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The alchemist (fantasy alchemist simulator)

By duuuude

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8773.1430
Fun7263.1630
Innovation6963.2229
Theme9143.0929
Humor4863.0528
Mood9932.7128

Comments

hkoisumi 2018-04-24 00:34

Freaking amazing! Excelent work, wanna check ours too??

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time

librorumque64 2018-04-24 07:29

Fun mini-game, impressive amount of writing. I think you've made a great core that can become an amazing game after some post-jam work on appearance.

Seems that sometimes requests, quest text and the goal don't match up, but I'm not quite sure.

alex13 2018-04-24 07:41

I like mini game idea. You should experiment with energy or weight to smooth balance

pavel-smejkal 2018-04-24 07:59

The tutorial left me completely confused, but after trying to make the first potion I got the hang of it. Nice game :)

duuuude 2018-04-24 10:39

@Librorumque64 I didn't have much time to check if the text was working right. I'll check it later.

I would love to put some more work into it!

Thanks for your feedback!

timbs 2018-04-24 11:26

Hehe I know that dinosaur from some where :^]

elbcore 2018-04-24 11:33

Really cool game! I've never played something similar to this minigame before! Combining that with the story/ novel aspect of creating potions works really well! It is very clear that alot of work as been put into the writing, and there is so many different potions to make! Sadly the game seems to be stuck in a loop at the point where the hunter asks for a light potion. She just comes back again directly afterwards to ask vor the same thing. I still enjoyed the game very much!

duuuude 2018-04-24 12:03

@Elbcore oh fuk... Didn't have time to playtest it...

Hahahahaha

thanks for the feedback

duuuude 2018-04-24 12:10

@timbs I dind't have time for making art myself so i just took some pictures from google XD. In the game folders it's called Adventurous dinosaur

Thanks for playing!

svdvorak 2018-04-24 13:12

Got the same issue as @Elbcore, stuck at light potion. But interesting concept, though a bit confusing at the start. It required a bit of a careful touch when trying to separate two elements coming from similar directions. Some music & sound would help a lot but as you mentioned, hard when you're doing it solo :)

hare-software 2018-04-24 13:49

Very fun minigame, but I still didn't always know what to do. Either way, the story was very entertaining!

iaaac 2018-04-24 15:43

The art style was rather inconsistent but i really admired the gameplay. It took a while to understand how do you make the potion but eventually it was clear. I can say for one, pushing away the colors was a bit finicky since you need to constantly shoot them. It gets a little overwhelming as more dots start to spawn. Maybe making it a single shot which pushes the dots away at a constant force would be cool.

duuuude 2018-04-24 15:57

@Iaaac I didn't have time to make any art :(

Thats why I ended up using images from google

Thanks for playing!

duuuude 2018-04-24 16:02

@svdvorak After some playtesting I discovered that some npc combinations fuck up the game. Others don't... I'll take a closer look.

THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK!

valboise 2018-04-24 18:53

I was a bit confused at first, but when you understand the basic idea it's pretty fun :D Even though you didn't make the art the gamefeel is pretty cool too :)

Good job:)

vovin 2018-04-24 19:00

Nice writing and interesting minigame. 2 things though:

- if you're going to make a text based story telling game, maybe take the time to make a ui widget with something that isn't Arial (and scale the font by point size not by transforming the widget, otherwise its edges don't get hinted correctly)

- **cite your sources for 3rd party art** otherwise people might get the idea you are trying to pass it of as your own.

rapter 2018-04-24 21:10

Awesome, nice game and idea 5/5!!! Good Luck!

togis 2018-04-24 21:22

Hooo it's so short :) I wanted the story to progress more. I had a lady, the dino, then 3 time the hunter girl, then Thanks for playing

The positive: * Cool concept, the potion crafting minigame is really fun, not too long and challenging enougth * Feeling of really arriving in the village and meeting people * Very usefull potion index

The less positive: * NSFW content could be a warning, the "Drink and F**$ all night" was funny and good for character creation, but some may be offended. I wasn't but some may * It would have been great to have longer story arcs, maybe I should try the game once more and see differents npc

Overall, this is an awesome game! Congratulation

duuuude 2018-04-24 21:27

@togis Yeah it's waaaay to short... I had a bussy weekend and the game was a solo project. I'll keep working on in tho.

THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK!

togis 2018-04-24 21:33

@DUUUUDE no worry, I woudn't feel it's too short if I didn't enjoy it! Only good games feel short ^^

kippllo 2018-04-24 22:05

What a game! It is a very cool idea and I had fun playing! That being said it did have some problems, on about day 3 I think when the dinosaur comes back for his second potion, I gave him an ice one, then he can right back and said the same thing... But besides that the game is nice and the story is pretty good for 48 hrs!

duuuude 2018-04-24 22:13

@kippllo Yeah, the game breaks under certain conditions... I did my best with the time I had

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

mordokay 2018-04-24 23:05

Great idea and the potion mixing looked like a "Selective Tower Defence" minigame. The stories were fun to read and you felt that you were making potions with a purpose. Good job!

gonz0 2018-04-24 23:22

Really interesting concept, that's a great mini game for determining elements, gets me thinking !! Great work

If you'd like to try mine https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/spacescape

steel-dev 2018-04-25 01:00

Not too bad, I liked the idea, But I don't see where the theme comes in, Anyways, Great job!

saiodin 2018-04-25 20:49

Wow! This game is alot deeper than i figured at first sight! xD I absolutely love it! Thoroughly surprised with the potion mixing mechanic, it's both challenging but still managable and intriguing. Keep up the good work!

paula 2018-04-28 19:29

In into this type of game so I like a lot your mix of generes. It's really cool that every customer has its own story and it evolves. Really interesting and entertaining way to manage an alchemy store. Really cool. Although the minigame was really hard for me, at most I filled 3 cicles wih the appropiate color. I also made a simulator for this jam, so I would appreciaty if you could give me your opinion since you made a game of that type https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-tavern-life

shivur 2018-05-05 02:55

Good gameplay!