thedestoryer 2020-04-22 22:36
Great idea, I liked the randomness to it, but there is no skill involved and no point to buying ingredients.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Alchemist
By jacksendary
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1534 | 3.35 | 30 | |
| Fun | 1630 | 3.12 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 1082 | 3.35 | 30 | |
| Theme | 2442 | 2.60 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 1180 | 3.66 | 30 | |
| Audio | 696 | 3.50 | 29 | |
| Humor | 1650 | 2.45 | 23 | |
| Mood | 1295 | 3.36 | 27 |
Great idea, I liked the randomness to it, but there is no skill involved and no point to buying ingredients.
Nice presentation and functional crafting mechanics. Nice music too.
Great game! It is quite innovative and the art is also great.
Intresting idea! Was fun, I found it a bit too easy though! Not sure if the tax collector actually took any money, and I'm unsure if I just got lucky but I drank a whole bunch of potions and didn't really seem to have many bad effects, then spammed searching for herbs and made a huge pile of about 3 different potions to sell
Man, this game is addicting, i probably need to stop playing and rome some other games, but my brain wants to find what all the combinations of herbs do..
[Add some text of congratulation on fun, graphics, audio, innovation and mood]
Ok, heres what i have to say:
1) Be more clear with the objective: add a little reminder that tells what you need to pay of taxes, and possibly a counter that counts how many days you have before the tax collector arrives. (Also, the tax collector don't actually take money, so fix it ASAP =O)
2) Dynamic Enviroments: This is just a my suggestion, but wouldn't be cool if, instead of a button where is writter "search erbs" you had to click the forest (or any scenario on the screen, if you want to add other places), and instead of "craft potion" you have a little table on te bottom right with all the erbs an when you combine out, you craft a potion and so on??? If you done that it would be out a great mobile game, and maybe even sell it for a buck...
3)When i try to perform an in coplete action (craft potion with one ingredient, sell nothing, etc) the time will still flow (This is a bug, right?? If not give the player a line of text like "my experiment has failed!!!")
4) Add some special text to "non potion" item, because in my first run i was almost selling one. (Little suggestion: maybe use "non potions" items to be sell as "fake potions", but of course at the cost of some reputation)
5) Infinite games are ok, don't try to add an ending in a game that dosen't need one... If you still want to keep the ending, at least pair it with a nice story/main objective, because otherwise it's just an extra skipped dialogue
6) Why let others test my potions when i can test it myself??? Add some deadly potions, or some sort of negative impact on harmfull ones, otherwise this feature it's useless...
...And that's all that comes to my mind!!! (Sorry for the big wall of feedback XD)
...Also, i will take some inspiration on how to write a cool description in my future games, thank you!!! (It's actually cool how you subdivided the description in "little" segments and described your experience, i really like it...)
Nicely done! I liked the gameplay a lot, especially the process of figuring out which ingredients had what properties, and trying to match them up
This game was fun, but I think there's a bug: when the tax-collector comes, there is a pop-up box but my money doesn't actually go down.
@marxy-37 Thank you so much for the very detailed feedback!
1. yea it some how seems I forgot to subtract the money, will compile a now WebGL version soon
2. this was on my original idea list but I ran out of time/slacked too much :D
3. Thank you completely overlooked that some how
4. I sort of like this idea, but I also really wanted "Non-potions" to look as if they were potions :)
5. I know there was a certain additive nature to this game so I sort wanted (at least for the game jam) to let people playing have an objective to work towards and feel like they're "done" while still being able to continue playing afterwards
6. I had a whole item, buff and debuff system planned where all potions would give some sort of effects, atm 8 hours passes by only for negative potions but the time constraint sadly made me scrap it.
Also thanks for the feedback on my description page :D
I did notice a few bugs that have already been mentioned here, so need to go over those again. The huge amount of potions did overwhelm a bit at first, but it does allow things to feel new even after playing for quite a while. The graphics are also nice and the gui is quite clear. Well done!
Great music and graphics. Getting money was quite easy. I wish there was a in-game journal of all the recipes I discovered, I kind of got lost in all the combinations.
Nice game! I got greedy and started to stockpile potions so that i could make the big bucks. But then i forgot to pay my taxes and the dang king came in and shut my stinkin shop down. Overall sweet game!
Nice art! Something more dynamic, would be perfect.
I am amazed that you were able to create all of that art in 72 hours, that is impressive. Very good, like the Skyrim alchemy system as a stand-alone game. I like the reputation system and that you need to sell some "snake oil" the first week in order to pay the tax collector.
Cool game. Good job!
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It seems like a whole lot of content has been put into the game, the art is nice, the music's fitting, so rated those two quite high.
Unfortunately, the gameplay is kinda repetitive and random at the moment, since you need to specifically write down recipes and hope that you will find the same herbs after identifying some potion, and then remember to put those ingredients together.
There is no tutorial, so the tax collector coming was a total surprise for me - perhaps, you could make it more clear?
And it feels like the price for testing the potions is just too high as you can drink it yourself and get no repercussions on yourself - so this probably needs some balancing as well.
The idea is interesting, and you could get a mileage out of it, so I'd be more than happy to check it out after 3 or 4 months, if you're willing to work on it :)
And as a gesture of honesty and gratitude for your feedback in the post, I will post my grades here, hope you won't get offended:
**Overall**: 2 - there has been quite some work done and the game itself does not bug out, you can play it for a bit
**Fun**: 1.5 - well, combining random ingredients can be fun, just require adjustments, currently the only fun you get is to read some character replicas at time
**Innovation**: 1.5 - this has been inspired by Doodle God, Skyrim, many other good games, There's nothing wrong with that, but that's not very innovative. I haven't really seen something actually new.
**Theme**:1.5 - honestly, it does not feel connected to the theme at all. The game is about making and selling potions, not keeping your house alive (at least at the moment)
**Graphics**: 3.5 - good graphics, a bit static, but overall very nice (are you an artist besides engineering/game developing?)
**Audio**:3.5 - nice music and sound effects (and a cool composer, I guess :thumbsup: )
**Humor**:1 - well, I haven't seen any humor (correct me if I'm wrong), not sure why'd you put it here
**Mood**: 2 - yeah, there is some story to it, it's just not a lot
I wish you to improve this game and get something good out of it, and thanks again for your feedback!
Nice game. A bit repetitive and I found 2 funny bugs: 1) The tax collector does not collect the money 2) As the screenshot shows, you can have negative potions
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@trigueiro How did you manage to do that? haha :D nice found, also yea, never got around to fix the tax collector :D Thanks for playing!
Very good game! The musics and art are pleasant. It war interesting trying all the combinations of potion and trying to find good combinations :smile:
Well done!