{"id":1890,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":12298,"name":"The Unavoidable","authors":[{"name":"Cody Ebberson","url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094}],"description":"

“Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes.”

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Tax day is here, and our brave hero ventures to the local tax authority to collect a tax refund. What horrors will you find?

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Controls:

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Upon death, you will be presented with bonus options to strengthen your character.

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Gamepad controllers are also supported.

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I really like this one. Looks good, has great audio and is fun to play.

\n","games":["Hel's Trial"]},{"at":315708476,"author":"Miguel Ángel Pérez Martínez","login":"zlash","gh":1052438,"twitter":"zurashu","text":"

The graphics are very good! Nice ambiance. The combat became nothing more than a decoration after I fell a couple of times in the lava and got strength upgrades. It’s personally a shame because I preferred that instead of walking through narrow passages to avoid falling, but is just a personal preference. Good job!

\n","games":["Deathwish"]},{"at":315782000,"author":"Michael Primo","login":"michaelprimo","gh":10359577,"url":"https://michaelprimo.it","twitter":"MPMintis","text":"

The powerups when respawning are broken.

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Sorry, I had to start like that :D

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Well, it’s an impressive entry.

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Lava is moving, game is working… I liked to dash all the things more than fighting (it’s a bit clunky), Make the character more visible, I didn’t understood fully where are my characters when playing.

\n","games":["Bye Roll!"]},{"at":315801750,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"

It’s a souls-like! Love the story. The lava floor looks hot.

\n","games":["The Neatness"]},{"at":315875424,"author":"Salvatore Previti","login":"SalvatorePreviti","gh":6913178,"twitter":"SN74HC00","text":"

This is a very nice little adventure with quite impressive graphics and technically extremely valid. Love the voxel grounds and the glowing globes. Lava is great. Congratulations

\n","games":["Dante"]},{"at":316005529,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I loved the game, the graphics were really good especially the lava and shadows.

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I’m guessing the texture of the platforms was added randomly to add a bit of variety to what could otherwise have been quite flat platforms.

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Sound and music were great.

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The game felt a little slow, especially during combat. The dash improved the navigation but combat felt slow.

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I got stuck a couple of times where I couldn’t return attacks to an enemy as my character kept turning away from the enemy.

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When I died and the bonus screen appeared, I felt it would be easier to press left/right and attack to select the item, or even use the mouse.

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I’ll play this again on gamepad once I’ve voted on some of the others, I enjoyed it.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316155548,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

A great game, though I found it a bit hard to navigate with arrow keys on diagonal ways, it always felt a bit like I was drunk.

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316292216,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Fantastic gameplay. The dash feels great. It would be cool to combine dash and attack together.

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I wish the music didn’t restart for each checkpoint. I don’t think I was able to listen to the full track, which was well made by the way.\nI also think the game could have been a little bit more difficult, and don’t add that much bonus to the player for each death. Maybe adding bonuses after each 5 death would be better. And also respawn all enemies when you die. I also think the sword attack interrupted the eyes attack, but it would be better if it didn’t.

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The boss fight was the best part. I felt like the dash came in handy there. I used it to dodge the attack of the boss + the red circles from the golf ball eyes.

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Maybe the controls would be easier if the camera was a little further away, and slightly adjust the angle to get more sideview (instead of bird view.) I don’t know if this will make it better, but I wish I could see a little more on screen. The lava looks really nice, but maybe it seems to be close to the player (even when elevated.) I wonder if it would be better to have lower contrast on the color on the lava, plus some shadows from the platforms, but I’m not sure.

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My comments are mostly personal preferences and some nitpicking, but I hope they are useful. This is a solid entry with lots of good stuff. God job!

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316603004,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"

Nice graphics, and funny spin on taxes.

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The upgrades upon death are an interesting mechanics, but it’s too easy to abuse it by dying a couple of times at the very beginning to buff up your stats, then enemies aren’t very challenging anymore.

\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316730748,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

Great game, great everything.\nCompleted. found it easier with iso off. Its good that you have this as an option and can change it mid game.\nTook a few attempts to beat the director, on my last go it took just one hit I presume the damage is accumulative?

\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"typ":2,"at":316814820,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"

First off, really well done! Everything like the music, after death buffs, the dashing around, all make the game feel really nice for it’s size. There is a nice story behind the game too and you interpreted the theme really interestingly but not boringly (which taxes almost always are). You managed to fit a lot into the game which is really impressive and not cluttered!

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Looking at your other game, the dash + strike combo is a reoccuring theme but you do it well. Grouping the enemies together before dash/striking them all at once without taking damage feels really fun. Also the dash for movement is nice

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Going forward, I would maybe look at the general movement, although I understand that (especially at this camera angle) it can be harder than something like an fps.

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Really nice work all in all, love that the lava moves too! Good job!

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By dashing I was able to jump from the 1A platform directly to the boss platform. I dig the programmatic textures and the lego-dude hero

\n","games":["Putt Putt Masters: die to win"]},{"typ":2,"at":316849460,"author":"Filip Dukat","login":"fdukat","gh":87642690,"url":"https://people.andersenlab.com","twitter":"filip_dukat","text":"

Hey Cody,

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I’ll start my review with “wow”.

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Game is very good in my opinion, I like the idea (everyone loves taxes :D), I like the graphics and I like gameplay side of your project. Main character moves really smooth, overall feeling is amazing, maybe attacking could be a little bit faster because sometimes I just bump into opponents before finishing blade slash but maybe I’m just too slow :D

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For a 13kB game this a solid piece of work, would like to see enhanced version with more levels in future.

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Great work, I’m looking forward to your future games and hopefully more entries in Js13kGames competition!

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Technically really impressive but also fun to play. Nice work.

\n","games":["Deathmatch Dungeon"]},{"typ":2,"at":317030607,"author":"Paweł Skierczyński","login":"kesipyc","gh":1681481,"twitter":"kesipyc","text":"

I loved the music. It gives me that ancient Atari’s Draconus, or Zybex vibe.

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It’s a full experience. Well done, finished project, etc.

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I managed to get through the game rather quickly, upgrades were not needed. Still, it’s a nice balancing mechanism if the game would be longer.

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I’d probably like it more if the move was more fluid. Because after each attack I get stuck for a moment. I understand that it was done like this because of gameplay (to not spam attack), but it feels bad when playing.

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In the last room, I run to kill Eyes first just to discover they are on towers :).

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Seeing all milestones from the beginning told me about my progress. On the other hand, it removed possible surprises (or if there were any I didn’t find them)

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Hilarious story behind the game. Loved the gameplay and the powerups after death. Cool graphics, especially the lava. The controls were a bit uncomfortable but okayish

\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":317161071,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

The lore is really funny. The graphics are impressive, but the game performs a bit slow. The controls suffer from a bit of delay too, and the movements are generally a bit slow. It’s definitely an impressive feat. Great job on the music, although there’s a gap of silence between loops.

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