Step into the mystical world of Medieval dungeon, where you play as the legendary wizard Merlin facing relentless waves of enemies and formidable bosses deep within the confines of a foreboding castle dungeon.
\nAs Merlin, you must harness your magical prowess to thwart the advancing hordes and unravel the mysteries hidden within the ancient castle’s dark depths. Challenge your spell-casting skills, fend off menacing adversaries, and uncover the secrets of this enchanting dungeon in a relentless battle for survival.
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\n","source":"SamirHodzic/js13k23-its-merlin","stars":3,"comments":[{"at":347253708,"author":"Sebastian Dorn","login":"sebadorn","gh":1146318,"url":"https://sebadorn.de","text":"Fun to play, I tried it multiple times.\nWould be nice to have the size scale up to the browser window. Also I died instantly at wave 12, because the boss spawned where I stood.
\n","games":["The Treasure of the Nibelungs"]},{"at":347254361,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"The music rocks! I found the first waves to be a bit too long (I would prefer shorter waves that allow me to improve at a higher rate but adding crazier things later on). Still, a nice game!
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347261193,"author":"Alpine Games","login":"Alpine-Games-Dev","gh":143655814,"url":"https://alpinegames.itch.io","twitter":"Alpine_Games","text":"Challenging but fun to keep at it.
\n","games":["One Guard"]},{"at":347261546,"author":"Ariel Wexler","login":"arikwex","gh":1320825,"twitter":"AriNeonShark","text":"The early game fire rate / game pacing was too slow for me to get in-to. It was a deterrent from playing again (for me). Having bullets do half the damage but allow firing them twice as often would engage me more fwiw.
\nAmazing variety of enemies and bosses – great work. I wish there were SFX and not just background music.
\n","games":["Runekeeper"]},{"at":347263189,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"I wish firing was a bit faster (even if it did less damage). The game feels a bit slow-paced because of that.
\nGreat art and nice tunes otherwise
\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347274137,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Medieval Smash TV! The graphics are amazing, and the controls are there, but the fire rate is so slow, and there aren’t enough upgrades.
\nI think following the Smash TV path more would have helped. Have weapon upgrades spawn when you kill enemies, and then have more advanced powerups between rounds. Plus at least double the base fire rate.
\nSome little tweaks and this would be one of my favorites.
\nAs it stands, it’s graphically amazing, and still not bad, the fire rate and slow pace just prevented me from going back for any more than 2 play throughs.
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347274496,"author":"Marcin Walczak","login":"wiserim","gh":18725798,"twitter":"wiserim_","text":"Pretty good game.\nNice graphics.\nSmooth controls.\nCatchy music.
\nFire rate is a little bit slow at the start and you have to get used to fact you shoot from the orb and not center of your character.
\n","games":["Petty kingdoms"]},{"at":347313257,"author":"Andrei Iacob","login":"porumbeii","gh":66866296,"text":"Nice game, but you should make hp heal itself faster… It is very hard. But I guess it’s because I’m a terrible wizard. Anyway great game, love the graphics!
\n","games":["13 Samurai"]},{"at":347336167,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"Good game, some sort of archero-like top down shooter with perks and different enemies.\nIt’s interesting that you are firing not from your character point but from his magical ball.
\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":347341068,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"Well done:
\nFeedback:
\nThe music and the graphics are good. I liked that the ghosts push you back if they reach you. I didn’t like the reload speed it was too slow.
\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347369152,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"The sprites in this looked fantastic, really sells an aesthetic.\nThe gameplay felt a little slow though. Maybe it got better later on with more upgrades, but I didn’t end up playing for long enough to find out. On these smaller games, you gotta unleash all the excitement up front!
\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"at":347404209,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"Very well made! I liked the graphics and the music. It was too hard for me (but maybe I’m the problem).
