doug-graham 2024-04-16 02:09
I like this one. Bust-a-move but with the twist of blowing up some hidden elements. The pacing is great, felt like I was getting challenged more as I went and wanted to keep playing. Great job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Butler! Summon the Imps!
By DonutShoes, tomaspraestholm, nomnomnami, npckc, jummbus and Hunter Van Brocklin
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 78 | 4.14 | 94 | |
| Fun | 139 | 3.98 | 94 | |
| Innovation | 779 | 3.15 | 94 | |
| Theme | 734 | 3.47 | 94 | |
| Graphics | 133 | 4.38 | 94 | |
| Audio | 45 | 4.22 | 92 | |
| Humor | 106 | 4.01 | 90 | |
| Mood | 103 | 4.14 | 93 |
I like this one. Bust-a-move but with the twist of blowing up some hidden elements. The pacing is great, felt like I was getting challenged more as I went and wanted to keep playing. Great job!
The level of polish is amazing and the music will stay ingrained in my mind ! A stellar entry !
Really tight entry. Everything plays off each other really well.
Lovely music of course, doubly so considering it was party composed on LSDJ on the GBA. (Everyone should check out the soundtrack posted in the description if you missed it.)
Incredibly polished game all-around with an interesting twist for an old mechanic. Really impressive entry!
Contains some great additions to the bubble shooter genre, having to shoot multiple balls instead of just one immediately deepens the gameplay. Story and characters are also cute ~~
This feels like it would be a full release game with how well made it is. Love the character illustrations, they bring a lot of charm to the game and the soundtrack perfectly sets the mood. Definitely a 5☆
extremely well made!! very charming all around, loved the music a lot and the game was very fun to play even without being very familiar with this genre of games!
This was a super fun one! Art is really nice and I love the character designs. The cutscenes are also a really nice touch, especially for a jam game! The different art and music for each level also added alot of character, and it's just another touch that could easily have been left out to save time, but wasn't.
Really great work for a 72 hour game!
Loved it! Ricocheting off a wall was my favorite part and I ended up doing it every time. To my detriment.
Lovely, and well made. likes
Cool reinterpretation of the bubble shooter mechanics. Good job!
love the effects in the text boxes.
the outlined cute assets have a lot of personality.
very satifying gameplay and interesting depth.
oh man this is so wonderful!! the characters and dialog are so fun. the game is super enjoyable, i had so many fun trick shot moments. and the music is amazing. really solid entry, no complaints here. great job as usual!
I've payed for games that were less polished than this one - absolutely insane.
You guys did an amazing job here. Usually I try to give some productive feedback, but this is hands down the best Version of it I can imagine; smooth gameplay, no bugs (so far, still playing), great art and an amazing soundtrack. I actually dig the soundtrack so much I just followed your guy on bandcamp for future reference. Just so you can imagine how much I mean it: I had to _reset my password_ just so I can follow that account. Absolutely worth the time.
Interesting game, remindes me old bubble shooter that I played a lot when I was a child haha
Interesting game, remindes me old bubble shooter that I played a lot when I was a child haha
Very fun game, looks very well polished and the art is quite nice.
Well this is addictive one! Very well done!!!
I really loved this game, really took me back to the days of playing bubble shooter. I love the design and character of the butler and the story is really fun. The levels did get challenging and I wanted to keep playing till the last level.
Was alot of fun <3
Creative way to make a bubble shooter style game! :D
Really well polished game, every aspect was great. The boss monsters were a fun twist on the mechanic too
Cool game, I liked it!
Incredible game, very fun to play. The one thing I would suggest is a change to how fast the aiming reticle moves. (for example, giving it acceleration)
Extremely cute art, I love the design of the butler and the overall vibe of the game. There's tons of polish in the mechanics and the art and it goes a long way, really fantastic job on this!!!
This is a ton of fun and extremely charming. Every bit of it is great for the first few levels. However, at world 2 it escalates and issues with the player being able to plan their strategy (not enough shot previews, not enough future pieces revealed, etc.) make it a huge difficulty spike. I really enjoyed this game, though. If you were to continue it, I'd consider what parts of the game do you want to be the difficult part. What part is the "puzzle" and design around that.
Really cool and really polished!
Good execution of well known mechanic. Fun to play, interesting dialogues. Well done!
Very complete game, not particularly unique, but very well done. I think the board could be bigger to get a better view of all the sprites, the art was super cool, and was a bit frustrated at the second world whenever I needed to "destroy" all imps, ended up with one or two, but the next pieces featured a lot of different colors. Again, great work!
What's there to say? The art is amazing, the music is amazing, I loved the story, and the gameplay was fun. I really like how the tutorial level shows you where the objects will land. It's great for introducing the players to the game!
I'm sure I have actual feedback to give, but it currently escapes me, so here's my recorded gameplay session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxwPVC_lcg
Wow amazing!
Very well done! I am quite impressed by this project. The overall presentation was outstanding (though a volume slider would have been appreciated), and the inclusion of multiple levels shows how efficient you were. The art in particular is very nicely done. One criticism I do have though is something that shows which imps you are about the send, akin to the Next indicator, but more prominent. I frequently found myself believing what was shown in Next was what I was going to shoot that turn.
Love the Game! Style, Music, Story, and Characters are all great! I'll be looking forward to that after Jam Update <3
My favorite of the Ludum Dare so far. Really well made, polished and really, really fun. Very impressed!
