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Volatile Valkyrie by madjackmcmad

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made by madjackmcmad for Ludum Dare 49 (COMPO)

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An unlikely combination of arcade legends Rastan and Bubble Bobble. Use double jumps, air blocks, down slams and other acrobatics to fly across classic one-screen levels full of monsters and treasure.

:crossed_swords: Grab ~~unstable~~ mighty weapons that seem to run out at the worst times.

:crossed_swords: Bounce enemy projectiles away with well timed blocks.

:crossed_swords: Dodge terrible void ghosts that showed up because you took too long to kill the ~~unstable~~ fearsome monsters.

:crossed_swords: Rack up high scores on leaderboards powered by Dreamlo.

Plays best with gamepad but kb/mouse work as well.

Link https://triger-mountain.itch.io/volatile-valkyrie
Link https://triger-mountain.itch.io/volatile-valkyrie
Link https://triger-mountain.itch.io/volatile-valkyrie
Link https://triger-mountain.itch.io/volatile-valkyrie
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/volatile-valkyrie

Ratings

Overall 97th 3.868⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Fun 44th 4.015⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 424th 2.926⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 487th 2.721⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 126th 3.843⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 214th 3.303⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 220th 2.924⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 152th 3.53⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 56🗨️

Feedback

pvp
03. Oct 2021 · 23:28 UTC
Top 1 on Leaderboards for now :D. Great game it was fun following your stream.
Ps: FF12 for life!
Ludokultur
04. Oct 2021 · 06:35 UTC
Really fun one that gave me Joust vibes (which way too few games do these days). Also love how juicy dying feels - BLAM! :dizzy_face:
guine
04. Oct 2021 · 15:47 UTC
A five star game! Amazing work!
LDJam user 202408
04. Oct 2021 · 15:49 UTC
One of my favorites so far, Ill definitely check the source code as well, very impressive
rzfmzn
04. Oct 2021 · 16:33 UTC
Liked the game, found a bit difficult to reach some platforms, but as someone in the comments said, lots of Joust feelings floating around :D
Great work :)
Patsui
04. Oct 2021 · 16:34 UTC
Gameplay kept getting more in-depth which is what I liked!

I think the difficulty was too hard for a jam game and the audio could use some work. Well done!
Mascoll
04. Oct 2021 · 16:37 UTC
Nice retro feel! The spritework is impressive! Cool weapons!
silkworm_sweatshop
04. Oct 2021 · 16:45 UTC
Nice stuff. Really feels like an old arcady game. Super polished too with lots of content.
PBG
04. Oct 2021 · 20:02 UTC
Really fun! and it has scoreboards!! I was a big fan. I thought the projectiles from bad guys were a bit much, but it was still really fun! one of my favorites.
🎤 madjackmcmad
04. Oct 2021 · 20:40 UTC
@patsui You might be right about the difficulty. I wanted players to engage in the blocking mechanics as well as attacking, so the projectile rate is Real, but the rewards for parrying them are pretty sweet too.
Aaron Smith
05. Oct 2021 · 12:20 UTC
Nice deeply retro experience right down to the unforgiving controls. I don't want the "unforgiving" to feel like a criticism, it is (just like the deeply retro pixel art) right on point for the game design and felt great. Nice entry!
Paroxysmal
05. Oct 2021 · 14:14 UTC
Great entry and fun to play. Love the animation of the explosion.

As a note the MacOS version doesn't work, this tends to be an issue with Godot, that a Mac version has to be compiled on MacOS. I tried to run from source but it has missing dependencies.
🎤 madjackmcmad
05. Oct 2021 · 15:13 UTC
@paroxysmal ah, that explains it! Dang. First time with Godot, I didn't know that.
mikouaji
05. Oct 2021 · 17:25 UTC
Very cool graphics and sound design, plays really nice, the only problem I had I couldnt get used to the controls for a while, maybe its better on a controller :) The leaderboard is a very nice addition!

BTW Since you used Godot you can easily export a HTML5 version :)
FabDynamic
05. Oct 2021 · 22:23 UTC
I like how much combat this game managed to squeeze into a weekend. There are lots of different maneuvers and I like the idea of discrete rooms. It also seemed like I could get bonus points by getting more coins. I didnt initially like the keyboard controls but with some remapping they would have been fine, and I thought there was a certain floatiness in some of the jumping moves but all of that would be ironed out easily and I liked it overall. Its a cool game with lots of neat combat. Nice work!
FabDynamic
05. Oct 2021 · 22:26 UTC
@paroxysmal and @madjackmcmad Good news: I got this working on mac just now. I'm on Mac OS X Big Sur 11.5.2 on a 2017 macbook pro. I moved it to my desktop and then ran these two commands and then it worked great:
```
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "/path-to-game/Godot\ Testing.app"
sudo xattr -cr "/path-to-game/Godot\ Testing.app"```

I hope it works for you and others too.
qookie
05. Oct 2021 · 22:37 UTC
The game is quite fun. I really like the art style. The online high score is a very nice touch.
lesinvisible
06. Oct 2021 · 21:11 UTC
Very nice and fun game, I liked the retro art style and overall mechanics.
Hoeleboele
07. Oct 2021 · 13:51 UTC
Very good game. Art is great and the animations are smooth. Controlls could be a bit more flued and some music would make the game complete but still best game i have played so far.
🎤 madjackmcmad
07. Oct 2021 · 23:17 UTC
@pvp I finally, *finally*, got on top. Barely. Your turn ;)
pvp
08. Oct 2021 · 03:19 UTC
@madjackmcmad haha challenge accepted.
monkybusines
08. Oct 2021 · 05:43 UTC
Really awesome game! The combat felt good and the animations are well done
Lychee
08. Oct 2021 · 05:43 UTC
For a compo game the fighting and animations felt well fleshed out! I liked the extra stuff you added like the parry and how attacking/blocking in midair kept you floating in the air a bit more. It felt kind of hard to kill the enemies quickly enough once I reached the "unstable" levels but maybe I wasn't doing it right. Great job overall!
nyxkn
08. Oct 2021 · 14:10 UTC
Very cute game. Lovely art and animations! Fighting the projectile monsters felt a bit annoying. Some of the controls like the down+attack seemed very unintuitive.
chesiq
09. Oct 2021 · 17:48 UTC
Really nice game and great mechanics. Damn I now wish I also added online highscore...
🎤 madjackmcmad
09. Oct 2021 · 23:19 UTC
@chesiq Check it out here: http://dreamlo.com/ I've dropped it into Unity and Godot as well, shouldn't take you very much to get it running.
Solah
10. Oct 2021 · 15:59 UTC
Great game! I love the art and animations, the gameplay is great, well done!
Kiwi663
12. Oct 2021 · 20:55 UTC
Very nice game. I love your style.
Cassio Eduardo
16. Oct 2021 · 00:07 UTC
Always love the arcade-y feel of your games.

Really impressive amount of content for the compo. I think the movement feels a bit janky, specially the jump which feels very linear. Sometimes when you do a jump attack it comes out the wrong way.

Other than that the game is pretty fun, great job.
🎤 madjackmcmad
16. Oct 2021 · 18:00 UTC
@cassio-eduardo Thank you! Yeah this is the first time I went platformer instead of topdown shooty, and there's some places where the polish is lacking. Those airattacks aren't the very best, lessons learned for next time!