Pick up 13 keys without triggering the ghosts
\n","source":"ayDavidGitHere/js13k-2022","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":315627754,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Controls are really rough here, sort of like tank controls but from overhead. I think just letting the player move the direction they point the controls would have helped a lot, even if that meant I had to turn around to shoot the ghosts, it would have made it easier
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":316055319,"author":"Justin Gilman","login":"EyeOfMidas","gh":3173530,"url":"https://eyeofmidas.com","twitter":"eyeofmidas","text":"I see the controls on the screen, what looks like an analog stick on the left and move forward and shoot on the right. But the stick seems to be a relative-to-player rotation? Also, when moving forward and turning, I ended up zooming my screen a bunch. I was able to walk off the edge of the map but it didn’t follow my character. I didn’t see any keys or ghosts, so I wasn’t sure how to actually play. Is this unfinished? Or am I doing something incorrectly?
\n","games":["Merchant of Death"]},{"at":316148533,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Looks nice, throwback to old flash stick figure shooters.\nI don’t understand what I’m supposed to do, the goal is unclear from just the description. I don’t see any keys and I don’t know how to find them. What does the square button do, does it shoot something?\nWhy do I have to tap many times on the triangle button to move forward, instead of holding down the button?\nI would expect the character to face the direction of the joystick, but instead I have to rotate the joystick 5.75 times for the character to make a full resolution.\nThe hit box of the character seems too big, or the collision detection is a bit buggy, so I get stuck in narrow corners frequently, or inside walls and can’t get out.\nIt seems I can go outside the map limits and roam freely in there.\nThis is supposed to be a mobile game, but it’s not setup correctly. Double tap sometimes zooms-in causing scrolling, or selects text. Or even worse, sometimes it causes the page to refresh by dragging it down. It also doesn’t work with the phone in landscape mode.
\nOh wait, now that i played again, i noticed that the number of keys remaining is going down. But there wasn’t any visual indication that I found anything. Something must be wrong, because your screenshot shows different elements on the game, but i don’t see them.
\nI hope you don’t take my feedback too hard. I think this has great potential to be a fun game, but it’s still very rough on the edges. I wasn’t able to find 13 keys nor find any ghosts.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316411874,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"I didn’t understand how to move, so I couldn’t play.
\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316417312,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"nice idea, def has a potential. I did’t understand what happens when the ghosts are triggered. At the end of the game I had 1 more cross to pick but it was not visible anywhere
\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":316431741,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I played on mobile, and things didn’t quite work for me.
\nOnly the far right button did anything, the triangle made the player move forward. Swiping up and down made the whole page scroll. Double pressing made the whole page Zoom. Neither I imagine were desired behaviours?
\nI like the concept and the graphics are good. Maybe there have is more suited to desktop?
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316480431,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"Played on mobile.
\nControls were very hard to use. Wasn’t sure what exactly was happening. Ghost’s kept coming for me while I wasn’t doing anything.\nIt looked like ghosts blocked my movements too?
\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"at":316503821,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"Figured out how to play on desktop with the mobile controls. Got all 13 crosses, but didn’t kill any ghosts, but they also didn’t kill me. Liked the grave and crosses icon. Good job on the line-of-sight scope and ghost pathfinding.
\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":316541311,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"The enemies didn’t kill me, and I wasn’t able to kill them. I don’t know the reason I triggered the ghosts, but I think I triggered all of them.
\nThe controls would be better if I didn’t have to press the triangle button multiple times to move. Hold the button to move forward would be easier. I tried to kill the ghosts by pressing the square button. It did make a sound, but it didn’t kill anything.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":316839816,"author":"Paweł Skierczyński","login":"kesipyc","gh":1681481,"twitter":"kesipyc","text":"I’m sorry, but I didn’t manage to move. I tried the controller and keyboard, but nothing worked eventually…
\n"},{"at":316855725,"author":"Andrew Higson-Smith","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763,"url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","text":"Controls were a bit unreliable on mobile, like the Grey’s and somber colors.
\n","games":["The Devil's Fourplay"]},{"typ":2,"at":317078110,"author":"Filip Dukat","login":"fdukat","gh":87642690,"url":"https://people.andersenlab.com","twitter":"filip_dukat","text":"The game has a potential but controls are really hard, it’s easy to do something unwanted like zooming in etc. so in the current state it’s challenging to have a smooth gameplay on this one.
\nRegardless of that issues, I think idea is really cool, I like the graphics, would be nice if there were some sound effects too.
\nWith easier controls, this could be a solid game :D
\n"},{"at":317094305,"author":"Gabor Héja","login":"gheja","gh":1894642,"url":"https://gabor.heja.hu/","text":"Looks like a game with potential, I believe if you polished the controls a bit more (in a post jam version?) it would be much more fun to play.
\n","games":["Cooking for Skully"]},{"typ":2,"at":317190459,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"Sorry, I couldn’t figure this one out. Tapped on everything and it did nothing. Trying to move with the arrow keys just made the page scroll up/down.
\n"},{"at":317268051,"author":"Salvatore Previti","login":"SalvatorePreviti","gh":6913178,"twitter":"SN74HC00","text":"Implement ok controls in a mobile device is superhard, I agree on that, however here is incredibly hard to play - I guess is a non standard way to drive the player? An additional forward button should not be needed, just the stick to move would have been easier
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