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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Vuno: The Adventurer's Log | compo | 323 | 2.84 | 2.50 | 2.81 | 3.21 | 3.00 | 3.42 |
It takes a bit to get used to, but honestly it's very interesting. Feels fairly polished as well so great job :clap: One minor thing I would have liked, is a button to restart instead of refreshing the page, when I feel fairly deffeated and just want to try again.
Absolutely brilliant game. The art is great, the sounds and story are adorable and overall vibe is very well put together and very stylish. The puzzles might have been a bit easy, but I like the fact that it doesn't take too long to figure out, pretty intuitive.
I like the fact that you went for an vampire survivors like. For a jam it's very well done, I do believe that the enemy stats need balancing, felt very tanky very fast, and I felt like zombies were useless, mostly relied on the scythe. I do think it would have fit the theme more if the only option you had were summons, could start with one zombie around and get more later. But overall very solid game, fun gameplay loop.
It was a fun experience. The things I missed the most though were feedback on damage, also I think the player needed to have a mana to cooldown as otherwise I can spam summon. The summons felt more like projectiles than summons, would have been nice to have them stick around a bit more, but I understand that can be challenging to implement. Overall very solid and fun submission :clap:
Very cute, very polished. Fun puzzle platformer. Great job :clap:
Excellent art style, I think the game looks great. I do want to echo the other comments, I thought I could make a final verdict near the end, but that aside it was an enjoyable read definitely.
@thomas-bringer I get the design decision tbh, and it might be a matter of expectations, more so than good vs bad. Maybe we just needed to get into the head space of you won't get it in one run, or there is no right or wrong decision. I mean there are no long term consequences, so I wouldn't recommend changing your design decision if intentional, but maybe think of way of making it more obvious to the player.
One of the best games I played this jam, great work. I love the concept, having them battle whilst avoiding the fight is a fun game loop. I also really like the blood decals and how gory the scene looks when I'm done.
Great game. Short but very precise, you were efficient with your time and I like that about the game. And as ancient as saving a princess is, it feels oddly refreshing doing it in the game.
Great game :clap: well done and pretty fun.
Took me a while to fully grasp, has a lot of individual moving parts, but overall quite fun.
Very fun and excellent art style. Could have benefited from some music, but understandably I'm sure time was tight. Also would be great if the movement speed and the wave spawning was faster, felt a little slow. Overall very solid submission :clap:
Thank you @secretjuice sadly it lacks a lot of polish and yes is very easy to cheese, I even removed the mana limit so you can technically spawn as many units as you like :joy: I will patch it out and balance the units in the future, during the jam basically what I could muster is an RTS tech demo of sorts :sweat_smile: Hope you check it out later when it's more feature complete and enjoy it :smile: Also for now added a controls section to the description and will try to make it more intuitive in game.
That's great to hear @wilverine ,spread the canons and angels :joy: The Cemeteries have an orange circle to help distinguish them, but I would have liked to add an on screen pointer as well to help as I imagine it can be confusing, especially in the compo submission version.
Thank you @rolly. I fell in the age old pit of feature creep, I'd argue it's still incomplete :joy: but I have grown fond of it and hope to keep patching it. I will of course keep the compo version for reviews though, but encourage people to give the newest patch a play, just for fun not ratings.
@kirass Thank you so much :blush:
@olddog Praise be to Godot :joy:. I did some optimizations to my tile map (At some point it struggle to move more than 20 units), but overall the engine does the heavy lifting and I can think of ways of improving it in the future. I agree about the fighting, I would love to add more feedback, like flash on damage, attack animations and sounds.
@themaskedman hate to shatter the vibe, but I didn't know what Paradise Lost is :sweat_smile:, but I'd still love to make a "Conquer Hell" expansion, I mean why else have angels :joy:
@pebkac Thank you :blush: Ambitious yes, but also foolish tbh :joy:
@hadik Thank you. I agree if I had time, most probably would add proper feedback, like color changing the sprite or animations. Glad you like the atmosphere and what is here, would love to build upon it and make it into a more complete experience.
@torte478 Thank you so much :blush: glad you appreciate my programmer art :joy: :pray: I tried to make up the lack of talent with a consistent color and style at the very least.
@designernap Thank you :blush: That is a valid way to play, however you should be able to move units. Unless it's a bug, maybe after spawning you tried to drag a selection box right away, that just spawns a unit as I didn't have time to cancel the spawning logic when you start selecting. So you need to right click to stop spawning then you can drag a selection box. Also didn't have time to implement single unit selection, so you can only box select. But what's important is that you found a way to experience the game, so glad you could :blush:
Fun game, although I must admit was a bit too difficult for me to muster a win :joy: enjoyed losing though and I liked the mechanic of them turning against you, although the 1st time I was confused, until I reread the description and figured out the normal generation rate vs. the maintenance cost.