{"id":2094,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13073,"name":"Only One","authors":[{"name":"Cemal Gönültaş","twitter":"gnltscemal","login":"cemalgnlts","gh":45357531}],"description":"<p>Defeat enemies alone on the battlefield. It has 5 levels.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><kbd>W</kbd><kbd>A</kbd><kbd>S</kbd><kbd>D</kbd> (or arrow keys): Move.</li>\n<li>Click on the screen with the mouse: Attack.</li>\n<li><kbd>Spacebar</kbd> to move to the next level.</li>\n</ul>\n","source":"cemalgnlts/only-one-js13k","stars":2,"comments":[{"at":347320119,"author":"Oliver Smith","login":"olvr","gh":2752443,"url":"https://thort.net","text":"<p>Nice minimalistic presentation, simple but fun. Differentiating the ‘level progression’ and ‘you lost’ screens more would have improved the experience for me.</p>\n","games":["Exit the Castle"]},{"at":347376360,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"<p>a good use of shadows and rotating of sword</p>\n","games":["Robin Hood"]},{"at":347518133,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"<p>The graphics are really smooth and it felt quite nice to move around.</p>\n<p>However, I am not so sure whether the game matches the theme. Also, at some points the seemed like to collision detection didn’t work quite well.</p>\n<p>It was a fun game, It just felt a bit empty (more enemies, more sound, etc. would have been nice)</p>\n","games":["Cathar"]},{"at":347520493,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"<p>Nice clean presentation, i like the color-palette.\nSome added eye-candy (particle-effects, screen-shakes,…) and a bit more interaction-possibilities (i.e. dash to a direction with [space] or [right-mouse-button]) would add much to the game.</p>\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":347645232,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"<p>I think it would work better without having to click to do damage(like in <a href=\"https://dev.js13kgames.com/2023/games/knight-dreams)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://dev.js13kgames.com/2023/games/knight-dreams)</a> . And with sword hit box being actually aligned with the sprite. So far it seems that enemy is not  damaged by the sword top, only by it’s middle/hilt.</p>\n","games":["Weird Cannon"]},{"at":347693135,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"<p>G’day!</p>\n<p>Good balance of levels difficulty. Unfortunately, I did not find in it resonance with the theme of the competition. Also very reminiscent of tutorial games where you learn, good start, but more innovation and uniqueness would have made my experience so much better!</p>\n<p>Thanks for game!</p>\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348102335,"author":"Allen Schmidt","login":"cobrajs","gh":297238,"url":"https://cobrajs.itch.io","text":"<p>Nice little game! I could have used some indication of where the mouse was, as sometimes it got a bit lost when I was moving around. The hit box for the sword feels kinda small as well (though that might just be me complaining because I couldn’t make it past level 4 haha).</p>\n","games":["Pied Pipe Revolution"]},{"typ":2,"at":348215703,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"<p>Minimalist, stylized, and highly playable little arena game! I wish the sword swing was more of an arc around the player instead of a simple waggle / pivot at the handle. I’d also like the archers to give some warning before they shoot.</p>\n<p>Overall a simple and fun game. Nice work!</p>\n"},{"at":348465566,"author":"Tero Jäntti","login":"tkjantti","gh":1288746,"text":"<p>What I liked about it:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The minimalistic retro style looks good, the shadows and the sword animation add a nice touch to it.</li>\n<li>I think the challenge progressed well from easy levels to the difficult last level.</li>\n<li>There was nice variety in enemies with different speeds and archers in the mix.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What could be improved:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Firefox, the mouse cursor doesn’t appear at all. Also, the game froze a couple of times, either for a short time or I had to start all over. After trying with Firefox yesterday it was a bit frustrating, but now with Chrome the experience was much smoother :)</li>\n<li>It happened to me a few times that you lose all your hearts in one go. Perhaps there could a little time given to the player to escape from a situation before losing more hearts.</li>\n<li>A dying animation to enemies could add more feel to it. Like some simple “collapsing” or something.</li>\n<li>A simple storyline, for example with some short introduction text for each level, could add to the atmosphere and theme.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Overall, a fun and complete little game with just a right amount of challenge to play it through!</p>\n","games":["Predecessors"]},{"typ":2,"at":348686970,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"<p>What I liked:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intersting controls</li>\n<li>Sound effects (at least one!)</li>\n<li>The last level is challenging</li>\n<li>Cute little sword :)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What I liked less:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Completed in 3 minutes</li>\n<li>Changing the color of the background to indicate the change of difficulty would have been great</li>\n<li>Hard to play on a trackpad (I don’t have a mouse today)</li>\n<li>One more enemy type would have been great</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Overall, it is a fine game, but very short.</p>\n"},{"at":348827113,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"<p>Nice idea! It’s like melee Asteroids. Looks nice, like the minimalist approach. Could have splashed out on another shape for the archers though. Triangles perhaps?</p>\n<p>I think there’s a lot of potential to this concept, but it doesn’t quite feel right yet. The hit detection is a little loose on the one hand, and it’s almost too easy to circle strafe, because the enemy’s can’t deal with it, and they overlap, so they conveniently bunch up for a quick swipe. But it IS one of those things where you can totally imagine what the tighter, juiced up version would be like, and it seems cool!</p>\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":134,"min":1.08,"score":1.95,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":129,"min":1.12,"score":1.95,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":86,"min":1.24,"score":2.67,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":105,"min":1.21,"score":2.62,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":86,"min":1,"score":2.05,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":99,"min":1.29,"score":2.62,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":121,"min":7.57,"score":13.86,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}