You are the Ninja falling down a hole to fight demons.\nYou encounter demons and loot along the way.\nDodge the demons and collect loot at the same time.\nLeft arrow to turn clockwise and Right Arrow to turn anti-clockwise.\nCollect as many points as possible.\nThe game is unfinished because I cannot recreate the falling effect. Plus it suppose to have audio but I don’t have time to get and implement that.
\n","source":"gregwoodsfrontier/js13k-2022-death-jam","stars":2,"comments":[{"at":315752714,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"I think the game would have benefitted a lot from mouse controls. Once you’re upside down right and left are swapped, which is disorienting. Following the mouse around would be nicer. If you look at the old game Tempest it used like a turn wheel thing. Speaking of which, shooting, or maybe throwing ninja stars, in towards the center to kill demins would have been cool. Shot demons so they drop coins/powerups, something like that, add mouse controls, and maybe some obstacles that you have to dodge, and this would be really fun.
\nSo some building blocks are there, and the graphics are really nice!
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":315770722,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"The art style and animations are cute.\nI think this could have been in the finished “desktop” category even though you weren’t able to finish everything you wanted to add. If the game is under 13kb, then I see this competing with many other entries.
\nThe skulls attacking me is a bit fast, making it difficult to avoid if you get trapped on the wrong edge, or in the middle. Maybe they could start off slower, and increase speed while playing. That, or get some hints to where the skulls are going before they actually appear.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":315778695,"author":"Michael Primo","login":"michaelprimo","gh":10359577,"url":"https://michaelprimo.it","twitter":"MPMintis","text":"Yes, this game needs a lot of work. First of all, I didn’t get the “falling effect” described on the description. Also, the points don’t go away when dying and the demons appear too late, near 20 seconds, I think? Also I don’t know if you have HPs, I know demons steal a bit of points and after a bit of that you eventually die.\nWhat should I have done in your place:
\nDon’t add any falling effect. You are there, stuff appear in the center and go to you. That’s it;
\nI like the “less is more” approach, but the game needs some upgrades or extra skills, something that makes the whole more interesting, otherwise is only: “grab, dodge and that’s it”;
\nI like the palette, but it didn’t make the characters more clear, in fact they are “barely” visible;
\nHow about enhance the use of the timer? You can remove points entirely and the coins, so you have to dodge demons and survive, for example. You can do a lot more, like a countdown and when you grab money, you earn seconds and demons steals you seconds and at the end you can see how much time passed before dying.
\nOverall, this game have potential, it just needs a bit of rethinking on some parts and I liked it.
\n","games":["Bye Roll!"]},{"at":315866314,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"No matter what I tried (different browsers, incognito, …) it just didn’t work for me. No errors in console either, just a white page. (Firefox gives a notice in console about “An unbalanced tree was written using document.write()” but that’s not an exception, just some Firefox thing.)
\n","games":["The Neatness"]},{"at":316063315,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"I like the concept and the graphics a lot. This has lots of potential.\nThere’s some glitch where the ninja jumps to another position without an animation. The game suddenly gets reaaaly hard when the skulls start coming.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316487399,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Nice concept, could have been entered into the jam as its working!
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316829856,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The game didn’t do anything at all for me in FF, upon loading I got
\nAn unbalanced tree was written using document.write() causing data from the network to be reparsed. More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/speculative_parsing
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316848125,"author":"Roberto Capuano","login":"robertocapuano","gh":2651123,"url":"https://2think.it","twitter":"robertocapuano","text":"Cute graphics and I like the idea of alternating search and escape, I don’t like the round movement, I would have preferred a free movement on the screen.
\n","games":["The High Cost Of Life"]},{"at":317007405,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"nice gameplay, a bit hard to get some coins really too far from player.\nanimation is a bit slow for coins, but when spamming it cuts the animatoin. Hope you’ll finish the game :)
\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"at":317281292,"author":"Luke Cann","login":"lcapps-luke","gh":14251746,"url":"https://www.lc-apps.co.uk","twitter":"cannl","text":"At first it looked like the game wasn’t rendering but after inspecting the page it looks like the background colour wasn’t being set.\nIt looks like setting ‘color’ on ‘:root’ doesn’t work in FireFox. I was able to play the game fully after setting ‘background-color: #213547;’ on the body element though.
\n","games":["Death Game"]}]}