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Burdemon by Teun de Vries

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made by Teun de Vries for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

You have been summoned by a powerful mage into a dungeon filled with dangerous monsters, forced to execute the mages' shitty tasks. Kill the monsters in the dungeon to grow stronger. Will you be able to break free from this cursed summon and escape this burden?

Genre: Action Roguelike

Controls - WASD / Arrow keys: Movement - Left click: Melee attack - Right click: Ranged attack

Credits - Programming - Maurits Dijkman: Gameplay Programming & UI - Tycho Tuitert: Gameplay Programming

  • Art

    • Jeroen Vedder: 3D Artist
    • Teun de Vries: Technical Artist

  • Sound

    • Bart de Vries: Music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3MPWLbw9rg

Thank you for playing, hope you enjoyed!

CHANGELOG - V1.0.1 - Fixed UI scaling issues - Fixed UI incorrect art - Fixed first task properly spawning all the time in the first room - Added a dialogue line to explain xp orbs - Changed player to look at mage for opening dialogue
- Mixed audio a little better - V1.0.2 - Teleport player to center of bossroom on enter to trigger boss fight - Fixed trap room task not always starting in trap rooms - V1.0.3: - Locked mouse cursor in window - Increased dialogue size of mage battle & added [E] to help remember the buttons - Halved poison damage - Fixed projectile angles once upgraded - Balancing changes for enemy projectile damage & walk speed - Slowing projectiles now actually slow enemies - Prevent mage boss damage during dialogue

Windows (Itch.io) https://theteun3.itch.io/burdemon
Apple MacOS (Itch.io) https://theteun3.itch.io/burdemon
GitHub Repository https://github.com/MauritsDijkman/LudumDare55
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/burdemon

Ratings

Overall 252th 3.87⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Fun 222th 3.858⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 835th 3.093⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Theme 339th 3.973⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 348th 4.035⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Audio 361th 3.583⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Humor 526th 3.13⭐ 52🧑‍⚖️
Mood 520th 3.62⭐ 56🧑‍⚖️
Given 113🗳️ 128🗨️

Feedback

BaggerSmurf
16. Apr 2024 · 07:54 UTC
Great visuals! Loved the funny remarks the wizard made when trying to hit him and upon respawn. Range attack often did not seem to fly towards my mouse and fly over enemies. Hope you had a great time making this!
Roman Novikov
16. Apr 2024 · 08:00 UTC
Great job, guys! Really liked the character progression when gaining a new level, the VFX are also very nice, good feel for attacking and dealing damage. I assume you implemented procedural dungeon generation as part of the game jam, which also deserves respect.
givit-game-studios
16. Apr 2024 · 09:09 UTC
Well polished little game.
SLagos
16. Apr 2024 · 09:12 UTC
Nice job with the entry, I find it pretty fun and replayable, took me a while to realise that the blue spheres chasing you where xp to level up and not bullets XD.
But had a lot of fun.
Emty
16. Apr 2024 · 09:50 UTC
The game is really good, but some moments are extremely unclear, such as where I am, the ability to use magic (which I only understood after another level-up), and the ultimate goal of the game. Also, projectiles sometimes inexplicably miss their targets.

Overall, I enjoyed it very much.
Oni
16. Apr 2024 · 13:19 UTC
Game is good and fun! One little issue I had was the lv1 projectiles sometimes don't hit enemies. Loved the sound, graphics are good!
Great job!
LocksmithArmy
16. Apr 2024 · 15:02 UTC
Ooo this is a good one. just a few touchups and polish and youll have the makings of a great game.
LDJam user 282870
16. Apr 2024 · 17:52 UTC
This was a great game. Nicely done. Graphics were top notch.

The only thing are the controls. You need to fix it so whatever direction you are facing you walk in that way. Use the mouse to point the character in the correct direction not the WASD keys

Other than that, well done
someone
16. Apr 2024 · 18:48 UTC
That was fun, now my fingers need to rest. Too much clicking. Hold to continuously attack would have been nicer.
I often unwittingly clicked an upgrade button as it appeared suddenly under the mouse in the middle of combat.

I like the random challenges, though I did get a walk into a trap one when I had 4 health.
I actually only realised you had a ranged attack after getting the melee only quest. I found it hard to aim though.
Nice particle chaos in the final battle, managed to beat it on my second attempt. Some of the upgrades are very powerful.
theheheo
16. Apr 2024 · 20:10 UTC
Very impressive how much you were able to do! Really liked the visual effects, especially the movement shadow effect, felt really cool just moving around. Our games are quite different but we had quite a similar take on the theme :)
Deruitda
16. Apr 2024 · 20:10 UTC
Fun game! Controls were a bit wonky at time but it was intense and fun!
Artemy Zen
16. Apr 2024 · 20:57 UTC
Good job. Beautiful graphics and pleasant music! A couple of minor gripes— the dash was useless since you couldn't control its direction. The melee attack was almost useless too, as enemies always deal damage up close. But for a game jam, this is very impressive work, you've accomplished a lot!
Andrew Michienzi
17. Apr 2024 · 01:33 UTC
I beat the mage!

What a blast. The projectiles were wild. The random power ups were fun. Sound was great and graphics were great. I felt pretty OP at the end but sometimes I want to feel that way.

