Freemine Castle by Stefan0198

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made by Stefan0198 for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

:map: Story

Life is a long and rocky road to conquer. In the end, only the Freemine Zen Master can answer your questions, but only at a cost. He lives high up in the clouds in his temple, waiting for his next challenger Can you face the numerous challenges and emerge victorious from them or was it all for nothing?

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Welcome to Freemine Castle, a game where you will try everything to gain even an inch of progress, but dont even know why you are trying so hard ? What are you trying to achive here ? Fame? Glory? A way of passing some time? Or just a small laughter ? Only the master will know. Complete the challenges, climb to the top and claim your victory if you dare to see what comes next ...

:keyboard: Controls

  • Move: W,A,S,D
  • Spacebar: Jump
  • Left Shift: Sprint

:constructionworkertone2: Our Work

  • Modelling: @MisterJBro & @Nightwarrior
  • Animation: @MisterJBro
  • Level Design: @Quoc & @Stefan0198 & @MisterJBro
  • Game Logic: @Quoc & @Stefan0198 & @MisterJBro & Another friend
  • Sounds: @Spiess & @Stefan0198 & Another friend

Attributions

Music provided by Free Music Tunes

Track: Synthness - Elix

Music provided by ๐–˜๐–๐–š๐–‘ ๐–›๐–”๐–Ž๐–๐–Š๐–˜

Track: Path

Ratings

Overall 1245th 3โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Fun 1329th 2.5โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Innovation 1262th 2.579โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Theme 1394th 2.053โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Graphics 488th 3.895โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Audio 611th 3.316โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Humor 402th 3.447โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Mood 506th 3.658โญ 21๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ
Given 28๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ 3๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ

Feedback

tylerstraub
05. Apr 2022 ยท 20:55 UTC
One of the more visually impressive Ludum Dare entries, but some of the gameplay was really frustrating, such as the guessing game with hopping on the river stones as well as the slow walk speed. Made it to the end though!
Kemsou
05. Apr 2022 ยท 20:55 UTC
Very nice voice acting! I laughed a lot! :D
The puzzle where quite frustrating with no way to know if you are doing well or not other than redoing from and walking to the puzzle every time.
zantze
05. Apr 2022 ยท 20:59 UTC
Didnt fully complete, as I found the doors in honeycomb stage pretty hard to open (might be framerate dependent, as im playing on 144hz) but the presentation was really nice! Loved the minigames from takeshis castle :D
Phoenix Fireflower
05. Apr 2022 ยท 20:59 UTC
The art/graphics is lovely and the atmosphere is breath-taking. Superb!
julienmc
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:08 UTC
Very cool visuals but a bit frustrating to control. I also got reset to the beginning right at the end. That being said, the voice over was really funny and the music was good!
blobo
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:11 UTC
I LOVE the voice acting. The guessing puzzles, not so much, but it was a great time, so I can't complain. Also, the "nani?!" when falling into the water. ahhh, the humor is top notch. Great game!
Raphaeltan
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:12 UTC
your voice acting is per.fect.
JamieOK
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:17 UTC
First game I've played this Jam that has voice acting, and some very funny dialogue at that! Very nice visuals and the main area of the level looks real cool. The games/puzzles fit nicely with the aesthetic, the honey comb level made the 'Takeshi's Castle' similarity click. Very cool project, great work :)
LDJam user 212364
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:22 UTC
The game looks phenomenal but I wasn't a fan of the actual game play. It was really annoying that I could only sprint on certain parts especially when I had to keep traveling up one of the bridges. Also, all of the transitions were really choppy which was somewhat jarring.

As far as gameplay goes, the first level was just walking straight which was extremely simple and seemed out of place. The rest of the levels just seemed to completely rely on being random though. The door level maybe had a trick to it or it may have just been a coincidence and I got lucky, I couldn't really tell. The rock level seemed to just be random guessing and hoping for the best which isn't fun especially when you have to wait a while to try again after each attempt (this is where I got stuck on forever), unless I missed something and there was some way to tell which rocks to jump on. The last level I still have no idea what was going on, I would enter the third or fourth room and then get teleported out of it, I eventually beat it by just randomly running through fast enough to the end to complete it and I have no idea what was actually said at the end cutscene.

Again, really stunning visuals but the rest wasn't the best.
Kro
05. Apr 2022 ยท 21:35 UTC
Oooh, cliffhanger! Only i thought that i'll gonna beat up that hand for ruining my third section of the game then it ends.
Nice style, great voice acting that sets the mood. But restarting are bit frustrating.
K4iN
05. Apr 2022 ยท 22:12 UTC
The Game has Great Grafiks and Sounds, i really like the voice acting. It could need some pollish on few part and the Stone walk level should be longer it was way to easy and short, some more stones to chose would be great.
4ahizon
21. Apr 2022 ยท 02:06 UTC
cool game. I enjoyed the art style and audio which created a good mood, especially the voice acting. Glad there was a good level progression balance to the game. I enjoyed the game.
Proxy-Games
21. Apr 2022 ยท 07:12 UTC
The presentation of this game was nice-the graphics were high-quality, and the audio set the mood well. However, I did not like the gameplay. The reliance on trial and error became frustrating when it involved up to 30 seconds worth of walking just to get back to the challenge I had failed. The rock level especially started to drive me crazy, both with it having the longest way to walk to get back to the challenge, and with the fact that the death sound effect started to drive me insane ("Nani!"). The honeycomb level also needs a lot of polish. The doors were more of an obstacle than the hand due to how hard they were to open, and the fact that it was nearly impossible to tell where the hand was, or if the hand caught me aided in that frustration. Overall, the graphics are really nice done but the gameplay could use some love and polish.
WobbleBlocks
21. Apr 2022 ยท 07:34 UTC
The graphics were pretty good, nice entry!
Jupiter_Hadley
02. May 2022 ยท 13:20 UTC
Lovely world! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if youโ€™d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/QO-q-Xmgol0