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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Soul Pact | jam | 911 | 3.27 | 2.72 | 3.04 | 2.92 | 3.99 | 3.53 | 2.38 | 3.63 |
It ain't a bad game, loved the action. Died only once (accidentally harpooned the fish), don't know if you can take damage any other way since I didn't get any. Loved it though. Really like that devs used Lovecraftian lore.
I love the cutscene art style and the idea of voice over, however I barely understood a what you were saying (no hate, still loved it), in-game character ain't bad either, but what I really missed were the moving animations. Great entry!
To be fair I liked all the endings, figured out the first one 2nd minute in (3rd respawn) and I found it quite clever!
This game is so creative! Albeit a bit repetitive, but very well thought and well made considering you did it alone! Consider me very impressed.
The game is pretty lit, loved the sound track and what I think was pokemon inspired types? I could be wrong, but I loved it nontheless!
It's lots of fun, I like the type to cast, reminds me of a roblox game I played way back. I understood Enchantments after 10 minutes (didn't really focus on them, rather focused on creating a big army). That being said the game is very easy to play, which is not really my style of game, but hey good job making it! 4/5 from me.
The game is very very good, love the way you made it feel like I were playing an old arcade game! Takes me way back!
Dev note: there are 3 levels in game overall, first level has 1 riddle, second level has 3 puzzles, third level has final animation (due to lack of time to create a puzzle).
2 known bugs: 1st: animations of the previously played character still play if C is pressed during movement. 2nd: you can jump off the bridge in 3rd level (somebody deleted collision walls), and are unable to return / restart level.
Hello @aracana , thanks for your review!
The main reason why there isn't any UI interact prompt is because then player could figure the puzzle out simply by running around looking for items.
I know it seems hard (especially the "spirits delight" could cause problems to a non-native English speaker, it means alchocol beverage, also there is a separate book that shows what to do with items) but that's really what we've been aiming for since the game itself is short (only 2 puzzle levels). I agree that the book clues need rework / retexture, maybe even include the picture of the item in question.
Also second level is much harder to solve(took about 1 hour and a half to our 3 testers)
Were the puzzles easy to solve the game would last around 10 minutes, that's the reason for the difficulty.
@aracana, thank you! We really need as much feedback as possible as we plan to polish and upgrade the game and at some point even release it with CO-OP function (that's why switching between characters is as it is).
That being said, I encourage everyone who played / tested the game to rate it, so that we get the possibility of getting the final scores at the end of the jam.
@anaastaska thank you! It really means a lot to us. We are aware that it's hard to figure it out and we're working on it. And we're looking for sponsors so that we could update / upgrade the game even further and at some point release it with both singleplayer and co-op version
@thomas-gelman Thank you, we've put a lot of hours into making the game itself look beautiful :)
Also I am sorry to hear that, try checking in the first room at one of the tables, if you decide to play again! Also I hope that the bottle didn't cause us to lose some points in the ratings :)
If you do decide to play again and get to the second level, I am sorry if you get stuck, I didn't design the riddle there and people say it's much harder. (I only made the whole lvl 1)