mdotedot 2024-04-15 09:16
Fun little entry. I didn't manage to get far due to the obstacles that break my path. But I really like the spinning effect on the summoning spell. Well done.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Necro Jam
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 353 | 2.34 | 18 | |
| Fun | 356 | 1.96 | 18 | |
| Innovation | 357 | 1.81 | 18 | |
| Theme | 249 | 3.25 | 18 | |
| Graphics | 337 | 2.34 | 18 | |
| Audio | 274 | 2.00 | 17 | |
| Mood | 338 | 2.18 | 18 |
Fun little entry. I didn't manage to get far due to the obstacles that break my path. But I really like the spinning effect on the summoning spell. Well done.
The game gets laggy with time, to the point when it becomes unplayable.
I my first play-through I only got 6 diamonds, and no more seemed to spawn. I think I needed 10 or 9 for the skeletons? When I bought the skeletons, it didn't seem to actually take the diamonds from me? Maybe I'm missing something
Interesting concept. Some of the attackers got stuck to my player a couple of the times I played and the music is a bit rough. The main premise is good and the summoning effect is really cool.
Fun little game! Plays like a bullet hell, but instead of shooting enemies directly you spawn skeletons to attack them, which is a pretty cool concept. :)
It could use a bit of explanation on how to play it, though. I kinda expected the spawn skeletons to attack enemies near me, but they seemed to be always targeting ones far away (do they simply select first enemy on the list by ID or something?). Another part I got slightly stuck on was the shop - it took me a while of randomly pressing buttons before I've figured out how to buy anything. A prompt with the key, or even controls in the pause menu or in the game description would have helped greatly.
There are also some bugs - you can spawn skeletons outside of the level, a lot of times buying items in the shop doesn't seem to do anything other than reducing the amount of diamonds you have, a few small others.
Overall it's a nice entry! The sprites looked nice and I liked the little spawning animation. Looks like a decent base to expand on. :)
I liked the interpretation of the theme here.
I couldn't understand some parts of the game. What does the star upgrade do? I assumed it would increase the slot of the skeleton spawns, but it didn't. Does it increase the fill speed? Do the crystals drop from destroyed enemies?
Sprites look too small on 4K screen, as the game isn't scaled according to screensize. So I played it in my 1080p screen.
nice game. I didn't understand what the skeleton upgraded did and whether the upgrades carried over between runs. Spawning more gems during a run wold have added more to do. I like the spawning skeletons as your attack. Would be interesting to see further minion types to spawn.
Nice game! Neat and tidy core loop. The skeletons always seemed to pick the furthest enemy away but what can you expect from the undead! Evil help is so hard to find.
Nice game, love the sprites, its quite fun going around the map summoning skeletons