Knight Dreams is an endless runner arcade action platformer (yes, that’s a genre now), where you control a 13th century knight - or at least a 13th century knight helmet with legs and arms. Your goal is to do things that most 13th century knights do: collect gems, kill everything that moves and keep running until you die. As simple as that. Or maybe you are a 13th century knight having a fever dream, that would explain the name of the game.
\nYou gain points automatically or by killing enemies with your spear (the enemies die automatically when they hit your spear, extending it (or “attacking”) is not necessary). Collecting gems will increase the amount of points you earn by doing these heroic deeds (1 gem = +10% score bonus), but they will also give power for your… uh, propeller, that you can use to fly.
\nNice control, nice graphics, awesome tiny font :)
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347256044,"author":"Alpine Games","login":"Alpine-Games-Dev","gh":143655814,"url":"https://alpinegames.itch.io","twitter":"Alpine_Games","text":"A fun quick endless runner arcade action platformer. Graphics are cute.
\n","games":["One Guard"]},{"at":347258262,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"Beautiful retro graphics, a cute knight catching gems, a magical spear to kill enemies… what’s not to love?
\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347260219,"author":"Ariel Wexler","login":"arikwex","gh":1320825,"twitter":"AriNeonShark","text":"Flawless controls, beautiful graphics, and overall fun experience. Only ding is no music.
\n","games":["Runekeeper"]},{"at":347262324,"author":"Konrad Linkowski","login":"KonradLinkowski","gh":26126510,"url":"https://linktr.ee/linkowski","text":"One of the most beautiful games I’ve seen in this competition
\n"},{"at":347262456,"author":"John Swana","login":"swashvirus","gh":30010266,"twitter":"swashjunior","text":"This game is a bit generic but for what its worth you nailed the gameplay and theme interpretation
\n","games":["Trench Fisher"]},{"at":347264833,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"Only thing I’d improve about this game would be the difficulty/controls. Aside from that, everything felt right, great job!
\n","games":["Path to Glory"]},{"at":347266325,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"I struggled to get used to the movement. I think maybe the speed could start slower in the beginning, cause the first speed was already very hard for me. I wish there was a way to fall from a platform by pressing down for example.\nGraphics are very nice and feels polished.
\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":347269049,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Beautiful design, love the artwork. For me, the endless runner style just feels limiting. This same game but with levels you could progress through regularly instead of auto running and I’d love it.
\nAs it is, still impressive and nice entry, the gameplay style just isn’t for me.
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347270977,"author":"Marcin Walczak","login":"wiserim","gh":18725798,"twitter":"wiserim_","text":"Pretty solid and fun endless runner.
\nRayman style gliding is a cute little detail.
\n","games":["Petty kingdoms"]},{"at":347277818,"author":"Samir Hodzic","login":"SamirHodzic","gh":10077663,"url":"https://relity.games","twitter":"pufektsticks","text":"Nice pixel art, pretty simple but fun. Love how it plays.
\n","games":["It's Merlin"]},{"at":347294500,"author":"Justin Sullard","login":"justinsullard","gh":3804368,"url":"https://justinsullard.com","text":"This is a great entry, but I’m afraid I’m not very good at auto-scroll platformers so I wasn’t able to get very far. This said this is a great entry, with lots of juicy bits.
\n","games":["13 Drums"]},{"at":347308587,"author":"Andrei Iacob","login":"porumbeii","gh":66866296,"text":"Amazing game, the graphics are really cool, the SFX are great! Would be nice to see a full game release! Good luck!
\n","games":["13 Samurai"]},{"at":347332627,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"Great game\nGood combination of runner and platformer, a lot of interesting mechanics.\nGood controls.\nHelicopter helmet is really funny)\nNice pixel art graphics.
