Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Crazy Cauldron
By quite-good, ShanetheFP and julienmc
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 67 | 4.17 | 160 | |
| Fun | 130 | 4.01 | 160 | |
| Innovation | 329 | 3.69 | 159 | |
| Theme | 599 | 3.68 | 160 | |
| Graphics | 49 | 4.57 | 162 | |
| Audio | 97 | 4.09 | 158 | |
| Humor | 466 | 3.38 | 149 | |
| Mood | 138 | 4.07 | 157 |
A really good looking game, it's a little hard to me since i have no knowledge on color theory and didn't know how to get to some colors. The sounds felt nice and all the little details on the animations made it all feel very nice to play. Overall it was a good game with a really nice graphic.
This game is clearly nit for jam. Honestly, you can send it to store, game is so cool!
Graphics are great. Tutorial helps me understand my goal and how to accomplish it. Really solid game, it would be nice if it was clearer how to make some of the more complicated potion colors though. Overall very solid.
This was so well done! Great gameplay, sfx, and art. Everything was very cohesive and worked great! I did run into a bug where I dropped the potion bottle and had to restart the game for it to come back, but I just made sure not to drop it after that. Some sort of "recipe" guide could be interesting for the more complex colors- it could even just be hints instead of telling the answer outright. However, that's being pretty nitpicky for a very well polished entry!
The details on this are really great, I appreciated the tutorial.
Really cool game, charming and nice mechanics.
I am sad the mechanics don't reach their full potential though (TBF expected for a jam game). I expected this to be a frantic management game about balancing inventory and mixing colours, but 99% of the time it was instead just "1 customer is at the window, grab the 1 colour you need then you're done".
I think to better take advantage of the core mechanics maybe the secondary colour ingredients shouldn't exist or should be rarer so it relies more on mixing. Secondly and thirdly, there should be more customers at a time and the cauldron shouldn't automatically clear. I think if done right this would give the player more agency regarding the order in which they approach things and would raise the skill ceiling dramatically. As is, I never felt the need to stockpile of plan my ingredients because I'd just get what I needed when I needed it.
Overall though, for showcasing a cool idea it does it's job well!
Forgot to say I think the SFX volume could do with a boost.
Best Game I've played until now in the competition. Congrats.
This is one of the most complete games played in this jam！The alchemy materials and customers are very cute. I really like it.
I found that the white potion without anything can fit the requirements of some customers for some light colors. Is this a bug?:)
Cool game. The idea with colors is very interesting). I don’t know how you can produce such high-quality art with animation in such a time, but you did it. Just a round of applause.
Really fun game, I like that you have to catch the ingredients, it was so frustrating when the right ingredient just wouldn't appear or I missed it, but frustrating in a good way
Thanks for all the great feedback so far everyone!
Mixing the different ingredients to get the right color was really satisfying! I liked having to catch the colors as well. Sometimes I wasn't quite sure on how to make a certain color, but it felt great once I finally pulled it off. The artwork and music is bopping too! Great stuff!
What an awesome little game! I loved the art for ingredients and customers
Oh wow what a cute game! Really love the graphics and audio, they fit so well together! also really like the different character designs, I think the little goblin is my favorite customer :D The balance of the game seems very fair and it is a blast to play, what a beautiful submission! :)
So good, everything is teeming with charm and personality! The only thing I was missing was a hotkey or a bigger click area (like the whole side of the screen) to switch between the collection and brewing modes. All the art and audio are top-notch, bravo!
Such a fun game! The art style is really nice and the character designs are on point! The audio fits the game very well and the gameplay is really satisfying. Great job!!!
Great game all around. Just a heads-up though, I noticed you overwrote the jam submission with a post-jam version of the game. Hope you can fix it and just link to the post-jam version in the description or something. Keep up the great work!
absolutely lovely!! everything from the art to sound design and gameplay is just super charming. definitely one of my faves so far!
This game sure put my color theory knowledge to the test :D I love the art style and the overall vibe. Such a fun game even if I keep messing up in my sense of hurry! Also very re-playable so that's a plus too, awesome job!
Very good game! the gameloop is solid and engaging, it is complicated but easy to understand, and the music and art accompany the experience a lot.
