tearei 2025-10-07 13:23 ♥ 1
I like the visual style
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → The Sealed Power
By gamedevtraum, lain94, mmhathaar and crystal-clear-sky
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD58 | Ever | |
| Overall | 706 | 2.95 | 21 | |||
| Fun | 693 | 2.74 | 21 | |||
| Innovation | 643 | 2.76 | 21 | |||
| Theme | 654 | 3.13 | 21 | |||
| Graphics | 366 | 3.74 | 21 | |||
| Audio | 402 | 3.11 | 21 | |||
| Humor | 1 | |||||
| Mood | 666 | 3.00 | 21 | |||
I like the visual style
Amazing graphics
Enjoyed wandering the maze. It was visually cohesive and I love all the psychedelic and wizardly illustrations on the paintings. I collected them all. I don't think I was ever able to have more than one in my inventory though, so scrolling the mouse wheel to select one before using it wasn't intuitive.
It's a nice experience, it's got a nice ambience and sound design, i just feel like it's lacking replayability, but overall pretty polished
I could proceed very far into the game - it didn't let me place my second card (the one with the fireball moving from one hand to another), so I got stuck early on. Props for integrating the idea of collectible card into a different format than a card game. Did you draw the card art yourself? If so - nice, they really feel like classic collectible card fronts. The game mechanics felt a bit bare, though - it was basically a standard unity walker with cards as keys. Thanks for the entry, though!
Very good game and ambiance.
Some minor glitches. I cliped through the map but it was compensated by warping me to the spawn. Also, when i got a card while my hands were empty I needed to use the mouse wheel first to be able to use the card. Which led to confusion the first time and I almost thought that the game was unfinishable because of a bug.
The theme accordance is a little lacking in my opinion. We picked up one card at a time, at leat I did and it did not seem like I could have had more, unless I am mistaken. For me, the collector theme need to have some kind of collection, which means, multiple objects at the same time, at the very least.
Overall a sympathic game, it made me think of a small scale metroid vania.
I wouldn't have gotten through it without the comment by @maxime-boyaval -- had no idea we needed to mouse wheel before using any of the cards. I agree that the theme & gameplay was lacking, but it was pretty alright otherwise
Really nice looking game and fun to play!.
I like the cards artstyle
This game is so cool! 😎 The design is super fun, and the graphics are really nice! 🎮✨
Very polished but a bit lacking experience. Visually, it is absolutely incredible for the amount of time you got. I can't even begin to think how quickly you must have produced those wizard drawings. On the other hand, I found the gameplay to be not super engaging. I found myself running back and forth a lot, trying to find where the card I just found belongs.
What I really liked was the smoothness of moving around and the sprint button, which LOTS of games are lacking. Purely from a usability standpoint, it adds so much polish and niceness to the game!
Overall, still well done and you got a cool game on your hands!
I love everything about this game. The graphics are polished, the game loop is fun, and the mood is clear. Overall, really good job!
Why must I use my mouse wheel to select the only one card I have in my hand? And why doesn't the game tell you that? I thought the game was broken. Anyway, I was able to finish the game after reading about that in one of the comments. You probably meant to make it so a player could have more than one card, but didn't design the level in that way in the end. So it's ok to require mousewheel to use a card, but the game should tell the player that in the instruction.
The game itself looks good and the cards look amazing. Movement and looking and running around is smooth, but I did fall out of the map once, fortunately I was transported back to the start. The music is makes for a nice atmosphere, but some more sounds like footstep or random noises would make it even better.
Very good entry! I love the atmosphere, so mystic!