\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":347341512,"author":"Crystal Parker","login":"Vertfromage","gh":29644308,"url":"https://vertfromage.github.io","twitter":"vertfromageio","text":"It’s a fun game, the graphics are great, the sound is great, and the controls are great! I especially like the helicopter hat. I think it’s a bit too fast at the start. I do find the spear a little hard to use, but because it’s fun it’s okay. I like that you can also jump on bad guys.
\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347342476,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Loved the game, scored 10,260 on one run. Could keep playing over and over for hours.
\nGraphics were great (as yours always are), love the pixel art.
\nThe gravity and platformer mechanics were spot on.
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":347350840,"author":"Elliot Nelson","login":"elliot-nelson","gh":58273,"url":"https://7tonshark.com","twitter":"7tonshark","text":"Tough but fair speedrunner – I found the controls a little bit tough to get used to, but the player has a LOT of survival tools (long-range spear attack, jump on enemy heads, fly around up above spikes for a short distance, etc.).
\nNo background music, but the sfx are effective and fun – and the graphics are top-notch. My high score is 2995 after surviving several speed ups :)
\n","games":["Harold is Heavy"]},{"at":347374500,"author":"Luan Ferreira","login":"luanranufe","gh":16117970,"url":"https://rapazdoti.com","text":"One of my favoritos. For sure. I like the colora, the title, the map, the enemies.. great work.
\n","games":["The Book of Ani"]},{"at":347388069,"author":"Chris Glover","login":"madmaw","gh":1129626,"twitter":"mad_maw","text":"Amazing graphics and style. Really nice level of polish too. I was initially a bit frustrated with not being able to run backward, I think because I was expecting a traditional platformer, but I think in the context of an endless runner that’s actually fine.
\n","games":["Dragon Simulator"]},{"at":347391292,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"Very weel done! I liked the graphics and the rubber spear! Maybe It should have been even better adding a background music.
\n","games":["Cathedral builder"]},{"at":347391855,"author":"CodePA77","login":"CodePA77","gh":145247165,"text":"Good looking and well build game.
\n"},{"at":347392795,"author":"Christopher Lis","login":"christopher4lis","gh":7675752,"url":"https://christopherlis.com","twitter":"christopher4lis","text":"This game is so solid from a gameplay perspective, am so impressed with how polished and robust this is. Really nice work, especially with the propellor mechanic—makes the game really fun.
\n","games":["Young Magi, Awaken"]},{"at":347437473,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Great UI, menu, intro screen and graphics. All put togeher nicely.
\nThe flying is a nice touch, quite nice to control but not a big fan of the auto scroll, prefer to be able to control movement myself.
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347443264,"author":"Aleksey Litvinov","login":"mightyaleksey","gh":5006221,"url":"https://jsalterego.im/","text":"Reminded me Mario game, but with benefits :D I liked the gameplay, especially flying experience and extending lance. And graphic looks awesome and unique.
\nWould be nice to get some music for the full immersive experience!
\n","games":["Medieval Commerce"]},{"at":347505344,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"Excellent graphics and handled the visual details perfectly. Nice controls and SFX.
\n","games":["Mongol March"]},{"at":347518276,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"A very polished game! Love the fact it’s all honest pixel art. The dithering is classy.
\nYour art style is immediately recognizable, too: I remember seeing both The Maze of Space Goblins from 2021 and Dying Dreams from 2022 and thinking to myself, wow, this look good.
\nThe sheer amount of reviews on this page speaks for itself, great job!
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":347531710,"author":"Adrien Guéret","login":"adrien-gueret","gh":1508585,"twitter":"AdrienGueret","text":"Every times I die, I say to myself “It’s only because I’ve made a mistake, let’s try one more time to beat my score!”.
\nIn short: I could play this game for hours :D
\nArts are gorgeous, controls are convenient and original (love the spear idea and the helicopter thing!).\nI would prefer to be able to go down on platforms, and more variety in ennemies would be perfect. But hey, it’s a very solid entry, definitively on my top this year :)
\n","games":["Number Knight"]},{"at":347571962,"author":"Antti Haavikko","login":"anttihaavikko","gh":2298536,"url":"https://anttihaavikko.itch.io/","text":"11700!
