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Godot Wild Jam #52

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A jam submission

Herding GhostsView game page

The reaper and its trust herding cat help lost souls reach the light. Watch out for the demons!

Submitted by codingkook — 5 hours, 33 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Theme	#2	4.353	4.353
Overall	#5	3.723	3.723
Originality	#6	4.059	4.059
Fun	#8	3.471	3.471
Graphics	#10	4.118	4.118
Audio	#13	3.353	3.353
Controls	#13	3.412	3.412
Accessibility	#14	3.294	3.294

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
3.5

Wildcards Used
N/A

Game Description
Herd ghosts into the light with the help of your ghost-herding cat! Save as many as you can. But be careful of the demons. They're full of tricks.

How does your game tie into the theme?
You herd ghosts. There are a lot of ghosts.

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username
codingKook

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
4

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Comments

SporkTankSubmitted1 year ago

Pretty fun game and well put together. I was enjoying progressing through but got stuck at level 3 (as I see others have too) -- I would be curious to know if it's something I just couldn't work out, or a mechanic I missed.

The glowing transition is great too, very satisfying when you know it's about to come and you've passed the level. :)

Submitted

Nine Apparitions Noticeably Addled

Paul Bellon-SerreSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

The ending was quite something, I think it summarizes everyone’s mental state at the end of the jam haha.

Nice game, the visuals were really pretty and the audio fitting! The herding mechanic did gave me Mount & Blade: Warband PTSD but that’s me haha.

Anyway, congrats! :)

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codingkookDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Hahaha yes! I don’t know why, but the scary maze just seemed like the right thing to do. I was super losing it I think 😆

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback!

ElidefSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I made it to level 5, it was both fun and annoying in a good way, I liked it. Controlling 2 characters for this kind of game is a good idea. Level 5 felt softlocked, it was asking for 5 ghosts but I had 4.

Submitted

Iro and the ghost forest

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for playing! The level design for level 5 isn’t great haha. It was suppose to have you believe that 5 ghosts are needed, but you can use other characters to unlock it too.

I super appreciate the feedback! 🤍

ElidefSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Oooh that's clever lol ! But it's also pretty inconsistent with how the game works until then so idk if it's good design. It's a game jam anyway so bold ideas like that are good to test. Wouldn't recommend it elsewhere though :)

DelpireSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Very original idea. I think herding ghosts as the grim reaper and his cat was super cute. I really liked the art style and the puzzles having to use a herd of a certain number to unlock areas. It was sometimes a little frustrating to get them to go where I wanted, but that's somewhat the point I guess. :)

Great job!

Submitted

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Aw thank you so much! I wanted it to be a little frustrating, but I think I overdid it haha. balancing mechanics is tricky 😆

mkraenzSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Today I learned: Being a Grim Reaper is hard ^^; Liked the originality of the idea though as others have pointed out sometimes it was tricky to get the ghosts into the nooks. After level 4 or 5 however my cat was alone and I just needed to run through heaven’s door…until I reached the final “ending”. Not sure whether that was a bug or due to time restraints.

Anyway, thank you very much!

Submitted

Sleep Tight Dear Child

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Yes, it definitely needs some tweaking haha. There was supposed to be a little bit of a story, where the demons killed the grim reaper in level 5 and left just the cat, and then the demons took over heaven so there were no souls to save. But I didn't do a great job storytelling 😅. Thank you so much for playing to the end!! I super appreciate you 🤍🤍

mkraenzSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I’m glad the true master (i.e. the cat) survived :P

aFoolsDutySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

The art was good. Herding the cats (sorry, ghosts!) alternated between fun and frustrating. When it worked it was great fun, when it didn't, or my angle was slightly wrong, it didn't feel great.

Liked it overall, though!

Submitted

Ghost House '82

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

I super appreciate the feedback! I totally agree. I think the herding needs a bit of tweaking, because yeah sometimes it's just completely infuriating. Thank you for playing! Just curious, how far did you make it through the game?

aFoolsDutySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I'm pretty sure I made it to level 3 -- whatever one is after you getting the kitty-cat.

erebrusSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Simple, fun game with some polish. Nice tip about wikicommons for the music.

Submitted

Bunny The Ghost Buster

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you! And thanks for playing 🤍

NeotoonSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Straightforward game and really simple mechanics. I thought you need to herd all the souls to the afterlife but you just needed 1... Took me until level 4 to realize hahah

Submitted

Nearsighted Ghost

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Yeah, I didn't do a great job communicating that 😆. I wanted to add a leaderboard that had a score of some combination of the time it took to complete the game and the number of souls saved. But, yeah that didn't happen haha. Thank you for playing! 🤍 Did you happen to get to the end?

plexsoupSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Loved the mechanics, but I got stumped on level 3. Probably something obvious I missed, or maybe something insidiously clever that I overlooked.

Submitted

The Glass Queen

codingkookDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you! And I'm sorry about level 3 😅. I have a lot (a lot a lot) to work on with level design. I really appreciate you playing!