The 12th Century was a time of happiness for witches of the world..
\n…until, an evil demon turned The Five Great Witches into cats and imprisoned them in cursed towers.
\nCan you, a lowly apprentice, rescue them?
\nRescue the cat at the top of the tower and escape back through the entrance.
\nFor mobile, works best on iOS and Firefox Android, too.\nI realised at the last moment that mobile Chrome had performance issues drawing circles to the canvas and had to tweak the mobile Chrome version. It is playable, though.
\nHope you have as much fun playing as I did hacking this together. Enjoy!
\n","source":"eoinmcg/bewitched","stars":3,"post":"https://eoinmcgrath.com/pages/postmortem-bewitched.html","comments":[{"at":347260307,"author":"Jure Triglav","login":"jure","gh":238667,"url":"https://juretriglav.si","twitter":"juretriglav","text":"This is a very nice game! Simple controls, just left and right arrow keys, but in combination with the level and enemy designs, it provides an ample amount of gameplay depth, requiring quite a bit of strategy to overcome the well-designed challenges.
\nUpdate: There seems to be an issue with mobile controls. The game does suggest that it fully supports playing on a mobile device, but on an iPhone the left and right taps were often not registered, resulting in an unsatisfying death. This game would be perfect to play on the phone if this is fixed!
\n","games":["1257 Samalas"]},{"at":347403209,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"Very nice minimalistic look, good controls and very clear objective.
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347408097,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"great, a game i want to play, except i cannot start at level 1 everytime i die.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"at":347521188,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"great but I die all the time because of weird lags
\n","games":["Castle 🏰 Escape (2023)"]},{"at":347711778,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Really enjoyed playing through the levels on this game.
\nThe graphics are cute and work well.
\nThe sound effects are good and the enemies challenging.
\nMy son enjoyed playing this game too, trying to get to the top and back as efficiently as possible.
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":347744798,"author":"Armaan Mohammed","login":"ArmaanMoh","gh":94212438,"url":"https://armaanm.itch.io","twitter":"ArmaanM_GameDev","text":"The game looks and sounds FANTASTIC! The animations are nice and look like a high budget game made by a studio! 😃. This Is the feedback: The pacing did not feel right. I kept getting stuck on level one and felt like this could be a level later on in the game (maybe 3/4). Pacing aside nice game with beautifull graphics!
\n","games":["The Magna Carta","Age of The Demigods","A Dogs Adventure"]},{"typ":2,"at":347869681,"author":"Jeremy Burns","login":"jaburns","gh":620418,"url":"https://jaburns.net","twitter":"jaburnsnet","text":"Great concept, and quite fun to play! On Chrome it hitches a lot, skipping many frames at a time and making it hard to play, but it was smooth in Firefox at least. The hair trail effect was a nice touch! It’s maybe a bit punishing to have to restart the game after a few mistakes, and the hit boxes seemed a little big, but otherwise it’s really snappy, fun to control, and obvious what to do. Awesome work.
\n","games":["CannonBolf"]},{"at":347873578,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"G’day!
\nOh, it was not easy, from the 20th time, not earlier…
\nAlthough the theme is somewhat generic, the gameplay is top notch! The complexity of the levels is very well chosen, so much so that it kept me in the “flow”. I also liked the graphics, especially how the young witcher blinking :D.
\nRestarting after death from the same level where you died is very lacking… It happens that you don’t understand new dangers the first time, and going through the previous ones all the time is tiring… I also noticed that although it is expected to press certain keys to start the game - any key starts the start. I also lacked control for the A-D (WASD).
\nIt was fun to play, thanks!
\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":347890781,"author":"Grav","login":"merlinvsalfonso","gh":144820721,"text":"Great game! The graphics are 🔥, and it had a lot of little touches, like the lightning on the title screen, the different hair color of the witches, the fireworks at the end. It has a really coherent art style, really polished in that sense. I also experienced the frame drops, but that might be due to my junk PC. My one feedback would be to replace the life system with a death counter. In the context of js13k your game has enough content to be satisfying without padding from the 3 life system. The enemy variety is crazy and the whole game kept me engaged. Really solid entry, well done.
\n","games":["Merlin vs Alfonso"]},{"at":348058390,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Game play is very good and lots of fun, did not expect to enjoy this so much! Well made game, such simply controls but very challenging challenging.
\nLoved the cat and the quick escape needed once you saved them.
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348129292,"author":"Magnus Lindh","login":"MagnusLindh","gh":26601704,"text":"Very smooth controls and impressive graphics, but restarting from the beginning is no fun. Still one of my favourite games in the jam. Good job!
\n","games":["Gothic Tower"]},{"at":348621043,"author":"Benjamin Boyd Austin","login":"bbaustin","gh":18755168,"text":"This is awesome! The controls feel really good for being so simple. Animations (falling hair, munching skulls) look really nice, too. I also love the level flow– go up to save the cat, go down to escape the dragon.
\nOnly thing on my wishlist is some sort of checkpoint system– either within a single level, or allowing players to choose which level to start from.
\nPS: This reminds me a bit of “Icy Tower.” I wonder if you’ve played that before.
\n","games":["Parry"]},{"at":348760389,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"Adorable sprites, and a fun idea! Nice procedural hair too :)
\nUnfortunately this was one of those games where I made it to lv 4 on my first try I think, then for the life of me couldn’t make it out of lv 1 again after that. I just suck at reflex things!
\nFor me, I don’t think the 3 lives thing was necessary, I would have just let folks try over and over again to beat the current level to that they could see everything you’ve made within the span of a gamejam play session!
\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"typ":2,"at":348907128,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"Hi Eoin,
\nGreat work on this submission - you truly did a remarkable job! I’ll post my feedback below from my review:
\nSeriously, great work on this - one of my favorites! What’s next? Feel free to hit me up on Twitter/X @jedihacks to have a discussion!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348921345,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Hello! Thanks for your submission to js13k!\nI’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)
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