Spurred on by The Songs of the Nibelungs, many set off searching for the legendary treasure said to still lay hidden in the Rhine river.
\nGamepad is also supported.
\n","source":"sebadorn/js13k-2023-13th-century","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":347355758,"author":"Oliver Smith","login":"olvr","gh":2752443,"url":"https://thort.net","text":"Really well presented fun game. At times the collision detection seemed a little off or maybe I just wasn’t very good with the control layout. Great graphics and style with a neat interactive tutorial too.
\n","games":["Exit the Castle"]},{"at":347374233,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"Nice graphics and the characters are super cute! Easily to understand by the tutorial. Adding a few more elements to the game, such as defense, counterattacks, and critical hits, would make it more exciting.
\n","games":["Mongol March"]},{"at":347403095,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"I liked that you could skip the fight on the pier. I didn’t like that you need to be smashing enter/space for attacks - it felt clumsy. Dodge roll didn’t work a couple times and I’m not sure why. Picking weapons from the enemies is cool!
\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347407943,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"nice, except a little hard, put more less time to kill enemies so i want to play more. i mean i have a shield why my health goes faster than the enemies.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"at":347430299,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Great graphics and fun game! The controller support made all the difference here for me. The first time I tried playing on keyboard and it was a bit frustrating. With a controller though that all changed and I played through to the end!
\nOccasionally I got hit even though I was quite far away, which felt unfair, and I wish the smaller sword swung faster, it felt quite slow.
\nDespite those minor annoyances I thought it was a nice little beat-em-up and enjoyed it!
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347514132,"author":"CaptainAligna","login":"CaptainAligna","gh":145273384,"text":"I felt so challenged in the last part of the game, I could not stop until I had all the riches in the world!
\nI had a lot of fun, it was a creative take on this style of game! I loved that it had a little tutorial at the start and I really enjoyed the stealing/picking up the weapon before the enemy mechanic, it gave way to many funny moments in the game!
\nNote: I have a feeling that despite being far from the long swords at the end of the game, I still got hit. I had to master dodging.
\nGood job~
\n"},{"at":347760833,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A fun game, great graphics and narrative.
\nThe tutorial was good and very helpful. The levels had a nice difficulty progression.
\nIt would be good to be able to pick up weapons without pressing E, as a couple of times in battle I found myself needing to move and re-arm.
\nI’ll have to play again on a gamepad.
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":347833227,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"Gamepad support for the win! I love how you can disarm enemies and steal their weapon, such a nice touch. The huge sword has a hit radius of a SpaceX rocket, and that’s actually fun. The boss battle is cool. Great job!
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":347883107,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Really nice game, love the pixel art and fighting!
\nNice feature to be able to collect weapons but also to lose them and to have mobs collect them too!
\nBetween levels my weapon was downgraded each time?
\nThe controls were good, sometimes a little hard to time the roll but worked ok.
\nNice animations and a mix of scenary.
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347909792,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"What a cool game! I only whished it would have more levels/sections.\nThe combination of story and gameplay is really well executed! Thanks for this game :D
\n","games":["Cathar"]},{"at":348280849,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"After finishing the game, I am waiting for the game selection screen: from the beginning or to continue, I also think that the kick can also be added to the left mouse button.
\nI thought that I would find something in the barrels if I broke them, but I didn’t find anything, maybe I was unlucky, or it hasn’t been implemented yet.
\nGood game - congratulations!
\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348297170,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Unfortunately, I could not pick items up: I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, and you don’t call .preventDefault() on key events, so when I try to pick something up, the page search opens for me.
Hey there!
\nThat tutorial is right on point, really perfect to pick up the game mechanics and get going.\nThe graphics are great, too bad there’s no little music to play along.
\nI really enjoyed the controls, they feel really natural.\nI do feel the start of the game is slightly too hard? You already have to fight multiple enemies barebones and the story had not started yet!
\nReally nice piece of work
\n"},{"at":348761647,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"The sprites in this were gorgeous, and they animated very nicely!
\nThe combat was a little rough though. It wasn’t clear how much vertical reach weapons had (I swear I got hit by a big sword guy when I was at the bottom of the screen and he was at the top!). Hit reactions were muted, so things felt a little mushy too, like you’re not sure when you connect?
\nI did claim the treasure in the end, but I can’t say it’s because I figured out the combat, I just kept spam rushing until I got lucky :)
\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"typ":2,"at":348782223,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"YES!!!
\nSo much about this submission hits all the makings of a successful game.
\nI am always a fan of the gameplay instructions being worked into the game flow and in this submission that was done perfectly and seamlessly with the storyline.
\nOn top of that the visuals worked very well. I am a big fan of retro looking games so it was a pleasure to see pixelated sprites with a soothing colour palette to match.
\nIt is nice to see that you kept to the theme also.
\nWell done!
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