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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | The Summoning Goes On | compo | 134 | 3.62 | 3.61 | 3.52 | 4.01 | 3.59 | 3.66 | 3.68 | 3.42 |
ASCII style is really cool! And the level design is very smooth, easy to learn and interesting.
A problem is that the summoning position indicator(the block) seems occupying 2 characters and sometimes it twists the map. I don't know if it is a universal problem.
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The game process is fluent for me, except the dots on the note mean "click" order (I thought it was something like drawing a line begins with a dot and ends in another and stuck there).
Above all this is a well polished work with legendary art and best atmosphere I've ever seen!
Haha summoning elevator is an exotic but practical idea I've never thought of. This mechanic is good and feels like memory management. The only problem is once I sent the eggheads to a incorrect floor, they would stand too close and make it difficult to tell how many they are.
I want my gray guy to stop enemies' step but he pushed my red guy to the frontline and to take damage lol
"What r u doing my servants why r u just shooting enemies far away but don't care about me when I'm suffering enemies' close melee assault!" (haha
Good idea but the process of summoning looks more like picking bodies. If the summoning process performs as completing some different targets(like walking an circle) I think that will bring more flavor and atmosphere.
The level 5 combination of 2 kinds of enemies really made me sweat, but it was truely interesting.
When I saw the cover I thought it would be something funny for I watched too many skeleton memes lol.
在弹幕横飞的战斗中绘制法阵来切换属性是个好主意, 富有挑战. 但是如果换成绘制法阵召唤对应属性的僚机我认为可能更贴合主题.
做得不错, 加油!
Brilliant gameplay! The turn-based global movement, the march of the summoned, and to pick up cards under the pressure of enemies approaching, all together successfully created an expressive experience! The difference of the cards is also admirable.
Haha very interesting gameplay though it seems difficult for me XD
The animation when bump into a skeleton box is vivid
haha nice doodle style drawing really reminds me of my lack of vocabulary.
the faster music when timeout is near is really a good idea
Haha the spinning cat is super funny and I thought I could spin the cat fast enough to summon a blackhole or some what
Wow nicely polished one. A little challenging but really interesting. The godot intro is also super funny haha.
Very nice work. The audio and the graphics, especially the hand gesture of the character, together bring up a mysterious atmosphere.
The outer ring with some four pointed star confused me at first for I thought it was something needs me press space.
好想法! 属性的形状提供了策略深度, 敌人召唤物的进攻在思考和操作时间上给出了挑战. 非常优秀的设计. 美术也很可爱~
The art incredibly create expressive atmosphere and experience. Phonecall to summon a gang is surely a genius design.
The strategy seems to be making best of phonecall time to collect enough weak guys for sharing damage and several strong guys for dealing damage?
The movement seems to be arrow keys but not WASD.
Anyway I like the dub in :D
I tried to collect a super big hand in one row however a stronger enemy spawned in another. :laughing: Anyway poker fight is surely a good idea, and the 3-row predictable drawing make the game more strategical. Nice work!
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Really short but nice experience.
Player is summoned for some reason is a good idea.
The dialogue text is cute as well
I love the drawing mechanic. feels like really casting spells! but the time limit is hard haha
Wonderfulgraphics, audio and level design!
Good idea. Piecing up magic circles, the mechanic can be expanded a lot. Very inspiring work.
Nice music. Nice art. Nice summoning design. Nice combination mechanics of throwing, bouncing and summoning! Excellent work. I love this one.
The idea is good, while the operation feels a bit stiff. I think pressing QWER like invoker is true a cool spell casting experience. But the operation of dragging my minions into the battlefield takes a toll on the rhythmic feeling of casting spells(since dragging is kind of slow and distractive compared to qwer typing). Anyway it's a great compo entry overall. Good luck!
First time I join Ludum Dare. Wish you have fun! :D
Thank you all for your feedbacks!
@piero-pbes-studio
I did consider to add a tutorial or something, but my mind was stuck: I didn't devise that I could have add several levels explaining different circles, but tried to attach a bunch of text instructions, which made me feel difficult in reading. In the end I delete the text 😂.
Your suggestion about adding kind of first level is true a good solution!
@lightningst
Sorry I forgot to include arrow keys 🥺
@phlip45 WOW that's a really high score!! Friends of mine tryed this game and the highest records I know were 60, 57, and your 51. You are really a master!
@joeshanahan Thank you for your playthrough video!! You are right about the difficulty curve and the thickness of circles. I didn't come up with a good circle generation frequency f(x) during the compo. This problem truely deserves more studying. And if the existing circles on the ground are took into consideration, maybe a better performance will be.
搜索引擎"不那么可靠"和踩过去就会裂开的设定,属实让人会心一笑:D
所以你的意思是抖音是脑细胞杀手,我们抖音玩家怎么你了(?
To plant and cultivate my soldiers is a good idea. This one can be expanded a lot.
@andyp @aly-name
I found solution. It seems the game viewport can work properly if only the browser is zoomed up to 125% large.
Anyway the art is amazing. Nice and very cute one!
The wings are particularly difficult to draw, seems that demons with wings are of truely high level lol
Using the explosion wave to move is a good idea! Nice work.
I'm sure to be a great noodle artist.
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The editor has font lacking bug(or something idk
Cute graphic. The main title scene is attractive.
I hadn't seen the how to suffer hint and rushed into game thus didn't know I can attack by myself. But only to try to move around and grasp chances to summon ghosts to guard me also performed a gameplay :D
Wow amazing art! Though I tried many times but failed to summon the higher class demon haha~ Doodling with mouse is not that easy for me. Someday I'll try again with tablet.
Finally I reached the very end! The last few summonings were of great fun. Creative!
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