Summoner's skirmish by LDJam user 389592
You are a summoner, and you are attacked by hordes of slimes. To survive you can summon divinities, who have helpful blessings. But just like everything, they come with a price and be careful of their curses...
Try to survive as long as you can!
| Source code on github | https://github.com/cleverdumb/summonersSkirmish |
| Game on itch.io | https://cleverdumb.itch.io/summonerskirmish |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/summoners-skirmish |
Ratings
| Given | 11🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
Best Score: 2min36sec
Keep up the good work.
I didn't even realize there were multiple until I checked the comments here.
There's a bug where if you press `ESC` it just shows the menu and doesn't pause the game---you have to press it twice to actually pause.
On the topic of divinities: I found myself placing them only at the start of the game (to be fair, this was *because* I was trying to see if using divinities were helping or not), and one problem that crops up is, it's hard to judge if they're helping between one run and the next---there aren't any obvious points (in my experience!) where I can go, "oh hey, if I placed/didn't place [X] divinity maybe I could have survived!", and the moment-to-moment gameplay is the same whether or not my bullets are larger.
And that's reinforced from it being tedious to place/destroy divinities during gameplay, which incentivizes a per-run choice instead of being a moment-to-moment thing.
That being said, I still found the game enjoyable! And I was surprised with how fun the core shoot-where-you're-moving-to mechanic is; it seems like other games generally use a joystick-style control loop, and I feel like the single-room global-mouse thing works really well. (Although now that I think about it, that's probably *because* it's a one-room game!)
I survived to 4m26s legitimately! ~~and 7m with one exploit and 16m with another sorry for brutally critiquing and then breaking your game so much :')~~
Also, there are way too many enemies on the screen, in 10 seconds my screen is pretty much full of green blobs with no escape path. Could be framerate-related, I'm on a 165Hz screen.
Besides that, fun game, straightforward in a good way and the graphics are very readable.