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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #2 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Creativity | #5 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Theme | #6 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #7 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Polish | #21 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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On our team, concept was key. We're hoping to bring you a unique variation on the concept in this jam, with some cool ideas to add some depth to the gameplay too.
You are a necromancer who can possess other bodies and use their powers. Your powers drain the life of mortal bodies, but the death of your current body is not the end. When it dies, your vulnerable spirit form emerges, and you can possess another enemy. Jump between bodies and cause some chaos!
This is a top down shooter made by Alex00, Catbevan and Riverbottom. If you like what you see, check out our profile links on the game page.
All the art, visual effects, audio, music, etc was made by us!
Assets you used
- Shield AoE effect from https://pipoya.itch.io/pipoya-free-vfx-mysterious-object https://lil-cthulhu.itch.io/hit-effect
- We created everything else ourselves.
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Its juicy and fun.
Cool idea. A sufficient number of options for opponents. Interesting game!
Really cool concept! The game was really fun, and I loved how you implemented the balance between killing fast and dying faster so you can possess the bodies before they disappear. I think the game could be a bit harder, but that's just a tweak. Really cool game! Hope you continue this, and add more content, as it is really fun to play, and would love to see more. Good work!
Thank you! We wanted to fine tune balancing, but ran out of time. We're planning to do it and small fixes in the post jam version.
Very fun, and polished in all the right places. The game felt good all around, combat was satisfying and even though its jam art, the animations were smooth and cohesive.
Really my only criticism would be with game balance. I found it pretty easy to survive basically indefinitely, and only stopped after 30k points because the game was starting to slow down (lag) and it seemed there was no further difficulty progression. I think the melee attacker felt overpowered (in contrast to xtr3m3nerd, I actually thought the bigger armored characters were fairly weak!), and its easy to avoid giving enemies any chance to damage your spirit form.
*However*, I really liked that dying strategically was the main way to keep going, which felt very thematic. I had a lot of fun with this one.
Thanks for playing! Happy you liked the polish. You are totally right that the game stops getting harder after a minute. We wanted to fine tune balancing, but ran out of time. Planning to do it in the post jam version.
Had some fun playing this! Shield guy was way OP though, pretty much wouldn't posses anything else unless I was forced to. I feel like if you made the different enemy types counter each other like rock-paper-scissors, it could make your corpse picking more strategic. Awesome work, loved the idea!
Thanks for playing! The enemy types already have a rock-paper-scissors mechanic, there's detail on the game page. We wanted to add a button to die to change bodies, but ran out of time. Planning to do it in the post jam version.
Neat concept, for some reason the wasd movement for the characters was bugging out so the first character you possess doesn't actually have the ability to move. Once id possessed a second one it allowed me to move and the gameplay loop was really cool, good job!
Thanks for playing! It's a rare bug, sorry about that. Bad luck you got it on the first character. Happy you liked the game.
I dig the rock paper scissors mechanic! Props for making all the assets yourselves.
Thank you!
Really good highscore game!, i love being the assassin and killing 5 guys at once, it's so satisfying. Also love the effects and particles :D
Thank you! We're happy with the effect too.
That's the exemple of a simple idea well made! The gameplay has great depth and the art style is efficient enough, we can see it's very polished too!
However I would have loved to be able to change bodies at anytime and not only when the body die.
But that's a nitpick x)
also great music!
Thank you! The jam theme has been a bit done to death (pun intended) so we were wanting to add some depth to the gameplay. We wanted to add a button to die to change bodies, but ran out of time. Planning to do it in the post jam version.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the music :)
Fun game! Shield guy OP!
Thank you!