1254 AD
\nThe Kingdom of Syldavia is being invaded by the Northern Empire.
\nThe Syldavian army is outnumbered and outmatched.
\nOne lone soldier decides to take on the emperor himself.
\n","source":"remvst/knight","stars":174,"post":"https://remvst.medium.com/path-to-glory-post-mortem-js13k-2023-be74a5272621","comments":[{"at":347253679,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"It’s packed with great details: the trees fading when you cross behind them, the little animations, the lighting, the infinite map… great job!
\nOn the minus side - I found it awkward to control the mouse, and perhaps it would be nice if you could just skip some waves - if you continue walking past one you get trapped by the next waves until you have to fight them (or simply block a portion of the screen to make you fight). Otherwise you can walk forever and nothing happens :)
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347254002,"author":"Santi Herranz","login":"santiHerranz","gh":961911,"twitter":"santiherranz","text":"Loved from the first sight.\nNice entry tutorial, great movements and beauty slow zoomed camera.
\n","games":["Battle commander - Middle ages"]},{"at":347255073,"author":"Ariel Wexler","login":"arikwex","gh":1320825,"twitter":"AriNeonShark","text":"Controls were tight, gameplay was excellent (though repetitive after the first 3 waves). I wish there was some sort of upgrade system / path of growing the player. Overall an great experience!
\n","games":["Runekeeper"]},{"at":347255903,"author":"Alpine Games","login":"Alpine-Games-Dev","gh":143655814,"url":"https://alpinegames.itch.io","twitter":"Alpine_Games","text":"A fun adventure with great music. Feels well made and polished!
\n","games":["One Guard"]},{"at":347259741,"author":"Jure Triglav","login":"jure","gh":238667,"url":"https://juretriglav.si","twitter":"juretriglav","text":"Great approachable gameplay coupled with great music and sound. I love the little graphical flourishes, like the swaying trees or the rain droplets on the lakes. A wonderful game!
\n","games":["1257 Samalas"]},{"at":347259990,"author":"Vivian Easley","login":"vivianeasley","gh":650185,"text":"A lot of great stuff going on in this game. Smooth controls, love the graphics, and pretty intuitive. Great job.
\n","games":["Of All Trades"]},{"at":347260000,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"Very polished, the right amount of difficulty. This game is in my top 10 for sure.
\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347265893,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"Very smooth! The game controls few very natural, and after a few seconds of playing I already felt like a pro. Very fun game.
\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":347270229,"author":"Marcin Walczak","login":"wiserim","gh":18725798,"twitter":"wiserim_","text":"The game is full of features and is incredibly polished.
\nFrom advanced fight mechanics (light and strong attacks, blocking, dodging, stunning), through telegraphing enemy attacks to such small details like trees getting transparent to not block the sight or moving grass.
\nIt’s definitely one of my favorite entries.
\n","games":["Petty kingdoms"]},{"at":347271675,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Very slick production, I aspire to create something half as good :)
\n","games":["When Your Neighbors Are Mongols"]},{"at":347278875,"author":"Daniel Cohen","login":"eprouver","gh":750897,"text":"So impressive in complexity, audio, visuals and fun. I was trying to play with my trackpad and wasn’t finding great success, so I had to get a mouse. Just awesome, how polished and complete the whole thing feels.
\nAlso, I love fitting a tutorial in 13k - just great.
\n","games":["The Monk's Window"]},{"at":347286949,"author":"Crystal Parker","login":"Vertfromage","gh":29644308,"url":"https://vertfromage.github.io","twitter":"vertfromageio","text":"Perfect, one of my favorites so far!
\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347294299,"author":"Justin Sullard","login":"justinsullard","gh":3804368,"url":"https://justinsullard.com","text":"One of the first, and one of the best. This is a very complete game, and the graphics are astonishing. I’m very curious to review the code on github, and honestly there is no fault to be had with this game. Superb work!
\n","games":["13 Drums"]},{"at":347308313,"author":"Andrei Iacob","login":"porumbeii","gh":66866296,"text":"A very well executed game! Would be nice to save my game. The shadows are really cool, and the NPCs are very smart!
