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Spirit Serenade by Ardent Skylight

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made by Ardent Skylight for LD34 (JAM)
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LMB - Attack | RMB - Parry

Spirit Serenade is a wave defense game, where you, the knight, stave off hordes of evil beings in order to protect the last true power on the eternal plane AKA 'The Core'. Use your masterful control of the blade to take down the evil false lords and feed their power to The Core. As The Core grows in power so do you, as The Core grows it will imbue you with powerful buffs that will aid in your conquest of the false lords.

Can you defeat all of the false lords and rise to power on the eternal plane?

Waves and boss appearances are completely randomized to give a fresh experience every play-through.

Cerberus boss was pulled because it didnt meet our standards for the jam. Will be released in a future update. The entire Unity project is downloadable through the source code link.

If you enjoy this short project feel free check us out on Twitter @exceedgame for live updates on our other project Exceed Academy, an online PvP/PvE battle arena game.
Web http://ardentskylight.itch.io/spirit-serenade
Windows http://ardentskylight.itch.io/spirit-serenade-download
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=64890

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.42 414
Audio(Jam) 3.77 137
Fun(Jam) 3.09 573
Graphics(Jam) 3.91 262
Innovation(Jam) 3.18 490
Mood(Jam) 3.68 177
Theme(Jam) 3.61 573

Feedback

Drauthius
15. Dec 2015 路 03:45 UTC
Super hard for me, which makes it hard for me to appreciate the full extent of the creativity gone into the game.
adamk33n3r
15. Dec 2015 路 05:29 UTC
Visually appealing. Very hard. Couldn't get past the first boss. Great work!
馃帳 Ardent Skylight
15. Dec 2015 路 05:44 UTC
Sorry about the difficulty, we will push out a balance change ASAP. We stuck it on a curve to get it out of the gate and ready for LD34.
alvaromartin
15. Dec 2015 路 05:54 UTC
Took forever to load! Nice game I like the wave concept. I loved the music. Good job!
Zknet
15. Dec 2015 路 06:05 UTC
I really enjoyed it. Definitely challenging, but fun.
The Merge Conflicts
15. Dec 2015 路 06:07 UTC
The web build of this game is so laggy and it is barely playable. I like the graphics though.
Weeping Rupee
15. Dec 2015 路 06:13 UTC
The graphic style was really cool!
Pandaman3D
15. Dec 2015 路 06:13 UTC
Pretty premium :)
aplomb
15. Dec 2015 路 06:17 UTC
Very cool atmosphere and graphics. I didn't get the point of parrying until the first boss arrived -- that's where it really hits its stride. So hard!
Bumblepie
15. Dec 2015 路 06:30 UTC
I love the idea for this game, and it's clear you guys put in a lot of effort, the variety of enemies is great! The game is gorgeous, very visually striking, but extremely difficult. I think most of the challenge came from the controls: I think perhaps locking the player's direction to pointing away from the nexus could help, as I don't think the aiming of the sword really benifits the game. I'm not entirely sure of the value of parrying, I think I blocked a ranged enemy's shot once, but couldn't do it again and had to watch as it took my nexus down from 76 to 0 by itself. Is the ranged enemy Satan? Cause it's hard.

I think that aside from balancing, this game could really be improved by locking the player's direction away from the nexus and adding a small knockback to the enemies you hit so that your weapon has more punch to it. And make parrying a tiny bit more forgiving.

Overall though, great effort, can't wait to see what you guys do with this and look forward to the balanced version you guys say you're putting out soon :)
timeshapers
15. Dec 2015 路 06:44 UTC
Has a lot of potential! Very smooth and fun controls. Really missing some visual feedback for hitting enemies.
synthetic-entropy
15. Dec 2015 路 06:48 UTC
Very, very difficult. Tried 4 times and could not clear the second wave. Overall aesthetics are great, the experience is quite polished and good, but the difficulty kills it.

Noticed one bug: attempting to play the game a second time spawned no enemies; we had to relaunch for each playthrough.
馃帳 Ardent Skylight
15. Dec 2015 路 06:59 UTC
Hi! Sorry about the balance issues. We are going to sort those out as soon as possible. Having the knockback on the enemies is definitely something that we were planning on doing. We agree that there is definitely a need for some visual feedback when you are hitting an enemy. Please check back soon!
WitchLake
15. Dec 2015 路 17:50 UTC
Very hard but so great!
馃帳 Ardent Skylight
15. Dec 2015 路 17:55 UTC
Alright. Fixed up the balancing issues. Enjoy!
GwakamoleStudio
15. Dec 2015 路 19:08 UTC
The normal wave are a little bit repetitive, but i loved to played vs boss :D Nice gameplay
Chubb1337
15. Dec 2015 路 22:35 UTC
Very nice music, really builds the tension with the boss battle! Good graphics also, would have kept playing if I had some time.

The non-boss levels are a bit easy I feel. Might need some balancing
publicidadeba
15. Dec 2015 路 23:35 UTC
The visuals were killer, but you guys are better off balancing the level design. Maybe make enemies slower or the player stronger, otherwise awesome work guys!
Garris
15. Dec 2015 路 23:35 UTC
Good use of theme, and the graphics and music were very nice. Cool game!
Tapehead
16. Dec 2015 路 20:23 UTC
hard but cool!
hiki911
17. Dec 2015 路 18:50 UTC
game is fun, but there are some performance problem on my PC
sP0CkEr2
23. Dec 2015 路 00:41 UTC
this was one of the best game i played - outstanding work here - great game