Nice work! Just a few moving parts yet you crammed a lot more depth in there than I'd expected!
Really like the sound work so far, and the pixel art is nice!
Standard feedback about turn priority applies, though some other mechanics took me a while to really understand. Enemies not having to be on the tile straight across from me especially confused me for a while. Perhaps adding an option in that shows which tiles you / enemies are able to strike in would be a neat addition.
Next bit of advice would be to work on the game feel a tad. The presentation so far is super impressive for the scope of the jam, but going forwards, a little bit of animation would go a long way. Just a simple idle for when creatures / the player aren't doing anything would make things feel a lot more alive. Then some dust when they move, making things feel more grounded.
More sound would be great too! Like a simple shuffle for when a character moves, it would greatly improve the connection the player feels with the game.
Overall though, great stuff!
More content, and more polish, and you've got one heck of a game on your hands!
This is all really good feedback - thank you! Your suggestions on how we could improve the game feel are really cool, so we'll get on doing that visual stuff to make it cooler (alongside fixing a couple visual bugs) - we were going for a chess-esque aesthetic on the animation due to the time constraints of the jam, and it creates a cool little "chesspiece" look, but we could definitely use squishing/tweening or just make a walkcycle for the characters. Glad you liked it, and thanks again for the insights!!
Agree with the comment about turn priority. It could be either before or after, but it should be consistent. Movement appears to happen first during a turn, but where I got hung up was - I think enemy attacks happen before movement, but player attacks happen after. For an example of something similar, check out Crypt of the Necrodancer.
Thanks for playing! Yeah enemy attacks always happen before the player, otherwise the issue would be that the player could just rush through and annihilate everything without being hit at all - we've received a few suggestions on how to change this so it's easier to understand and make it so the game doesn't feel like it's working against you on that regard.
We'll make a note of this - at times it feels like the game is working against the player by giving the enemy a hit advantage over the player, where it would benefit from being the other way around. Thank you for the feedback!
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Nice work! Just a few moving parts yet you crammed a lot more depth in there than I'd expected!
Really like the sound work so far, and the pixel art is nice!
Standard feedback about turn priority applies, though some other mechanics took me a while to really understand. Enemies not having to be on the tile straight across from me especially confused me for a while. Perhaps adding an option in that shows which tiles you / enemies are able to strike in would be a neat addition.
Next bit of advice would be to work on the game feel a tad. The presentation so far is super impressive for the scope of the jam, but going forwards, a little bit of animation would go a long way. Just a simple idle for when creatures / the player aren't doing anything would make things feel a lot more alive. Then some dust when they move, making things feel more grounded.
More sound would be great too! Like a simple shuffle for when a character moves, it would greatly improve the connection the player feels with the game.
Overall though, great stuff!
More content, and more polish, and you've got one heck of a game on your hands!
This is all really good feedback - thank you! Your suggestions on how we could improve the game feel are really cool, so we'll get on doing that visual stuff to make it cooler (alongside fixing a couple visual bugs) - we were going for a chess-esque aesthetic on the animation due to the time constraints of the jam, and it creates a cool little "chesspiece" look, but we could definitely use squishing/tweening or just make a walkcycle for the characters. Glad you liked it, and thanks again for the insights!!
really awesome game, more content would be amazing
Thank you! We're gonna work on adding more content and also making QOL fixes and stuff.
Agree with the comment about turn priority. It could be either before or after, but it should be consistent. Movement appears to happen first during a turn, but where I got hung up was - I think enemy attacks happen before movement, but player attacks happen after.
For an example of something similar, check out Crypt of the Necrodancer.
Overall, very well done. I enjoyed the puzzle
Thanks for playing! Yeah enemy attacks always happen before the player, otherwise the issue would be that the player could just rush through and annihilate everything without being hit at all - we've received a few suggestions on how to change this so it's easier to understand and make it so the game doesn't feel like it's working against you on that regard.
The game has one central issue: Turn priority. Making the playable character act first and monsters after him would make this so much more intuitive.
We'll make a note of this - at times it feels like the game is working against the player by giving the enemy a hit advantage over the player, where it would benefit from being the other way around. Thank you for the feedback!