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Ten Seconds Curse by oleg20111511

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made by oleg20111511 for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

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A story about an unfortunate knight who lost his ability to control his fighting style, making him involuntarily switch his weapon type in the middle of the battle. He is determined to do whatever it takes to get control of his life back, even if it means betraying his duty as a royal knight.

Controls:

Story:
Left Click - next frame

Battle:
WASD - move
Space - melee attack
Left click - range attack

Gameplay:

Look out for weapon switch, it really makes things difficult! Your attack input changes as well - you can not attack using space when you have a bow, and you can't use left click during sword period. To proceed through the game, kill boss of each room and follow to the next one through opened door. Third room is the final one.

Story Roguelike

https://youtu.be/llC6QIuKk_A

EDIT:

I've made an updated version where I added some of the things I didn't have time for, and also tried to balance out the combat. Feel free to check it out using the links below (I will not update the embed here though to keep things fair and avoid confusion)

Team:

@nesti - management
@oleg20111511 - programming
@Scaai- character art, story art
@Vleria-Cras- character art
@Evill - background art, story art

Extra credits:

aYtek Mills - music
Ian-Ian - sound effects

Github https://github.com/naslunga/ld-51
Initial ver. (windows executable) https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5rg95zyajaohxf/BuildWin.zip?dl=0
Initial ver. (.zip w/ index.html) https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5rg95zyajaohxf/BuildWin.zip?dl=0
Updated ver. (itch.io) https://oleg20111511.itch.io/ten-seconds-curse
Updated ver. (windows executable) https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0tq8oteq056oly/BuildWin-V2.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/ten-second-curse

Ratings

Overall 1086th 2.943⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1129th 2.629⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1146th 2.485⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1002th 3.147⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 779th 3.329⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 631th 3⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Humor 712th 2.594⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 821th 3.176⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 42🗳️ 48🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 297867
03. Oct 2022 · 22:20 UTC
Video walkthrough:

https://youtu.be/llC6QIuKk_A
Tero Pulkkinen
03. Oct 2022 · 23:28 UTC
The graphics is pretty spectacular and texts are well designed. The music was slightly odd, but good job getting it done in time.
Cheville
03. Oct 2022 · 23:36 UTC
The game would benefit from an indicator for current weapon, I found myself a little confused at the start. Though otherwise it was good fun, the graphics were well made.
LordSaber
03. Oct 2022 · 23:46 UTC
Great graphics. Really liked the witch character and her transformation. I found the sound when 10 seconds/weapon change was a little bit harsh. Overall a fun little game!
Heremeus
04. Oct 2022 · 00:05 UTC
The illustrations in the story and the background pictures were beautiful! The fighting controls felt a bit punishing and I couldn't really figure out how to use the melee weapon without taking more damage in return.
HerryFabien
04. Oct 2022 · 00:27 UTC
The illustration and background art are really good. The story presented feel intriguing and the game art are cute if a bit rough.
But the gameplay really suffer from weird choice : Why melee being more risky is not more rewarded with more dommage and is actually punished since the CD is longer ? Why the small indicator on the character himself making it hard to see? Why using different control when we could use the same one ?and most of all ; Why did we change weapon in the second fight? Are they different? Almost as intriguing as the story of this mystical kingdom that has centaur knight and medusa queen.
It does stay short and sweet and for me that a good point
Eugenik
04. Oct 2022 · 12:32 UTC
Amazing art!!!.
LDJam user 297867
04. Oct 2022 · 14:30 UTC
Thanks everyone for the feedback! Almost all the issues pointed out were caused by the lack of time (we probably should have lessened our ambitions..), but I hope you enjoy the game anyways!

Also it's nice to see that the ideas brought up by others are mostly the ones I initially intended to implement and had the base for it - it's cool that you guys can notice subtle stuff like that
niccolo-temperanza
04. Oct 2022 · 20:22 UTC
Wow, so there's a lot of creativity and intricate art featured in this project, as a professional artist for real time content, it's always a treat.
The one type of weapon I found the most use in, and ended up waiting for it to cycle back, were all the ranged weapons.
It's epic, it's colorful, it's stylish.
Looking cool Oleg!
DileriumL
04. Oct 2022 · 20:44 UTC
I like how this is visual novel at the start. Great job! Enjoyed it very much!
Stalemeat
04. Oct 2022 · 21:55 UTC
Really nice art! The attack switch was a good feature but it was difficult to understand the melee attack. An animation would help me understand the range of the attack. Nice entry.
LeJoCarry
04. Oct 2022 · 22:36 UTC
Art ♥

Feedbacks :
- the start was beautiful during the cutscene then big drop down...
- gameplay feels bad (adding animations would help a lot)
bravelytyped
04. Oct 2022 · 23:34 UTC
Cool to see a visual novel type presentation at the beginning, wasn't expecting that!

The combat was a little bit too hard for me, but I appreciated that I could use the bow mode as a bit of a crutch. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Nice game!
Evill
05. Oct 2022 · 06:04 UTC
Thank you all for the commets! We really enjoyed working on our first game ever and hope you like it, also we are excited to read some critics to improve the gameplay and learn from that experience
AnnyStep
05. Oct 2022 · 10:30 UTC
I love it 😍
LDJam user 0
07. Oct 2022 · 01:16 UTC
Interesting little game, the shooting feels a bit weird, and the timeout feels too big as after shooting you usually get hit.
BoxedMeatRevolution
07. Oct 2022 · 01:38 UTC
Good job for your first game! I like that you put a story in, and the art was really nice (especially the backgroudns for the levels and the story section). Some suggestions on gameplay:
* You should use same button for both types of attacks
* Enemies are able to hit you before their animation looks like it should! Their windup shouldn't do damage, only the final strike down
* More player animations for attacks. Right now, it feels weird that you can't move after attacking, but with a good attack animation, it would make perfect sense.
* Player should be able to move on diagonals.
* Add some variation to player attacks! You have all these different weapons, but they basically felt the same to me.

Now that you know what you're doing, I'm sure that next time you'll be a lot faster and polish things up a lot more. Keep at it!
Evill
07. Oct 2022 · 09:11 UTC
@boxedmeatrevolution
Thanks for remarks and suggestions!
PenguinMunch
08. Oct 2022 · 03:18 UTC
Great game and impressively made in the time constraints for the jam! Including a story is always cool to see. I wish I had read the controls before playing because I just thought the game switched from no weapon to either a bow and arrow or I think it was a rocket launcher. Also, I will second that the hit box for enemy attacks should only activate at the end of the attack (or whenever it looks like the attack is attacking in the animation).
Destiny2028
08. Oct 2022 · 03:48 UTC
i like the story, the witch.
LDJam user 54618
08. Oct 2022 · 17:11 UTC
IT would be really nice to have a countdown for when things are gonna switch! Took me a few switches to realize what was happening, I thought combat was busted.
Add some animated particles or something to show the hit zones, and shorten the delay, it's so frustrating when you're shooting and can't move :P
The art was great for the still images, especially the stage backgrounds. The animations could use work, especially on perspective.
That's your first game? Great start! Feels like you had fun making it. I look forward to seeing how you all improve
arzi
10. Oct 2022 · 11:34 UTC
Started great with the story, but even the first fight was too difficult for me. It's quite disheartening that your damage is only a small fraction of the enemy's health bar, while the other way it's a huge chunk.
LDJam user 281060
20. Oct 2022 · 15:58 UTC
Love the art and story telling! The cyclops seems to do damage before his attack animation would suggest, which made it very hard to predict and engage with. But love the setup!