The incredible adventure of Bonaventure the Hero by ThomasLebel

made by ThomasLebel for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Hear ye, hear ye, good folk! This is the story of Bonaventure, young hero in the making!

We invite you to discover (and share) young Bonaventure's very first adventure! An epic tale of sweat, blood and swords!

Help Bonaventure on his quest for initiation and go on the hunt for the maiden-robbing brigands!

Well, it was a fun jam once again. Seems i can't learn from my mistakes :expressionless: I always end up having to rusher things in the last few hours without being able to do a proper debugging session. Worst of all, I haven't even had time to do the graphics or sound design!

But... I'm still pretty proud of myself! While the theme didn't inspire me much in the first place, I really like the idea I've been able to develop here. I find the concept quite interesting, and it makes me want to continue and build on Bonaventure's adventures.

In any case, I hope you enjoy discovering my game!

I know there are a number of concerns: - the music doesn't loop properly - some texts are too big for their box - problems with the brigands' AI - the English was written with the help of Deepl - so many other things :D

Looking forward to try your games aswell !

Itch.io	https://thomaslebel.itch.io/bonaventure
itch.io English version	https://thomaslebel.itch.io/bonaventure-en
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/the-incredible-adventure-of-bonaventure-the-hero

Ratings

Overall	190^th	3.526⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Fun	220^th	3.316⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	142^th	3.579⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Theme	313^th	2.921⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Humor	104^th	3.184⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Mood	101^th	3.632⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Given		17🗳️	15🗨️

Feedback

sisuisa

02. Oct 2023 · 17:57 UTC

Really nice idea with the book & story-theme! I didn't play it through as I'm not very good with platformers, and died constantly to falling & archers. And it was very hard for me to hit the enemies with the bombs. The style was very nice and I liked the atmosphere and writing.

LDJam user 321333

02. Oct 2023 · 18:45 UTC

Very cute concept, great mood/atmosphere. Your comment about feeling rushed in the final few hours felt very relatable, but I thought your game came out pretty well polished, even without a debugging session.

spacecadet

05. Oct 2023 · 11:13 UTC

Really nice visuals and catchy music. The book theme was amazing and felt really original. The character felt a bit small and there was a lot of empty space that could have been used for the game itself. Overall a nice entry.

ciobeni

11. Oct 2023 · 12:51 UTC

The book is well made and the platformer plays well. The weapons felt balanced, movement was snappy and the game was overall fluid with well designed levels.

The only thing that I would like to see different is the text boxes. The text changing abruptly in the boxes was a bit jarring. Maybe with some more time you could try putting the text on the pages with a typing animation. ;)

Doot

12. Oct 2023 · 11:47 UTC

Sympa comme concept ! Visuellement c'est plaisant, ça met dans l'ambiance, et la partie action platforming est toute simple mais correcte.

J'ai trouvé ça assez dur de repasser de l'action à la lecture à cause des placements des deux, et j'avoue avoir été un peu déçu qu'il n'y ait pas plus de surprises dans l'écriture.

Bravo pour cette compo en tout cas ✨

Flying Dog Fish

16. Oct 2023 · 09:14 UTC

This game is very pretty with its minimalist esthetic and the book effect is great. However, it's a bit hard to distinguish the background from the important stuff like enemies and crates and weapons and sometimes even platforms. The gameplay itself is fun. There is a problem with the number of lives not resetting properly when you fail the game.

Tgnics

16. Oct 2023 · 10:34 UTC

Loved the theme of a history book and the general atmosphere

Redoxeide

16. Oct 2023 · 10:51 UTC

Nice job! I enjoyed the way you presented the story! Just as a note, I sometimes picked up weapons dropped by enemies by accident because spacebar is bound to both attack and pick up. It was kind of frustrating to have that happen since the weapon that I was using was being deleted. I would suggest setting a different key dedicated to picking up weapons.
Other than that, I really like the concept!

LDJam user 375151

16. Oct 2023 · 11:14 UTC

Fun game! It was a neat game and cool concept. My only advice would be to set up the controls to better work with two hands. Typically a platformer game uses the space to jump. So maybe shift to pick up weapons, return to attack and then space to jump. This would allow a player to use jump with their right hand to allow for better timed jumps. I fell to my death more times than I'd like to share. Good job!

dod108

16. Oct 2023 · 11:18 UTC

Nice game, I really like the pixelart graphics! Overall gameplay is nice. It doesn't feel very natural to switch focus from gameplay to story and vice versa. I think it could be better to enlarge the gameplay area and provide the story text inside. Also, I'd use other, pixelart font, black without the frame. It could match the style better. HP should be on the bottom, or closer to the level. Anyway, the platforming feels fine, which is very important. Good job.

EDIT: I noticed that you can go to the other room without picking up the sword and can't go back. This should be fixed somehow.

Le Don

16. Oct 2023 · 13:22 UTC

Great game! I really like the book-style optic a lot. This looks just amazing.

Gameplay-wise I didn't know I can change the weapon and I was a bit confused when I didn't have the sword anymore. It also seems if you change weapons the old weapon is just gone, but I think it would work way better if the old weapon was placed in the world, in case the player change weapons by accident or just want to test the other weapon.

While looking at the bottom part of the screen, it felt sometimes a bit hard to see what part of the text in the upper part was added to the existing text. Maybe it might be helpful if the old text part were grey and have only the new text in white, so the player can easier spot the new text.

But again, overall I thought this is a great game!

TheCaptainBuster

16. Oct 2023 · 16:15 UTC

The mechanics of this game were really smooth. I loved the graphics and the color scheme alot, feels really natural. Great game!

cagibi

16. Oct 2023 · 16:19 UTC

Très bon début pour un jeu !

Comme déjà dit plus haut, il y a juste un peu de travail à faire au niveau du lien texte <-> zone de jeu. La narration était sympa et mettait dans l'ambiance (à part le passage avec le village pillé et la musique chouette qui continue malgré tout :D )

Pour la musique qui boucle mal, dans Godot il y a l'attribut "loop offset" qui peut être changé dans l'onglet d'importation du fichier audio, si ça peut aider.

Gossian

16. Oct 2023 · 17:44 UTC

I really liked the concept of the storybook and the platformer, and it was nice that the tutorial was integrated into the story nicely. I did find the controls a little unintuitive, like using W to jump and Space to attack felt strange and caught me out a few times. Also maybe integrating the text into the level a bit more might make it less a wall of text to read as I found myself wanting to focus more on the game than the text. But a nice idea and worth exploring further!