Take on the role of Scottish knight, William Wallace, in a retelling of the battle of Stirling Bridge. Charge along the bridge, fighting English soldiers, dodging arrows and avoiding obstacles. This game was created as an entry for js13kgames 2023.
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\nBuilt by fellow scots. Art was created by us!
\n","source":"DastardlySky/js13k2023","stars":3,"comments":[{"at":347252419,"author":"Misael Braga","login":"misabitencourt","gh":5315140,"text":"The game is simple but the theme and the main sprite are awesome!
\n","games":["Death Sea XIII"]},{"at":348742117,"re":347252419,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thanks Misael, we really focused on the art, we’re glad you liked it!
\n"},{"at":347300587,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Super simple and kind of fun, excellent stuff. Some more polish would have made it shine :)
\n","games":["When Your Neighbors Are Mongols"]},{"at":348742207,"re":347300587,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thank you Cliff, we really wish we had more time to perfect it as there’s so much we wanted to add to it!
\n"},{"at":347321296,"author":"Oliver Smith","login":"olvr","gh":2752443,"url":"https://thort.net","text":"I like the art style and the parallax scrolling, it looks good. Some sounds would have added to it but it is fun to play and well presented.
\n","games":["Exit the Castle"]},{"at":348742436,"re":347321296,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thank you Oliver, the parallax background was something we were really happy with. We had sound effects, but we had to remove them in the end to fit all of the art in :(
\n"},{"at":347404563,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"Managed to get to 524 without sweating it, so it would definitely be better to make it more difficult faster :)
\nBesides this, I like many things about this game: it’s simple, but fun; the parallax and art style is great (the trees, castle and “dead sprites” are cool touches). I wish it had music but overall, cool little game.
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":348742625,"re":347404563,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Hi Almar, 524? Show off…
\nOnly kidding, thank you for the positive feedback!
\nWe had music and sound effects initially and they added a lot to the game, but it was between that and more detailed art / animations when it came to the size limit.
\n"},{"at":347410149,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"great the things that are worked on, could be make better use of left and right arrows.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"at":348742661,"re":347410149,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thank you for the feedback, that’s something to think about for next year… :)
\n"},{"at":347512118,"author":"Jack Le Hamster","login":"jacklehamster","gh":5171849,"url":"https://dobuki.net","twitter":"jacklehamster","text":"Nice parallax animation and pixel art, and the William Wallace character looks a bit goofy, which is fun.\nThe gameplay is a bit classic.\nWould have been nice to have some audio.
\n","games":["The Terror of Mongolia"]},{"at":348805198,"re":347512118,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Hey Jack, thanks for the feedback!\nThis was our first time developing a game and entering a jam so while we definitely would’ve liked to make it a bit more unique, we ultimately didn’t have the capacity.\nGlad you liked the art! Your entry was also awesome, we enjoyed playing it :-)
\n"},{"at":347520390,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"I didn’t know William Wallace fought skeletons :). But joking aside really great graphics. Not many games pull off large sprites, animations, and parallax scrolling backgrounds, so well done! Very impressive.
\nControls were responsive, I like that you can slide indefinitely. I do think the game is a bit too easy for too long. I made it to over 700 on my first try, so I think a faster speed ramp up would be nice. And of course audio. Some powerups or other things would be nice since the gameplay is pretty simple.
\nStill though, I thought it was a really nice entry with amazing graphics.
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":348805304,"re":347520390,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Thank you for the kind words!\nYeah, I see what you mean about the speed. We weren’t really sure what a good starting speed would be (too fast? too slow?) which maybe would’ve been solved with some more thorough play testing. Something to think about for next year :-)\nWe absolutely thought about including power-ups but unfortunately didn’t have enough time in the end.
\n"},{"at":347699828,"author":"Stiggstogg","login":"Stiggstogg","gh":53380538,"twitter":"Stiggstogg","text":"Nice endless runner with some nice graphics. I enjoyed playing it. Some music or sound effects would have made the experience a bit better.
\n","games":["Cathedral Master Builder"]},{"at":348805355,"re":347699828,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"We appreciate the feedback, glad you enjoyed playing!
\n"},{"at":347810900,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"I love these simple running games. I do wish there was a bit more depth to it (enemy patterns, stamina, ammo, different levels to show progression…) and a few more animations/juice. That would have kept me playing even longer.
\n","games":["Path to Glory"]},{"at":348819195,"re":347810900,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Hi RĂ©mi, thank you for your feedback! Those are good suggestions, definitely something for next year! :)
\n"},{"at":348138652,"author":"Sophie ","login":"sophiemccx","gh":114070967,"text":"Really nice game, the art is really nice especially since it’s by the creator of the game.
\n"},{"at":348819318,"re":348138652,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thank you Sophie! Appreciate it!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348171593,"author":"Clément Pasteau","login":"ClementPasteau","gh":4895034,"twitter":"ClementPasteau","text":"Hey there!
