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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Boneworks | compo | 298 | 2.95 | 2.87 | 2.58 | 3.77 | 3.12 | 2.87 |
Awesome game. I was playing alongside some friends and we were hoping to get the chance to battle our final compositions, but it seemed like you have to run through the game again? Were a bit disappointed by that, but kudos on the rest. Having a large unit pool to select from is always fun, ended up with a squad of skeletons in the front taking hits for the 3 cost heavy hitting fairies.
Sorry, double posted my comment
I feel like a parent keeping track of quadruplets. Nice submission, was the first puzzle one I came across too.
Great puzzle game and use of the assets. Getting to pick which units to summon on some levels was really good. I noticed the mage could still slowly but surely push crates so I had him worm his way through a few levels on his own haha
Great humor and punchline at the end. If only we all could be so civic minded
Great visuals, the 1 bit palette and color choices looked great!DRV14dQcLQ.png
Numpad is the way to go
Great game, was able to get through it all by summoning first three animals on cooldown until i had a mass that'd stop any enemies.
I came up with same solution @niterich posted and thought that'd be it, so I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. Good job on the directional camera controls adjusting to the camera angle, that was a nice touch
Actually you're right Stacy, it's not gonna work out. I'm leaving for someone who actually appreciates my LotR novelty rings and interest in weightlifting. Fun game, if there was a way to placate her I didn't find it. Love the witty responses
Love the visuals from the letters fighting with parens and brackets, background being a battlefield of dead letters was a good touch too. The game itself was a bit easy, I think I was clicking around summoning without much consideration but ended up winning. Agree with the comment before, a large font boss would be cool to see.
@justuspan @camd67 @woona @josang1567 @oatsbarley @happyglitch @vortexb @chuckiee @pimeko @asieke @cosmo8 @skleembof @darako @magicdweedoo @linus-lindberg @dishwand @flightless Thank you all for the comments these past couple weeks, whether you posted gameplay feedback or simply wanted to share your victory. This was my first LD jam and I'm glad I was able to get something done in the 48 hours, so thank you a lot for taking the time to play and comment, I really appreciate it.
Pentagram summoning mechanic was fun at the beginning but began to wear on me after playing for a bit. Maybe if there was a separate mechanic for summoning the runts more easily, and leaving the pentagram for occasional, very powerful summons could work. Good work on the jam
Art is awesome, was fun to compare creations with friends in discord. A little something at the end for gameplay, maybe a code to share with others and then have them battle with random stats would be 5/5
I think you got the sound effects for pickups just right. I felt like right at the start I had enough mana to sustain myself indefinitely so the coins (score?) was just seeing how long I wanted to go rather than how long you could survive, so an increasing difficulty could be good, maybe an increase in the spawn rate as time progresses. In the case of increasing difficulty, there could be room to allow the player to increase his own power with mana, maybe summon upgrades like damage, attack speed, or even multi-shot. Good job!
Tough when you start getting multiple limbs at once! Liked the art style, is the background a wooden texture colored with your game's palette and a dithering effect on top? Looks nice Don't think I could ever summon a demon like this summoningrequirements.png
Good idea. Figuring out you can use the levels not going above/below the limits, so order matters for some puzzles was a nice realization. Got really hard 5~ levels in.