naplz98 2024-04-16 03:46
Really fun survivor game! Love the art!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Elemental Surge
By foursay, realwangziyang and Demigris
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 321 | 3.80 | 49 | |
| Fun | 283 | 3.78 | 49 | |
| Innovation | 280 | 3.72 | 49 | |
| Theme | 345 | 3.96 | 49 | |
| Graphics | 383 | 3.99 | 51 | |
| Audio | 255 | 3.75 | 48 | |
| Humor | 755 | 2.71 | 44 | |
| Mood | 753 | 3.40 | 47 |
Really fun survivor game! Love the art!
Fantastic game really solid I especially love the adaptive music. My only problem with this game is that at points I just have no clue what is going on that is probably because of my small brain though ;)
Wow genuinely really fun. The sprites were all really cute and the music was fantastic. I'd love to see more types of combinations and effects that could come from it like the big spinning shot.
Very cute and fun! would recommend that in the tutorial you make it so that if you accidentally botch the summoning (ex: if you only get two of the elementals instead of all 3) it resets so you can try again
Oh my god, the art was astonishing and the music got me so hyped haha. The vibes were on pooooint. Fantastic job, I really enjoyed!
One of my favorites. Interesting, good-looking and sounding experience with smooth and simple controls. Great job!
I really like the summoning mechanic! It balances out well with the high risk/high reward of making a stronger enemy vs getting a turret down, definitely challenging to get the turret though. Nice job!
Awesome game, visually stunning, game mechanics were interesting and created a fun balance of trying to keep enemies alive to create turrets vs stopping them from becoming to numerous. Great work!
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Fun game. Cute art. Music was a bop. I mostly just spammed summoning on whatever the largest clump of enemies were, so it didn't feel very strategic. Still fun to play.
The graphics and feedback are great and the tutorials are useful. The elemental fusion feels amazing!
Love the art and the catchy music ^^ the fusion mechanic is cool. I lasted 220s for a bit over 300 sacrifices.
The art is very cute and it's nice that we can try the controls in the main menu. The becomes quite hard though and I didn't quite get what happens when the summon zone is under the enemies (like does it kill them ?)
Great artstyle! The music was pretty catching but I feel like it didnt quite hit the vibe of the game, but overall it was a pretty good presentation, good job!
Is there any way we could get a web build?
I suck at it but it was fun GG :)
At first I didn't get what I need to do with summoning, but it was really addictive somehow) After I replayed the tutorial and realized the mechanics, the game become really fun. It was so satisfying to get LARGE turret. Very nice art and music indeed. I love the animation of dash with shadow silhouettes appear. Nice game 🧙Screenshot_2.png
I like this game! You guys are great!
This is quite fun! I was surprised by how many enemies appeared after doing the tutorial. On the one hand that makes for a fun challenge, but on the other hand it was hard to strategize with the mechanics, like combining three elements. After a while I was basically spamming the circle, hoping it would work. The music is nice, and I like the character design of the player. The only thing I'm not sure is what the blue potions were for. Nice music by the way!
artwork is amazing, im in love!
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Such a cool game!
Aside from the top notch music and great animations (the portals especially), I think the thing that impressed me the most is the 'push your luck' mechanic of mob management. Kicking the problem just a couple of seconds down the road, while making it a little more problematic is genius. The tension of trying to hold enemies at bay just long enough to turn them into turrets is really coy, and genuinely fun. Things got a bit chaotic down the line, and I found myself spamming portals rather than being strategic, but there was a pocket in there where I was dodging a bullet hell while trying to line up the perfect combo.
Really, really cool design, thanks for sharing!
This was great fun! Very polished entry with a good variety of cute little enemies :D
This was really really good! Unfortunately I was very bad at it (my high score was only 51 sacrifices) Schermopname (41).png
I still really enjoyed it though! It was very interesting that making these summoning circles could by either good or bad depending on when and where you placed them. It gave a bit of a twist to the normal survivor shooter formula, where you cannot just spam the shoot button. Trying to go for those turrets seemed like a good strategy, but it was also very risky since I had to get up close to the enemies. This is what usually killed me I think ^^
One small critisism is that sometimes enemies spawned in front of me while I was running around, which made them almost impossible to dodge in time. But this was really something very minor.
Oh, and the art and music are amazing of course! Really great job with this submission! ^_^
Very cute!
Very intriguing gameplay and powerful combinations. I especially appreciate that enemy types have distinct behavior patterns, rather than just being copies of each other with different sprites. It adds depth to the challenge. Well done! :sun_with_face:
I really like the art work and the music, great vibes! The tutorial would have been easier to process if things were slowed down a bit but I managed to figure enough out. Nice work
Really love the vfx. Carefully crafted tutorial. Well done!
THIS GAME FUCKING RULES! Pictures don't do it justice. Fun as heck, looks groovy, sounds groovier... Really fun mechanics and smooth controls. The game really comes alive when the 'enemies' show up. My favorite part about playing jam games is seeing the potential in something, and this one has my mind going crazy with possibilities. Great work!
I like your art, especially the elements with expressions hahahaha!
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This is really damn good
Goes without saying that the presentation is great. I also love how readable everything was as well. If at all I got hit, I always knew it was my fault, even when things got hectic.
And pls, let us download that music. I beg you
I think the main mechanic is pretty interesting in general in that it really forces you to try and group enemies together, and the ability to spawn the stars that shoot everywhere is a great incentive
I also love how the water enemies shoot out your bubble, so you can't just keep spamming it. You need to try and kick it into enemies as well ( which was hella satisfying )
I have only one real issue ( and tbh, you can ignore it if you want to since it's probably just a skill-issue lol ) which was that as things got more hectic, I stopped trying to notice if enemies were the same size or not before I tried summoning them. But this probably just needs more practice lol
All in all, I think this a damn good entry. Amazing work on this
Very nice! Fun gameplay and simple enough, good presentation. I especially enjoyed the sfx and music, and of course the enemy design and animations.
Those are some CUTE elementals. Especially the light turrets, they have the cutest little faces.
Music is great too, both art and music feel super polished, it's amazing! I love the gameplay too, it always feels fair while keeping you on your toes. Personally I tried to generate lots of light turrets by mixing three elemental types, and that created a fun chaos (in my favor) and that felt great! Maybe not the most effective strategy, going by some of the other scores I see here, but I had the greatest time. Very well done, great job on this game!
It was really easy to understand the gameplay, and it was really cool to compete with my firends who made more points! Such a cute game, with nice sounds! Love it! Nice entry guys!!
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2124420925?t=04h01m23s)
The presentation was top-notch, and I really enjoyed how quickly it ramped up once the enemies got bigger!
Damn only 200s on my first attempt, time to play again and get a better score. Really good entry, loved the tutorial as it really helped. Well done!
A fun take on wave survival, you really have to adapt to different enemy types actively. I enjoyed the spritework and music. Aside from a few grammatical/typographical errors, the UI and tutorial text were solid, though I wish there had been a button to quit the game or return to the main menu! Good stuff overall, I enjoyed my time with this!