floweryandy 2024-04-16 03:09
I spent all my money at the start which I guess softlocked the game
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Mammon & Sons
By lgg, haayaargh, SparklingSushi, M.Kusy and hexstart
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 226 | 3.91 | 41 | |
| Fun | 450 | 3.59 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 282 | 3.71 | 41 | |
| Theme | 140 | 4.24 | 41 | |
| Graphics | 203 | 4.26 | 41 | |
| Humor | 219 | 3.69 | 40 | |
| Mood | 205 | 3.98 | 41 |
I spent all my money at the start which I guess softlocked the game
Pretty sound design.
Great concept and sound design and visuals!
Great gameplay loop, awesome amount of polish and really fun.
Great artwork! I love the low poly pixel art textures. The demon voices were a fun touch. It felt difficult to get momentum, and I found myself constantly mousing over things repeatedly to find the best match.
Overall great game, I love your jam template, and how you have links to your other games, and a splash screen. Feels very professional.
The sound effects were so funny and the visuals were very nice. Pretty cool game you have here!
First time I gave up after few minutes, but then I read description and tried again. Finally got rating 5.0 and have lots of fun :D cool idea and really entertaining strategy game.
@floweryandy @godknows @funnypumpkin @saryah @cameronpenner @sevadusk @wieczny If you found the game confusing, but liked other things about it - you might enjoy the optional update we just uploaded, which greatly improves balance and UX. Just letting you know ^^
@togis @burchyn also pinging you folks, since you asked on the stream to let you know in case there's an update.
@hexstart gg easy :)
Great new version!
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Do you need to complete 10 5-star missions to get the victory screen? I'm not sure where I was up to, but a demon jumped out of a completed job directly into a new one ruining my streak. It was funny every other time that happened, but quite annoying in the endgame trying to get the 5 stars. Similarly not being able to tell if a job was a 1-demon or 2-demon one without putting a demon in was frustrating.
Other critiques were that all the time gating felt too slow to me, I'm already paying 2 HP for training plus the 10 Soul investment, why a timer bar too? Also as demon HP was always 4 I think a "chunked" HP bar works better than a continuous one. Matching the right demon to the job is also a bit of a pain with them running around all the time, a drop down UI to pick an available demon or being able to put them in pens to keep them from mingling would be nice.
Otherwise I really liked the idea and general sense of progression. The "biblically accurate" and\or hellraiser demon visuals but still having cutesy SFX was a nice touch.
nicely polished fun game! I was confused at first but got the hang of it after a few minutes. btw nice splash screen ;) thanks
A nice looking and very polished game! I enjoyed it!
Very nice game, I enjoyed playing for some time to get to the all 5-star review. Took some time but got there eventualy. Took some extra time to keep moving the workers away from the summoning circles as they tend to slip in there by themselves and I took care of grabbing them out of the circles as then also dropped directly into another one sometimes, which was quite frustrating.
The art is very solid for this kind of experience and I really enjoyed it overall. Good job to the team and congrats for the game!
Definitely a bit of a learning curve here, didn't quite get a winning strat, but I could see myself sinking some time here for sure.
Ok, this sucked me in for almost an hour!
The SFX are top-notch :D I enjoyed it quite a lot deisgn-wise as well. I feel like hiring more workers is inferior to upgrading existing ones. Maybe adding the timer might help balancing it, it might also be beneficial for scenarios when you have the last imp with 1HP and you just wait for it to finish the job (I would not allow myself that if there was the timer ticking). I understand the intention to make things more chill for the player though.
And yes, it wasn't obvious what the rating is for, until I realized it's a win condition. Aside from that, I had a blast with the game, it's addicting and it constantly gives you interesting choices to tackle. Congratz!
Ok, this sucked me in for almost an hour!
The SFX are top-notch :D I enjoyed it quite a lot deisgn-wise as well. I feel like hiring more workers is inferior to upgrading existing ones. Maybe adding the timer might help balancing it, it might also be beneficial for scenarios when you have the last imp with 1HP and you just wait for it to finish the job (I would not allow myself that if there was the timer ticking). I understand the intention to make things more chill for the player though.
And yes, it wasn't obvious what the rating is for, until I realized it's a win condition. Aside from that, I had a blast with the game, it's addicting and it constantly gives you interesting choices to tackle. Congratz!
Really glad I got a 2nd chance to play this onstream! If only I'd had more time. Great job team!
Awesome art, gameplay and UI, entertaining mechanics. Really enjoyed the game! Cleanly done work, excellent! It wasn't easy to get a 5* rating :D
There's a lot of love and charm here! I get that the third-party music invalidated audio as a category, but I really, really wish I could have rated the adorable noises the demons made as you did anything with them.
Nice and pretty addictive clicker. Everything done neat and the game is playing smooth. Nothing serious to blame about. The only issue I encountered is the camera control. Such a game wanted to played in the relaxed one-hand-clicking manner. But I have to operate in WASD+mouse mode which is more close to FPS-like games.
@brainles-etertainment aside from WASD, the game also supports right-clicking and dragging for camera movement (unless it didn't work somehow?)
This game was really polished, I feel like if I had the time I would've kept going for quite a long time. If you kept on working on this game, I would love to see a more in-depth management system, maybe a way to feed your minions and use your money, some light basebuilding/upgrading (something like you already have, but for different facilities?)
Everything fit nicely into one package, from the art to the audio, great entry!
If you want to rewatch my playthrough, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/VrinXzvnhho
I finally got around to finishing this on stream! For the most part the game was really simple to grasp, and once I knew what was going on, was able to fairly quickly raise my rating to a glorious 5 stars! I’m just not sure why so many tasks had to have long timers associated with them when there was nothing to do whilst the timer ticked along.
For your reference, here was the first stream where I was tired and didn’t do much: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123757357
Followed by this one where I beat it, after one slight whoopsie: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2126502001
Really great looking game, the graphics are great and the music choices are spot on. Perfect for theme, Great Work!
Cool game! Looks well, the humor is spot on, sounds are simple but non-intrusive. Also quite fun. I spent on it way more time than I wanted to originally. Good job
Good game: graphics, sounds and idea, all is good. Great job)
Absolutely incredible! My favorite entry so far, it's super addicting, very well polished, amazing game loop, there's not even enough words for me to describe in such short amount of time. Super well done, great job to the team!