Everflame is a submission for the Weekly Game Jam - Week 168 with an exciting theme of Pass The Torch!

Everflame can be described as a tag-team dungeon crawler action game where you juggle between two characters to complete the Everflame Trials. This is a jam version but is still definitely free to try here: https://steventus.itch.io/everflame

This is one of my first time making action games and having done a few playtests, I have some initial thoughts on what I can take away from this:

• Game Juice

A very vague term that describes how a game feels during gameplay. I think I have much to learn in this regard as the playtesters often comment more on how the game feels in playing rather than actual mechanics.

Things I finally included (but hopes to improve on) are the particle effects on hit, and finally adding sound to ascentuate the hits.

Action games in general, demand a lot of game juice to really stand out as a good game. Personal favourites include the usage of small cam shakes, freezing frames etc like those found in Hyperspace Dogfights.

• Reducing mechanics

I think this game had a very ambitious scope - and while I did manage execute on it. I missed out on more essential polish to really bring the game to a good shine.

Most notably, I had a few bugs that can soft-lock  the game.

I think moving forward, when working on game jams - I have to be more mindful about the things I do.

Post-Jam Production?

I will be participating in Ludum Dare 47 pretty much right after this submission and so I won't be thinking about the post-jam version for a while. Especially so since after Ludum Dare, my university will start again so real life is about to take over once more. Unfortunate as that may seem.

Depending on how much traction this game gets, I might go for a post-jam version but otherwise: this might be the final version. I'll give it like 2 weeks and see where things go for me to decide.

Contact

If you ever like my stuff, feel free to reach out to me!

Twitter - @SteventusGames

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Email - steventusgames@gmail.com

And hey, if you've read all the way down, I hope you've liked my game! If you picked it up, I hope you enjoy it!