Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Summoning Survivor
By maxlin, bowen, GameNoGG and RLIZA
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 984 | 3.19 | 30 | |
| Fun | 993 | 3.01 | 29 | |
| Innovation | 838 | 3.08 | 30 | |
| Theme | 598 | 3.66 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 905 | 3.16 | 30 | |
| Humor | 765 | 2.70 | 27 | |
| Mood | 1018 | 3.03 | 29 |
Hah - a reversal of the survivors genre... but that was already a reverse of the bullet hell genre, love it! Great idea, executed very well. Loved the mix of summoning small minions and using my mouse to gesture for larger ones. I never got the module to work, so the arrow gestures still elude me, but other than that I think that by the end my summoning skills were at least a solid B+. Very fun, great job by the team.
@ronn-fever Wow, think you for comment! It's sad that it is no time to design upgrade system and tutorial making better experience.
My game was also inspired by Vampire Survivors! Glad our names didn't end up conflicting because I nearly used yours.
Read through the instructions before playing but wasn't super clear by what guts were or how W/D controlled the camera. Once I played I realised it's actually quite hard to explain.
I was a little overwhelmed once I got going, mostly because of two reasons: 1) When I moved the documents I accidentally spawned dudes. Which helped me not lose, but was distracting and confusing. 2) The documents totally covered my view, even once I did my second playthrough when I knew what I was doing it took up so much space. I wonder if a little area for the documents out of the way like Paper's Please would have made it cleaner?
The different mechanics for summoning was cool. I liked seeing the documents, knowing I had to do inputs in some way but it not working, then getting the "aha" moment when I saw in the rules what I had to do.
I missed how to turn the docs. I figured it out, but having an indicator that you can click the corners would be useful.
I tried to connect my microphone but unfortunately it didn't work. I really wanted to summon that meteor! Maybe I missed in the description but I didn't realise I needed a microphone. Maybe you could have an alternative input for those that don't have one?
This game looks really cool, but unfortunately I really couldn't figure out the controls. I think I'm the eye wall and I'm supposed to move downwards and need to kill the knights before they hit the wall? And I can summon the meteorite via voice, but I couldn't figure out the TOWER/HERO or the drawing stuff. I'll have to come back to this one, I could see this being really neat
@timidger I'm happy that you experience most of things in our game, and use them to defeat heros. For the meteorite, maybe you have to connect a microphone in advance and say clearly "Meteorite drops down" as the chant book writes, I hope you can try it again and summon that big rock!
Interesting game! I like it!
What a creative idea! I like how it's a play on Vampire Survivors while also having it's own identity, being a management game too! The different ways of protecting yourself makes gameplay engaging and fun, especially when you're clicking and dragging around all of those documents trying to just hastily find the one you haven't committed to memory yet. Overall a great game!
I appreciate the amount of different summoning mechanics! It's a bit of a shame that tutorial books are obstructing a big part of the screen, so it's difficult to see battle going on.
I think the game would benefit from introducing mechanics step by step. There is a lot of stuff to do, but you throw everything at the player at the same time. For example, first you teach the player how to use left click summon. Then let the player switch summoned monsters. Then, teach the player to draw circles. And so on, and so forth.
By throwing too much stuff all at once, you make the game seem complicated, while in fact it's fun!
Still, great job making it! You managed to make so many cool features!
This is a really great idea! I had fun playing this. Not sure why it didn't get as much ratings as it deserves. (I think you could try upload .zip instead of .7z as 7z is less common format? )
@kirass @your thank you for your comment!!!
@woona It's true that we make a lot of function but have no time to make these functions gradually unlocked because we have one professional progarmmer who is me:( Anyway, thank you for these suggestions.
@clema Maybe you are right. Using 7z is my own habit. I will upload a zip version soon. Thank you for your advice.
That's the game I like, very simple, fun and charming! Thank you!
An interesting take on theme, well done.
That's a great idea. It's a bit like Vampire Survivor.
I could be wrong, but I think the 7z file might not work anymore?
@jerem-watts Use zip file instead of.