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Haemogoblin

By dorkulon, cloakedninjas and treslapin

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall923.9755
Fun2123.6755
Innovation3493.3456
Theme244.2055
Graphics894.3455
Audio644.0154
Humor483.9955
Mood1353.8654

Comments

mmmmgooddinner 2019-04-29 22:49

This takes me back to my addictinggames.com days... well done!

ariake81 2019-04-29 22:59

Great graphics, really good overall :)

raphnika 2019-04-29 23:00

I just love the music and the art! Great job man

2019-04-29 23:05

I really love the details in the game and the humor in the game as well as in your description here. Really amazingly done

rafael-souza 2019-04-29 23:14

I liked the animations and the Idea! Congratz! :)

black-potion 2019-04-30 02:43

You got me when he fill the potion >< so fun

mehozavr 2019-04-30 04:44

Really liked the idea and the game overall. Great job!

green-rail 2019-04-30 05:41

What a brutal business model. I felt sorry for the dude. Nice entry! Also spiders are cute.

yojammerjammer 2019-04-30 07:25

My highest rated game played yet. Love this, it's more difficult than I expected!

2019-04-30 08:09

Excellent. Beautiful. Astounding!!!

(waz here)

antti-haavikko 2019-04-30 15:30

Very nice. Even though I pretty much hate tower defence genre. Lovely art and music and puns in game names are always good in my books. Only visual thing that stuck to me was the lack of shading on knights and gnome on the actual game scene. Made them pop out (and not in a good way) from everything else that was more detailed. Another thing that lack the polish that otherwise was there was the health bars.

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The balancing and overall progress flow were a bit off. The only way I was able to win was to just use 5 spiders on the first round and then completely drain the gnome. That with our savings from the first round are enough to bank a win. The traps were just too damn expensive to warrant their use. I see in the screenshot above that you had them as 60 at some point, seems more fair.

The lack of progress was also quite depressing. You lost all your buildings each round and the enemies didn't seen to get harder or increase in number the further it went at all. I was just pretty much stuck in a loop of all the blood I could make with traps was barely enough to make as much blood the next round.

The shopping cutscene looked nice but started to be a bit annoying after being in the fore mentioned loop for quite some while. Would be nice if it was skippable. The potion filling wrongfully played the sound on each click wether the previous one was done or not.

Anyways, good job!

ioleoso 2019-05-01 10:22

This game is amazing! I love tower defenses :) and this is so well crafted! The graphics is so cute, I loved the intro sequence, every detail is so on point. Very well done!!

aeveis 2019-05-01 17:28

beat it! I died the first time around since you can get in a bad state if you spend too much in the beginning, but after that I was able to figure it out and save up enough money. There were times where I probably collected more blood than I needed, so perhaps awarding player or making it more clear they shouldn't collect too much? The art and expressions on the shopkeeper were very good. Keep up the good work!

ana-soboleski 2019-05-01 20:49

Super cute art and music, the progress through rounds can be a bit frustrating but I had a lot of fun playing it!

greendinogames 2019-05-01 23:07

I really like the game :D It's innovative and well balanced. Good Job!

2019-05-02 16:33

Amazing! This game was super fun and interesting. You can really see that there was an idea and a game built around it. Loved the art and general design of the game. Feels very polished and cute. Really enjoyed the music and found it very fitting (gives off that shady Russian mafia feel) :). I especially like the spider... ;)

copper-aardvark-games 2019-05-04 19:21

Great graphics and it has a nice polish for a jam game. Great work!

edevjogos 2019-05-04 20:30

Really like the ideia of making potions with your blood and selling them, the animation on this part is great too, and the sound fits right on with the game, the problems for me were there's no progression on difficulty or spawn of enemies and there's only 2 traps. Ps. Nice touch with the credits carved on the table, cool ideia.

no-grapes-games 2019-05-04 22:36

Creative game, creative concept, fits the theme, and is fun! Check check check and CHECK! Really cool game! It's cute and the art is great. I thought the potion's ingredient was very funny. Awesome job!

mario-marinelli 2019-05-05 11:55

haha funny game great work

nebrazif 2019-05-05 11:59

It's a great game, graphics and sound are good, the gameplay is good too !

legice 2019-05-05 17:31

The idea is great, but saddly there is not more. I would love to play more if it were a full game =)

rokkos 2019-05-05 17:34

Nice game team :D very funny (especially the word plays) and wholesome. For the game jam game, you hit the right scope for tower defence. Game matches theme and is fun to play :D keep up the good work

lemur 2019-05-05 17:41

Well done! I want to see more of you!

lemur 2019-05-05 17:42

Just the original way of hiding credits as little scratches on the counter top gave this game a 5/5 for Humor for me, idk why, it cracked me up!

wtg 2019-05-05 18:15

Brilliant take on the theme! Great work and clever word play on the game name. This was really fun and reminded me of playing old school tower defence games back in the day :thumbsup:

beastiebeastie 2019-05-05 18:17

A charming mix of adorable, cute, kiddie style graphics and rather sinister subject matter!

gamechoy 2019-05-05 18:23

Wow, what a detailed entry! I didn't quite grasp every mechanic at first, but while I played I started realizing all the different interlocking gameplay elements. I love how subtly but clearly these mechanics are explained just through playing! everything is very well polished here, great work!

lereveur 2019-05-05 18:23

I really liked the mood and humor of this game. Didn't find the good way to use the traps, because I ended short of blood very quickly. But this still was fun to play, good job!

madbarron 2019-05-05 18:26

Awesome job! Very creative concept, and well executed.

euler-moises 2019-05-07 01:16

I love tower defense! Polished art, good music and made great use of the theme. The gnome's face after selling blood is the best of the game. Keep up the good work after JAM. I want to play more phases. Congratulations!

I also have a game on Ludum 44. Please try, rate and comment.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/junkebox-panic

udo 2019-05-08 11:22

Well that was depressing :laughing: What I really liked about this game was the polish: the graphics, the soundtrack, the sound effects, the flow of the game - really well done! I wish there was a little more depth to the game mechanics, but if you wanted to do a post-jam version that seems easy to add. You could then easily put this on an app store if you wanted.

dk5000p 2019-05-10 13:43

Loved the artwork and music. I finally figured out that the spikes were filling the blood so I wasn't using my own health for the potions. At first the game was difficult but after a couple of times it is very easy to win after just the first wave, which takes away the replayability. Still, amazing use of the theme and loved the eyes when you see you don't have enough funds.

devilqube 2019-05-11 17:46

looks and plays lovely !

cakemonitor 2019-05-12 07:23

I was sold on the title alone. Really great game on all fronts. Good job! :)

kirbloid 2019-05-13 00:52

Well rounded game, where the art and audio really pull it together and give it a solid full-game feel. An interesting push/pull with the way you get currency and attacking the mobs.

goosyberry 2019-05-15 07:26

The title is so great and I had fun playing this!

anandhi 2019-05-21 10:33

The game is neatly done. The art looks damn cute. Congratulations! Great work!