{"id":2015,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":9113,"name":"Holy Knight","authors":[{"name":"Camera Kendall","twitter":"camerakendall","login":"camerakendall","gh":22480272}],"description":"

An endless tower defense type game.

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You are the holy knight!

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Your only task is to prevent the green knights from getting the holy grail. Points are gained by killing green knights. The game ends if a green knight touches the holy grail. Try to beat your previous score!

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Keyboard input

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This is the best theme tie-in so far, good job!

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I like the Holy Chalice pixel art.

\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":347728366,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not, but I get an alert: “You lose. Points: 1” when I try to run the game. I’ll try again on a different day. It may be because of some server issues.

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The character sprites are very well made, and the idea of protecting the grail was fun. But it can be very repetitive. Try to add this to a better theme, like in a large castle. The clipping also was a bit strange, but not a big issue. Sadly no sound to critique. But great job on a good-looking character.

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You control a little knight who can run left, right, and jump. You simply have to collide with the green knights that seem to pour down towards you like rain, to prevent them from hitting the holy grail. It gets a little repetitive but the graphics are cute and it’s definitely on-theme. With some more variation, it could evolve into a fun challenge. Also, the game didn’t work at all for me without opening it in its own tab, then it was fine.

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Unfortunately, I could not move: I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, and you don’t call .preventDefault() on key events, so when I try to move, the page search opens for me.

\n","games":["Sir Bruno’s Minnelied"]},{"at":348011868,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"

The sprites are really cute! However, a bit repetitive over time. Maybe the grail could move around? Most of the time I stood next to it and just jumped, which worked quite well.

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Very simplistic, I think ‘tower defense’ is a bit misleading. Because the falling knights had only one direction and the player can jump forever you can easily skim the top of the screen and never be in danger. It might be more interesting if it were top-down and you had to fend the knights off from multiple directions.

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This is not exactly a “tower defense” game in the usual sense. It’s a very simple game with very little gameplay. I could stay here jumping all day without losing. I only lost because of an odd box collision bug.

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Good fit of the theme but would me more fun with more variation.

\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"typ":2,"at":348476870,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"

nice simple game! it ran smoothly and worked fine. as I was defending the grail I noticed that if you look at them just right you can imagine the sprites are CYCLOPSES with toothy grins! LOL (instead of a gem emblem on a helmet with little eyes below, as I’m sure was the intention. both ways, I liked the art! good work.

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This game has a confusing perspective. At first it looks like a top-down because you see the green knights coming in from the northeast but then as you move your character you realised that it’s a side perespective (so it’s raining green knights).

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I feel like this game could’ve benefitted from a bit more variety, there’s an area of the screen that doesn’t get used at all and there’s a spot you can position yourself in where all you need to do is jump.

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Still, not a bad entry. Good job.

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Well, looks more like some prototype, but there are some gameplay elements here.

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I love the sprites in this game, it’s a fun and simple game

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It didn’t work in the voting app, so had to open in a different tab

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Hovering over or in front of the grail seemed to be a good tactic, but there sure was a lot of knights coming forwards

\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":348790000,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"

For some reason, I couldn’t start driving unfortunately… and therefore play the game…

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Maybe if you tell me how to start the game so that it works - I could try again.

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