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Bloodalchemist by rhewid

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made by rhewid for LD 44 (COMPO)

You are doomed to be a blood alchemist. To free yourself, you need to make a special tribute to the trophy statue. But aware the customers! Dont ignore them or you will pay with blood.

Controls

Move - WASD Confirm - F Switch Left - Q Switch Right - E

How To Play

Create Potions, gather items to pledge your tribute to the trophy statue and make the customers happy - or give them a potion!

Oh and its sometimes worth to give your customer either a potion of luck, potion of royal or potion of richness. ;)

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Bugfixes

  • Player would sometimes get stuck in walls (was issue with mask)
  • Mushrooms wouldnt spawn properly after first time
  • Depthsorting for one machine was off
  • NPCs would hide in wall
  • Decreased overall difficulty
  • Made the description more clear
  • Items would get stuck in objects, where the player wouldnt be able to retrieve them
  • Endscreen was set to Startscreen
  • NPCs would request items, that the player couldn't get
  • Adjusted hp recovery for heal potion (now you can regain hp)
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/odwosgaknq64jwk/LD44-Bloodalchemist_bugfix_final_noinstall.exe?dl=0
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hu4czqw3tds3nn/LD44-Bloodalchemist.exe?dl=0
Source code https://www.dropbox.com/s/usb1mmlzs8i7n8i/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.gmx.zip?dl=0
Source code https://www.dropbox.com/s/ps4ozrpzbh1o8o4/LD44-Bloodalchemist.gmx.zip?dl=0
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/zremy28l9i8tsxy/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.exe?dl=0
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bloodalchemist

Ratings

Given 14🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

johnnysix
29. Apr 2019 · 02:54 UTC
Amazed at the amount of stuff you managed to cram in over two days. Great work, would be cool to see it rounded out with the potion making. I couldn't find any gold sadly.
kyavi
29. Apr 2019 · 20:25 UTC
it's got some rough edges but there's a lot of groovy stuff going on :) the customer collection aspect is super neat, i think if there was a tighter use of space it would be really special.

the people animations are great! and the music is fantastic ^-^
🎤 rhewid
29. Apr 2019 · 23:49 UTC
@johnnysix Thank you for playing!
Yeah it is a little bit too much, lost time for playtesting it properly. :(
I uploaded a bugfixed version - you could try that one :)

@kyavi Thank you also for playing!
Thanks for your suggestion to tighten the space! I actullay did that in the new bugfix version, as it was unnecessary large amount of unused space.
kyavi
29. Apr 2019 · 23:53 UTC
@rhewid awesome! i think being able to see the customers from the back room helps a lot ^-^
Serious07
30. Apr 2019 · 13:11 UTC
Pretty cool game, I'm like the idea about crafting a potions
businessman :D Well done!
Seb Jones
30. Apr 2019 · 18:45 UTC
Definitely one of the most polished and complete games I've played so far in LD44. A few technical things that could be improved:
* *Please* don't make me install. It's such a pain. It should just be an exe that runs when you click it.
* Fullscreen mode please!
* I found some of the fonts were too small.

Anyway, great work!
🎤 rhewid
01. May 2019 · 13:14 UTC
@serious07 Thanks! :)

@seb-jones Thank you for your feedback!
- True I'll check if Gamemaker supports that!
- Yeah I will consider that for future entries.
- That is true, I had the problem where either the small was too small or to blurry, I went with the first one. Will check on a better solution in the future.
Xankill3r
01. May 2019 · 15:00 UTC
Cool game idea, really well executed. Glad to see a feature complete game - played to the end. :smile:
Kaisean Games
01. May 2019 · 15:02 UTC
Wow!
Very well done.
I never needed to make two of the potion types :shrug: but still, I managed to complete.
Although, 4 customers were unhappy until I actually managed to do it.

With a bit more depth, this could easily be the speed running heaven :)

Great game for compo, keep up the good work.
mrjoshuamclean
02. May 2019 · 02:40 UTC
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/418002198?t=02h05m01s
Webox
05. May 2019 · 00:29 UTC
Good one!! I liked it!. It could be a bit faster to make a little harder, I felt some Overcooked vibes. If you follow that path you can even add multiplayer! Great work
Madbarron
05. May 2019 · 00:35 UTC
Cool idea! But a lot of the trades that customers were offering me would have actually set me back, so eventually I just used the blood pack -> health potion -> gain 3 xp -> convert to 3 blood packs loop, and won the game by converting blood into everything. The customers need to offer the player something they can't get anywhere else. But I had fun with the game!
Attala
05. May 2019 · 11:37 UTC
Nice game. I liked the crafting mechanics and the element of customers. Well done.
Random Thoughts
05. May 2019 · 11:43 UTC
Found a bug where after I spammed exchanging blood for a blood pack 3 times, every time I pressed F I would have to exchange 1 blood again for a blood pack, which essentially made me lose because if I wanted to talk to a customer, craft a potion, even pick berries, the exchange blood for blood pack popup will open too. Other than that though, pretty fun store management game :)