nate-wec 2017-12-06 09:07 ♥ 1
Cool little game, though I couldn't figure out how to keep the toxic gases from killing me. Feels like following a cooking recipe which can be fun.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Witches' Brew
By likirus
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD40 | Ever | |
| Overall | 739 | 3.26 | 21 | |||
| Fun | 674 | 3.20 | 22 | |||
| Innovation | 415 | 3.34 | 21 | |||
| Theme | 784 | 3.16 | 21 | |||
| Graphics | 662 | 3.34 | 21 | |||
| Audio | 664 | 2.42 | 15 | |||
| Humor | 785 | 2.47 | 19 | |||
| Mood | 803 | 2.97 | 21 | |||
Cool little game, though I couldn't figure out how to keep the toxic gases from killing me. Feels like following a cooking recipe which can be fun.
I liked the game concept, the gases started to accumulate very fast (too much heat?). I also accidently dropped wrong ingredient and the ingredient started to bounce around. Was kind of expecting cauldron explosion or such :)
Interesting idea. I liked that there were fairly few options so the choices were kept simple, but I think the recipes got too long too quickly. Maybe gradually introducing more items to create a better learning curve would be an improvement. Other than that, good game! :D
Nice particle and glow effects. I like the idea of a fast-paced puzzle and matching game that incorporates an ingredients system.
Thanks for the nice feedback :)
@nate-wec , @azuredraco : yes, the gases accumulate a lot quicker once the temperature of the cauldron gets out of the green temperature range ( the thermometer turns red when it is out of the range ), I should have made that a little more obvious I guess
Not quite such what I'm doing wrong here. After throwing in the HCl, the temp jumps way up and I have too much toxic gas shortly after.
Difficilty curve was pretty steep, not much room for errors.
Also I couldn't resize the window or make it full screen so text was hard to read on a 4k screen (not a big deal, I applaud you for using your own engine).
@magmafortress : keep an eye on the cauldron temperature and drag logs onto the fire if it gets too low. I added a controls section above to hopefully keep it clearer how the cauldron temperature and the gas accumulation behave
@samuli : my engine isn't completely consistent when resizing, so I chose to focus on the rest of the game, instead of making sure everything scales correctly, but I realize it's hard to read on 4k, something to work on for next ld ;)
Very cool that you used your own engine!
Very hard game it doesn't give you enough time already on the second level! You need to make the learning process a bit easier I think.
Congrats on the 48hs entry!
Cool game! It was a bit hard for to get the grasp of it but nice entry.
Worked great in Wine on Fedora. Nice engine!
Nice game but maybe too hard for my taste. Nice job, specially when done by yourself and with your own engine!
Really neat idea! But how do you stop the gas on the longer recipes?
Nooo, an installer. Could you make this browser-playable?
The idea is good. I liked how you had 3 little mini games that each had to be juggled to pull off a final recipe.
Man, that last recipe was a bugger, took me 3 or 4 times to complete it. Thank you for not starting the game over from the beginning on a failure. The graphics were cute. Overall a pretty solid entry.