Gradien quest(game jam)

GET THE GAME JAM BULD, NOT THE DEV BUILDS!!!

input 

-A-D left and right

-J, Jumping, hold for boost

-K, NPC interact and attack

-S, Interact with keys, items and doors.

-ESC, quit game.

-1 for menu for time and souls taken

(Please put the time it took for you to beat it in the comments, lets have a laugh and compete :)   )

The castle is being attacked by a horde of shadow demons!!! feed your hungry soul sucking sword to defeat them as you make your way to outside!

this is a short game, that feels more like a tech demo showing of mechanics, but there is an end goal, to reach the end while swiping as many as quick as possible!

(25/04/2023 first)I have a playable dev build... IT IS no where near done, as i got busy with personal life, in context i only worked for a total of 22.4  hours... that is pretty annoying. note a lot of the work is behind the scenes and code, that most isn't active yet or implemented but is there and ready to implement, I still have not made music, and i still need to add a few basics, But i have made a lot of progress in the past 5 hours. I have a lot of plans if hopefully I'm able to get at least a few hours each day to work on this.

(28/04/2023 second) my second build of the game, with a completable objective, it is not done, as i need to add 2  more maps, one enemy, and more sounds/ music, combined with polishing it, Your character wont die in dev build 2 either, or i don't think, so imma do a simpler way and make them one hit.

(30/04/2023) I finally got player death, fixed some sounds, added a couple of tweaks and bugfixes, and added a menu... but god with other things that distracted me, this game wasn't worked on nearly as much as i hoped I would, I honestly feel slightly disanointed in my result for making a rocket knight style of game, not all sounds are done, no where near enough maps, UI and text feels messy, and it doesnt feel solid... but anyhow here's a playable build of gradian quest.

sound pack by Dagurasu on itch.io, music by me however.

-https://itch.io/jam/pizza-jam-pizza-prize- (game jam in question)