{"id":2125,"edition":12,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":9697,"name":"M13E","authors":[{"name":"Andrew","url":"https://nativ.codes","login":"iAndrew25","gh":16413368}],"description":"

M13E: Overcoming Triskaidekaphobia

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Welcome to M13E, a compact yet thrilling game crafted for the js13kGames 2024 competition! This year’s theme, Triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), inspired me to create a maze game with a unique twist.\nGame Overview

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Each level gives you 13 seconds to:

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Find the exit before time runs out.\nCollect coins scattered throughout the maze.\nAvoid dangerous traps like lava and obstacles.\nUtilize portals to walk through walls as the difficulty ramps up.\n
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The further you go, the more coins and obstacles you’ll face, but you’ll always be racing against that 13-second timer.

\n","source":"iAndrew25/m13e","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":378861094,"author":"Aleksander Szczepura","login":"alszczep","gh":44731926,"text":"

The time limit suddenly makes a simple maze more interesting. What ruins the experience for me are the controls, instead of looking for an optimal path through the maze, I keep getting stuck on the edges of the walls.

\n","games":["13legions"]},{"at":378887105,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"

Brutally difficult and not for the faint hearted player!

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Oh, those controls! The hero gets stuck on the maze walls and doesn’t slide. And the hero also move too fast so getting stuck is guaranteed, and overshooting corners is also guaranteed.

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It might have been better if you started with some smaller mazes to ease the player into the gameplay, the size of the maze is too difficult for a new player I think.

\n","games":["Badluck Butter Chicken Goes To Outer Space","Badluck Butter Chicken Flies The Unfriendly Skies"]},{"at":378896890,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

Wasn’t sure if the maze was procgen, but I’m guessing not. The countdown aspect added to the jeopardy of completing the maze.

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It was quite hard to play because the walls were “sticky”, there was nothing to tell me how to move the dot, after trying mouse and WASD, found arrow keys did move bottom right dot.

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13 seconds isn’t long before you’re thrown back at the start.

\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"at":378939631,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"

Controls are very bad… I spend more time fighting corners than searching for an exit.

\n","games":["Deep13"]},{"at":378947315,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Interesting game. The controls are a bit frustrating because the walls are “sticky”. Wasn’t able to collect any coins within the time limit.

\n","games":["Thirteen Terrible Stunts"]},{"at":378950225,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

agree that 13 secods give a spark but the control should have a more fitting ease of use, also if some graphics added more view.

\n","games":["The 13 Invaders","Cookie Maze 3d","Maze Runner vs 13","Tower Defence Walking 13s"]},{"at":378962495,"author":"aselitto","login":"aselitto","gh":17676172,"text":"

Great work! This game is a nice and fun concept. The controls are challenging and I think that plays well into the time part of the game. I like that I am able to press 2 directions at the same time! Great work getting this game together!

\n","games":["Dekatria Mansion"]},{"at":378971837,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Well made entry, functions well and has progression, I think you could have granted more time when the coins were collected.

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When you develop a game you get so good at it you have to nerf it a little.

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I got to 3 coins and just could not get all 3 in the time, the collisions made it hard to travel as fast as I felt I needed too.

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With a few power ups, stop the clock, extra time, speed boost etc this could be more fun.

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Still a good entry.

\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"at":378992291,"author":"Alex Delderfield","login":"AD-Edge","gh":3481465,"url":"www.delta-edge.com.au","twitter":"Alex_ADEdge","text":"

Neat concept, mazes are always fun. This one is tough though! Could barely pass the first few levels. I think with some more polished controls (ie less sticky player) it could be a bit more forgiving.

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Good work getting a game together with bytes to spare!

\n","games":["The Anti-Poker Protocol"]},{"at":379040774,"author":"Raptor Dev","login":"raptor0999","gh":74460924,"twitter":"Raptor_IndieDev","text":"

Really cool idea and very close to good execution. The controls/collision detection just ruins it from getting stuck on walls so frequently, like everyone has commented.

\n","games":["Primonumerophobia"]},{"at":379171614,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"

The time limit makes it pretty frantic! I was able to manage one coin, but two coins proved too tricky. The biggest obstacle is getting stuck on corners, which is quite tricky. Nice job, congrats on submitting!

\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"at":379283009,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"

Getting stuck on corners makes the game immeasurably more challenging than it looks.

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Nice interpretation of the theme!

\n","games":["Shoot 13 Nomsters","King Thirteen"]},{"at":379401797,"author":"Stanisław Małolepszy","login":"stasm","gh":265818,"url":"https://piesku.com","twitter":"stas","text":"

This game is very hard. I barely managed to get to three coins. I browsed the code and it looks like there’s lava and portals on later stages, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to see them due to the difficulty. I do wonder if this was intended or perhaps a bug in how you handle input? If you’re planning a post-jam version, consider being more forgiving around corners!

\n","games":["Millennials"]},{"at":379713691,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"

It should have been fun, but hitbox ruined my experience.\nYou should add more permissive collisions, or make movement step by step to avoid player being stuck by an edge. I cannot beat the 2 coins challenge

\n","games":["13 Steps to Escape"]},{"at":380102874,"author":"Siorki","login":"Siorki","gh":2333431,"text":"

Seems to always be the same maze, how about different layouts for multiple challenges ?

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As far as controls are concerned, I wish you could cut a corner and not be blocked by a single pixel, it quickly gets annoying

\n","games":["2048 / 13"]},{"at":380361543,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

The 13 seconds are hard, but fair.

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If the player would not get stuck on a wall when moving diagonally, that would be a huge enhancement for the gameplay.

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And, as my (and many other gaming laptops) laptop has a 144Hz screen which simply results in much more fps and calls of the update-methods. So now the player characte moves so fast that it is really hard to stop at the right position to enter a specific passage of the maze.\nheroUpdate() should take the time since the last update as factor for the position-update.

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Anyways: Congrats on completing a game under 13 kB! (10 kB in fact)

\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"typ":2,"at":380423572,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"

Maze time—well done! To be honest, the movement was pretty hard. I do like the attempt to finish before 13 seconds. The controls and movement can be polished to make them easier to access.

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