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Ghostslayer

By thatfirey, Soleyeer, DarSor and mrdumpling

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5813.5663
Fun4093.6460
Innovation10402.8259
Theme9223.1960
Graphics6563.6264
Humor8462.5654
Mood6253.5059

Comments

yurain33 2024-04-15 23:46

Ребят, залейте на итч Графон прикольный

thatfirey 2024-04-16 06:47

Made a link to Itch ^^

svenerik 2024-04-16 09:02

Pew pew, works and decent! Lovely graphics and fine music~. I had an issue with the bottom left bar being a bit out of screen for me, so I could hardly see that one, but otherwise solid work!

meepster 2024-04-16 09:04

Great submission! Very fun game to play through. Artwork was amazing and music was a banger. Overall seemed very polished well done!

tugaryn 2024-04-16 09:12

Cute drawing style, plus controls for this type of game

johsam 2024-04-16 10:16

jb pacani

aaron-hart 2024-04-16 11:46

From one first-timer to another, well done - you've got skills and it's fun to play :)

saffwong 2024-04-16 11:48

Cute art and nice music!

cresceda 2024-04-16 11:53

Nice game! Shooting feels and looks nice. The Itch page is a bit glitchy for me, have to manually zoom out Chrome to see the spellbook? Music fits the game! Spells are cool, description would be nice (unless I missed it).

thatfirey 2024-04-16 12:09

@cresceda Thanks for the feedback, yeah we screwed up with the resolution a bit hah and realized it too late. And nope sadly we didn't implement descriptions to the cards

thatfirey 2024-04-16 12:09

@saffwong Thanks a lot, really appreciated ^^

eveee-cx 2024-04-16 12:10

I somehow did not get the spells to work ;O; but I had fun playing this nontheless :')))

bitezzz 2024-04-16 14:13

Very fun and good game! Nice sounds and gameplay not boring, also looks like enter the gungeon, for art big point

Also i can add point for gamepad support

kseniya 2024-04-16 14:20

Cool game, but off topic, it's more of a shooter, good job

f13 2024-04-16 14:30

So cool animations!

thatfirey 2024-04-16 14:33

@bitezzz @kseniya @f13 Thanks a lot for the feedback ^^

ophelialee 2024-04-16 14:40

Perhaps should modify the screen size of the web version! Besides, the visuals and music are very cute~

thatfirey 2024-04-16 14:43

@ophelialee Thanks a lot for the feedback, yeah we kinda realized too late that the game is not gonna run well with this resolution on web hah

ophelialee 2024-04-16 14:48

The page is still editable now! Just upload a new zip file. Because I also just modified my game page haha

meru 2024-04-16 14:58

Also nice music and it feels smooth. The shooting feels nice and I like the grafics!

thatfirey 2024-04-16 15:03

@meru Thank u ^^

storeyware 2024-04-16 15:28

Music and graphics are great. Shooting feels great. Some of the enemy bullets go through walls for me and its not terribly clear how to avoid the bullet hell from the fast shooting guys. Still, played it twice! Fun stuff.

thatfirey 2024-04-16 15:47

@storeyware Thanks a lot for the feedback ^^ The ghost bullets are intended to go through walls and yep hah it gets very bullet hell-y

viscera 2024-04-16 15:51

отличная графика, крутая механика стрельба, нашей команде понравилось играть в нее!

storeyware 2024-04-16 16:07

@thatfirey Oh! that makes sense. I didn't realize there were multiple types of bullets.

atomicptr 2024-04-16 16:43

Cool game, not quite sure about the theme though, good job regardless!

karamaajalt 2024-04-16 16:43

Very fun game, good art style, cool effects and music. Really loved the machinegun spell, quite fun to use!

cmakota 2024-04-16 16:44

Great polish, for a jam entry. I had a hard time figuring out how to close the weapon selection menu after opening it, but other than that, fun game!

beebster-games 2024-04-16 16:47

Very good game. Well done. You could use a better bad guy pathing system rather than just passing through everything. A* algorithm maybe?

unbreakable 2024-04-16 16:47

Spell casting is similar to what we did in our game! Not saying it is a great idea but it is a great idea.

Was a bit difficult to manage the spell casting whilst also dodging the bullets.. :grimacing:

bittripbrit 2024-04-16 16:49

Love the theme, love the feel of it. Gattling skeleton is terrifying and will haunt my nightmares. 10/10

rhyst 2024-04-16 16:56

Cool game. Did some weird things to my browser though, tabs kept closing and my favorites got clicked. Possibly to do with it hiding the mouse and I was clicking on them by accident. Also after pausing I couldn't unpause. For gameplay the basics are good but using the spellbook feels awkward since you can't move and there isn't really any down time. Appreciate the music volume slider.

dotiocat 2024-04-16 16:58

The game is fun if rather difficult in the enemy balance. What hurts the game the most in my opinion is that while casting spells youre a sitting duck, and without playing for a long while you'll always have to sit there and carefully read every cards input order. Having the game enter a sort of slow-mo or bullet time would've made it a lot more fun!

helviett 2024-04-16 17:40

Congrats on your first submission! Fun to play, great art!

zhzhpupkin 2024-04-16 18:00

Cool shooter! Remind me retro games, grafics look just nice. Enemies were quiet hard for me and it was hard to control shooting without mouse. Overall, i enjoyed playing it!

hlebnay-kroshka 2024-04-16 18:35

Очень круто получилось! Пиксельная анимация и графика очень приятная. Только у меня возникли какие-то проблемы с разрешением(

bladxaund 2024-04-16 18:44

Cool sounds and gameplay

conrad-etherton 2024-04-16 19:06

Very cool concept! Though it took me a bit to figure out how the book worked and it was still very challenging, would have liked some more breathing room to cast things haha. Good sounds and visuals too, nice work!

