cibums 2024-04-15 03:25
Loved the characters! xD
It was fun and funny. When I read about one of the character I really wanted to see what the next one was, so I continued playing.
Good work :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Soul Purpose
By maymay
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 44 | 3.98 | 29 | |
| Fun | 120 | 3.60 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 130 | 3.51 | 30 | |
| Theme | 1 | 4.80 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 76 | 4.01 | 30 | |
| Audio | 202 | 3.00 | 30 | |
| Humor | 16 | 4.10 | 30 | |
| Mood | 56 | 3.85 | 30 |
Loved the characters! xD
It was fun and funny. When I read about one of the character I really wanted to see what the next one was, so I continued playing.
Good work :)
Gosh darn it Dave, go away. I'm trying to summon my girlfriend!
What a cute story. Why don't they have a rating for story?
This was a really funny play! I got the Candice ending, and ended up summoning Dave 7 times. I did encounter a bug where I had -1 candles. I think it's because I tried to buy 2 candles, and it only gave me 1? Not exactly sure, but on the first day I was too slow to even do 1 task. The office portion does go by quick, but you did address that in your post.
Nice art! Thank you for your work.
This was so nice! I even replayed it to get the second ending. However, I am missing one soul. Is there a list of all souls?
When I finally summoned the girlfriends ghost and he mentioned her needing a body I expected to get another decision about finding a body 😅 luckily it did not get that gruesome ;)
Also I hope that it is not too annoying to be summoned by your players all the time ;) keep up the candle-rific work!
This was awesome.
I didn't have the patience to get the girlfriends soul, but I really like that there is some morale here. Just move on and go out with the cute girl at the candle shop, dude!
If this doesn't win in the humor category, then I am convinced there is no god.
@cibums @lexgear @sirjupitron @owtuvammo thank you!! I'm really glad that you enjoyed my game :))
@vegeo Interesting! I'll see if I can figure out that bug.
@stmatn I just tried to put a list of souls on the listing, but I don't think there's any option for spoiler tags here. I'm just going to assume anyone reading this far into the comments has played though and post them here for you:
1. Dave. 2. Alice 3. Barry 4. Kevin. 5. Long-Fingers Larry 6. Trudy 7. Ruth 8. Lab 8 Researcher 9. Piano 10. Jimothy 11. Orpheus 12. Patient 45683 13. Blademaster 14. Infernus 15. Mesopotamian Copper Merchant 16. Maya 17. Charlotte
A very touching game, I found the endings to be beautifully written. Also loved all the writing and cool art, and genuinely found the menial minigame fun to play! Congrats!!!
I'm not really a visual novel guy, and because of the lack of gameplay this did feel more like a visual novel. That's also why I really liked the addition of the customer support job. It's unfortunate that that went by so fast. It's funny how you keep summoning Dave.
very charming game, easy to figure out and the work minigame was very neat
macOS, just crashed for me. I won't rate, I'd find it somewhat unfair.
It crashed when I clicked "Skip animation". In case that's helpful.
Very on theme, nice humour. Would have loved to finish the game.
Oh jezz, gosh darn it, sorry for summoning you away @maymay ! I hpe you made it back to your body safely ;D
Ps. best easter-egg I found in this Jam so far xD <3
The office phase is really fast, I can't do more than two calls per days.
Loved the hand drawn art style and the gameplay loop. Good job!
DANG IT DAVE!!! (It was quite a charming little game, though.)
@krisss-gonko I understand, these things happen :p Glad you found the easter egg haha, I made it to be the second-rarest pull in the game.
@dasilvacontin Yeah, the crash on OSX is a known bug. It has something to do with Godot 4, and maybe the settings that I'm using to publish to HTML5. I may just release a native OSX build if I can figure out all the signing required for that. Unfortunately I haven't got a mac to test on :/
@brainles-etertainment yeah-- I do wish I had made that a little longer or maybe used something other than a timer (like a fixed number of calls per day)
Cute little game, the humour is on point and the hand-drawn art is great.
Nice take on the theme. Great characters, art, and storytelling. I also kept summoning Dave all of the time. Eventually, the game felt too repetitive and I gave up. But reading the comments here, I kind of want to give it another go...
This was really well written! I do wish I had more time to read the customer complaints. Some of them were hilarious. I understand it being a game mechanic, though. Nice work!
funny and interesting story, i wish i had the attention span to read more and see the rest of the characters.
Charming game, nice art and good writing.
I wish the call center mechanic didn't discourage reading the text in depth, because it's quite funny - the game's writing is its strength, and having the mechanics push you to skim was a bit of a loss in my opinion.
Also, as a fellow sufferer of the Godot 4 Mac Bug, my sympathies. Hopefully Godot folks can fix this before next LD rolls around.
Was exciting to summon each time, seeing what you would get. Relatable maya haha. The earning money game was fun too, I wish the timer weren't so fast, it was fun discovering the world like that. Reminds me a little of west of loathing =)
This is an impressive compo entry.
The customer support job could probably be made to feel a little less manic. One thing that might be nice is a clear countdown time (I've only hurriedly glanced at it a few times though, so maybe I missed something) or maybe having your current ticket auto-submit when the day ends or whenever you get everything right.
The game makes up for the aforementioned roughness with the well-told story and world you built around it though, great work!