Thorn

This game is made for the Hyper Unicorn Game Jam: Final Chapter which lasted 9 days!

Thorn is a mini souls-like, metroidvania, zelda-like where you control two characters! Explore the wasteland in this colorful but deadly (and kinda whacky) world!

I am super happy with how it turned out, even if it's very light on the content. I did everything, apart from the music, myself and had a blast spending my break working  on this project!

Features:

• 2D souls-like combat with stamina and a roll dodge
• A save and checkpoint system, so you can close the game and return later!
• A nice colorful graphical style reminiscent of the GBA
• Fun platforming levels!

Version:

• Final Jam release

Report bugs to me if you find any!

Credits:

• Tenseven (me): Gamedesign, programming, art, sfx (soundeffects used from the web and mixed in Audacity)
• Hacky: music
• My dad: also music (may come in the game later)
  

Post Mortem:

I learned a lot from this project and am very happy with the outcome. In the last few days i did become kinda stressed but that's mainly due to fixing bugs. Who knew a game like this would have a lot of edge cases ;-; .

But the biggest things i learned are that i should probably do some things more dirty next time. Every time i do a jam i make things in pretty quick and dirty ways but because i had lots of time I made systems that were advanced and pretty big for a game jam, but not on the level of a real full game, so I'm was at the point where i know how i can easily refactor the game but i couldn't because of the deadline. The game is pretty scalable so maybe it would be fun to come back to it the future.

I also experimented a bit with other ways of how to tackle problems which was interesting. I experimented more with implementing clean and crisp pixel art and i must say, it works very well!

I will actually probably come back to this game in the future, but for now, I shall rest. Besides, more games need to be made!

Anyway, that's about it.

Have fun!!