linus-lindberg 2024-04-15 14:37
This is really impressive for a compo game. I loved buying the card packs and fusing cards. I just wish they had some character art, even if it was just stick figures.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Gacha Summoning
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2.66 | 5 | ||
| Fun | 2.83 | 5 | ||
| Innovation | 2.33 | 5 | ||
| Theme | 2.16 | 5 | ||
| Graphics | 2.00 | 5 | ||
| Humor | 1.50 | 5 | ||
| Mood | 1.50 | 5 |
This is really impressive for a compo game. I loved buying the card packs and fusing cards. I just wish they had some character art, even if it was just stick figures.
Thank you! I also wish they had some art lol, but just ran out of time.
Clicking around the menus was interesting, and the wave-blue-ish background is fancy. The text was also easy to read thanks to the panels, even without outlining the font.
I attempted level 1 a few times unsuccessfully, which makes me wonder what level 2 would be like. Given more time, adding audio would be nice to help communicate the phases of gameplay and know the severity of losing a run. At first I thought I would get to retry and rebuild my party after a loss, and was confused when my 4-star cards were missing. Fusing everything does take some time for each new run, but maybe I am missing out on the strategy on choosing what to fuse.
A web build would also be helpful to get more eyes on the game. I liked the variety of card abilities, how did you come up with them?
@nbumgardner Thank you! There is a web build available at the very top of the page. It's right above the title for me on both Firefox and Chrome. I would have loved to add audio, but of course time constraints get the best of us all. Same with balance.
For general strategy, you generally want to use higher-star creatures. The free 20 summons will guarantee at least 2 creatures of at least 3*, which should help get past the first floor. From there, summoning and fusing become the bottlenecks, as the builds scale exponentially while the enemies scale linearly (didn't have time to balance!).
For the card abilities, I truly added the first things that came to mind. I only had 2 hours left and didn't have any card abilities implemented, so I had to just add whatever first came to mind. I think they turned out pretty well with that in mind!
Thanks for pointing out the web build and intended strategy! I usually ignore the builds embedded into Ludum Dare because they tend to have issues with audio not playing or low performance in general, and go with an itch.io web build if it has one linked. Giving this one a try it never loaded in Chrome, and gave me some console warnings which may or may not be normal. I'm glad the download worked great for us both though.
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