\nReally captures that “one more try” feeling. The start isn’t boring either (which is important for retries) as it gets back to action pretty quick and even the easier part is still important for scoring well.
\nNice enemy variety. Super easy to distinguish different enemies once you’ve accustomed to them. Those red flying ones are the bane of my existance. Really tough on faster speeds. But even more deadly were the spikes that I for some reason just could’t see when it got faster. That blinking animation helped to spot them out first but it wasn’t enough when moving fast. And I don’t even have any red-green colorblindness…
\nControls were pretty damn smooth. Though I would have wanted a separate jump button. I pretty much stopped using the attack completely because I kept confusing myself that key to be jumping. And the attack usefulness was really situational too and too often missing (jumpers or fliers) spelled your doom as the return from extend was so damn slow. Almost always it was way safer to accomplish the same with just moving forward myself. Having the spear shaft be part of the kill box would have helped alleviate this some though it would have been less realistic.
\nThe scoring system could have been more transparent in the game itself. Just read the “mechanics explained” now and had no idea about the gems contributing to scoring like that. Having some indication about it in the game too would have been nice. And the harder enemies should have given more points as a risk vs reward kinda thing.
\nThe flying meter was a bit too big in my opinion. Never had any issues in keeping the tank full as the gems were so plenty. Even so plenty that I basically didn’t intentionally go for them at all unless they were on my way as I didn’t know about their scoring connection.
\nVery good looking pixel art. The sound effects were fine I guess but there was only few different ones so they kinda got monotonous. Having music would have obviously helped with that too.
\nGood job! 👍
\n","games":["Magna Carta","Casual Crusade"]},{"at":347628707,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Superb controls, and a game which can be replayed many times. It doesn’t need a tutorial, and you learn a few new tricks for each run. It’s a great game with a nice color pallet, and cute graphics. Very well done.
\nI wish we would get some points for killing enemies, which incentives the player to take additional risks for a higher score.
\nThe only thing missing in the game is music, but overall a fantastic game.
\n","games":["Samurai Sam"]},{"at":347681947,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"The game control is very smooth and I really liked the graphics. Very cool game.
\n","games":["Alquerque"]},{"at":347961254,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Adorable entry! The animations are smooth. I got hooked for way longer than I want to admit. I got tricked thinking the smiling enemies were friendly at first. It took me a while to figure out the flying (oops, someone didn’t read the instructions!)\nI wish there was a way to continue at the same speed or on a higher difficulty. After reaching high speeds and dying, returning to the initial speed was torture!\nThe sounds are cute but got a little annoying after a while. Add a background music and a little better polished sounds, and you’ve got a solid game you can release to the public here!
\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348293069,"author":"Nathan Long","login":"nathanlong","gh":623568,"text":"Really nice! The controls feel responsive and the format leads itself well to the runner/arcade style. The only thing I wish I could do is drop DOWN from a platform.
\n"},{"at":348535681,"author":"Nights","login":"Nightscratch","gh":105291215,"text":"A very beautiful and tiny game，I really like this game
\n","games":["Guardian Village"]},{"at":348666486,"author":"Aurélio A. Heckert","login":"aurium","gh":30254,"url":"http://aurium.one","text":"OMG! This is good!\nI want more lives!
\n","games":["Feudalistic Overlap"]},{"typ":2,"at":348825353,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"Really well polished game! Tight controls, good graphics, nice retro sound effects.
\n"},{"at":348863495,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"rubber spear, gum gum spear :p
\nnice graphics remind me of sonic games,
\ngood addition of fly ability i think, give it a kick
\n","games":["Robin Hood"]},{"typ":2,"at":348917001,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Hello! Thanks for your submission to js13k!\nI’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)
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