\n","games":["13 Samurai"]},{"at":347332461,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"Great Job!\ngood game with tutorial, good controls and interesting mechanics, simple, but good and unique visual style.\nPrinciple is simple, but it’s a high quality game.\nAlso this duels-like mechanics of block, avoiding and stunning are very good.\nI like this attention to details - thunderbolts, moving in water, grass, transparent trees.\nReally nice work.
\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":347371694,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"very nice work on several aspects of the game\nI’d like to point some of what could make things improved\nthere is a pause scene but no menu scene player would like to start directly instead of having to go through tutorial everytime\nneed a way to mute music, its nice but some quite would be nice\nsounds can be separate from music so gameplay can still have sound\nthe map is very nice with trees water and rain I plan to check the code later for some insights\nas for gameplay its a bit too easy to be op and could have some progression like have levels and spend points on stats for improved skills\nnot gona repeat same hints from other feedbacks but I second them all\ngood luck
\n","games":["Robin Hood"]},{"at":347386608,"author":"Chris Glover","login":"madmaw","gh":1129626,"twitter":"mad_maw","text":"High level of polish. It feels like a real game! I would have loved the ability to take enemy weapons or unlock new abilities or something to add some variety
\n","games":["Dragon Simulator"]},{"at":347390765,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"Really good game! I like the rainy atmosphere and the fight gameplay. The tutorial is also very good!
\n","games":["Cathedral builder"]},{"at":347406743,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"nice, i wish you should’ve told me go the right path that was infinite.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"at":347432361,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Great game! The grass swaying and birds flying by were all nice touches! The perfect block and slain slow downs with the smoke and blood particles were super satisfying!
\nIt would have been very helpful if the player character would have stood out just all around, and also didn’t look the same as the enemies. Like give my dude a golden sword and royal blue shield and red tunic or whatever. Especially with how the player dashes towards whoever he hits, it’s very easy to loose track of your character.
\nAlso I was able to take away about 90% of the kings health while the game with in the level transition screen :)
\nI really loved this game though. Sort of a dark souls wave fighter. It’s satisfying, polished, and really cool!
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347441483,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Exceptional entry in all aspects, really enjoyed playing through. Graphics, controls, sounds and camera all great.
\nLots of nice features well implemented, could be a bigger game for sure.
\nWell done, can see this making the top entries!
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347460873,"author":"John Swana","login":"swashvirus","gh":30010266,"twitter":"swashjunior","text":"Nice Good music, and translations animations water effects and all the bells and whistles
\n","games":["Trench Fisher"]},{"at":347505013,"author":"Alexander Sumarokov","login":"sumasamurai","gh":24809839,"text":"Cool. This RPG can get you hooked on farming eternity. The controls are good. The gameplay is well-done. The graphics for an canvas game are amazing. And most importantly, I checked the source code, and the game is written clearly and professionally.
\n","games":["TimeRush"]},{"at":347505933,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"Everything are well polished, especially the graphics. I noticed there are many intricately processed details. The entity provide me a nice user experience. The difficulty is just suitable for me.
\nIt’s hard to imagine a piece of work like this can be done within 13kb! Well done!
\n","games":["Mongol March"]},{"at":347512528,"author":"Ben Fox","login":"BenjaminWFox","gh":9467046,"twitter":"benjaminwfox","text":"Love the tutorial, great style and execution, well polished and well balanced!
\nTowards the end it got a little repetitive, I wished there was a little more variety, maybe a ranged enemy that would have made blocking a more important mechanic.
\n","games":["Khan - Westward Conquest"]},{"at":347517215,"author":"newman s lanier","login":"Newman5","gh":1620405,"text":"love it! Great Tutorial and really engaging to play. I want to play again\nTheme - possibly the least. Not super imaginative but swords and shields!
\nGameplay - I would give 6 stars. so so good. … wait, did you do this all in one month? It’s so good, I suspect you of cheating. (which I’m sure you didn’t but it’s that good, is all I’m sayin)\nAudio - great.\nInno - The gameplay is innovative too me. But I don’t play many games like this.
\nGraphics - well done and the cohesive nature of all the elements is great\nControls - smooth and intuitive\nWell done Sir!
A well executed game, 5 stars on everything.\nThe amount of work put in this game is astonishing.
\nAnd don’t get me started on all the juice. From the water drops to the perfect block, everything is carefully thought of.
\nIt’s difficult to think of improvements, because everything works well together. Adding one more type of enemy, like a pikeman or an archer is the only thing I can think of. Good job on this one.
