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Samuel, The Summoning Squirrel

By Sirzer00 and flamboozle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3063.8222
Fun4023.6522
Innovation9912.9022
Theme1854.1722
Graphics3514.0222
Audio4123.5022
Humor6222.9720
Mood7633.3921

Comments

jan5366x 2024-04-15 21:40

Good and fun gameplay guidance and flow. :v: The choice of animated text plays out very nicely.

sirlich 2024-04-15 21:40

Very nice game! I thought the trucks were a bit funny just driving at me :3

Was there supposed to be audio? You can opt out of the category if you didn't create any music/fx for your game. PS: Since you went in the Jam category, I believe you're allowed to use some assets to fill in the gap? (just once again opt out of the category)

slavturtle 2024-04-15 21:42

Got to 200 seconds!

flamboozle 2024-04-15 21:43

@SirLich There is audio, I'm unsure why it did not work for you. Let me know if you can figure out why its not playing because it works for me!

Thanks for the feedback

yorsh 2024-04-15 21:45

Nice gameplay loop, it's quite fun. It gets brutal pretty fast, but it's actually better for a gamejam game imo so it doesn't take forever. Graphics are cute too.

sirlich 2024-04-15 21:47

OK I tried again and again, and the audio worked like half the time. Weird. The audio I *did* hear was really nice though. Good job :)

colourarc 2024-04-15 21:50

Nice visual style and fun to play. I know you said you ran out of time but I thought there was a good variety of different stuff to summon.

My only real complaint was that it felt to me like you should collect souls/graves by running into them rather than pressing a button to pick them up. That's how it is in many other games in this style I could think of, but I'm sure you had a reason for doing it differently.

mantsje 2024-04-15 22:10

Wow! what an awesome game, it's so complete I got dragged completely into it. The chill vibes the music give are really different from the stress of playing the game :)

Maybe you can check out our game as well (Soon to be published) it's in a very similar niche!

katelyn-trout 2024-04-16 02:24

Vibes are so good. I think I would prefer to just be able to walk over to pick up souls rather than using E, but thats just me. Overall great entry!

adam-konig 2024-04-16 02:25

Solid entry very polished, I think it would be more enjoyable to just run over graves to collect the spirits then to keep pressing E. Overall though great tension and fun gameplay

dekisenpaitm 2024-04-16 08:16

I love it. Finally a dream came true - Being a Squirrel summoner :DD

rogue-tomato 2024-04-16 08:53

Cool gameplay loop, my only issue is that the interact button is E, so you can't really move around and at the same time spam E button, unless it's just me... Aside from that, very fun overall!

unless-games 2024-04-17 20:44

Nice game with a chill and somewhat bitter vibe (us being the last one and fighting till the end).

While the tutorial crow is nicely implemented it would be better to not have to wait for it each run.

Interaction could be done with Space or mouse instead of E.

At the end it'd be nice to see how far you got.

Solid entry nevertheless!

maxthedoom 2024-04-20 09:02

Cute and fun game! The only criticism I'd have is that, your time survived does not show up after you die, and given how much you need to run and collect graves, the E key can be a bit awkward to pick up a lot of graves while moving.

spexxilove 2024-04-22 21:07

cool core gameplay, and great visuals ! charm in the game. it devolves very quickly into spamming E and clicking cars towards the end. it didn't really feel like I'm making big choices when summoning units.

nice entry ^^

baluj 2024-04-23 22:23

I like the concept, I feel like the difficulty increases very quickly but it's a good game. Good job!

emilalix 2024-04-23 23:44

Very nice game! Comprehensive and fun to play, kudos to the visuals and level design. The controls are easy to pick up with a well-integrated tutorial. Good job !

bloodbane 2024-04-24 12:01

Nice portal defense game. The idea is good but the soul harvesting part is the weakest part cause with enemies coming from multiple directions, you'd have to go far from circle to do harvesting and that's if you're going to right direction.