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Hatterdashery by Alchemic

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made by Alchemic for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

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How to Play (PLEASE READ!)

​Go out, rescue your friends, collect hats, arm your friends with them, survive.

Survive 8 waves or clear 5 encampments to win!

  • Free Caplings by destroying Goblin encampments all around the world
  • Equip Caplings with hats by throwing hats at them
  • Defend the village from incoming waves of Goblins
  • Throw Spider Girl a hat to update hat catalog and she gives new hats from time to time
  • The red arrow always points to the home base in case you get lost

Controls

  • WASD or Arrow Keys to Move
  • Click or Spacebar to attack
  • Shift to dash
  • Run into hat to pick it up (assumes new powers)
  • E to throw a hat
  • Spacebar to talk to Spider Girl NPC

Screenshots

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Characters

hatberdashery<em>conceptart</em>combined.png

Credits

  • @HappyTrollAngus - hat modeler and designer, goblin character model
  • @karkadan - level designer, prop modeling, sound designer
  • @Alchemic - character modeling, animation
  • @Gizmolo - programmer, character behaviors
  • @WiredOverload - programmer
  • @Montjuleant - character designer, concept artist
  • @bigtex - #1 cheerleader

Tools

Assets

Link https://wiredoverload.itch.io/hatterdashery
Link https://github.com/comfy-gamedev/ludum-dare-58/tree/ldjam
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/hatterdashery

Ratings

Overall 525th 3.333⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 469th 3.229⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 427th 3.196⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 368th 3.708⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 504th 3.42⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 441th 2.935⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 275th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 576th 3.24⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 40🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

Moonblast
Oct 07th · 05:41 UTC
The character designs are charming and adorable, and the game mechanics have a delightfully exaggerated sense of fun. It felt awesome when I defeated a monster and got a huge hat.
GBT13
Oct 08th · 17:50 UTC
Cute art, seeing a huge stack of hats on top of my head was fun and walking around/shooting felt very smooth. The combat didn't feel super impactful as enemies didn't react at all when hit and projectiles felt slightly underwhelming. (though it's cool how different hats attack your shot types!) Getting hit by a single bullet instantly respawning you (when not wearing a hat) felt a little jarring. The music and sound effects were nice as well and I appreciate the fully functional audio menu with multiple sliders =) Fun project!
MistaGiggles
Oct 08th · 17:56 UTC
Great game concept for the jam, and I like the cute character models. The giant towers of hats made me laugh, but I think I ended up freezing my game at the end when I spammed throwing a ton of hats at spider girl!
Great entry!
justking144
Oct 08th · 17:58 UTC
Controls were a bit finicky, but i really loved the designs
Nanaschi1984
Oct 08th · 18:00 UTC
Great music! Fun gameplay:) Good job!
wles
Oct 10th · 01:41 UTC
Fun game! Wish the camera would zoom out so I could see all my hats!
6Knowledge
Oct 10th · 07:30 UTC
Would've loved to get a stat panel or something to tell what each of the hats did. At the start of the game the enemies seemed to die quite easily but eventually they took quite long to go down. And I had no idea if you were supposed to collect more for yourself or try to get through the game as fast as possible. Some of the hats also felt a bit weird shooting in extremely inconvenient ways and being two shots away from a reset made it more frustrating.

Overall a good jam game but could've used a bit more polishing.
Gaverion
Oct 11th · 01:07 UTC
Hats! I was hoping that having multiple hats would combo the abilities but they didn't seem too. Still very cool!
MatthewDrake
Oct 12th · 23:17 UTC
Great concept for a collection-based game, had some difficult moments where I tried to decide whether to hold onto my hats or add them to my growing collection back at my home base. Only thing I can think to mention is that when I went to the snowy area to the left of the base it became nearly impossible to see the text for when the next wave was coming. A black border around the text would've helped a lot. Still, overall a fun little game, well done!
anaticula
Oct 15th · 00:52 UTC
Really fun game! I collected several hats, I think this idea goes really well with the theme, was interesting to collect hats due to the different perks that they gave! Music is really catchy!
Gizmolo
Oct 15th · 04:40 UTC
@mistagiggles Hey thanks for playing and for the feedback! We just pushed up a patch with some critical bug fixes so hopefully that crash is resolved now :)
F1Krazy
Oct 15th · 15:40 UTC
The hat-throwing mechanic feels like it needs work. It's very hard to actually hit a Capling with them, and when I tried speaking to the spider girl after throwing her some hats, the game froze. It was also very unclear at the very start what I was meant to be doing or where I was meant to be going, as there were no enemies in the immediate vicinity and no indication of where they were. A minimap or something might help with that.

I don't think I was really able to play enough of this to be able to give it a fair score, but it looks promising enough.
asdy
Oct 15th · 21:56 UTC
somehow a bit challenging and definitely a fun game to play !
Had a bit of trouble at the beginning to figure out exactly what was the spider girl doing, but her design looks cool !
zactyl
Oct 17th · 03:54 UTC
Thanks for uploading! Hat stacking was fun, and I like the variety of all the different powers you can get, and the idea of passing around the hats to gear up my soldiers was pretty cool. I think some extra feedback would have been pretty nice, since it was kind of difficult to tell that I was hitting the enemy at times. It kind of felt hard to explore far outside the base with a low wave timer - especially since it starts right when the wave appears. I suppose the idea is to give hats out to your troops so that it's safe while you go? The home base was neat, and the character designs were pretty cool too. Appreciate the arachnophobia mode as well.
darianifakina
Oct 24th · 10:27 UTC
Great work!!!
HacksawUnit
Oct 24th · 15:55 UTC
Cool entry! It was fun to collect the hats and make a giant stack, and I liked how wearing them gives you an extra hitpoint like in Sonic the Hedgehog. The 3D graphics are charming and I'm impressed by the amount of different projectiles and hats. I think having some smaller, easier enemies scattered around could have been cool, as well as enemies that require more hitpoints. (Although maybe there are some hidden deeper in the map I missed!)

![stackofHat.png](///raw/dae/2/z/6f977.png)
yness
Oct 24th · 20:18 UTC
Overall, it’s a nice game for a jam! The gameplay feels good, but it’s not very clear visually when enemies are taking damage. Also, I thought picking up multiple hats would stack their effects, but I’m not sure how it actually works- maybe I just missed something or didn’t read carefully.
LDJam user 246128
Oct 24th · 22:21 UTC
Cute concept and cute characters! Adorable designs!

A little UX needs improvement a bit and movement was somewhat glitchy, but other than that great work! Also would've enjoyed to read some more in game, like flavor text about hats or some VN-like dialogue employing adorable char designs.