Great game, but the interpretation was a bit loose
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Downcast's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #1053 | 3.758 | 3.758 |
| Audio | #1082 | 3.547 | 3.547 |
| Artwork | #1162 | 3.989 | 3.989 |
| Creativity | #2743 | 3.642 | 3.642 |
| Narrative | #4034 | 2.547 | 2.547 |
Ranked from 95 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?
You can cast spells to bring targets DOWN. A certain upgrade requires you to COUNT your DOWNs to trigger it.
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Apart from it not being the best use of the theme, I do love this concept and it makes for a great game with lots of potential!
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Back in my DayAwesome pixel art! The game mechanics was smoothly introduced throughout the entire game and each new platforming/combat challenge really felt like a natural progression from the previous one. Using the upwards cast on yourself to get to the higher platform was a really cool moment imo
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An Apocalypse MemoirA beautiful pixel-art game—quite fun, well-polished, and with incredible potential!
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DEADLINE FOR LOVEThe game is interesting, doesn't really fit the theme at all but still impressive for 4 days. Good job!
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Cards of ChronosNice visuals and polished gameplay! I really liked the bosses, although the blue one was a bit easy to cheese by just spamming on it when it landed on the spikes. I agree with the other comments though that the new ability was super confusing. Otherwise I still had fun! I do think the link to the theme was rather weak though.
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Not Dead YetGreat puzzles and great physics ! Really good stuff. One thing though :
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Maybe a different button for the other ability ?
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~ Calm Down ~I agree that activating the upgrade is a little awkward (some other commenters have brought it up as well), but it's how I tried to fit the game to the theme (you have to COUNT your DOWNs to trigger it), so I couldn't really bind it to another button. If this were a non-jam game I definitely would have had a different button for each.
Thank you for playing!
I really like the simplicity of the main mechanic and still its many uses. The sounds and music blend well with the artwork. Its only flaws I found is that the orange boss sometime does an unpredictable attack sideway, and the first green boss can be cheesed easily by just spamming it.
I would really like to see more of this mechanic.
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Decay TransferThis game is so good! Playing your game makes me think I should put more time into level design. Btw, do you plan to make this into a full game later?
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Phantasmal RuinProbably not; I don't personally think the main mechanic is interesting enough that I'd be able to get a full game's worth of mileage out of it, and I have other projects I'd rather work on. That said, if you want something with a similar concept, you could try an older non-jam game of mine called Ups and Downs, which has a similar gravity-switching mechanic (Downcast's mechanic is somewhat inspired by it.)
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Fun game, interesting mechanic, and nice art! I do wish that the yellow slime boss telegraphed its different attacks better though, as I wanted to dodge its arena-wide charge with my super jump but was never prepared
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Chat Made Me GambleNothing better than hitting those flying eye-fish! Controls felt so nice, smth I aspire for fs fs!
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