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Maybe using the wheel or the keyboard for it, maybe also leave in the screen some indication of the currently selected unit to help the shift.\n\nThe music and SFX makes the mood here great by the way!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1061116,"author_name":"Bumblebee Studios","author_uid":"bumblebee-studios","epoch":1713459270,"text":"@ryrumeli Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunately, we didn\u2019t get to implement all the features and UI details in time during the 72-hour game jam, so the gameplay isn't as clear as we it was in our heads.\nYou couldn't summon more units because you ran out of credits, but we realize there\u2019s no visual cue for that yet.\nThe unit you\u2019ve selected shows up in the top right corner of the screen, but it\u2019s definitely not as clear as it should be. We're already on it, fixing things that aren't working because we want to turn this basic prototype into a real game.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064743,"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"asfdfdfd","epoch":1713550845,"text":"As an evil lord i feel myself a bit fragile ha-ha. Nice entry!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064748,"author_name":"Fenix131113","author_uid":"fenix131113","epoch":1713551041,"text":"Pretty good visual. Nice work!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064752,"author_name":"Geekarious Tony","author_uid":"geekarious-tony","epoch":1713551099,"text":"Great sound desing in here. Thought the art was killer. Solid entry!! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064805,"author_name":"Ueighti","author_uid":"ueighti","epoch":1713552104,"text":"I like the idea of joining TD and the fog of war.\nI thought it would be great if the tower could spell some special skill. Knowing where the unit positions are could give some strategy a boost.\n\nNice graphics and SFX. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071955,"author_name":"Roman Dubrovin","author_uid":"roman-dubrovin","epoch":1713872517,"text":"A good idea and implementation but I don't get how to earn money. Besides that, a really cool game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1074032,"author_name":"mlists","author_uid":"mlists","epoch":1714105661,"text":"The graphics were well made and the darkness helped create an atmosphere but I found it very hard to distinguish friendly and enemy units. UI could definitely use some work as well.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1074417,"author_name":"LDJam user 237945","author_uid":"237945","epoch":1714163390,"text":"Very cool - good job!\nLove the horror vibes as well as the Doom style sounds that used be scary when I was a kid.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1075784,"author_name":"Okamit","author_uid":"okamit","epoch":1714350109,"text":"The atmosphere and graphics are great, very moody and nice contrasts and the gameplay is fun and an interesting take on tower defence. Apart from the game getting busy and hard a little to fast to adjust to the mechanics and pacing, other thoughts I had are mentioned in the first comment!\n\nNice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076910,"author_name":"kjscott","author_uid":"kjscott","epoch":1714550280,"text":"It was soooo dark (maybe also because I have my screen light turned down a fair bit because on battery on my laptop) but still managed to play ok. Definitely would have benefited from some extra UI elements to understand what was going on, or why I couldn't summon things at time but only having 72 hours to make everything I think you did a good job to get to where you did.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/bumblebeestudios.itch.io\/eye-of-the-summoner","text":"Itch.io"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"68354","g_author":"1383948","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"292101","g_title":"Eye of the Summoner","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1026","g_commentcount":"11","g_site2_node_id":"384394","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"384394","n_urlkey":"292101","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/eye-of-the-summoner","n_slug":"eye-of-the-summoner","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"383948","n_created":"0","n_modified":"0","n_version":"1238597","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"id":384394,"parent":383062,"_superparent":9,"author":383948,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2024-04-16T00:57:22Z","created":"2024-04-05T21:15:20Z","modified":"2024-07-14T15:51:13Z","_trust":1,"version":1238597,"slug":"eye-of-the-summoner","name":"Eye of the Summoner","body":"![Main.png](\/\/\/raw\/ccb\/d5\/z\/64ff2.png)\n\nYou are the **Eye of the Summoner**. 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