The Legend of Princess Kidnap

• Please, NO INSTALLERS! Every gm48, some people do that atrocious mistake and it is really, really annoying... You even managed to top that with a troll game on top of it (referring to Gabriel)... Before uploading it tells you to avoid installers, why would you even do that... :(

• Avoid zxc controls, not all keyboard are layed out the right way for that. Keyboards like mine have z and y inverted. Not a fan of always needing to switch the keyboard layout... :s

• Avoid mixels. The princess is not of the same resolution as the player

You're probably aware of most of the issues going on. For your next time, consider keeping the scope lower. A common mistake is to have the scope set too high. It's good to be ambitious, but in the 48 hours frame, it's often too difficult and shouldn't be underestimated. I've been guilty of this many times :p Always focus first on the minimum viable product. Your gameplay and your goal in the game. Once this is done, then you can add story, sprites and all the rest on top of it. That way you can gauge better what you can or cannot do in the rest of the time. I can see Princess Kidnap has lots of things going on and that's probably the issue. Take it easy at first!

I did like the reference to the good old ALTTP, although it might be too heavily referenced. But a cute game nonetheless!

Interesting game. I included it in my GM48: Countdown compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/FLG_K_tPT2c

The game crashes often and i could not complete the game as the dialog with the princess repeated over and over

This is obviously unfinished, but what's here is pretty cool. The visuals and music are both really high quality and help sell a big adventure sort of feel. It's cool going through the castle and fighting all the bats even if it is a bit basic. There obviously a bunch of issues but the most major was this error which I got when restarting after dying:

############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Create Event for object obj_sword:

Variable obj_personaje.<unknown variable>(100051, -2147483648) not set before reading it. at gml_Object_obj_sword_Create_0 ############################################################################################

stack frame is gml_Object_obj_sword_Create_0 (line -1) called from - gml_Object_obj_personaje_Step_0 (line -1) - <unknown source line>

Hated the installer, liked the game. 0/10 never use installers again

I can see the promise of the game, I can also see you over-scoped. Would love to see this finished one day. I REALLY don't recommend an installer file next time. Try a self-contained executable next time.

Music was spot on and I thought the art was quite good too. Controls weren't as intuitive as I'd have expected. Would recommend enter or space next time as the selection key as opposed to z.

I'm glad you included a controls guide as that was quite helpful. It was not so great to have the textbox with the princess talking constantly overlaid on the bottom of the screen and having the text toggle with each press of the button. I was also able to make the sword stop working by running to the end + that seemed to break some collisions.
Otherwise it's a shame this game isn't more complete.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/288043132 Timestamp 01:11:20

Reviewed your game on stream!

Full screen cut off the dialogue of the game. It seems like a strong approach to those top down RPG games.

Other than the cutting off of the dialogue, I couldn't really tell what the countdown would do to the overall gameplay.

A good effort nontheless.