Funny game with amazing music and art! Waiting for ingredients to appear is somewhat torturous.
really polished and awesome! loooved the art, and really challenged me as an artist lol. the music was also very fitting!
Extremely polished and really beautiful. Well done!
Very unique and interesting. Well done!
genuinly really fun, the color wheel helped and I still struggled to figure out colors but that didnt take away from the experience, the escalating difficulty showed you guys had time to polish as well, amazing job!
Simple and very fun mechanics, I really like the fact you have to click to gather your ingredients on the other screen, really nice spin on the concept, thank you!
5/5 NICE GAME! Art was so good. there seemed to be a bug with dropping the potion and switching screen causing it to disappear.
Super cool characters, love the green hooded one
Really cute graphics and animations. It's alive!
Awesome little gem ! A bit frustrating sometimes, though rewarding enough to retry almost 10 times. This kind of games can be super addictive (in a good way) plus it is somehow educative. Game is polished, the mood is really well settled and the art is awesome.
The only recommendation I would have is probably to reduce the colors possibilities. Sometimes I thought I was far away from the color needed while in fact it was okay. And on the contrary, sometimes the color was slightly different enough to be wrong...
One of my favorite game so far !
Man this game was soooo good! Everything well polished and thought out. The pixel art was incredible, huge kudos to the artist on that. The sounds and music were on point, just the whole thing was great lets be honest. Loved the selection of characters. One of the cleanest games I've seen so far. GG
wow! that really was... Quite Good (eh, eh?).
Games great! Simple and easy to understand. I occasionally couldn't identify which desaturated colour I was looking at but my monitor colours are a bit buggered. Music was good, animations are luverly and the design of various people and ingredients is ace. Well done, super good
Really enjoyed the gameplay! character designs are really cool looking! love the bit crushed music!!
Pretty cool! Very solid overall, art, music, feel, gameplay... Loved it!
Loved the overall mood ! Game is really well made, art and music are neat, goal is straightforward. I could see myself play it for hours :)
A cool idea executed really well! I love the art style and music, and there was just the right ramp up in difficulty from simple colors to then more complex shades. Really awesome job!
Absolutely love the sprite work you've done, but it's a bit tough to play for someone who's colorblind. All in all, good job!
@siggyrath Agreed! If we take this idea further, I think that accessibility features like TTS when you hover over colors would solve this issue. Thank you for playing despite this!
72 hours Potion Craft haha very nice! The art is amazing, music is also spot on. The game has a great atmosphere!
The art is next level! The music was really good as well! Got 438 think I could have done better if I kept at it but really enjoyed my time playing it. I think rather than showing text how to play it you could have had some going through it (though ofc it is a jam, so easier said than done). Fun & a great entry!
This is a very strong entry, feels really polished. Graphics are amazing and the gameplay is fun. I enjoyed it a lot!
Solid concept ! beautiful art, music, and easy gameplay ! I loved it !
Wow! I loved the art and the music, the characters are all absolutely cute-terrifying monsters (a dog with a knife? wished I could pet him) and the gameplay is solid and clever. You did an amazing job! Congratulations! Hope you're there for next LD!
Its probably been said over and over but the art style is fantastic, the team did fantastic work with the pixel art, really gives it a fun feel!
Great game, awesome looking. Found it a bit stubborn to get the potion to fill to begin with, but after a bit seemed to cooperate better. Liked having to hunt down colours too, was a neat touch
First, thanks for the tutorial tips. Secondly, you have a very beautiful visual. Everything is so juicy and enjoyable. I want to eat everything. It's very interesting to play, you are great fellows.
A fun game with great art and simple style. The limit on how many ingredients can be stored certainly makes the player have to think quick!
I like that your game used more complex color theory than the rudimentary color wheel. Great music, great art, and great vibe! I let my 8 year old try it, and he got a score of 414. I did have to explain to him how to play so my suggestion is if you continue working on this game, build up the difficulty over multiple levels or have small missions that a child can easily follow. Most children learn about the color wheel by kindergarten but the advance color theory may need to be taught to them. But hey, what a cool way to learn color theory! :) He said it was fun btw! (he's a child of few words in general but he won't lie lol). I enjoyed playing this and I could definitely see this being sold on the app store.
