Seal Breaker

Great game with a lot of potential - sadly, the developer has not updated this in  a year.

Possible To get source code?

I really enjoyed the game, and it felt kind of like Enter the Gungeon to me. Also, I think you should consider having a patron account to help with developing the game.

One thing that I think would be kind of cool, is that when a player finishes the campaign, they could unlock different game-modes. Such as an endless mode with randomly generated levels, monsters and items. Or an all new difficulty you could get from beating it on hard. 

 Sometimes it can feel a fairly slow.. I think that if you made the AI for the enemies "smarter", and added a few more attack animations, it would make the game feel a bit faster. Also, if you added different enemy types that look different, sound different, and have seperate attack animations would help the game not feel as repetetive. 

P.S. - Making it so that the spawn locations of enemies, type of enemies, and drop rate of items is partially random for each level, could help with replay-ability. 

I have played through this and thought I dump what I have in my mind... I hope you pick up something useful from it. BTW, you are talking about 15 to 60 minutes gameplay, but for me on hard mode it was more than 2 hours for sure. 15 minutes sounds impossibly quick.

First of all, I liked the game very much! Of course, considering that it's a prototype. After some polish, maybe you can capitalize on the guys hopelessly waiting for Eitr to come out. (-;

To me, the most important issues are with the AI:

• Enemies often stuck behind objects when they try to walk towards you. They just try to walk towards you without trying to go around. (Even if I don't want to exploit that, its sometimes not easy to get to the place where they unstuck.)
• If they are very far away, they just stand there while you are shooting them with fireballs. An relatively easy solution could be if they they dodge them if they aren't in attacking mode. (Ideally the should advance to attack instead, but then the whole group has to do that at once, or else you can exploit this to lure individuals.)

There are some ergonomic issues as well, which aren't that big deals, but hopefully easier to improve:

• When the manna is lower than what's needed for dodging, it should be well visible. For example, there could be a blue haze at the border, similarly to when your HP is too low, or some icon on the character. Otherwise next time you try to dodge and nothing is happening, you get a hit, and it's annoying. (Also, when I fail to cast or dodge because of low manna, there should be also some feedback, like some sound effect, otherwise it feels as if I pressed the key while still doing the attacking animation, or something like that.)
• When some of the assigned Q-able stuff runs out, do not remove it from the lower left, just keep it there with count 0. Otherwise I will have to re-assign it every time from the tab menu.
• I would also recommend not switching to the next Q-able stuff when I ran out of the current one, because you may not notice that, and will just use something you aren't intended to use.
• Especially when back-pedaling from enemies, it's a bit too easy to stuck at the edge of trees, fences, etc. After all, it's not visible where exactly the edge of those and of your character are. (A possible approach to solve that: Instead of treating the "base" of the character as a rectangle, you could imagine it as an ellipse with infinitely slippery edge. So if you push that against an obstacle near the corner of it, it can move, sliding along the corner of the obstacle, as then it not only moves in the direction of your intended movement, but sideways to go around the obstacle.)
• The description of Dark Blessing and Arcane Essence should tell how much they refill. Is it the percentage of the maximum HP/manna for example? (It matters when you decide which attributes to increase.)

Other gameplay notes (based on hard mode - I haven't tried the others):

• Right now, there's no big punishment if you die, in fact, it can be exploited for framing XP and items. I guess some better rules has to be figured out there.
• Daggers seem to be very weak compared to swords. Also it seems to me that the axe wins hands down even against the regular (non-short) sword. While it's slow, its damage easily makes up for that. Especially as you don't hit enemies repeatedly with sword for too many times either, as that's too risky, the average damage output won't get high enough. But it's maybe a problem with my game style, I don't know.
• I think the "skeleton army" (was that the name?) boss is too difficult (in hard mode as I said). Maybe I'm just lame, or maybe it's just Dark Souls philosophy. Personally, while I have no problem with spikes, in fact, bosses should be spikes, a too huge spike just leads to endless retries until you get lucky. In this case, the type of the skeleton spawns is random, and I managed the get through when I got lucky (basically, not too many mages in the final wave), and not because I have become better or figured out a new trick.
• Obviously, content, equipment types (and skills maybe) need to be expanded, but that's well known any maybe not the priority now.

