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A jam submission

Gala GuardView game page

NES Jam 2026
Submitted by Dragon Fractal Games, Anodomani, Alex Hanlin, illdie — 8 hours, 53 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#134.0434.043
Overall#134.0114.011
Graphics#184.2614.261
Audio#243.8263.826
NES Feel#293.9133.913

Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Such a simple concept but it's really fun I love the gameplay of this one. This entry definitely feels likes an NES game too great work.

Submitted(+1)

Just when you thought there were no new game ideas...

this is fantastic! Well designed and fresh!

The art was well executed and had charming characters, the music was great, easy to pick up and addictive!

But please milady hire some more guards 😭

Submitted(+1)

This was so much fun! Excellent use of black and contrasting colors. Sprites are well designed to have clear silhouettes while still successfully getting lost in the crowd. The balance felt perfect for me.

I loved swan diving across the screen and the music and sound design were perfect at nailing the vibe and cues. I thought I couldn't be more pleased, but then I got to see the lovely ending screen! <3 The only thing that took away from my experience ever so slightly was in later levels, the jesters were extra jittery when they stayed in place, but that was purely a personal preference.

Thank you!!

Submitted(+1)

I love the arcade-iness of it all! Nailed the NES feel with audio and graphics, love it!!

Submitted(+1)

I really liked this game! It has a simple concept that is executed well! The art and music are great as well. Great Game!

Submitted(+1)

Such a  fun game and adorable graphics. Felt quite accurate to NES. Would be interesting to see 2 player mode. Worked very well for what it was

Submitted(+1)

wow it's a pretty nice game with good art and music! the game was simple to understand, just jump on the evil people and don't jump on the nice people (although in the start i was jumping on everyone XD) the sprites looked pretty cool and cute too lol, and the difficulty ramp was nice even tho it started to become a lil hard to stop everyone from hurting the princess while she sometimes goes to danger by herself lol, also sometimes you'd be in the other side of the screen while the enemies would be on the other side, not giving you enough time to reach them in time (but maybe that's a problem from my end), also some times it looks like i literally jump to catch the enemies but i phase through them even tho it looks like a aligned myself well enough, so i'd say maybe make the hitbox of the enemies a lil bit bigger? other than that it was really fun and a pretty well polished game too :)

also if you have some free time maybe you can try out my game and drop some feedback? i'd appreciate that :)

Submitted(+1)

Love this game. Simple to understand and easy to get right into the action!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game, was a bit jarring when the d-pad didn't work but it still was awesome. The enemy with the chalice was really cool with their gimmick and I really enjoyed keeping track of the plethora of people all at once. All in all: Great work!

Submitted(+1)

Fun arcade style experience!

Probably too many sprites than the NES could handle but otherwise felt pretty authentic

I'm pretty bad at telling what's going on and often missed some when stuff triggered around the same time once the crowd got bigger, but then that's kind of the entire challenge.

Pretty cool!

Submitted(+1)

this was a fun and charming experience. the difficulty definitely picked up further in and became a little overwhelming but that is more of a personal skill issue than anything lol, the audio cues are good but it can be a bit hard in regards to visual clutter later on when sprites start overlaying. that being said this is still a very fun and very good game, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

This one is awesome, my only complaints is that I felt that the jump in difficulty between the first and second level was a bit too much, and that when there is a bunch of sprites, a lot of them might get occluded by the sprites in front of them, so there is not way to actually see what they are doing.

Submitted(+1)

Wow, what an amazing game! It's definitely the most fun I've had so far.
I've never jumped on so many priests in my life.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

amaazing NES feel and a really fun game concept!! The hitboxes felt funky tho so the inconsistency made it a little confusing, but still really fuN!

You'll see me miss so many dives that i kinda
gave up on trying to accumulate points 三 ┏ ( ˘ω˘ )┛

Really great character designs!!

Submitted(+1)

Short and sweet! Very creative concept, and having the field get more and more crowded is a great way of escalation. Feels like something they'd have put on UFO50. Only found it a little bit hard to visually distinguish between the charging animations of nice and evil ladies.

Submitted(+1)

This was a really fun game! At first I was falling down all the time, which was really annoying... and then I realized that I'm only supposed to attack the malicious characters. I really enjoyed the variety of characters and how they each do malicious things in their own way. Also, clever use of the "ball of smoke" to deal with combat without actually animating combat. The graphics are also very well done. Congrats!

Submitted(+1)

"GREAT WORK!     FINAL SCORE :7800"

To really look for a caveat the number of sprites often exceed what can be displayed on a scanline but otherwise the game is just plain awesome, congratulations.

Submitted(+1)

Please figure out the Itch.io page features and upload screenshots for your game - Its really nice and i think more people should want to play it

Developer

Thanks for the heads up, and thanks for playing!

(+1)

Banger

Submitted(+1)

This was really fun, great work!

I'll get past the blood moon phase someday.