Really great game. Super polished and amazing art and music. Super impressed!
Really solid game. I like the use of color. The art and sound are amazing. Great work, tossing toads and lizards into a pot, what could be better HAHA.
Great game! Could be useful to display the color wheel in a way where you can see what the result of adding the next ingredient would be.
Good implementation and concept! Not a bad atmosphere, I liked the graphics and music. Keep up the good work! Good job, guys
Very fun little entry! The artwork was very nice and the side mini game was a great idea! Not sure how long people have lasted but happy with my score!
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The game is really solid! Whether it is the music, the graphics, the atmosphere, it is successful The fact that we can harvest the ingredients is well thought out!
Thanks for this game
Really good game :) keep up the good work
This game is fantastic!
Love the art and everything feels really smooth. My color theory game is not that good so I appreciate that you put a color wheel in the background. Overall great polish, would love to see it expanded upon with maybe some sort of upgrades tied into the score system.
Really interesting game!
Lovely art and surprisingly complex mechanics!
Lovely graphics and sound!
really great game! fun concept, cute artwork (and SO MUCH of it too!), nice audio too. Congrats, a very impressive entry!
Awesome art! Love it! Seems like this game is not for daltonian :smile:
Incredible artwork. Played for a while, but eventually got a little bored so I gave up to see what the fail animation was like, and I wasn't disappointed :D
Loved the vibrant art style and WOW so much animation, bravo! The game is surprisingly challenging too, just the right amount. Only issue is it took me a second before I noticed the bottle to grab it, it fit so well into the bg haha. Great work overall though!
This was awesome to play. Cute, clever, and fun. Fits the fall vibes perfectly too, well done! :)
@lbo We are working on additional content for the game, more info coming soon ;) Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the feedback!
@lazyseal @siggyrath We are actually looking into an update with accessibility features so that more people can enjoy our game, if you have any suggestions for what you would want that to look like please let us know :)
Very Nice ! Art style is great, music work great for the atmosphère and gameplay is siple and fun. Very nice job !
Great game! Loved the art, the music and the overall mood. Whole concept fits the theme nicely. Keep up the good work! :thumbsup:
Beautiful game, with such a good idea behind it! I liked the mechanic of mixing colours together to make potions, as well as the options of mixing two colours together or just using one ingredient instead, it gave me some choice which I liked. I'd love to see it expanded upon further, with more and more combinations and mixtures - maybe not just with colours, but size, opacity, all sorts of other factors - mixing the right potions could become hectic! Dipping the potion bottle in the cauldron was also a good touch, it made it feel a bit more realistic and much more fun than just pressing a button. The art was also amazing, and I particularly like the rounded sort of cel shading on the background and menus, as well as the colours on the shading and lighting - it all looks great in the pixel art style. Well done on this game, I loved it! Oh, and my final score was 2039!
Really nice game, loved the art style! =D
I love it, I just wish it was split into 2 parts: brewing for clients and collecting, both are too hard and I was having a lot of fun hunting hahah. Good job.
I made it to 539! Well, one of the best I playes so far, if not the best! Well done! The artstyle and music are excellent, the idea of catching the ingredients and mixing awesome and the way it keeps the pressure on lovely! Your team has a winner here.
Holy crap... This is some of the best pixel art I've ever seen. And I've seen some pretty good pixel art. The music and gameplay were also really good. I got a score of 2120, which I seemed to be about average. If I had to change something, I would make it so that the colors that the customers were requesting matched better with the actual potion color. Often it was difficult to tell which potion I was supposed to make. Other than that, this was a fantastic game!
Чего не сделаешь ради бизнеса. Приходится варить лягушек, летучих мышей, ящериц... Хорошо, что они все такие милые. Их так и хочется бросить в котел.
Great atmosphere, the art and music work really well together. The level of polish is also very high for a jam game, well done !
Great work, the pixel art and lo fi sounding music perfectly compliment each other. The level of polish on this is impressive.
nice art, cool theme solution. Bright colors are great, I like it, good work!