This is an amazing game. A few more stats, a few more weapons/spells, and some more replay ability this could be confused with a AAA game.

Awesome game. Had a ton of fun playing this. I think this game is headed in the right direction, for the content it offers right now, the combat felt intuitive and fun. The enemies were quite different from each other, offering a nice challenge. The only thing this game is missing really is more content, cause it's a ton of fun to play. Hope you're still working on it and planning to add more! :D

by far the one of the best games on itch

This game is great so far, played the first part of it the other day, hope more content gets added though, was a bit sad when I found out it was only 15-60 mins of gameplay. Here's the content I recorded of the game.

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Hello! My name is Cataegis Ira, and I'm a Let's Player. I did a quick two-parter on your game here, and I have to say I really, really like it.

The video should be viewable by the time you see this, but if not, it'll be up in seven hours at the time of writing.

Anyway, let's get into it.

Some of the things I liked and disliked about the current iteration are already in the video, of which there will be a second at the same time tomorrow.

First off, the sound design is great. Even if the sounds themselves are off, the placement of each sound is great.

Secondly, the game handles quite well. The controls are tight, and they do exactly what I want them to do, when I want them to.

The variation in the weapons is also superb(I went and found the Rapier and the Axe after my playthrough ended and I stopped recording), though I would like to see more than just Fireball and Illumination(pardon, I may have missed a spell) in terms of spells. An idea comes to mind for necromancy. Raise a single(or even multiple) bodies of your slain enemies to tank and deal damage for you, but each minion drains mana for as long as it's up, requiring you to be in the thick of it as well, or burn through a large supply of consumables. Just an idea.

Anyway, back to equipment, I'd like to see, in the future, armor and trinkets, as well. Likely never anything heavy, since the character is a mage, but basic things, like a gambeson, leather vest, heavy greaves. Maybe a helmet. Just to vary up the builds a bit more. Heavier armor could require significantly more mana to cast spells and dodge, but in exchange, less damage is done to you.

All that said, I really do enjoy this, and I hope to see updates to the game in the future. Let me know if there's anything you need from me, including taking down this video series.

Amazing atmospheric game!

One problem for me: can not get my gamepad to direct the character's view. The Look X/Y does not make any effect, although all the other gamepad functions work. The view direction always follows the mouse. Maybe there is a way to disable the mouse and to play on the controller entirely? (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS, controller: Logitech Gamepad F310).

It seems cool and all, but feel very slow while playing, always (have only played the begining, I have to admit) struggling to find places to dash out ennemies strike. Why using mana(limited ressource) for dash and is there a way to protect yourself from attack like shields or parry? There's a real potential in top-down souls-like, and you seem to be skilled enough to make a good one, but from what I've seen the gamefeel isn't that good for the moment(slow and narrow all the time)

its a really good game. can't wait to more comes out

Really liked this, shows a lot of potential. I like the little touches, like healing and picking up items slow you down for a moment, tiny passages hidden in plain view, etc. Works great on Ubuntu 16.10, too.

Mouse icon is glitched out and i can't turn, stuck facing left.

I want to skip first game story Text.
So i try to type keyboard with clicking mouse but nothing.. so I close and delete
[I think this game good. but I don't like this type. some recently game show to much long story and no skips. so That make to boring..]

When the game comes out?

Wow.... Great game. I can't wait for more content.

You did an amazing job with this game, FF. The Dark Souls inspiration was felt in full force, and the gameplay was tight and tense. I really like the gritty atmosphere and the feeling of going up against the insurmountable. Really looking forward to where you take this!

I just tried this build and I find it odd (to say the least) that you can't orientate your character with the mouse. I have to dodge in order to turn left or right, or face up/down.