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Apocalypse

By manafest

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3793.2427
Fun2313.3627
Innovation3163.1227
Theme4533.2827
Graphics5292.6427
Humor2882.4126
Mood5632.2727

Comments

increpare 2017-07-31 13:19

oh wow this is pretty involved for a ld game. cool!

though: gosh pretty big difficulty spike in level2 O_O

can you do it? I can't do it! aaaah.

falk-bruskeland 2017-07-31 13:52

Hard but rewarding!

hhsaez 2017-07-31 13:53

It's quite challenging. I like it

There are some typos in the How to Play section: "destoryed" and "absoped"

cowa 2017-07-31 15:24

Impressive for a first entry! Congrats on that :tada: The game is hard but fun :)

speedysloth99 2017-07-31 15:33

The gameplay is very engaging, but I found the 'chain lightning' to be very broken. Other than that, though, this game is very fun!

kippllo 2017-07-31 15:35

I like the turn baseness! Very Fun!

vkmicro 2017-07-31 16:00

**Overall game impression:** The semi turn based movement similar to that of Crypt of Necrodancer really impressed and surprised me, didn't expect to see movement like that. Enemies have a good path finding too. The movement and path finding probably took a lot of time. The spells work well and are pretty cool to use. I like the idea. The game idea is very cool and I expected more robots and machines when I saw the theme but the more games I play the more unique and cool ideas like this I see which I didn't expect and love. Very interesting and catchy game. Well done! I really like the skill animations btw :D the lightning is my favorite

**Suggestions and comments on improvement:** Sound effects would be nice.

p.s. check out my game as well please.

sgt3v 2017-07-31 17:02

Pretty impressive! If there was music the mood of the game could be better. I had this problem of not being able to see the money indicator which I guess is at the top of the screen. Could be a resolution problem.

jakylgamer 2017-07-31 17:15

awesome, liked it. this could turn into a pretty cool game.

cynical-monkey 2017-07-31 20:29

i like that you included a how to play instruction within the game (only the second I have seen so far) so keep that up. nice idea but i agree with some previous comments that the difficulty spikes

catbutt 2017-08-02 11:32

Classic jam game lvl 1 is easy lvl 2 is significantly harder

zelos 2017-08-02 11:34

Very nice idea and good graphics.

I found the gameplay to be pretty innovative, although I feel like the game is a bit frustrating to play because of one single reason: the enemies attacking diagonally.

The way your 'pathfinding' works they will always try to stay at diagonal range and attack immediately once you get into their attack radius. That means that at the beginning, when you're trying to Cone of Flame the guys, you'll often get hit and they keep moving in ways that makes it impossible to use your spell on them. Later this is not much of a problem, but it really turned me off at first, because I like to conserve as much energy as possible. And I was trying to not spam my strongest attacks.

Once you get the other spells the game is quite fun. But I think you should just be able to attack diagonally with that spell as well, to make the beginning better.

I also got a bug where I zapped myself and then stayed like that forever and randomly lost energy all the time. That was weird.

Overall very good entry though. Great job.

gilborn 2017-08-02 11:54

Yay! I destroyed the world! :-) Great entry, espesially if this is your first LD! Liked the different weapons (I think the lightning stroke had the best cost/effect ratio) and how you implemented the end of the game.

apple-dash 2017-08-02 12:35

The game is really good. Yes, there are not that many levels, so the game stuck on the last one until I got to 250 energy, chain lightning is overpowered, sound effects would be nice, but I still had a lot of fun with it.

harrelix 2017-08-02 13:13

Great game, I love it!

wheffle 2017-08-03 03:34

Fun idea and fun game! Seems like the best spell for efficiency was chain lightning, couldn't save up enough for the final spell without just spamming that one. Great idea though!