Valkyrie

it's okay, you are 4th place in my heart (thanks for playing and the feedback!)

Thank you! we had a decent idea, we all got to focus on our skill set, and we had a good time making it.

I for one am super happy with this entry, so thank you for the feed back and the kind words on our game!

Thank you!

I always liked to put as much content in to my gm48 games as I can. this time I had seltzy to work on the sprite work that I normal do, freeing up time to double down on adding and polishing content.

that being said I was working almost 42 or so hours out of the 48, so still only barely got everything we did have done.

I'm glad you felt so highly about our work, it really made me happy! thank you for the feed back!

Ah but you are! Deal with it.

Thank you!

Up untill now seltzy and I have been doing gm48 solo. so doing all the art and coding in the small time frame was something we where use to. being able to focus on only one really helped, seltzy was always making a new sprite, and I was always coding or making a new feature. forte has always been good a making music in short time frames so this really is just 3 guys focusing on their strengths and pulling almost a 40 hours of work each.

Thank you again for such kind words!

Well Thank you so much!

I had a lot of fun making this game, plus with seltzy's art, and forte's music to look forward too it made a feed back loop of hype that kept me going.

The level transition thing was an Idea I had the moment we finished brainstorming, we wanted a game with endless content so people focus on the score system that was impotent, I made a bunch of pre-made levels with generators for the enemies, and made it hard to tell where the levels start and end.

as for the control/combat that's just something you get better at the longer to work with it. (the main secret for combat is HitLag and crunchy sound effects.) plus good knock back too.

I glad you enjoyed it, I really am. And thank you again for the feedback.

Thank you, seltzy art is always amazing, and forte did a great job with the music again.

and a lot of those little touches where just me going, this would be cool as I'm waiting on them to finish an asset I need.

I guess the theme could of had more focus in the game play, but I not sure how we could add more to it without harming the game play loop we have now.

ether way, thank you for playing! I'm so happy with how many people are enjoying this game!

Thank you for your feed back!

Glad you enjoyed it so much, as for the mega man feel I would not be surprised if it wasn't a coincidence.

I gave seltzy complete creative control over animations and character designs, and knowing how big of a fan he is of the mega man games using zero as a basics for the attack animations sound right. I also used a bit of MMX for the wall jump and ground dash. but that was it so I guess its a happy little accident.

honestly the big enemy is the one I tested the lest (Kinda wish I did more on him) the enemy points go up the longer you play to offset the risk of fighting them, but we ended up readjusting the curve on when the new enemies start showing up, but forgot the point curve to make up for it.

basically killing monsters when the big guy starts to show up was worth twice as much as a save was, or something like that. but now it happens a bit after they show up.

Still I super happy you like the game as much as you did!

Thanks for the feed back!

don't know about the intro, seltzy drew it, came up with the story. then forte and him revised the text. all I did was take the images and text and put them in to the game.

I never really get what people mean when they say the camera is ridged. It feels nice and responsive to me, and its pretty smooth. so with out some examples I honesty not sure why you think that.

as for the theme, the implantation of the game play was the environment falling apart. to show this the islands all start collapsing in to the abyss, and the longer you play that faster it becomes. I guess you feel we could have done more? i don't know, I feel we used it as much as we need too but who's to say.

but I really am glad you enjoyed it. hearing someone had fun playing a game I worked on fills me with so much joy.

Thank you for your feed back again!!

I think the immediate inspiration for the intro was Undertale, but Link to the Past really did it first :)

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

We tried to make a game that we enjoyed playing, so I'm glad it end up a game that others enjoy as well.

honestly teaming up with seltzy and forte was the main reason I was able to put so much focus on the small details.

Sletzy's sprite work was amazing, the forte's music really pumped me up.

I was able to just type away most of the time getting as many features as I could.

so thank you for playing and happy you had fun!

Thank you! I'm glad you had fun.

honestly after get the key rebinding working a tested, I on;y ever played with gamepad, because that my preferred method to play games like this.

so mapping enter to the menu never accorded to me.

Thank you and glad you enjoyed it.

while I do love to add a good story to my games myself. in a game jam setting, getting the game working and bug tested is a higher priority.

that said the story we do have was planed but only after we got everything else working. and luck have it we had enough time at the end to get that little bit of intro story done and added.

no clue if we will work more on the game, that comes down to how well it places and how much we feel we can add to it.

glad you had fun, and thank you for the feed back!

Well I'm happy you think so highly of the game!

when we started brain storming we had planed more levels and boss stages.

but knowing full well how time is cruel we had them listed as a low priority, and as you can see we had to cut them due to time.

I think its for the best, the amount of time it would take would have lower the quality of the game.

as for polishing this game to sell, we have no plans for that at this moment, but I'm still happy to hear that you think we should.

Thank you for your feedback!