{"id":1899,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":9358,"name":"Curs3d","authors":[{"name":"Renceee","twitter":"r3nceee","login":"r3nceee","gh":103666262}],"description":"

You’ve been cursed to live forever. You were alive for 13kb years (People still using punch cards and dealing with real-life bugs). Since now you have found the totem of dying, the wizard of Javascriptsu commands the army to keep you alive and crush the totem.

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Don’t let them destroy it; it grants power to the holder and itself.

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Commands

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W,A,S,D: Walk, Left, Right, Down\nZ,X,C: Skill\nSpace: Basic Attack

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Pretty fun defense game. I like the fact that one regular attack can kill multiple enemies if I position myself in the right place. This gave the game an extra level of strategy where it was about my position when attacking.

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I didn’t really understand the skills, it would have been nice to have an explanation of what each one did, because I have no idea and I made it to level 12. Once there was a lot of enemies on screen I would just mash all three and usually they would die.

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So a bit more explanation up front would be huge here, otherwise this is a pretty fun game and I enjoyed it!

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Score:\nTime: 141 | Lv12 (First try)\nTime: 85 | Lv6 (Try again to understand the rules better)\nTime: 95 | Lv9 (Attempted long play failed)\nTime: 285 | Lv21 (Long play)\nTime: 83 | Lv8 (Speedrun)

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Well-done minigame. Not allowing arrow keys makes it difficult to reach zxc while moving

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1st try:\nThe control scheme and attack animations are not clear enough, but once i play past that, i start to enjoy the game quite a bit.

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For control, i don’t know what “basic attack” is, so i thought pressing spacebar does nothing, so i just used z, x, and then c to attack.

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z just kills all enemies in the screen\nx is the one i still dont know what it does\nc increases the totem’s range?

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and then i was on cooldown so i try to play with the spacebar for a bit. the sprite changes a bit, perhaps it does something? so i try to press it randomly, and then it melee-ed some enemies.

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Each enemy’s role is not very obvious from the presentation. Can improve that a bit.

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2nd try:\nI tried to play with the spacebar melee, to try to get a reasonably good score.

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3rd try:\nI start to realize that I don’t necessarily have to die. Killing many enemies while protecting the totem sounds like a fun improvised way to play this game.\nI try to stay alive as long as i can, while preventing the totem from dying. I thought every enemy can damage the totem, and that i only take damage while staying in the totem’s circle. I “win” so quickly, my plan did not work. I start to learn how the enemies work.

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4th try:\nI survived as long as i pleased, only prioritizing the ones aiming for the totem, and going to the minor ones for “healing”, only to kill them before they touch the totem. Later i discovered that they don’t damage the totem. i played more purposefully.

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5th try:\nI speedrun the level, trying to minimize the time i stay in the healing field, while quickly melee-ing all enemies, using only the z skill from time to time, still not knowing the x skill. It’s interesting that my level is higher than 2nd try, while spending less time.

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Good game.

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Took me a second to realize how to play, but after that really enjoyed balancing between healing and protecting the totem. Nice graphics and gameplay.

\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":316149301,"author":"Raf Mertens","url":"https://crazygames.com","twitter":"CrazyGamesCom","text":"

It’s a fun game with potential. This game is pretty easy once you figure out how the healing works though, and maybe some more challenging elements or adjustments to the mechanics can be made to increase the difficulty and apply pressure to the player.

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The game looks great, and sound effects work well.

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The game moved pretty slowly, changing the window size didn’t speed it up.

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Once I’d used the Z weapon (the only one I had or could find) I didn’t get any other weapons and so I was essentially just waiting to die. Until I realise you could press SPACE for basic attack.

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With hands hovering over WASD, it’s hard to press ZXC.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316335582,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Nice one! The constant imminent danger of getting cured is a fun twist.\nI didn’t get much change of using the 3 spells. The Z spell is really powerful, i think it kills everyone. But then a new wave appears right away, so not that useful. The X spell reverses something, cut I didn’t understand what. The C spell, i never got a chance to use it before i died.\nI think there’s a performance issue with the game. It feels very sluggish but then sometimes it gets really smooth and fast, and then back to sluggish.\nOverall good job.

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Unfortunately, I couldn’t really play this game. I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, so every time I press a key it brings up the search. You should call .preventDefault() for all keyboard events to prevent this.

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I think this game has potential, I did not understand the “x” and “c” skill, even after playing the game several times. It would be nice with a tool tip over the skills, or some text in the description. Maybe I would last longer than Lv9 if I knew what they did.\nI don’t fully understand the red and yellow bars in the top left corner. I think they are the health and magic for my cat character.

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I like the sound effects and the fun little messages the enemies shout. I like the effects of the Skills, and how the green color of the main character gets stronger and stronger. It took a while to understand the range of Basic Attack, until I realized it’s the circle shadow beneath me, which also expanded for each level. Adding a different color around the shadow during the attack would probably make this more clear.

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I felt the spawn area of the enemies were random. If they came too close to my base, I lost quickly. Maybe create a safe area where they cannot spawn, or create some indication of where they will spawn so I can plan my moves better.

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All in all a fun game with lot’s of potential.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":317030235,"author":"Filip Dukat","login":"fdukat","gh":87642690,"url":"https://people.andersenlab.com","twitter":"filip_dukat","text":"

I like this one, a lot of possibilities when it comes to defending the totem, you need to think about which enemy to attack first, when to use your special skills.

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Game has a lot of potential, I think it could benefit from polishing visual and sound effects, making it more immersive.

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Overall this is a really cool entry, enjoyable game and I hope that you will expand it in future. Good job!

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Fun game but the keymapping is very strange: WASD + ZXC is not comfortable at all.

\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"typ":2,"at":317282570,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"

Very good start! I do feel the attack animation should be bigger (and hit a wider range). The different skills are interesting, though having the option to use arrow keys and then the ZXC skills would be better for my hands. :)

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