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Puddle of Death

By shawn-beck

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall994.1129
Fun564.1629
Innovation3433.6329
Theme3273.9830
Graphics3244.0631
Audio2163.8028
Mood3153.8628

Comments

suksu 2024-04-15 14:18

Very fun game, I enjoyed it a lot!

realwangziyang 2024-04-16 05:28

Very cute style Donut Conty like game, mixed well with the "summon" theme. It's really fun to play!

shawn-beck 2024-04-16 10:09

@suksu @realwangziyang Thank you for playing!

apoly 2024-04-16 15:00

Cool game, I enjoyed it! Nice art style and relaxing music, graphics is nice too. Would love to have some control over camera to get a better understanding of what my summons are doing, as I was disoriented at certain times. Other than that it's a really solid package!

yuu 2024-04-16 15:13

Fun and cute little game, I liked the animations and the game! Its really funny when they stack on top of each others and bounce with the enemies.

shawn-beck 2024-04-16 18:59

@apoly totally get what you mean. It was a bit of a challenge to wrangle the camera framework.

@yuu haha. Super glad to hear you found the bug/feature amusing 😂

dywanix 2024-04-16 19:26

Really fun game. I enjoy a lot collecting resources

mathieuspooky 2024-04-17 11:48

The game is really nice, the juicy effects are very well done and immediately put me in the mood! The graphics are very cute! However, it took me a bit of time to understand that I needed to backtrack to get through it!

oblivioncreator 2024-04-17 15:28

This was a super fun game and one of the few games I've played where I was actually disappointed that it ended. The world is cute and the music fits really well. I feel like if you added just a little more content, or made some sort of endless mode, it'd be very hard to put down.

However, the camera could really use some work - It's really what holds this game back from being better. - It could do with being a little more zoomed out and much more static. - It's really the thing that holds this game back the most. (And probably the main reason I didn't replay it...)

cananaman 2024-04-17 18:37

Great work, my computer is really low-end so I thought I wouldn't be able to run this game since it's 3d, but it seemed to run fine for me! Fun game, my little brother played through and enjoyed it too :)

almalewis 2024-04-18 14:31

Fun game. Made it to the end. The only point is that you can go back, collect resources and spam the enemy. But so cool! Nice graphics and controls.

goldenmagnus 2024-04-18 23:08

Loved it! Would buy it now if it was a full release because feels like could be a fun arcadey concept to play on a portable device!

chrispy977 2024-04-18 23:18

This is pretty fun, feels more fleshed out than some stuff you can find on google play tbh. Great work. Biggest piece of feedback was it was a little hard to manage resources when I couldn't see what was up ahead so I didn't know what I needed and then I also couldn't easily tell the cost of different spawns.

creeper-nade 2024-04-20 12:19

Love the graphic! Summons are super cute

initialposition 2024-04-20 18:00

A very short, simplistic game that gives you one clear end goal and then just lets you figure stuff out on your own. I did like that you had different monsters to summon, even if I could not tell what the difference between them was. I mainly spammed imps which seemed to work for most of the game as the humans never even got close to my base. The graphics are nice, I enjoyed the soundtrack, only the camera was a bit hyperactive and panned around a bit too much for my taste. As mentionend before, it is very easy to break the difficulty by reusing resources from further back and the game ending was a bit sudden for me.

samboyer276 2024-04-20 18:19

This is such a well-polished game for such a short development time! Really coherent art style, and the camera movement and particles felt particularly juicy. (the world-space text was slightly hard to read as a result, but it was hardly a problem). Also really grateful for the save points, as I had to close the game briefly and thought I'd have to start again.

All hail the puddle! :crown:

aweskybear 2024-04-21 09:57

Wow! That was incredibly flow-y! : )) Cannot believe this was pulled in a few days

Great job!

klemen 2024-04-21 18:58

I loved the game, the models look so simple and polished, the music is nice and the gameplay is quite fun, I would have loved to see more of it keep it up, good job dude!

muhyrla 2024-04-21 19:15

Love the art style and music in this game! However, the camera control really needs an upgrade for better visibility (maybe put it slightly higher then now).

Also voting up for an endless mode, thanks! :heart:

ryusui 2024-04-22 03:45

Oh this one is *delightful.* I love that exaggerated curved horizon you've got going here. My only gripe is how much backtracking you have to do for resources. Also, I'd have liked it if the summon gauge actually listed the required resources for each monster type, instead of the game giving you a pop-up saying how many more resources you need.

derpmeowmeow 2024-05-03 19:10

What a fun and polished game you developed in such a short time! Its so good 🤩