Wow. It feels so complete. I feel like there is nothing unfinished, rushed or anything. I love the characters, the mood, the music, everything. It might be my favorite game of the ~30 I've tested so far. Great job, congratulations! :)
I loved the vibes on this one, absolute adorable!! I did find myself wishing for a way to scroll the cursor side to side slow for more precision, and I found not having the guide line wasn't so much a challenge as it was just making a lot of my shots fire blind, but I think that might just be a skill issue on my part :D Either way, Really good entry, well done!
I remember playing Puzzle-Bobble a whole lot as a child and this game brought me right back! Very well executed mechanic and very well integrated into the theme of the jam! I finished it completely and am really looking forward to the post-jam attic release :grin:
Yep. Best game I played so far, really nice mechanics and it's so polish that it doesn't look like a jam game if it was'nt light on content (for a full game obviously, there is way too much content for a jam game !) Nice twist on puzzle buble, amazing job guys.
Well... Maybe I didn't get to the point where you rethought the mechanics of such typical games, so I'm wrong, but it was very boring to play, since there are were already a lot of such games. But overall, you are still great and it was a pleasure to play. The game really feels finished.
good interpretation of bust a move. a big congratulations for the super cute graphics and especially the kickass music!!
Very nice! Loved the dialog and music, and it felt super polished. Quite a common genre, but a really nice implementation.
Really nice take on a peggle-like game!
Nice Puzzle Bobble game! :D Lovely music. Would love and endless mode.
I love PUZZLE BOBBLE! I spent hours throwing balls everywhere. I'm sure I've been here for a long time. Everything is impeccable. Game worthy of being published on Steam.
Congratulations on the excellent work! :D
I love this idea so much! The art and story are lovely, and it really nails the theme of summoning new problems to solve old problems.
Amazing game, I had so much fun! It had a perfect level of challenge for this size of game, and enough mechanics being introduced to keep it interesting all the way through. I think my favorite thing in the game was the music in the kitchen level-- it sounded like it could have been the theme for a town in one of the GBA pokemon games :)
This is super fun! I really like the fact that there are enemies and they are actually doing something. With a good set of enemy attacks, it can be a really solid game!
Fun and well polished game. Really loved the visuals, well done!
What a solid entry! I like it. The mechanics is a bit too general, but the overall is so good. Without aimming this game is a bit difficult for me, need me some more skills to shoot the ball. But that's ok, learning how to play is some process of enjoy the game itself. My favorite level is in Level 2 - D, there are many ball looks chaotic but there some tricks you can shoot the ball in the air and vanish some color balls. But Level 3 - C is a bit too lucky game, you need to vanish the ball beneath the screen asap or you will die in a few turns. By the way, I really like the music in level 2. Good job!
idk what to add that hasn't already been said. This is so polished and well done. It's a neat twist on an existing game, with the addition of shooting more than one "imp" at a time, and there's a surprising amount of mechanics added on top of it. The audio is also very well done, I especially appreciate how smoothly it transitions from the losing theme to the in-game theme. The art also is very charming and I really like the expressiveness of the characters. Great entry!
Like the concept, has some lineage in tetris, bubble bobble and peggle maybe, but it is a really good take on that puzzley color match thing. I really like the way the pieces click into place, (and indeed the click sound itself), the mechanic is great, the art is sweet and the music is good background. All round Great Work!
Fantastic all around!
WOW. The level of polish on this is absolutely insane. The art is amazing, and so is the music and SFX! The puzzling is unique, and challenging, and fun enough to keep me retrying over and over. I had to stop myself from playing to make this review! This is a serious contender to win this year. Good job! Very well done :D
I only got through chapter 3 because Bubble bobble arcade isn't really my thing, but I really enjoyed it!
I had fun playing! Audio really made the mood and graphic is cute!
Nice twist on the puzzle bubble type ! really like those tiny mechanics that you've added as well as the polishing work which is impressive ! Congrats !
This game is great! I don't play these types of games often but I had a great time! I adored the art and seound design all the way through and the gameplay was incredibly well polished (I especially loved the imp falling noise. somehow gave me Super Paper Mario vibes which I mean as an incredible compliment)! You had fun characters and a good narrative, and I really enjoyed it! I think my only note would be that teh last level feels like it needs some luck to get teh right colors to get it started, but once you get past that first hurdle its just as great as all of the rest. Fantastic job!
Great entry.
The catch of the summoning was well added
Congrat !
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What a fantastic entry!!! The graphics, music, and humor has got so much charm to it! I really loved this one, great job. Looking forward to the next update with the attic level!
This is freaking adorable, and I made it all the way through! I was heckin stressed a few times lol but I made it. Well done!
Loooved it! Perfect little game. The humor is on point, the music fits really well. Very nicely done! <3
Very stylish!
the gameplay is very satisfying and a cool twist on puzzle bobble/ bust-a-move. incredible polish on the art, writing and music!
this game's awesome !!! the visuals and the music are both great and the game's pretty fun, make a full version :)
Loved this one! It's hard to make complaints about it, but if I tried really hard:
Some of the imps you're popping look a little crunchy since they're so small. Maybe redraw them with thicker borders?
There's a good difficulty curve, and the mechanics build off of an established idea in a unique way. I like the exploding imps taking out everything around them, but maybe there could be a more impactful explosion to get that idea across better.
I'd love to see a post-jam version with more content! Good luck!
This is amazing entry!!
I absolutely love the artstyle and the presentation, the character designs are awesome!!
the music has not right to go THIS hard
the gameplay is very polished and intuitive, the levels are well designed and offer a great variety of gameplay, the rise in difficulty fells just right, This is one of the most complete feeling games I have played during the jam, you all did a great job on this!