Really well made game with good audio, excellent pixel craft and fun to play. Could see me coming back to play this one. Nice work, it makes me want to improve my pixel graphic skills
Awesome game, really well made and fun to play. I love the concept and it could probably be expanded to a full game
Wow, perfectly balanced chill game! Music and graphics are top, and Idea is just a candy. Only one thing is little annoying is just a short wall shelf that can keep only 3 items - so player must often switch screen to collect ingredients
The graphic is great! The game mechanic is very interesting and different from what I'm used to. Good job!
The graphics, mwah, so good! The music, scumptious! Also fun to play! Good game!
Very solid entry! Cute graphics, great music, overall amazing atmosphere! Great job!
Amazing game, the only feedback I can give is that the colors on the request sometimes are a bit hard to decipher, maybe adding another visual que to the colors, like a simbol for each, so its easier to recognize and it would also make the game more inclusive. But its a small nitpick, overall great game!
Nice work, like the Graphic and the item collection :D
one of the most beautiful games I've played so far. The idea is great and is very well finished. Everything matches everything. Really good!
Congratulations!
I got 1657! Really really pretty game! I think a little more differentation in colors would be nice. Sometimes it was hard to tell if the color I got was right, or close enough. Otherwise, well done!
Very good theme usage, wonderful pixel art and original mechanics. Congrats for the great work!
A very complete game, I love the art style and the concept, I'm really happy to play this game.
Beautiful and fun little game. A bit difficult. Maybe the color palette should be more narrow at the start.
Greatly polished game! Calm and relaxing gameplay. Congrats on the entry
Really cool game and well implemented.
One of the best entries I have played ! The gameplay mechanic is fun and simple to grasp - there is never a boring moment. The visual and audio package also greatly contributes to the enjoyment of the game.
Strengths : - Great main mechanic, with a very good sense of timing and difficulty - Controls are immediate - Great pixel aesthetic
Possible improvements : - There are sometimes slight differences between the color of the content of the cauldron and the requirements of the customer, which makes the outcome less predicatable.
Great job !
Wow super cute and charming game. The graphics are really great. Love the color-matching gameplay mixed with the frantic feeling of keeping up with all the orders. Great work!
NIce game! vere nice arts! Sound is good. I like it! Good job
I already saw few games with making potions and selling them to customers. That makes this one unique, is interesting mechanic with color mixing and "catching" ingredients. Art style is cute, music fit well with the game theme and controls feels good. Two things that I'm not a fan of are: that you can drop your ingredients and potions - it happened to me few time by accident and that you can hold only 3 items - somehow it feels too low, but it is just my opinion. Anyway, great game!
Such a wonderful game. The concept and execution are both wonderful, the ingredients and customers have so much character and it feels exciting without being overly stressful. The colors definitely didn't always match which made it confusing sometimes but overall the game was impressively cohesive and engaging.
Amazing art and animation! The music was really fitting too. I loved how "alive" the ingredients gathering area felt. I had a little difficulty distinguishing some of the colors/mixes, the color chart on the wall definitely helped me though. Maybe in a post-jam version there could be a secondary indicator (such as iconography) that could help with certain colors and their mixes (especially for color blindness).
Great game! I liked how you have to gather the ingredients and the 3 itens limitation. I got a little lost on the color mixing, but was really fun. Nice job!
Loved the style - graphics, music/sound, and theme. As someone who can never remember color theory, it was a bit difficult without a reference. Other than that, great game!
The music in this is extremely catchy. I loved pretty much everything about this game once I understood how to desaturate the colors.
Hey! What an awesome entry, the graphics are excellent and I loved the different sprite styles for the different colors, reminded me of the original sword of mana games
Absolutely stunning graphics and animations! Gameplay was clever, though throwing the browns and grays at players early feels like it ramps up the game too fast. Maybe stagger the dificulty early on? Either way it's a fully fledged, fun and engaging game. Amazing entry!
This is SUPER cute! The visuals are SO perfect, and the music is great too! Collecting ingredients was super fun, trying to think of what ingredients I could use. Honestly if there was a "career" mode I would play it SO MUCH! Awesome work :P
Pretty cool! It feels like the gameplay is sort of pulling in two different directions -- the collecting phase challenges you to discretely recognize colors, but the mixing phase can sometimes involve fine-tuning colors to get their hue and saturation just right. There's a lot going on which is quite impressive for a jam game but I almost wonder if it would be more fun to focus on just one of the two aspects -- either making the colors very distinct and distinguishable and being more of a "quick gathering ingredients" game, or maybe doing away with the gathering ingredients minigame and focusing on mixing colors accurately (which seems more interesting to me).
