That's straight up PEAK. Can't believe you did this in two weeks!
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Beneath The Hill's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #43 | 4.259 | 4.259 |
| Overall | #71 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Creativity | #75 | 4.037 | 4.037 |
| Enjoyment | #97 | 3.741 | 3.741 |
| Gameplay | #98 | 3.630 | 3.630 |
| Connection to theme | #162 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Discord name (multiple if team)
OnropXXX
Game engine / program used
Godot 4.7
Connection to theme (short sentence)
goblins are the little guys
Is this your first game submitted to a game jam?
No
This is not my first game jam
Comments
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
You can actually even oneshot the goblins. In the bottom center there is a bar, that represents your damage. When fully filled, you do the maximum amount of damage and can even one shot a goblin using the overhead slash. The less filed up the bar is, the less damage you deal. So you need to wait for the bar to fill, instead of just spamming the attacks mindlessly.
Thanks for the valuable feedback, I'm glad you liked it! :D
Regarding the bar, I designed it to not be linear. When the bar is half full, it does not mean you do half the damage, you actually deal quite a bit less. This design choice is because I wanted the player to really commit to the attack, instead of just mindless spamming.
Also, since the stab attack is much safer than the overhead slash, I made it do less damage. For example if your bar is full, the overhead slash one shots the goblin, on the other hand, for the stab to oneshot a goblin you would need to hit him 2 times.
I realize, that the lack of tutorial makes these mechanics somewhat obscure. If I continue development, I will make sure to properly introduce all the mechanics to the player.
Hey, thanks for trying to play it! The download is just a Windows .exe file, so it should work by double-clicking it if you are on Windows. If Windows blocks it because the file is not signed, click: More info → Run anyway That is just Windows SmartScreen warning about unknown indie/game jam executables. If you are on Linux or Mac, it unfortunately will not run unless you use something like Wine, because I only uploaded a Windows build
65 days ago(+1)
Thank you for the amazing feedback! About the tanky goblins, you can actually one shot them. In the center bottom of the screen there is a bar that looks like a sword, when filled up, you deal maximum amount of damage and can oneshot a goblin with the overhead slash. The less it is filled up, the less damage you deal.
I do realize that this mechanic is not really explained to the player, so that's on me.
Ah right, before I was kind of just spamming lol and it took like 10+ hits to kill them because of that.
Because of that, I went back and finished the game! The combat became very fun when I realised it's very similar to Dark Souls (although I'm guessing it's mainly kingsfield that inspired it? Either way you made a pretty nerve wracking horror game because I like how when you make noise, you get ambushed by goblins from above.
65 days ago(+1)
Originaly I wanted to create different animations and feedback depending on how much of the bar is filled, so it would better communicate to the player about the importance of the bar, but I did not have enough time :D.
Also, I played and rated your game and it was very very fun :D.
65 days ago(+1)
Thank you! Since its just a short jam game, I refrained from designing a checkpoint system and instead focused on other parts of the game, but I can see where you are coming from :D
65 days ago(+1)
I'm really glad you enjoyed it!!! This is the first time someone actually complimented my writing skills :D, so thank you very much!!!
lets gooo my 1st ever kingsfeald like game , love the dark and glumi vibe the amaing and slow gamplay and even the UI and graphical presentation , one thing tho can u plezz make the game in a folder and zip it .... I downloaded the game and I can only see the exe in my dowloads folder , the rest of the config files might be scatered down billow somewhere 😅😅😅
oh and also i want to admire that your fight mecanic is designed for 1v1 or 1v2 fight, so its REALLY not that cool to fight a big bunch of enemies at once . DO NOT repeat DS2 mistake, its gonna be better: 1. if you make more kinds of enemies with bunch of different attacks, so player would face the challenge of learning new enemies, or 2. - make levels help you fight enemies, this would reward player if he pays attention to his surroundings. If you going to make games like that in future ofcourse.
66 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much, It was honestly the first think that came to mind after hearing the theme :D
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