\nI’ll probably repeat what most players said, but let’s be honest, it’s a great full game!\nIt’s quite rare to have a fully finished, playable and fun game so congrats.
\nToo bad you’re missing on audio, no need for sound effects, just a tiny background music would have added so much.
\nI also think ramping up the difficulty faster would make players want to try again to beat their score more!\nHaving a leaderboard would have also made it incredibly more competitive and sticky!
\nFinally, great sprites, right in the theme.\nReally well done!
\n"},{"at":348820373,"re":348171593,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Hi Clément!\nThank you for the kind words, glad you thought the game was fun.\nWe did have music and sound effects originally, but had to remove them due to last minute size constraints. It definitely would’ve made the game feel more polished by having music in (it was actually an 8-bit version of “Scotland the Brave”)!\nThe idea of a leaderboard is nice, maybe in the same vein as old arcade cabinets.
\n"},{"at":348225384,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Nice pixel art, all looked really nice. Simple gameplay but well made!
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348819381,"re":348225384,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Thank you Ryan, glad you liked the art!
\n"},{"at":348228685,"author":"Isaac Benitez","login":"isacben","gh":37629156,"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/isacben/","text":"Pretty cool graphics. Love the pixel art.\nIt gets pretty fun when it starts getting faster.
\nIt would have been great to have music and sounds.\nIt would be nice to have more obstacles or enemies as well.
\nGood job!
\n","games":["Wanted"]},{"at":348820656,"re":348228685,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Thanks Isaac, glad you liked the art! :-)\nUnfortunately the spritesheet was ramping the file size up so we had to be very conservative about what we could and couldn’t add. Thank you for the feedback!
\n"},{"at":348283140,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"Recognized by Mel Gibson :).
\nSkeletons in 13th centery? :D
\nGood game, congratulations!
\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348820799,"re":348283140,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Hi Roman, there might’ve been skeletons in the battle of Stirling for all we know! 🤷‍♂️
\nKidding aside, thank you for your feedback!
\n"},{"at":348383453,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Small, but addictive! Two things you could improve: There is no penalty for just pressing the space bar the whole time, so I just did that and only had to care to jump/slide when necessary. If pressing space bar would prohibit jumping/sliding at the same time, the game would be more challenging. And there are sometimes 1px gaps in the background. Seems like an off-by-one error or something.
\n","games":["Sir Bruno’s Minnelied"]},{"at":348821464,"re":348383453,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Hi Michael, thanks for the feedback!\nHmm, I did try to fix the gaps in the background, but as we didn’t actually import the spritesheet until the last day or so we couldn’t really get a good look at it. Unfortunately didn’t seem to budge when I moved the background’s position around either, so not too sure what’s up with it! D:
\n"},{"at":348387265,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"This was surprisingly fun. I’ve played similar games before but still had a good time playing for a few minutes.
\nThe font is readable but often so big it doens’t fit the screen. Unfortunately a consequence of using miniPixelFont (I sadly used the same but regret it).
\nThe art of this game is so adorable, specially the landscape… Perhaps the boulders should be bigger and more threatening than a small ball? I shouldn’t die from that! This game also really needs music and sound effects.
\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348821866,"re":348387265,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Hi João, thanks for the kind words! In regards to the font, we’re definitely going to explore more options next year. One mistake we made was that we never playtested across different browsers, so unfortunately it wasn’t as consistent as we’d hoped (especially on Safari). The boulders were initially meant to be bigger, but we also had to consider what the sprite could realistically jump over.\nWe thoroughly enjoyed playing your entry too!
\n"},{"at":348426716,"author":"Matthew Barr","login":"mjb24v","gh":20366189,"text":"The Empire Strikes Back of 13k games.
\n"},{"at":348821079,"re":348426716,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"Hi Matt, thank you for this high honour!!!
\n"},{"at":348741938,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A fun game to play
\nFelt a bit like bop-it where you see something coming and have to react quickly with the correct key press - or die
\nGraphics were good and the way the game played was amusing, I particularly liked the ducking skid. Also thought the parallax scrolling worked really well
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":348820969,"re":348741938,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Thanks Jasper, we appreciate the positive feedback :-)\nGlad you liked the animations, the ducking skid was my favourite to work on!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348797807,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"Loving this side scroller!\nâś… Level design is great\nâś… Variety of enemies\nâś… Sliding animation is cool (feels like Call of Duty sliding!)\nâś…Game gets more difficult the longer you progress
\nSuggestions:
\nHi there, thank you so much for the positive feedback! The sprite’s sliding animation did remind me of COD while playtesting :)
\nAll of your suggestions are actually ones that we’d thought about during development, but either didn’t have enough time or weren’t sure how to implement them. This is our first time making a game (and entering a game jam), so we’ll take all of this feedback and hopefully improve for next year!
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