Haemogoblin by Dorkulon
It's about bloody time for a vacation.
💟 THE GAME
Sell health potions to heroes battling the forces of evil... but at what cost?
- ⚗️ As the shop keeper, draw your own blood to brew health potions!
- ❤️ Sell health potions to heroes to pay for your long overdue vacation 🏖️🌴(and some traps... we'll get to that later)!
- ⚔️ Throw on your disguise and battle the heroes as the infamous Goblin Monster to steal back the blood and regain your health!
💟 THE STORY
The Goblin Monster is terrorizing the land, and valiant heroes are set on slaying him! You, the guileless shopkeeper make a meager living selling health potions with the ultimate goal of making enough coin to take a much-needed vacation.
Unbeknownst to the heroes, the health potions are actually made from the shopkeeper's blood! What a twist! Double-unbeknownst to them, the shopkeeper is in reality the fiendish Goblin Monster, who is harvesting the blood from the heroes trying to defeat him and using it to heal himself! WHAT A DOUBLE TWIST!
💟 HOW TO PLAY
Haemogoblin is played in two parts: 1. SHOP | Draw your blood 💉 to brew potions - Don't draw too much or you'll surely perish at the hands of a hero later - Once you're done, sell your potions and rake in the coin 💰 - Don't poke the spider ☝️🚫🕷️ 2. BATTLE | Fend off the forces of good in a game of tower defense - Spike traps damage heroes that come into contact with them and gather blood to refill your stock - Spiders 🕷️ shoot web 🕸️ at heroes, slowing them down - slowed down heroes take extra damage on spikes - Defeat heroes by killing them with spikes or slowing them down until their stamina is drained and they teleport out of combat. - If a hero reaches you, they'll hit you with their sword! Try not to die or it's game over - worse yet, there'll be no vacation for you! 🚫🏖️
💟 CREDITS
Programming by @cloakedninjas | Art by @treslapin | Music & SFX by @dorkulon
| HTML5 (web) | https://cloakedninjas.itch.io/haemogoblin |
| Other (web) | https://soundcloud.com/killerandroid/sets/haemogoblin-ost-ldjam44 |
| Source code | https://github.com/cloakedninjas/ld44 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/haemogoblin |
Ratings
| Given | 49🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
Also spiders are cute.
Astounding!!!
(waz here)
The balancing and overall progress flow were a bit off. The only way I was able to win was to just use 5 spiders on the first round and then completely drain the gnome. That with our savings from the first round are enough to bank a win. The traps were just too damn expensive to warrant their use. I see in the screenshot above that you had them as 60 at some point, seems more fair.
The lack of progress was also quite depressing. You lost all your buildings each round and the enemies didn't seen to get harder or increase in number the further it went at all. I was just pretty much stuck in a loop of all the blood I could make with traps was barely enough to make as much blood the next round.
The shopping cutscene looked nice but started to be a bit annoying after being in the fore mentioned loop for quite some while. Would be nice if it was skippable. The potion filling wrongfully played the sound on each click wether the previous one was done or not.
Anyways, good job!
I especially like the spider... ;)
This was really fun and reminded me of playing old school tower defence games back in the day :thumbsup: