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Magical Knights by Gusse

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made by Gusse for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Dive into the perilous kingdom of Valenor, fight your way through dusty dungeons and find true love!

The young mage Cáel is making his merry way through the forest when he is ambushed by rats that steal pages from his book! Getting them back soon becomes much harder than he had anticipated. But not to fret, for he is not alone. A brave knight joins him to fight by his side and collect all 6 pages scattered across the forest dungeons.

Discover the secrets these men keep hidden in their hearts while shredding monsters to bits.

Works with both Controller AND Keyboard & Mouse!

Developed by a team of three in under 72h for the Ludum Dare 58 Game Jam!

Team

  • Gusse: Creator, Programming, Game Design
  • Dodo: Narrative Design, Writing, Concept Art, Sound Design
  • Lia: 2D Art (Pixel Assets & Illustration)

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Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/magical-knights

Ratings

Overall 446th 3.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 551th 3.083⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 429th 3.194⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 762th 2.556⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 311th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 465th 2.806⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 421th 3.5⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

Asieke
Oct 07th · 05:04 UTC
Loved the art and the narrative! Have to admit I basically soloed with Cáel. Rapid fire knockback plus a stun had the enemies walking backwards!

Great game, I enjoyed playing it!
LDJam user 0
Oct 07th · 17:33 UTC
You've got a lot done in a rather short time.
Congrats, it's a very solid entry!

Enemies get stuck on walls sometimes, but it's understandable it would be hard to nail an AI in such a short time.
Ather
Oct 07th · 17:38 UTC
Had a tough time running the game on browser, but otherwise fun game, lot of content
Roitchie
Oct 07th · 17:38 UTC
I love visual novels and dungeon crawlers so this game is made for me. There's a surprising amount of depth to the combat. I'm really impressed you managed to get that all working and feeling good in just a few days. This is a really unique entry. Great job.
Ranarh
Oct 07th · 17:47 UTC
I like it a lot. Like the poster before I used mainly Cael :) but I tried to do combos as well. I liked the RPG bits at the campfire. In the.. last? level with the two big enemies I managed to push one off screen and was unable to finish the fight; tried waiting a bit or blasting into the void but no luck.
Prunus Padis
Oct 07th · 18:04 UTC
Fire spamming to win. The combo system seems cool but there was little use for it in most cases. It was slightly hard to get the attacks right for me at start too used for Darks Souls binding with light attack on right bumber and heavy attack on trigger xd. This made the start super hard untill i realized to just spamm light attacks. The melee combat was super satisfying when the combo was done nicely but sometimes I just got stun locked so i preferd to chiken out in range. In final boss the large enemies got throwng out of the level so i had to blind snipe them outside of the camera xd.
Next just make this a full game!
TungGD
Oct 08th · 21:00 UTC
Cael is really too OP that the only trouble I had is pushing the enemies offscreen and having to find where they are to aim at. It's impressive that you can put quite a lot of content in the game.
Eugenik
Oct 09th · 16:07 UTC
Fun and fantastic.
binroot
Oct 18th · 20:25 UTC
Pretty comprehensive for a game jam! The characters add so much to the mood, and the game play seems well tuned
tomrijnbeek
Oct 22nd · 17:20 UTC
Amazing that you managed to finish this in a game jam. Complex mechanics, great art, really liked it. Had some trouble running it in the browser and probably needed a bit of a balance pass, but all very understandable for a game jam game. Great job!
abcdef65g
Oct 22nd · 22:28 UTC
Very enjoyable game! The art is amazing, and the project feels very complete, with both the visual novel side and the dungeon crawling side. Each could have been an entry by itself if they were fleshed out more.

With more enemy variety (like fast or ranged enemies), some balancing tweaks to make using Marcus more worthwhile (maybe let him block dangerous attacks and shield Cáel?), improved enemy pathfinding, and more content in general, this has potential to become a full-fledged game. Would be nice to be able to fix the situation caused by the Lightfall. Great job!