A survival game where you’re trying to keep alive while fighting a dark cult.
\nOn every 13th kill, a demon will appear and the difficulty slightly increases. After killing the demon, a random item either to power up your sword or to heal yourself is spawned.
\nControl the player using arrow keys and the attack will follow the movement direction.
\n","source":"masbagal/js13k-2024","stars":2,"comments":[{"at":378818221,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"This is great!\nOne thing I’d recommend is blackout sound effects after they play, so you don’t get two of the same sound effect within 50 ms or so. When you kill a bunch of goblins at once, there’s some unpleasant reinforcement.
\n","games":["Economy of Motion"]},{"typ":1,"at":380126282,"re":378818221,"author":"Dimitrij Agal","login":"masbagal","gh":16324649,"url":"https://dimitrijagal.com","text":"Great feedback to be learned as a lesson for me. Thank you!
\n"},{"at":378919489,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Pretty neat. I didn’t like how you could only fire in the direction you were facing and there was no way to face diagonally and be stationary at the same time.
\nI liked how the big demon spawned on the 13th enemy death.
\n","games":["Badluck Butter Chicken Goes To Outer Space","Badluck Butter Chicken Flies The Unfriendly Skies"]},{"at":379086704,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"Love the gameboy-esque color pallet. I got so far into the game that my weapon turned into an automatic machine gun, and then turned into a static image of weapon projectiles :D.
\nI wish there was more variety to the enemies though as after a few levels it gets repetitive.
\n","games":["The Encroaching Darkness"]},{"typ":1,"at":380126432,"re":379086704,"author":"Dimitrij Agal","login":"masbagal","gh":16324649,"url":"https://dimitrijagal.com","text":"Oops my bad on not handling the weapon firing rate. Thank you for playing and for the feedbacks!
\n"},{"at":379089484,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"This was great! My eyes are literally watering right now because I forgot to blink while playing. The game starts simple, but ramps perfectly. Never boring, great pacing. Excellent music and sound effects. Excellent graphics. Clever interpretation of the theme. My biggest request would be to show score and/or level on the game over screen, because I kept forgetting to look at those during the endgame. This was fun, great job!
\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"typ":1,"at":380126460,"re":379089484,"author":"Dimitrij Agal","login":"masbagal","gh":16324649,"url":"https://dimitrijagal.com","text":"Thank you for playing and for the feedback! Well noted and greatly appreciated
\n"},{"at":379651613,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"Solid implementation, but could use more depth. Something like, choosing the upgrade when leveling up.
\n","games":["Terra Mobilis","Triskaidekagenesis"]},{"at":379667747,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Supercool gameboy artstyle!\nGameplay gets pretty hard after a while
\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"at":379673466,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"The pixelart is cute. It’s an odd choice to attack only in the direction of the last move.
\n","games":["SUP3RFR1GHT VR"]},{"at":379736337,"author":"Benjamin Boyd Austin","login":"bbaustin","gh":18755168,"text":"This was cool! I like the limited color palette. Gameplay is very smooth, and the difficulty scales up nicely. It’s very satisfying destroying multiple enemies at once as you progress later into the game.
\nThere’s no ending, right? Just play until you die? In that case, I agree with another commenter that having a “high score” visible at the end would be nice
\nOverall, cool game! Really fun!
\n","games":["PicoBuddy"]},{"typ":1,"at":380126619,"re":379736337,"author":"Dimitrij Agal","login":"masbagal","gh":16324649,"url":"https://dimitrijagal.com","text":"It was originally meant to have an ending (the 13th demon being the big final boss) but due to size constraints combined with my lack of experience in making the game smaller it turns into infinite survival.
\nThe “high score” is a good idea, should have added that. Thank you for playing and for your feedback!
\n"},{"at":380244779,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"I spent like an eternity on level two and I really with there were some powerups - but the music, sprites and feel of the game are awesome. Very nice game :)
\n","games":["DECK 13"]},{"at":380451114,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The graphics were good as was the tune and sound effects.
\nQuite atmospheric, and dark.
\nDid SPACE make an attack happen? It felt like it, but wasn’t listed in the info. But moving did seem to trigger a echo in the direction of travel (as stated)
\nHow could I use the sword? Or even better, heal myself? Was it a case of walking over stuff? Perhaps I need way more practice.
\nThe demon was hard to kill.
\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":2,"at":380540295,"author":"Dann Sullivan","url":"https://bigbossbattle.com","text":"Very fun, I’m quite a fan of this Archero/Survivor.io/VS style of game and it fits great with the art style. The sound effect choice was also a great fit for it too.
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