DESCRIPTION:\nNorse goddess Hel presides over Niflheim, the underworld realm where warriors go after death if they did not fall in battle, but died of sickness or old age. One such warrior’s soul is granted a chance to ascend to Valhalla … if they clear Hel’s trial.
\nA turn-based game.
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\nBest performance in Chromium-based browsers.
\n","source":"sebadorn/js13k-2022-death","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":315660021,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Well made, nice to see you have different attacks, these helped when I kept getting surrounded.
\nNot sure on the best tactic to keep many enemies away, I tried to hold back and hide / fight a few at once but didnt get too far.
\nGood entry
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":315704278,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"I love this turn-based combat system. I had to plan out my moves and use strategy to win.
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":315848754,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"Looking good, but could use more content and variety.\nSuch as, attacks and abilities using some other ammo than hitpoints. Or classes. I think it could be doable without spedning too much kbs.
\n","games":["Murder Map Monkey"]},{"at":315872763,"author":"Justin Gilman","login":"EyeOfMidas","gh":3173530,"url":"https://eyeofmidas.com","twitter":"eyeofmidas","text":"Great turn-based tactics game. Once I figured out the move-attack flow, I stopped dying all the time and cleared the level. Huge variety of different monsters to fight, and I loved the mechanic of using my SP to attack but gaining SP back depending on what I killed. Had to get very clever to not burn out my life by wasting moves.
\nExcellent tiny game, well done.
\n","games":["Merchant of Death"]},{"at":316175144,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Impressive pixel graphics.
\nGreat to be able to choose between attacks with different strengths.
\nI found the game a bit tricky due to the large number of enemies. I was always feeling I was being attacked more than I could attack.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316464829,"author":"Stas Stepanov","login":"botwing","gh":23072468,"twitter":"botwing","text":"Didn’t expect it’s going to be a tactical game at first, but when I got that it became very fun and challenging to play.
\nGreat entry
\n","games":["The Dead Don't Die"]},{"at":316597456,"author":"Adrian Lissot","login":"Harmades","gh":12057914,"url":"https://harmades.github.io","twitter":"adrianlissot","text":"Solid game overall, enjoyed playing it to the end! Nicely done.
\n"},{"at":316646446,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Great fun little game. I felt the third attack was the best one. It took a while before I understood I could attack max once per turn, and that throwing the hatchet/axe could damage more than one enemy. Some indication of the attack range before highlighting enemies would make it easier to understand how the different attack works. I figured it out by accident.
\nThe sound effects accompanied the splatter which felt really nice. A great variety of enemies and good looking sprites
\nSurprising ending. I thought I would enter a boss battle because the king looked super scary. That would be fun, but maybe futile considering the theme.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316759745,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"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.
Fun little turn-based fighting game with well made pixel graphics that fit the theme.
\nIt feels like there are too many enemies in the beginning. You get outnumbered so quickly, it seems like you have no chance.
\nOverall cool game. Great job!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316818411,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"I enjoyed this a lot, what a nice game!
\nThe game offers a lot of depth and abilities from the start, perhaps by introducing the abilities one by one players have the chance to lean more into the game easily. Both making sure the players feels a certain degree of progression and mastering as well as not giving away all game play from the start. Very well executed in terms of art and mechanics and world creation.
\nAwesome little game I’d love to play more of!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316983330,"author":"Huabin Ling","login":"pandamicro","gh":632460,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/huabinling","twitter":"pandamicro","text":"Nice work, I really like the pixel art graphics. The atmosphere is nice, but I do think there could be more challenge and survival stress so that the players will immerse more into it.
\nI would appreciate if there is some more visual hints on actions left.
\n"},{"at":317176224,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Short but fun challenge. The sprites look really nice and i liked the sound effects too. I like the different attacks, they compliment each other nicely. I like the turn based mechanics; the game is still challenging but not stressful.
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