\nAfter playing some 30 matches I only managed to pass the first boss a few times. I wish there was an easier mode for people like me. :D
\nThe upgrades didn’t help me much. I was always going for +1 HP per kill or damage increase, because restoring HP wouldn’t help me getting through the harder levels, but still, the damage increase was so mild that it almost didn’t change the result: I still had to shoot the skeletons twice to kill them, and the mages three times.
\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":347405936,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Pixel art is great, simple controls and some really nice animations and particle FX. Nice variation of enemies. Music is a nice loop.
\nCritical Feedback:
\nnice, everything should be bigger, sound fx is a must, at least let me powerup before the game even starts so I know what the game is about.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"at":347441868,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"Really cute and fun little game. I would maybe add a few more animations, particles when enemies are hit, sound effects, more feedback overall. Also maybe balance out the upgrades, I felt like the game got really hard really quick and I couldn’t get enough upgrades to counter that.
\n","games":["Path to Glory"]},{"at":347443956,"author":"Aleksey Litvinov","login":"mightyaleksey","gh":5006221,"url":"https://jsalterego.im/","text":"Awesome graphics and music! And nice gameplay.\nWould be nice to have a possibility to use a key to shoot while aiming with mouse.
\n","games":["Medieval Commerce"]},{"at":347462316,"author":"John Swana","login":"swashvirus","gh":30010266,"twitter":"swashjunior","text":"Nice game there i love the sounds and characters and graphics and also the interaction between them
\n","games":["Trench Fisher"]},{"at":347603820,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Unfortunately, I couldn’t properly move: I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, and you don’t call .preventDefault() on the key events, so trying to move opens up the search for me.
Great graphics, and supercool (but short) music!\npretty hard gameplay, but the upgrades are good.\nVery good entry!
\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":347677579,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"The graphics is excellent! Especially the cute character design and the sprite animation. It’s definitely 5/5 on graphics rating. Great game but super challenging for me! Maybe the game can adjust the difficulty to make it easier for players in the earlier levels.
\n","games":["Mongol March"]},{"at":347721672,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"I enjoyed playing this game. It started to lag a few times when there were many enemies on the map. I also wished I got a warning before the boss appeared, because he spawned right on top of me, so I died.
\nGreat music. Add a melody on top of it and you’ve got yourself a hit. Some sound effects will make the game shine even more, and add extra feedback to the player.
\nI’ve seen these characters on Itch.io before, but that’s not against the rules, and it looks really great in this game. Really cute animations.
\nThe controls are easy to use, and the theme is well interpreted. Good job on this entry.
\n","games":["Samurai Sam"]},{"typ":2,"at":348464327,"author":"Jeremy Burns","login":"jaburns","gh":620418,"url":"https://jaburns.net","twitter":"jaburnsnet","text":"Great concept and graphics. It’s balanced really hard! You could probably double the player fire rate and still not have it be too easy for the early levels. IMO you want the first few levels of a game to be sleep-walkable so that a player can learn the mechanics in a safe environment and learn how progression works before being thrown into the inferno. Still, it’s fun to play when you get the hang of it!
\n","games":["CannonBolf"]},{"typ":2,"at":348477317,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"such phenomenal graphics! I really love all your sprite work. the game played just wonderfully, smooth and exciting. I wish I could fire 4x as fast!!! I desperately wanted to SPAM BULLETS and felt really constrained by the fire rate, but it fit the pace of the game and it was fun moving in circles until I was overwhelmed. excellent game nice work.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348605634,"author":"Frahaan Hussain","login":"SonarSystems","gh":6967779,"url":"https://sonarsystems.co.uk","twitter":"SonarSystems","text":"WOW. What a beautiful game, when it loaded I just thought, this is a game I could see on the app store as it is from a visual perspective.
\nGameplay was nice, would have liked a tutorial/controls in the game itself to make it well rounded and some settings options but overall fantastic.
\n"},{"at":348913115,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Love the graphics
\nThe gameplay is a little tricky with combined mouse and keyboard in terms of coordination. I seem to have to spin around the enemies to corale them into the middle and then loop around them to shoot them.
\nThe appearance of the enemies who shoot back adds another element of peril.
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