JASPrincess by dreamwalker

made by dreamwalker for LD25 (JAM)

Do you feel like a villain today?
Why won't you kidnap a princess? Be careful, there are a lot of guards. Any misstep and they will raise an alarm and beat you to death. If you are lucky, you will find some helpful items on your way.

Oh, you already got to the princess? Well, you need to get back to the entrance. Princess won't walk there by herself.

You think you will be bored from visiting same palace and kidnapping same princess over and over again? Now today. You'll never see the same one. Just pick some random palace and pay it a visit.

P.S. All the true villains already installed .NET and XNA. Don't wait for it.

Windows	http://dreamwalker.info/jasprincess.zip
Windows (mirror)	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18788287/jasprincess.zip
.NET 4.0	http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24872
XNA 4.0	http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=19429

Ratings

Coolness	62%	3
Overall(Jam)	3.26	115

Audio(Jam)	3.00	136
Fun(Jam)	3.48	44
Graphics(Jam)	2.74	230
Humor(Jam)	2.54	172
Innovation(Jam)	2.84	168
Mood(Jam)	2.82	165
Theme(Jam)	3.61	97

Feedback

JacksGamesSucks

17. Dec 2012 · 22:57 UTC

very nice game! congratulations! i love sound effects, where did you get them?
its a pity that you dont have to put source code :)
good luck!

🎤 dreamwalker

18. Dec 2012 · 04:10 UTC

Sound effects were taken on http://freesound.org/

hints

18. Dec 2012 · 15:59 UTC

Fun game, although the enemies seem a bit brutal unless it's meant to be a stealth game. After playing for a bit, anytime I was spotted I just sat there and died so I could retry.

tumoxep

18. Dec 2012 · 16:23 UTC

Very nice and fun but not so challenging.

MaTX

18. Dec 2012 · 16:25 UTC

Cool procedural generation of the levels and nice concept. The game really needs to be balanced and tuned though, since right now it's very hard and there is really no much "stealth" in it.

Kuulog

18. Dec 2012 · 16:53 UTC

Fun little game, I liked the sound effects!

Starspell

18. Dec 2012 · 16:53 UTC

Really interesting game. I loved how fast-paced it was. Nothing wrong with the game apart from the level generation. Some, in fact most, of the walls at the edges of the level did not meet the screen edge. This makes you think you can go through them when you can't. It's really frustrating to get caught out like that.

But a pretty fun game to play.

berareu

18. Dec 2012 · 16:57 UTC

Really fun game, great work! :)

MrAmazingSocks

18. Dec 2012 · 17:06 UTC

Really fun but pretty easy

Verrazano

18. Dec 2012 · 17:22 UTC

A very well rounded and well polished, probably the most lacking side of the game was the art, but that was consistent and still not bad so pretty forgivable. You had audio and it didn't need music with everything going on. The game wasn't to challenging, but it was fun to replay levels. And the hud also had everything it needed to tell you - also a nice controls/gameplay guide at the begging I'm stealing that for next ld.

HeXoT

18. Dec 2012 · 18:02 UTC

Very nice base for a game :)

Ed Okonik

18. Dec 2012 · 18:11 UTC

Fun game and I like the random generation.

D3zmodos

18. Dec 2012 · 22:04 UTC

Very cool, very villainous. I love how the guards only come after you if they actually see you and not just if you're within a certain range of them.

maiev

19. Dec 2012 · 18:34 UTC

Very cool maps. It seemed like a lot of effort was put into them. First tried the windows version and couldn't get that working.

h.attila

21. Dec 2012 · 21:17 UTC

Fun game, solid entry.

Madball

23. Dec 2012 · 11:49 UTC

A nice entry. Easy and fun to play. Though guards are too easy to kill or run away.
Highscores are ridiculous: my best is 19.

Jiddo

23. Dec 2012 · 12:14 UTC

Cool game. The controls were good and the movement was really smooth. Much moreso then I've seen in most other games. The "alarm" was a cool and interesting addition to the game.

There were a bunch of places where it looks like you should be able to walk through, but you couldn't. The random and stronghold levels were kind of harsh as well, sometimes with a handful of guards spawning in asskicking range of you.

Overall, great controls, nice sound effects, decent graphics and entertaining gameplay.

NiceAlexanderAS

23. Dec 2012 · 14:08 UTC

I like how the movement works here, nice work! :D i also like how the start menu looks :D

sclark39

23. Dec 2012 · 17:47 UTC

Good sound fx, and interesting control scheme & attack. :)

ConflictiveLabs

23. Dec 2012 · 20:04 UTC

good game

Mista Koo

25. Dec 2012 · 10:31 UTC

Simple and to the point with good sprites.