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Battle of the Serifs by CamD67

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made by CamD67 for Ludum Dare 55 (COMPO)

Summon forth your sans-serif warriors and defeat the evil scourge of the serif army! Lay waste on the battlefield of font selection with countless destroyed letters beneath your feet!

Controls: - Mouse to aim your summon location - Target must be on your half of the battlefield - A, S, or D to summon a minion - You must have the minion ready to fight alongside you

Once enough damage is done to the enemy's wall you win!

Known bugs:

Some letters don't disappear after being defeated

Enemy AI and unit strength is not balanced

Link https://github.com/camd67/ld55-summoning-game
Link https://camd67.itch.io/battle-of-the-serifs-ld55
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/battle-of-the-serifs

Ratings

Overall 236th 3.25⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 218th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 74th 3.804⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 181th 3.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 210th 3.283⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 174th 3.196⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 69th 3.587⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 243th 3.024⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

Phobos
15. Apr 2024 · 13:53 UTC
Really fun take on the theme. The visuals are really cool and the game is fun to play.
Moonblast
15. Apr 2024 · 18:56 UTC
Genius idea, fantastic interactive experience，really cool
LDJam user 382337
15. Apr 2024 · 18:57 UTC
Played the game and liked it.
Flying Dog Fish
15. Apr 2024 · 21:49 UTC
I never thought I'd see letters fight each other. This is fun and well executed. It could be a little harder.
LDJam user 388431
15. Apr 2024 · 22:01 UTC
I like the mechanics, very unique and fun! Maybe if you had the enemies spawn at an increasing rate it could up the difficulty a bit, it feels a little easy right now. Maybe you could have a big boss letter that takes multiple units to kill? Idk, just a thought. Nice work!
LDJam user 352490
15. Apr 2024 · 23:52 UTC
I played through and won the first time (and got the sans-serif win screen), and just had to go back and see if the lose screen was in a serif font (spoiler: it was). Hilarious concept, and fun to watch all the letters battle each-other with parentheses and bleed in asterisks.
Imbajoe
16. Apr 2024 · 03:18 UTC
Love the visuals from the letters fighting with parens and brackets, background being a battlefield of dead letters was a good touch too. The game itself was a bit easy, I think I was clicking around summoning without much consideration but ended up winning. Agree with the comment before, a large font boss would be cool to see.
muriel
16. Apr 2024 · 07:27 UTC
Great job, I love how the letters move it is very fun and creative :)

Fantastic entry!
josang1567
16. Apr 2024 · 07:42 UTC
Good idea and perfectly executed, a little difficult at first but in the end it was quite fun.
Alex Mulkerrin
16. Apr 2024 · 13:49 UTC
The animations were really good for the characters just being letters. A really novel idea executed well.
ABRDs
16. Apr 2024 · 14:17 UTC
Interesting take on the theme. I did find myself spamming WASD at mouse locations near the end. I would have loved for the corpses to stay somewhat persistent _(Faded)_ in the background, as a show of the **carnage**
LightningST
17. Apr 2024 · 03:34 UTC
Fun little game! Great take on the theme :)
LDJam user 280707
18. Apr 2024 · 04:55 UTC
Pretty neat! Felt like I had success by just moving my mouse generally where enemies were coming and spamming all the summon keys, but it was a fun concept for sure!
BenjaminW
18. Apr 2024 · 05:45 UTC
I actually think the balance is pretty on point. For a while I wasn't sure who was going to win. Cute idea.
Flogram
18. Apr 2024 · 11:17 UTC
I think it might be too easy. Just spamming ASD works too well.
gord10ahmet
18. Apr 2024 · 19:58 UTC
Great idea!

The game would benefit from the left half that we can spawn our letters being visually different. And maybe the blurry letters at the background would disappear once the game begins, because they make it a bit hard to focus on the game itself.
Untitled Studios
19. Apr 2024 · 04:52 UTC
Silly, creative, funny.

Obviously quite simple and easy, but I don't think this is exactly intended to be complex. What it lacks in depth it makes up for with charm-- which is honestly all I need.

Felt like a 2010s flash game (in the best sense of the phrase.)

Deeply hilarious concept- good stuff.

![Screenshot 2024-04-18 235056.png](///raw/2c7/c/z/646ab.png)
MrGaberson
19. Apr 2024 · 11:20 UTC
A loveletter to graphic designers everywhere

jokes aside, I like the idea, reminds me of an old flashgame where you summon elephants
🎤 CamD67
19. Apr 2024 · 16:59 UTC
Thanks everyone for the great feedback everyone! I appreciate everyone taking the time to play my first LD entry. It really does mean a lot to me to see all the kind words :heart:

The balance was for sure in the players favor. Turns out that making sufficiently smart AI takes a lot more time than I had in the compo with everything else happening.
fnelix
20. Apr 2024 · 19:14 UTC
Very nice! Cool idea, a bit too easy to be sure, but very charming. I liked the little sounds.
manicthenobody
21. Apr 2024 · 05:58 UTC
Startlingly fun and pretty game for such a small playtime. I enjoyed every moment of key smashing to protect my battle line. Very well done.