{"id":1986,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13063,"name":"The 13th King's Odyssey","authors":[{"name":"Himanshu Bisht","login":"igamerx","gh":44287861}],"description":"
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In a shadowy realm of the 13th century, a once-mighty king finds himself trapped in his own castle. Now, he must use his wit and uncover ancient secrets to escape the castle’s ancient curse. Join him on his journey to break free in this enchanting tale of courage and magic.

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The 13th King’s Odyssey is a hard precision platformer game. Where you play as an unnamed King. You need to help him to escape the castle.

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Controls: Keyboard

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Tools used

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Theme and graphics are on point. Gameplay and controls are both quite good, although maybe a little bit TOO hard – I tried for quite a while but I could not manage to get past that single spike patch on the 3rd level.

\n","games":["Harold is Heavy"]},{"at":347304065,"author":"Justin Sullard","login":"justinsullard","gh":3804368,"url":"https://justinsullard.com","text":"

This game looks awesome, and I feel like with some work on the controls, and removing the screen-shake when you bounce your head (or fewer puzzles that require bouncing your head to traverse) this could be a really solid platformer. As it stands it was super frustrating, and I don’t think I ever made it beyond the 3rd level (the one with 3 tall skinny pillars) as the controls felt like it was as much luck as anything, and it eventually crashed twice during game play.

\n","games":["13 Drums"]},{"at":348386877,"re":347304065,"author":"Himanshu Bisht","login":"igamerx","gh":44287861,"text":"

Thanks for playing my game and for your honest feedback. This jam was a great learning for me, as it was my first-ever game and game jam. I will try better next year. :)

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The graphics are fabulous, love the look.\nReally didn’t enjoy the gameplay though. Spent a few minutes trying to get past level 3 and it was just too frustrating to continue, sorry!

\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"at":347393596,"author":"CodePA77","login":"CodePA77","gh":145247165,"text":"

Pixel graphics are beautiful. Love the overall look of the game. As it’s mentioned in the description it is a Hard platformer so I take it like that. Sometimes it feels too hard, but also when the level is completed it gives a sense of achievement. It’s so hardcore that I managed to reach level 5 only. In my play, when I jump to a pillar it doesn’t hold and slips and I had to control that. I think with some tweaks it can be a very good platformer.

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I love the graphics, great looking game. I also think all the right elements are there for a challenging platformer.

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However, I do think the game was too hard. I think more emphasis on timing rather than pixel perfect jumps, and lighter gravity would help too. It requires a bit too much perfection to be fun, at least to me. Also a game like this benefits greatly from controller support. Looking at tools used, it looks like you used my starter kit, which has controller support built right in, but it was removed I guess? I can understand needing to make space, but I do think it would have helped a lot here.

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Still I think fitting these graphics into 13k is a nice achievement, and with just a small amount of tweaking it would be a really fun game! If you tweak the gravity and put in controller support after the comp I’d love to play it again!

\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347485428,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"

jumps are too hard but great design

\n","games":["Castle 🏰 Escape (2023)"]},{"at":347486311,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"

I felt the game was punishing on purpose rather than difficult (or fun). The graphics are super cool though!

\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347520592,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"

Hard precision indeed!

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The sound and the graphics are well done and they achieve a good look and feel.

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However, I can’t quite if it’s a camera shake or a performance problem (or maybe both?) but whatever that is, makes the game even harder. It distracts from the precision aspect of the game.\nIn addition the gravity feels just a little too strong.\nThose two points make the controls feel a little clunky.

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Take the above feedback with a pinch of salt - Of the “hard platformers” I enjoyed Super Meat Boy and that’s probably it.

\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347828951,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

pretty hard platformer, with very neat graphics.

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I like it!

\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":347926883,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"

G’day!

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Jumping from the wall is cool!

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Very sensitive controls, very difficult to keep balance, could not play to the end…

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In general, you can play if you tweak the controls, make them less sensitive… thanks!

\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348057915,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Nice graphics, animations and sounds.

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The screen shake is a little jarring and sadly I could not make it past the spikes on maybe 3rd level, I always fell into the spikes below.

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I dont mind hard platformers but felt it wasnt my fault when I kept dying, improved controls / gravity would have really helped which I think will be quite easy to improve.

\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348463256,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"

Too hard for me, but very well presented.

\n","games":["Knights of Acre"]},{"at":348644390,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"

The graphics are just perfect.

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Precision platformers are cool, such an underrepresented genre.

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I feel like this game would benefit the most from gamepad controls, on the keyboard I just can’t.

\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":348646702,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"

Well, control and physics are cursed)\nMaybe it’s the target, but it was really hard with this movement physics and jump inertia.\nOverwise in the game a quite good, it’s pretty and well designed.\nAlso it’s possible that game is too fast on my PC (or it’s too fast for me)

\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"typ":2,"at":348697860,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"

Very nice! Really like the art style chosen for the game. It gives off a fittingly dark, medieval tone.

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Gameplay-wise, the mechanics are simple and easy to pick up. The direction and goal of the levels is clear from one glance, which makes it easy to get hooked into playing the game. The platforming is a little bit floaty however. Pressing one direction only slightly can cause the character to move forward further than expected, which can make precision platform quite difficult. Since precision is necessary to move through the levels, this can make the game quite hard.

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Besides this however, very nice game with a great mood. Well done!

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Thanks for playing my game and for your nice feedback :). I do agree friction can be a bit low.

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Hey there!

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Amazing game, the graphics, the atmosphere, the menu. Really the type of game you want to dive into.\nPlus, the levels are quite short, so you want to keep going, nice motivation for the players.

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Too bad there’s no little music to play along!\nI’ll admit, I love hard games, but this one really got me, I got stuck on level 2 not understanding how to pass the first jump lol.\nMaybe a little tutorial on what mechanics are and how to use them on a step by step basis would avoid players rage quit quickly :)

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Really neat job overall!

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Thank you for your valuable feedback and for playing my game. :) This being my first jam, I learned a lot and will apply all the feedback in my next jam.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348781919,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"

What a delight to play!

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I was immediately impressed with the smooth movements of the main character. It is also quite a feat to make you feel like you are ‘feeling’ the players jump moves, and I think this game does that well with the accompanying sound and reverberating visuals.

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It was a bit hard at points but overall very impressive!

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I’m glad to hear that you had a good time playing my game. Thank you for your kind words and feedback. It’s much appreciated! :)

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