\n","games":["Samurai Sam"]},{"at":347584662,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"A masterpiece in 13KBs. Great job, so much attention to detail…
\n","games":["Knights of Acre"]},{"typ":2,"at":347656846,"author":"Luke Stapley","login":"CocosLuke","gh":53160446,"url":"https://cocos.com","twitter":"GameAddict","text":"Probably the most complete game I’ve played. Give yourself another 2 - 3 months of development and add to a web publishing site like poki or Crazy Games and make money on it.
\nBiggest things to improve:
\nHistorians might enjoy it especially with my high score.
\n"},{"at":348046968,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"This is a well though out fun game.
\nI love all the little touches, from the rain and the grass swaying to the ripples on the water.
\nThe music was pretty funky and had a good beat to it.
\nI’ve never been a mouse and keyboard combo player, I like to use either one or the other or a gamepad, but your control system worked well.
\nWas I supposed to be able to defeat the dummies on the tutorial or the characters who appeared? The hit scores which I assume were percentages never seemed to go above 90% for me so the targets of my attacks seemed to never be defeated.
\nWhen I played the first time it came up with a hint to follow the path to the right, but the further I went along it the further it continued without arriving anywhere, was the path endless?
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":348141829,"author":"Samuel van Egmond","login":"SamuelVanEgmond","gh":95985602,"text":"A very solid game, simple but aesthetically very pleasing graphics with shadows on everything. (For me) a bit hard to control, but the controls looked cool to. Nice touches with nearby trees going transparant and dropping down and slowing down in water.
\nTintin! LOL
\n","games":["Medieval Matchup"]},{"at":348367126,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Nice game\nI enjoyed playing it!!
\n","games":["Alquerque"]},{"at":348640843,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"I love the amount of mobility you gave the player! It does, however, trivialize the gameplay a bit, since nothing is able to chase you bunny-hopping across the screen. They’re unable to land a single hit if you kite, long press, then space-space-space out of range. I guess the emperor should have a rifle or something to compensate :)
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"typ":2,"at":348700977,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"The combat in the game is really nice! The snappy attacks together with dodge rolling and the precision blocking makes for some really fun and active gameplay. Really good job there!
\nThe only feedback I’d have is on the visuals. For the characters, they’re simplistic and nice, although they could have a bit more variety. For the environment they could’ve been a bit more interesting. However, that is nitpicking a bit since the game has to stay quite small of course.
\nAll in all, really nice game! Great job!
\n"},{"at":348707410,"author":"Markus Fisch","login":"markusfisch","gh":485246,"url":"http://www.markusfisch.de","text":"So amazing! I really enjoyed this one! All the tiny lovely details like that he gets dizzy from rolling too much or that he sinks into the water or or or ;) Just great!
\n","games":["Musa's Quest"]},{"typ":2,"at":348710276,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"Can I just say.. your game is class as always. For 13kb, this is amazing.
\nTheme - 5/5 capturing the 13th century and the narrative embedded with the game itself. You can play this game blind without reading any documents outside the game and you can learn how to play the game.
\nGameplay - I like how it guides the player from the beginning - teaching basic controls and slowly increasing the tempo of the game. Players can skip if they want to. Stamina bar is also a nice touch to add some realism to gameplay.
\nHaving a restarted game to the last checkpoint is something that you don’t see in a 13kb game. I was relieved!
\nGraphics - walk into water, your character slows down. Wind, rain, moving grass, lightning. Nice additions to the environment. The slow-mo killing of last enemy is also a great touch.
\nControl - the field of vision is a helpful implementation, esp for 2d hack & slash rougelike games. This is really good.
\nI think being able to swap weapons would be nice to create variation in gameplay?
\n"},{"at":348850735,"author":"Isaac Benitez","login":"isacben","gh":37629156,"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/isacben/","text":"Congrats on the game! The things I liked the most were the controls. The attacks feel pretty good!
\nAlso loved the transparency effect on the trees.
\n","games":["Wanted"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":4,"min":1.08,"score":4.22,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":12,"min":1.12,"score":3.64,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":2,"min":1.24,"score":4.22,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":11,"min":1.21,"score":4.26,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":2,"min":1,"score":4.18,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":2,"min":1.29,"score":4.18,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":1,"min":7.57,"score":24.7,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}