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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #5 | 4.213 | 4.213 |
| Video Pitch | #5 | 4.226 | 4.226 |
| Artwork | #7 | 4.581 | 4.581 |
| Enjoyment | #8 | 4.194 | 4.194 |
| Audio | #12 | 3.935 | 3.935 |
| Judge's Choice | #21 | n/a | n/a |
| Creativity | #30 | 4.129 | 4.129 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
There are two ways I tried to incorporate the theme. The Player Character is a zombie, something that should be inside their coffin(a box) but is instead outside of it. The second way is the main gameplay mechanic, where you pull random items outside the coffin(again, a box).
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lvIzkzn2zhQ
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Genuinely amazing game, one of the best entries to the jam in my opinion. Reading the comments here most of the feedback I have has already been said by someone else so I have but the tiniest of nit-picks being that the font sometimes cuts off the bottom of letters like lowercase g and y, making them look like an 'o' and a 'u' respectively. just makes it a little harder to read and looks like a spelling mistake sometimes. Otherwise really good job making such a polished game!
This is the first and maybe the only game I've given 5/5 in all categories, not because it's my favorite(that's Ascent-ipede please play it, it's really good). But because this just is so good I could mistake it for a finished product.
Wonderful game. My only disappointment was that there was not more levels to play.
Now for feedback. I feel like as a player you are a bit too much at the RNG's mercy. If you're using full randomness, maybe try a random bag to make sure the player will always get acess to an item they need at some point. Aside from RNG, the mechanics are solid. The boss fight is cool in a way, but being stuck against the wizard's face due to their insane movement range makes it that you either have to just wait and tear through them with your items and heal every time you can, or be unlucky and get stepped on completely. Maybe reducing its movement to 1 and giving it an additional mechanic to spice up the boss fight could help with it (like giving it the ability to attack from a 2 range or to sometimes run away from the player for example).
Either way, it was a very pleasant game to play. I also really liked the story and chara designs
Really good game. The gameplay loop is fun and unique. This might be a skill issue on my end , but I swear that the mage boss ( im not sure if it is a boss ) is basically unbeatable/depends on RNG a lot. My best tactic was to pass turns until i got bombs with double damage and movement so that i could buff my bombs and then escape so I dont get damaged myself , however , the boss would always catch up and punish me for 2 damage if i played that way , meaning , no matter what , i would eventually lose to not getting heals because you need , im assuming , atleast 3 movement items to dodge an attack , therefore , it is impossible to not suffer 1 damage per turn because the boss will always be able to close the distance after turn 1.
Thank you for some really good feedback! I'll be honest, I played the game so often and beat the boss so quickly each time that I thought It was too easy, but I guess I was too tunnel-visioned to see that players don't understand the strategy right away, thank you for enjoying the game nontheless!
Genuinely curious , what was your strategy for beating the boss?
My strategy is usually this, always try to keep as many swords with as few glass spells as possible AND try to set up bombs and move away so that they don't explode on you. It's still pretty RNG based, as if you don't have more than 2 swords when you attack, he will do as much as to you as you do to him. After that, it's just a matter of hoping you get enough heals to survive and chip away. There really isn't a point to try to run away either, so just stay up close and do as much damage as possible!
The pixel art is amazing and the game loop was also very fun and interesting! Incredible work! You are very talented.
Thank you so much for playing, I'm super glad you liked the art, I worked hard on it!
I love the main character so much, and the game is really simple but also strategic. The art is absolutely amazing and the song was really good. I think the idea was super creative as well which really caught my attention. One of my only things was I wish there was more sound effects. But this didn't take away from my enjoyment that much at all, just something I wanted to point out.
I am super new to gamedev so this was really impressive to me that you were able to pull something this phenomenal off.
Thank you so much! I still feel very new to this myself, but I'm glad you liked the game!
This is a really good game jam game! The art is really well done and feels clean and professional! The concept is also really fresh. The audio could use some developing as well as making the combat a bit more diverse, but I really liked this one!
Thank you, I definitely understand now that the combat needs to be less rigid, but thank you for playing anyways!
Genuinely perfect! When the worst part of a game is that its short, you know you did great. 5/5/5
Thank you so much! I definitely think this is my best game so far, so I'm glad to hear that you wanted more :D
Really cool and solid game. had a pretty good idea. Art was awesome. music was also kinda cool. I dont have anything to criticise really.
Thank you so much for playing and enjoying the game!
This game is so good!! 5 stars all around! The story is great! The idea of someone learning nercomancing to bring themself back to life is genius!! the gameplay is fun and addicting, the art is beautiful, and the soundtrack! Oh the sound track is SOO GOOD OH MY GOSH! (Im also a musician and i would love to talk with the composer about how they made the music and stuff) But there is nothing bad I have to say about this game at all! its just fantasic! I hope you guys get First place! You deserve it!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm super happy that you liked the music, I struggled a lot when making it so I'm glad it's been received so well!
I liked it .I kept crashing on the web version however and that kinda sucked but when I was playing it was really good
Might've been because the escape key forcefully closes the game(but freezes the web version) which I accidently left from testing... But glad you still enjoyed!
Simple and greatly design, also the artstyle and the personality of the game is incredible
I'm so glad you enjoyed! The art was super hard to make so I'm glad you liked it!
Love the art style and music, definitely playing more of this :)
Super glad to hear that! Thank you for playing my silly little game :D
Having how to play the game on your itch page was helpful. I was confused by some of the items, figured it out. I liked the art and the box being a coffin was really creative! I also really liked the music!! I wonder if randomly generated items could be balanced a little better.
My apologies for the lack of a tutorial, but I'm glad you played it!
I think this is a cool game! Fun idea and pretty well implemented. I understand that the short is more of the tutorial, and that is my bad for not watching it before playing, but it was a bit hard to understand what to do at first, a lot of random clicking. If this was it's own game I would say probably add a tutorial. Still fun game with sick a intro!
Thank you so much, definitely should have spent time working on a tutorial, glad you liked it nonetheless!
My first perfect rating - can't say any more
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Thank you so much, glad you liked it!
I love your game, I couldn't understand the game, so I didn't get past the first level. But the music and art are really nice.
My apologies if it was confusing, but glad you enjoyed it!
Do you want to try my game? 😃Have a great day
The soundtrack slaps so hard!
Thank you, worked real hard on it!
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Thanks :D
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