Jester's Catch

Objective

Get to the castle and catch the King's sword

There are 5 different endings that can be obtained. I think the Peaceful End is the most rewarding though because you'll have to be smarter and more skilled to overcome the challenges without any violence. The other endings include: Stylish, Sad, Embarrassing and Brutal

Keyboard controls

• Arrow Keys - Movement
• Space - Skips text
  
• F - Full screen
• R - Restart
• Q - Quit

CREDITS

Design & Development 

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Artwork from itch.io

• Elthen's Pixel Art Shop - Characters
  
• Pixelina - Vines
  
• Shackhal - Tileset

Text Font from 1001fonts.com

• Bitmogothic Font by Nomi

Music from pixabay.com

• The low whistle traditional celtic music by JuliusH

Sound effects from freesound.org (CC0 license)

• abyssmal - Killed by sword
  
• code_box - Bard playing victory sound
• egomassive - Splash
• loudernoises - Sword landing on floor
  
• mixedupmoviestuff - Fly pop
  
• mrickey13 - King throw sword
• mrrap4food - Crowd disappointed
• nachtmahrtv - Door open and close
• under7dude - Player hurt by fly
• zepurple - Landing on floor

Recommendations

• Click on the bottom right corner to play in FULL SCREEN
• If the game is unresponsive, CLICK INSIDE THE GAME WINDOW

Warning

• Contains a small amount of blood, unless you want to think of it as ketchup

Development Details

This game was made using Construct 3 and it was made for GDKO 2024 - Round 1

• Task: Make a Game with the Theme SPECTACLE
• Modifier: FUSION
• Team: SHELFMAN

SPECTACLE - I decided to make a game about a jester who uses acrobatics such as hopping, swinging on vines and cartwheeling to get to a castle where he'll need to perform the daring act of catching a sword

FUSION - I created a fusion of 2 game genres, platformer with a catcher game. If you don't know what a catcher video game is, I'd recommend taking a look at games like Kaboom! on the Atari which popularised the genre

Updated version

Now if you press space on the end screen, there is a short story for what happens afterwards for each of the 5 different endings