Great work!
Lestat
17. Apr 2024 · 04:05 UTC
It is a cool, robust game.
Cafe Spectrum Studio
17. Apr 2024 · 14:57 UTC
Absolute beautiful game
Rendow
17. Apr 2024 · 16:35 UTC
What a banger soundtrack and great looking game! I love the vfx, and the models look great too. The gameplay feels juicy (love the screenshake) and found the task system to be interesting and think it adds variety to the game.
Overall, I had a great time. Well done guys! :D
StupidHobbit
17. Apr 2024 · 16:52 UTC
Awesome game, looks polished, considering the scope. Really like the art style. Looks like that "archer" build is much easier to play, I was just obliterated, when I've tried to do a melee build. Also, the final boss kinda bugged and was just staying in place doing nothing.
Lélek Hunor Kadosa
17. Apr 2024 · 17:55 UTC
It looks awesome. I really like the lighting and the fadeing out of the wall. Well done
Trevor Lentz
17. Apr 2024 · 21:33 UTC
I had a lot of fun upgrading my ranged skill through this. The music, sound, layout/design kept me wanting to move forward. Standard WSAD and LMB RMB controls made it super easy to pick up and play. Battle music was on point for the pace of the fights and tone of the game. Every upgrade made each encounter feel a bit different.

The boss/wizard was the only thing that was really bugged. I just stood there and right clicked with zero movement happening for me or him, and he didn't ever attack with any ranged or melee from what I could tell.

Since you can moonwalk as a demon creature while shooting magic... that makes this one worth playing (especially if you enjoy the dungeon crawl genre).

Cheers. :)
🎤 Teun de Vries
17. Apr 2024 · 22:10 UTC
@stupidhobbit @trevor-lentz Glad you enjoyed our game! Sad that the boss fight didn't work properly for you, it might be because it is only triggered after completing the dialogue, which is triggered by walking towards the center of the room. We added a new version that puts you in the center of the room and forces the dialogue.
Leo Nadeau
18. Apr 2024 · 11:28 UTC
Nice job on this. Graphics are perfect with vfx. Gameplay is cool, sound and music is cool too. Continue the good work!
Narbam
18. Apr 2024 · 11:42 UTC
Really enjoyed this one. The wizard's comments were great, and the gameplay was really fun. I found that the projectiles were OP pretty early, so started to build towards them. I thought it would be cool to have enemies that were immune to ranged to help counteract it, but just as I thought that, I got the melee only curse, so that was great!
deadjolly
19. Apr 2024 · 00:19 UTC
The lighting for the rooms and particles is pretty. Lots of polish and clever solutions here. The spider animation and the fact the player demon doesn't need a walk cycle are fun bits of problem solving. Game felt great to play, however, I kept accidentally clicking outside of the window (both in full-screen and windowed) which was a bit annoying. Also the ranged particles, once fully upgraded to the white ones, were blinding lol. But it was still fun to shoot enemies the whole time. Awesome job adding meaningful progression to the gameplay loop, in such a short timeframe!
bigbossman
19. Apr 2024 · 14:28 UTC
Nice entry
Nanaschi1984
19. Apr 2024 · 15:02 UTC
Fun dungeon crawler. Good job!
Emaigualmc2_art
19. Apr 2024 · 15:26 UTC
Great artistic work! The visual effects are incredible and the assets are super polished, I found it very fun to play it. The progression in the character is very good, I think that polishing the game feeling and the mechanics of movements and attacks of both the character and the enemies would be great. Well done!
Smidgens
19. Apr 2024 · 15:34 UTC
Lovely little roguelike! I'm impressed you went the extra mile and included a cutout effect for walls when the player is obscured. Everything feels so polished. I also like how in lieu of giving the character a running animation, he's just surfing on a [expletive deleted] cloud - nice and simple.
Human
20. Apr 2024 · 16:26 UTC
Great looking game. Particles, VFX all look awesome. The looking through wall shader is especially nice. Melee attack animation though not giving much feedback that I am attacking. Range attack looks and feels nice though. And you have level up in jam game OMG. But the level up windows comes up suddenly in between gameplay. Death of player is also not very clear.
Cshep99
21. Apr 2024 · 12:34 UTC
very fun game! the particle effects are so pretty! i also love the upgrades being random each time. but i noticed if i level up while still fighting i usually hit one of the options by accident. not sure how you would fix that though, maybe making the player open a menu themselves to upgrade instead of it being automatic?
Norabacu
21. Apr 2024 · 18:32 UTC
The game is a lot of fun. After I had twice the attack speed and four times the number of projectiles I was the demon she tells you not to worry about.
Klemen
21. Apr 2024 · 18:50 UTC
I loved the game, the artstyle is astonishing, the audio is amazing and I like the story line I beat the whole game in first try definetly 10/10 charlies
JHax
22. Apr 2024 · 21:35 UTC
Cool game! I think most of the things I found a bit frustrating to begin with ended up being things that were upgradable so ultimately made a lot of sense they start off not being super powerful! I did find I sometimes didn't get a great sense of when I was taking damage and how much damage I was taking, so a bit more feedback there might improve things a bit?

Graphics and visual style are awesome and the audio fits really well with it. There's quite a nice arc of beginning / middle / end as well!
Unx
22. Apr 2024 · 23:24 UTC
I can't play it since I'm on linux, but the graphics look amazing!
Hoeleboele
24. Apr 2024 · 08:10 UTC
Amazing graphics and gameplay loop is very short and nice. Mouse aiming does not work as expected but i managed after i got an upgrade with extra projectiles ;p. Enemies do alot of damage with that poison i took 3 hits before dieing everytime but game is short enough for that not to be an issue. Overall very good job.
StaNov
29. Apr 2024 · 20:47 UTC
Hi, thank you for playing my quacking game!

Your game has very nice graphics! I don't know how much you made yourself and how much is assets though.

The gameplay was smooth, the upgrades were interesting.

I kinda missed some clue that my life is about to be drained and I just died.

The music was cool :)

I will upload my playthrough to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@standanovak

Cheers from Czechia!
CallMeTy
30. Apr 2024 · 09:45 UTC
@stanov Thanks for playing and the review! We made all the assets in the game ourselves. I'm looking forward to seeing the playthrough :) Have a nice day!