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A jam submission

Isabella the WitchView game page

Recover your lost spell cards and combine them to construct new abilities.
Submitted by CarlosE1996 — 8 hours, 29 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#133.6253.625
Genre Interpretation#183.6883.688
Creativity#183.5003.500
Overall#203.3233.323
Relevance to the chosen theme(s)#233.4383.438
Gameplay Polish#252.8122.812
Sensory#312.8752.875

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit either (or both) genres?
Protagonist is a girl who can use magical cards as abilities. These abilities are key to progressing to new areas.

Chosen theme(s) and relevant explanations
Construct, the abilities of the spell cards can be combine to construct a new spell.

Team/Developer
Carlos Garcia-Perez

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Comments

Submitted

This is really cool! The idea of combining spells is fun and I would love to see it explored more. The level design was really nice. I liked how everything flowed together. The character movement didn't feel great to me. Movement overall felt a bit too slow and jumping felt difficult to land. For example, I had trouble landing on the frozen robots' heads consistently.  Overall, great job!

Jam Judge (1 edit)

It's a sweet little game
It is quite simple however, I can't think of much to comment on here.

The frost spell is really interesting, and I actually really love the frost plus bolt combo, that is a very creative idea that was sadly not utilized to much potentiall in the short time we had with Isabella.
I'm afraid we end our adventure right when it was about to actually start, and it's aparent. You at least finished it off in a very cute manner thought, I wish Isabella good travels on her journeys.

It is a little odd how she changes clothes when standing vs when moving, the stars on her skirt are definitelly not a subtle detail so it does feel kinda jarring to see it suddenly appear and dissapear everytime, and I personally don't really like when characters keep grunting when doing anything at all, I think it does sound kinda corny, but none of that are big issues, just some minor nitpicks x)

And I think that's all I have to say, it's a solid game, just a little shallow but with lots of potential with the spells system

Submitted

I had fun playing this! I like the power system progression. I could see this evolving into a pretty engaging puzzle-platformer.

Submitted (1 edit)

A short but sweet and effective prototype!

Loved the design of the main character, using your broom to fight was a great touch. I'm assuming the standing sprite was how the character was "supposed" to look, but honestly I love the simpler, Hornet-style poncho running animation even more. (I'm just a sucker for ponchos.) It was also really funny how she didn't even bother to look at enemies while shooting!

Moving around and fighting felt pretty good, although I wish the character was just a tad bit faster to match the running animation. The little puzzles with frozen enemies were fun, and I'm in love with the spell construction/combo idea. It absolutely has enormous potential that you could build a full game around!

The little cutscene after finding the final card was adorable, too! Overall, I had a great time with the game!

Submitted

Love this game!

It feels really polished already! I really like all the mechanics you've set up, especially the freezing and using enemies as platforms. I also think the little dead guys in the acid/poison is really cute!

My only issue was when I picked up the frost card and had to press random keys to figure out what it did. But there was a tutorial later for it, so I guess it's okay. 

I would love to see more levels and what you can do with the mechanics! Super great game!

Submitted

Cool construct mechanic! Wish it was used more in the game

Submitted

Good little game. Liked idea of spell combination. Enjoyed the witch interpretation of magical girl.  Only issue is visual that terrain is super different from character.

Submitted

The level design is great, I enjoyed using the different abilities.

Submitted

Fun game, really clean presentation and a nice sense of progression through the map, I agree withe some of the other comments I wish there had been a little more to do with construct at the end of the game to really tie off the theme, but it was still a fun realisation how you could get across the poisoned water.... and I was genuinely happy that the protagonist got to fly again!

Submitted

A short nice game, cool designs on the witch, although the map art seemed to be premade assets? I couldn't find anything about that in the description of the game.

the camera was a little wonky, i do have to say, could use some retouching, because sometimes it got a little stuck somewhere.

The controls for the game had a little weird positioning, like I couldn't quite reach the buttons where they were

Submitted

Overall really solid! The graphics are really cute, and the progression is good, I like each of the powers you get, just wish I got more of an opportunity to use the construct ability, I thought it was very creative, but the frost ability on its own was just really fun. The gameplay feel was solid, though definitely a little unpolished, mainly with how slow your attacks are. I also wish there was an HP display of some sort (maybe there was and I didn’t notice it). The level design was really nice, did a lot of good hinting at what you were supposed to do, and the realization you can actually jump through platforms felt really good.

Submitted

I got to the end, I thought this was really nice! Took me a minute to realize what to do with the frost spell at first but I figured it out, and then the constructed spell bit at the end was very clever.