lightofglory 2024-04-16 19:40

Funny game, but i can't open the full screan(

winie 2024-04-16 20:57

Cool

jake-g 2024-04-16 21:08

Has good potential! The spell combos are cool and challenging while bullets are flying toward you. However, pressing ESC freezes the game and I couldn't figure out how to recover. I kept instinctively pressing ESC to get out of the spell book menu, having to restart. Is there a way to unpause after pressing ESC?

ne-sofa 2024-04-16 21:14

It's a pity the interface flew off, but the game is super

thatfirey 2024-04-16 21:21

@jake-g @ne-sofa Sadly the web version of the game is a bit broken, the pause button just shuts the game entirely for some reason, but the desktop version works fine, same with the interface, Web version just pushes it away :(

Thanks for the feedback!

thatfirey 2024-04-16 21:23

Thanks a lot everyone for the feedback ^^ I honestly hope to grow this game further, because I'm sure there's more to be done for it

weefairyfabi 2024-04-16 21:42

This game is super cute, the art is stunning and super polished! I love that the summoner also has a gun, he clearly adapted to the time hehe. I was definitely challenged but had a great time figuring out casting and running away from all the mobs without dying :)

somnnum 2024-04-16 21:43

very cool game, nice to play <3

thatfirey 2024-04-16 22:39

@weefairyfabi @somnnum Thank you so much for the kind words ^^ Also yep >:) Wizard Self Defense

kirass 2024-04-16 22:50

I like this game! You guys are great!

zerolarih 2024-04-16 23:03

The game idea is interesting and fun, I found it amusing to see a wizard with a weapon lol

merb1000 2024-04-17 00:59

Great graphics and good music, overall a good and polished game jam submission! I think the best thing to do to improve this game would be to speed things up. My bullets should go faster, they are bullets after all. Same with enemy bullets and the enemies themselves. They are so sluggish you can just run circles around them and shoot until they die. I don't expect this to be included due to time constraints, but if you continue this project later, adding a dodge roll or dash would be cool! Great job with this!

prussichger 2024-04-17 01:03

Very addictive and simple game! I like it

drainkid 2024-04-17 01:39

Cute game, with great music! It was kind of hard to focus on summoning with the overwhelming amount of enemies though - wish I could have seen more but I kept getting overwhelmed pretty early on haha. Good job!!!

aviv-levy 2024-04-17 09:28

I haven't noticed parts of the screen were cut off for some reason and I only realized there's this blue bar to the bottom left after pressing escape to see if there's an upgrade menu or something. Unfortunately, the game froze when I did that, and I had to start over :(

On my 2nd run I only later realized I could press control to select a new weapon, but it was kinda tough to figure out how to do that while being swarmed.

Other than that, I think progression could be a bit faster and that the movement could do with some smoothing.

But solid entry nonetheless. :)

sudno 2024-04-17 11:28

Очень прикольная игра, приятная графика. Залипла, пока играла

dywanix 2024-04-17 12:20

Very nice game. Playing was really enjoyable

answer21 2024-04-17 12:26

love graphics so much!

2024-04-17 19:01

Quite alright. Decently made shmup with ghosts :)

I wish the bottom part of the screen would not be cut at 1920x1080 browser resolution though, it's hard to reach the bottom panels.

synthol 2024-04-17 19:32

The gameplay felt very smooth and the graphics are really nice!

spookyrobloxman999 2024-04-18 03:22

idk why for me the screen isnt a full screen and i have to use the scroll bars to see the game

alex1 2024-04-18 06:29

Really enjoyed visuals and smoothness of gameplay, you did a great job!

constance 2024-04-18 06:51

What a cute game with great graphics and diverse variety of sounds! It does give me a retro kinda vibe of some shooter games from the early 2000s. I had a really enjoyable and fun experience playing it!

But there're some issues I'd like to point out. First, it took me a while to get used to the controls and upgrade mechanics. They're a bit confusing because I didn't know how to select an upgrade at first, until I figured out that I needed to press the buttons in a correct order, and then had to click on the upgrade to finally select it, but it took me a couple retry attempts though. I think some sort of tutorial would've helped a lot on teaching the player how the mechanics work. And it would be nice if the game was paused whenever the book is opened, I couldn't have count how many times I died just because I was busy on figuring out what buttons to press and the enemies just did and onslaught with their hell out bullets and projectiles.

Second, the pause feature was off, I couldn't un-pause the game after I paused it, no matter what buttons I tried to press, so to get around that I had to manually reload the page and start over. I'd suggest making the feature toggleable, by pressing the ESC key to switch between Pause and Un-pause states.

Third, the game window was cut off a little bit at the bottom so I couldn't see the health bar and upgrade. To get around this I had to go to full-screen mode by pressing F11 on the browser.

But overall, solid entry you guys got here and I appreciate the effort put into this, well done y'all!

rubikon 2024-04-18 07:54

Really well polished experience. That was awesome!

zastegnushka 2024-04-18 21:10

CutE!

romulo-developer 2024-04-19 00:16

The game is really cute. The Pixel Art is really well made. And the music you choose for the game really fit the Ghosts and Ghouls theme you were going for.I had problems with the resizing of the game, the html was way to big for my browser, and often I would just be shot by something outside the screen, but overall it was really fun!

patrick-pang 2024-04-19 03:23

I love the sound of bullets hitting the wall. A very interesting game.

baluj 2024-04-19 03:41

I like music and art, I have had a good time playing it. Good job!

willhoit 2024-04-19 19:04

Did not get very far but was definitely running and firing. It ran well on Firefox but I couldn't bring the spell book up. On Chrome I could bring the spell book up but the framerate was unplayable and the screen was clipped.