FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD55 → Eternal Battle In The Hells, or something

Eternal Battle In The Hells, or something

By kroltan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3392.6920
Fun3342.5220
Innovation1413.4420
Theme1763.5820
Graphics3022.6920

Comments

seurimas 2024-04-15 02:24

The summoning drawings is a clever mechanic. I'd have loved to see more game elements fit into this, but I know how Compo timelines are. Good job!

liole 2024-04-16 02:22

cool, i can't really get the hang of how i am succeeding, other than seeing the green bar fill up when i make glyphs? the image recognition thingy is quite interesting im curious what you did with the lines and dots but as far as the game goes id love to balance the 3 bars but can't for the life of me figure it out i am a big fan of instructions in-game but guess I get the hang somewhat by 1 minute passing. necessary? eh, maybe a preference : p , really cool compo! the floating images that follow your mouse are great too, they might get in the way though, maybe the images can trail behind the mouse a little to make it easy to see the shapes i am drawing?

byazzle 2024-04-16 06:58

Cool little playground for casting summoning spells. Would be cool to see what it would be like with an objective behind it. Nice job!

jnur 2024-04-16 08:51

Just a heads up, the player is just a black screen for me (MacOS/Apple Silicon/Firefox, 4K screen). Errors from the console:

``` Error in Surface::configure: Validation Error

Caused by: `Surface` width and height must be within the maximum supported texture size. Requested was (15168, 8528), maximum extent is 8192. ```

and

``` event_loop/window_target.rs:665:26: already borrowed: BorrowMutError

```

Big props for using Bevy though :wink:

kroltan 2024-04-16 15:59

@jnur Oh, must be when I attempt to get fullscreen. I'll make it a button instead so people can opt in and you can play the game at all.

Later today though, I'm at work at the moment xD

marin-davys 2024-04-16 17:52

I really like the graphical style of this game and think that the central conjuring system works wonderfully. It might be nice to have a more finite objective for this kind of game, but it is an interesting simulation as it is.

lereveur 2024-04-16 20:47

It's more an experience than a game, but, hey, looking in the good way, everything can be a game. Well, I didn't managed to get over the freaking majority of yellow demons despite of my motivation, but at least I tried for few minutes. I'm sure with this mechanic you can find a more entertaining gameplay, but while waiting for that, the realisation works well, and that's something!

kroltan 2024-04-16 23:31

@jnur Sorry for another ping, but I updated the game to only enter fullscreen when you press F, if you have a moment let me know if that allows you to play it.

kaisenthegreatone 2024-04-17 15:23

It's an interesting game concept. I like that you implemented the LD logo as an actual glyph. With a bigger objective in the future it could be a lot of fun

ice9 2024-04-18 09:04

Really neat idea and cool visuals! Wish there was more of a goal/more consequences to making one thing versus another, but it's a great start for something if you carry on with it. I'm jealous I didn't think of the idea :p

Is there some way to change the color of the demons summoned? It seems like regardless of what color shape I draw the demons spawned are always green.

joshua-miller-pio 2024-04-25 14:02

Really had a ton of fun you should be proud! Game play was really enjoyable, with a few polishes here and there it would be steam ready!