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I hope you had a good time developing this game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639358,"author_name":"guladam","author_uid":"guladam","epoch":1619509328,"text":"Fun, but challenging gameplay. Really like the randomly generated levels, well done. :v: \n\nSome ideas to improve:\n- Bit more polish with the sounds\n- More crisp hitboxes\n- Some mechanic to dodge \/ parry attacks\n\nGreat job! :crossed_swords:","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639361,"author_name":"awerar","author_uid":"awerar","epoch":1619509359,"text":"Nice game! I really love the aesthetic, and the levels all feel unique and interesting. If I were to give feedback I would say that maybe make the player attack feel more responsive, and it didn't really feel like the different weapons had any difference other in game. Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639362,"author_name":"WobbleBlocks","author_uid":"wobbleblocks","epoch":1619509369,"text":"It's so awesome! I love the art style and it was super fun! gooood job!!!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639411,"author_name":"oligue","author_uid":"oligue","epoch":1619509595,"text":"The game is really fun!\nI love the pixel art style.\nMaybe scale down the difficulty a bit :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639445,"author_name":"ksonyanya","author_uid":"ksonyanya","epoch":1619509793,"text":"Nice job, feels awesome to play to! I found it quite challenging (and fun) and randomly generated levels make it replayable.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639450,"author_name":"BRUTOR","author_uid":"brutor","epoch":1619509818,"text":"Nice, but need control unit to WASD buttons, hard to arrow + shift and ctrl","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":639552,"author_name":"CappinKanga","author_uid":"cappinkanga","epoch":1619510253,"text":"This was really fun to play. I got a little stuck on the boss fights, but it still felt engaging enough to retry after dying.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":657215,"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"publicidadeba","epoch":1619578954,"text":"This game should receive wayyyy more praise than this. Such a good game, gonna play it more later. As some peeps mentioned, maybe it should be a bit easier. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":666956,"author_name":"BinaryPrinciple","author_uid":"binaryprinciple","epoch":1619642963,"text":"The look and feel is excellent! I enjoyed the sounds and SNES graphics. \nIs a nice action adventure, impressed it can be done is such a short time. \n\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":675641,"author_name":"Cary Stanley","author_uid":"cary-stanley","epoch":1619731012,"text":"Nice game\n\nOne feedback, the controls would be better not to use shift or control for actions. \nOn a mac, \"control - up\" is us used for switching windows, so best to use keys like \"Z\" of \"X\"","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":678497,"author_name":"Togis","author_uid":"togis","epoch":1619777288,"text":"I uploaded our gameplay of your game on youtube, you can find it here: https:\/\/www.youtube.be\/watch?v=1F0Ywiy2Mt8&t=10304s\n\nThanks for being part of the stream, it was amazing! :smile: \n\nGood controls and fun experience. I just got super unlucky with a few levels without chest in a row, this could be fixed easily in your random gen, I feel my run was stolen without chance to try fancier weapons.\n\nOverall, a very great game. Congratulation","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":680673,"author_name":"nsadie","author_uid":"nsadie","epoch":1619811311,"text":"Nice game! You fit in quite a lot of game for such a short period! I found the combat a little bit difficult, especially the archers, as they could shoot straight at me, where I had to carefully line up in an direction to attack.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":684351,"author_name":"LDJam user 184711","author_uid":"184711","epoch":1619885723,"text":"The game is fun but sadly it is too hard for my taste, especially the minotaur attack. ;-)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":684353,"author_name":"Random Thoughts","author_uid":"random-thoughts","epoch":1619885756,"text":"Pretty solid dungeon crawler! Really like your simple combat system, with enemies that clearly telegraph their moves so after observing them for a bit, I can learn their attack pattern and learn how to dodge them. The only feedback I have is to not put your action buttons as shift and ctrl, its a bit awkward to press on the keyboard. Other than that, good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":693477,"author_name":"tengusheath","author_uid":"tengusheath","epoch":1620188206,"text":"Really like the pixel art. Movement felt really smooth as well. Challenging game. I wish the camera would look ahead sooner, I felt like I would run into enemies off screen quite frequently. I also didn't like being able to walk behind walls. My character got lost behind a wall and I thought I died at first.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":699701,"author_name":"SleepyStudios","author_uid":"sleepystudios","epoch":1620665325,"text":"This was really addictive, felt like I was really close to completing it every time so kept restarting and restarting until I did. Also really liked the fact you managed to get in some random generation and the enemy variety was pretty good too. I would say though that the hitboxes\/attack ranges are too big both for the player and the enemies. Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":706748,"author_name":"Teezah","author_uid":"teezah","epoch":1621364093,"text":"Great Game. I had a lot of fun. 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