Samuel, The Summoning Squirrel by Flamboozle

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made by Flamboozle for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

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Summon an army of demons and defend the Gateway to Hell from an angry mob (which consists of both farmers and trucks).

Samuel, the summoning squirrel is the last of his kind… But its honestly a tall task because that mob gets pretty angry.

Featuring Crestwick, the crazy crow.

Controls:

WASD to Move

E to Harvest Graves

Mouse to use UI

Ratings

Overall 306th 3.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 402th 3.65⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 991th 2.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 185th 4.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 351th 4.025⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 412th 3.5⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 622th 2.972⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 763th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

jan5366x
15. Apr 2024 · 21:40 UTC
Good and fun gameplay guidance and flow. :v:
The choice of animated text plays out very nicely.
LDJam user 141701
15. Apr 2024 · 21:40 UTC
Very nice game! I thought the trucks were a bit funny just driving at me :3

Was there supposed to be audio? You can opt out of the category if you didn't create any music/fx for your game. PS: Since you went in the Jam category, I believe you're allowed to use some assets to fill in the gap? (just once again opt out of the category)
SlavTurtle
15. Apr 2024 · 21:42 UTC
Got to 200 seconds!
🎤 Flamboozle
15. Apr 2024 · 21:43 UTC
@SirLich There is audio, I'm unsure why it did not work for you. Let me know if you can figure out why its not playing because it works for me!

Thanks for the feedback
Yorsh
15. Apr 2024 · 21:45 UTC
Nice gameplay loop, it's quite fun. It gets brutal pretty fast, but it's actually better for a gamejam game imo so it doesn't take forever. Graphics are cute too.
LDJam user 141701
15. Apr 2024 · 21:47 UTC
OK I tried again and again, and the audio worked like half the time. Weird. The audio I *did* hear was really nice though. Good job :)
ColourArc
15. Apr 2024 · 21:50 UTC
Nice visual style and fun to play. I know you said you ran out of time but I thought there was a good variety of different stuff to summon.

My only real complaint was that it felt to me like you should collect souls/graves by running into them rather than pressing a button to pick them up. That's how it is in many other games in this style I could think of, but I'm sure you had a reason for doing it differently.
Mantsje
15. Apr 2024 · 22:10 UTC
Wow! what an awesome game, it's so complete I got dragged completely into it. The chill vibes the music give are really different from the stress of playing the game :)

Maybe you can check out our game as well (Soon to be published) it's in a very similar niche!
Katelyn Trout
16. Apr 2024 · 02:24 UTC
Vibes are so good. I think I would prefer to just be able to walk over to pick up souls rather than using E, but thats just me. Overall great entry!
Adam Konig
16. Apr 2024 · 02:25 UTC
Solid entry very polished, I think it would be more enjoyable to just run over graves to collect the spirits then to keep pressing E. Overall though great tension and fun gameplay
LDJam user 389319
16. Apr 2024 · 08:16 UTC
I love it. Finally a dream came true - Being a Squirrel summoner :DD
Rogue Tomato
16. Apr 2024 · 08:53 UTC
Cool gameplay loop, my only issue is that the interact button is E, so you can't really move around and at the same time spam E button, unless it's just me... Aside from that, very fun overall!
unless games
17. Apr 2024 · 20:44 UTC
Nice game with a chill and somewhat bitter vibe (us being the last one and fighting till the end).

While the tutorial crow is nicely implemented it would be better to not have to wait for it each run.

Interaction could be done with Space or mouse instead of E.

At the end it'd be nice to see how far you got.

Solid entry nevertheless!
Maxthedoom
20. Apr 2024 · 09:02 UTC
Cute and fun game! The only criticism I'd have is that, your time survived does not show up after you die, and given how much you need to run and collect graves, the E key can be a bit awkward to pick up a lot of graves while moving.
Spexxilove
22. Apr 2024 · 21:07 UTC
cool core gameplay, and great visuals ! charm in the game.
it devolves very quickly into spamming E and clicking cars towards the end. it didn't really feel like I'm making big choices when summoning units.

nice entry ^^
Baluj
23. Apr 2024 · 22:23 UTC
I like the concept, I feel like the difficulty increases very quickly but it's a good game. Good job!
EmilAlix
23. Apr 2024 · 23:44 UTC
Very nice game! Comprehensive and fun to play, kudos to the visuals and level design. The controls are easy to pick up with a well-integrated tutorial.
Good job !
LDJam user 243193
24. Apr 2024 · 12:01 UTC
Nice portal defense game. The idea is good but the soul harvesting part is the weakest part cause with enemies coming from multiple directions, you'd have to go far from circle to do harvesting and that's if you're going to right direction.