I think I enjoyed the challenge of mixing the less obvious color tones the most, but at the same time felt pressured to just quickly cobble together something because I knew the clock was ticking. Maybe without the time aspect it would allow for more enjoyment of planning out what to add to the cauldron? Although that would nix the "unstable" part of the theme...
Eh, I'm just vomiting thoughts aloud, anyways the visuals are super fun to look at, especially all the animations (subpixel movement, wow!), and everything comes together pretty well! The bitcrushed drums weren't what I'd expect initially but it actually fits the vibe very nicely too.
Everything seems to flow together so nicely. The gameplay is great with what limited time you had and the art is fantastic!
Lot of "potions games" for this jam but yours is by far my favorite. The idea is simple yet challenging. having to switch between the 2 screens to see customer commands or remove ingredient adds a lot to the gameplay.
Love the graphisms as well.
Well done.
Pretty cool one!!
This is such a clean entry, loved the 'potion craft' vibe to it ! i'd have loved to have a 4th ingredient on my shelf istead of switching screens everytime But i really liked it ! Congratz
Such a pretty game, very nicely polished. The gameplay is nice, it was just quite hard for me to figure out the colors as a colorblind person, haha, but that isn't your fault. Still, if you wanted to make the game easier to play for colorblind people you could for example add symbols in addition to colors to the potions and the items. Great job on the game! :)
This was really cute, I loved the art and the little "yes" "no" sounds :) I wished there was a more interactive tutorial than info-dumping all the controls because I was confused my first playthrough - however, after the second, I got the hang of it and it's genuinely super fun :) The characters are quirky and color-matching had me feeling like some interior designer examining Pantones. All in all good work!!
Beatiful art-style and clean animations. I like the concept of potion-making. Cool ingredients design. Good job!
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Wow, It is the best crafting game on ludum 49 Well done! I love it!
This game is really eye-opening and very fun. It's really hard to match colors, not only the hue, but also black and white to change the brightness
I can't believe how much I love this. Super tasty pixel art, strong vibes of Kyrandia games, clever mechanics of catching ingredients in the wild, it's so simple and elegant.
I'd really love a keyboard shortcut for switching between the cauldron and the forest.
Maybe what I'd love to see is a little bit more skill involved, for right now a lot of it seems to be relying on how agile you are with your mouse. E.g. if all of your ingredients are not fitting, all you can do is ditch them as fast as you can and go hunt for the ones you need, and a huge part of these actions is purely mechanical.
But when you're in the laboratory busy creating actual potions, you do feel like a specialist applying a skill: you need to understand the color wheel and make informed decisions about the next ingredient you wanna put in, and some part of me wants to feel more of that. Maybe add other parameters to consider besides the color, or make colors obey some laws that aren't that regular and need to be discovered, add some complexity into the magical side of things. Hunting for ingredients could still be a part of the process, but maybe a bit less prevalent and a bit less random, as in, hunting for specific ingredients could require separate mini-skills or knowledge about where to look...
Having typed that out, I'm realising I'm probably just describing a completely different game by now. But hey, your game inspired this train of thought, so I'm sharing!
Awesome entry!
Really nice game! Great visuals, music, soundeffects. Good fit for the theme, well done!
Great job, very aesthetically pleasing, and the mixing is fun and intuitive! The music is quite nice too!
Fun Game. Really enjoyed the graphic and combining colors to make the potions which made it not too complex.
image_2021-10-19_072129.png Wowowowowow very very fun! A great mechanic, wonderful music and art, cute and spooky customers, I'm a big fan.
Love the art and mood!
I absolutely love the way you approached potion creation! What a cute game.
I loved that you had to gather ingredients from the wild. It feels organic and adds to the tension.
One thing we both did on our games is color mixing. I wanted to share the advice with you that I also realized that this may make the game unplayable to color blind players. So if you guys expand on this, you may want to find a workaround or add an accessibility option. Maybe instead of flat colors, the potions could have unique symbols inside which signify the colors.
Great work all around!