really beautiful. Gorgeous graphics, great concept. Looking forward to more from all of you!

Impressive art and music! All those collectibles really made it shine!

Graphics and Audio are impressive.

What a sweet game.

Nicely done! A tiny "Binding of Isaac" in some way!

Graphics/sound are good. However, I feel that movement is a little too slow, and combat is not as satisfying as it could be.

Really fun game and great sound. Liked the randomly generated world. I didn't realy get why see had to kill those ladybugs though and the final boss was a bit too hard to beat. (but you already fixed that in the Post-Jam version). Overall a very nice game!

Very cute graphics. I wish there were some kind of shield or something, otherwise the shooting enemies are too difficult for me.

Amazing art style and music! The gameplay is fun, but a bit too much of an Isaac clone to give you credit for that, honestly.

I keep coming back to this, it's just too lovely.

I'm also hung up on the soundtrack. What tools did you use? Was it a "classical" composition?

I NEED TO KNOW :P

Thanks everyone for play! We're glad you are enjoying the game.

@matthias_zarzecki - I just asked the guys, they used FL Studio to make the music.

@matthias_zarzecki - FL Studio with soundfonts to be specific

It's great not worry about ammo! But I think ladybugs should be friends of Fiorella :)

wow...nice game...amazing artwrk for a 48 hr game. i liked the map navigation and minimap. Gameplay was a lil repetitive though.

Thanks! Now to learn Fl Studio. ...does anyone have some good tutorials lying around? :P

Nice!

I really wanted to have more enemies. Since bashing is the only real activity, its nice to have more things at the end of the stick.

Also it seemed like the arrows were really weak. Mebbe it would've been better if they were limited in quantity but stronger?

Great game! The graphics are very well put together and the audio is very pleasing. Only played the jam version but I'll most surely come back to try the Post-Jam version :)

Nice zelda style, but felt a bit repetitive with only one weapon and pretty much one style of ennemy. Nice music and minimap.

Awesome Zeldaesque game!

I was a little annoyed at the speed at first, but when I powered up it got much better. I definitely saved the post-jam version for playing later. Great job!

Nice one - great artwork. Impressive amount of game given the time. Like the dual-stick type controls. Boss fight was tough (ended up dying, not sure how close I was).

Nice game. :)