The Book of Directional Summoning

seanz 2024-04-16 15:50

This was totally awesome! I love the spell summons, and I think it may work better if instead of using the arrow keys it used a mouse click trigger and allowed for the given mouse direction to cast a spell. But all in all, love what you guys did here.

0x0961h 2024-04-16 16:00

Arrow-based summoning is surely a trend in LD55! :laughing: Interesting idea, I would love some different summoning input scheme, though, it was a bit difficult to swap between maneuvering and spell casting. But well done nevertheless! :thumbsup:

phost-dll 2024-04-16 16:04

This is so damn similar to what we did! Great minds think alike xD Nice work man. Though, wish it was a bit easier to summon and control the camera as well. Other then that, I liked it!

One question; when I was handling the digit system I used some math to make sequences work, how did you do it?

orangedragon 2024-04-16 17:00

I like the style and the summon animations were really funny :) I agree with other commenters that arrow keys, WASD and mouse don't really match so well though, but still, good job!

joshua-miller-pio 2024-04-18 16:44

Great game, loved the style and the skeleton hand moving around when casting a spell. Only issue was sometimes the summoned enemies would just disapear into trees and hills.

zimny11 2024-04-18 20:31

Interesting concept for a game! Surprisingly I had no issue to pick up controls, but I was not sure what the goal of the game was, since I did not notice mentioned it anywhere. I assume it is fighting? Anyway, summons are pretty funny and it was fun to try it out! Well done :)

jordan-zunde 2024-04-21 09:43

The summoning mechanic is a lot of fun. I had a few issues where the collision with summons and enemies would not trigger so I ended up having to use several higher level summons (I assume the summons that require more complex inputs are higher level) to kill 1 enemy. Overall the mood was great and it's a fun game