Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Ben Albert
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Summon Traffic Controller | compo | 125 | 3.64 | 3.81 | 3.54 | 3.77 | 3.16 | 3.27 | 3.53 | 3.24 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Gem Rush | jam | 2.93 | 2.81 | 2.43 | 3.50 | 2.75 | 2.71 | 2.43 | 2.91 |
Really neat puzzle game with some pretty great mechanics. It felt a bit wierd to only move forward and backwards in the direction you were looking. Not sure if using wasd movement would break puzzles but it would feel a bit better
Really like the audio for the carving effect. Really cool idea for pattern recognition, unfortunately I am terrible at drawing straight lines.
Solid work! Definitely got destroyed on the first level but you definitely made a dope realtime strategy game
Fun idea! It would be nice if you could control moving side to side on the keyboard instead of adjusting via the slider with your mouse. Circles are really hard... or im just bad lol
Nice work! At some point the audio stopped working on the spawning the summons but besides that pretty impressive for making it in 10 hours!
Took me a bit to understand but super cool and creative!
@warren-fisher Thanks! Yea the trash is a little finicky, you wont be able to retrigger getting points by moving the same monster in and out of the trash but it's still not perfect. Also yes falling off the map is not quite intentional lol
@myse Thanks!!! Yea I wanted to give the ability to rebind the dash key or an alternate dash input like right click but I ran out of time :(
@secretjuice Hey thanks! Yea The throw mechanic definitely gets a bit wonky with moving and the camera angle which I sadly never got back to :(
@cheesepencil I appreciate it! Yea I wanted to add in controller support and fling creatures with the right analog stick but sadly didnt get back to it
@rillep thanks!! Yea I realized near the end that having the camera that angled and placing more things behind the player like summoning rings felt bad since you couldnt see as much. Also I accidentally never wired up the restart button :face_palm:
@josang1567 @kseniya @tykenn @hamster-cheeks Thanks so much for playing!
@fabula-rasa I really appreciate the feedback. Yea I was going for an overcooked style feel but realized later you dont spend really anytime staying still in my game which would have made a toggle sprint way better. Also having enemies sneak into circles off screen was one of my biggest annoyance with the game. I have an arrow that turns from green to red in the UI but I definitely agree it should be more of an indication to tell the player. Thanks for playing!!
@vortexb Thanks! Yea definitely went for an overcooked like feel!
@ellaris My only fear for that would be how precise you how have to be for throws, but I do agree that you should be able to throw them out of the circles. I really like the idea for more bounciness especially with levels being slightly harder and demanding for more shots that would bounce of a wall! Also the sprint is more of a dash instead of a sprint state, which I should have been more clear about.
dat orb though!
This game kinda slaps! The art style and animations are dope, Music is dope, being able to parry fireballs is dope, being able to Yeet your enemies at other enemies is dope. Only criticism is its a bit unclear how to progress to the next wave by throwing demons into the lava. I'm proud to have beaten the game cause it was a bit hard
Dope little game! Neat little upside down space invaders. Great job!
Cute game! Snake op!
This is so good! Crazy well done and super well polished!
Nice solid little game! Simple and clean, would be cool to have some more upgrades similar to the fire sword!
Great idea, Solid graphics and solid gameplay loop! Well done!
Nice work! Car steering feels kind of wierd and the acceleration/slowing down felt a bit off but graphics were pretty sick
Absolutely incredible voice lines. Definitely fun to pull back the hammer and see your points skyrocket
This game is just absolutely amazing! Incredible work! I'm just in awe
Incredible work! Simple but super effective, love the summon types and the different enemy types. Also awesome work with the artifacts. Really great gameplay loop. Definitely got to a point where I may have summoned too many guys making the game stutter. Great work overall!
Great game! Reminds me of a 3d Baba Is You kinda feel. Puzzles were solid and art was really great!
Really solid puzzle game!! I loved the idea of the chalice but never seemed to have to use it definitely could see some pretty crazy levels with it
Great work! Definitely Balatro vibes but with your own dope twist!!
Solid little match games. Definitely felt like i didnt quite understand the score system and what was causing my score to move up. A visual indicator for that would have been nice. Overall well done!
Love the meta story, keyboard audio was satisfying
Really awesome idea to use your voice to generate and use mana!! It would be really nice if there were keybinds for the buttons. That way you could hold down like q for generate mana and then quickly move to speaking dwarf or wizard. That would maybe help it be still fast paced but a bit more control in the players hands. Also that title screen, it beautiful!
Nice work! Im really bad at drawing sigils
Yooo this is clean!! Looks super nice and love the effects! Would have loved a pass on options button, reroll on options and some sort of end state but obviously 48 hours is such a small time! Awesome work though!
Really neat mechanic! There were alot of moments I would have to build and then look backwards to see if it was in the right direction
Love the idea! Great voices and effects!
After summoning about 200 ducks I just learned they follow your cursor! 10/10 would summon duck
Really cool game and I like the style of it! I'll be honest I really did my best to win and could not do it. I may just be bad lol.
Feedback: - It was a bit hard to understand how to play even reading the tutorial. Initially getting to a point to place a ghost felt a bit hard as a new player - It would be great to be able to restart from the building army phase. - An indicator for how many upgrade points in the army building phase would be nice - Being able to see your mana without having to select ghost would be nice. - Seems like there are points where my ghosts will just run past enemies and kill themselves. - Clicking the surrender flag seems to FORCE you to surrender or quit the game
Overall awesome work though would love to see some updates on it!
The music and sounds are absolutely incredible. Really neat idea and super funny. Great work!!