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A jam submission

Potions and PillbugsView game page

When Wizardry meets Woodlice
Submitted by Icicle — 14 hours, 10 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Playability#2584.0004.000
Cleverness#7553.0003.000
Artistic Style#9703.0003.000
Theme#13302.0002.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • Very cute, fun to play. A nice take on tug of war games. Cute bugs! Would like to see more level designs and some color palette changes to make each level feel a little more fresh. Other then that, it's a really great start.

Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes

Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes

Tell us about your game!
Although the story isn't stated in the game, you are playing as a young demon trying to conquer the heavens, although once you leave home you notice there isn't exactly much to work with, so you resort to battling with potions and bugs. In battle you face off against your opponent by summoning bugs to walk across the board. If they reach the other side, you do damage. The only catch is that both you and your opponent are able to use potions that create special area of effects. And these AoEs affect all units, yours and your opponents, meaning you need to be carful not to damage your own units or speed up your opponents! The entire game is controlled with just your mouse. Also, I know the art style is a bit all over the place, originally I only had one artist who was falling behind, so I got two more who ended up having differing styles. Most of the art makes sense but the odd button or icon will be out of the ordinary.

Extra Notes
My ears won't stop ringing. I hear voices... they're getting louder. "Icicle, you need to sleep." When I close my eyes all I see is ERROR: Invalid get index 'variable' (on base 'Null Instance') with type 'string'

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Comments

Submitted

Nice game, chess with extra steps, I find that throne is harder than Seraphin (?), or maybe I got better in the meantime, anyway you can expand this with a variety of bugs and potions so really cool!

Submitted

Cute game! The start is a little slow but it gets interesting eventually. The biblically accurate angel really beat my *** though.

Submitted

This is a nice game, very mechanical which I liked. The mana regen rate vs total mana makes it kind of slow and I don't fully get the theme tie-in, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Submitted

Very interesting concept, I'm not sure how to be the "Throne" enemy, it was able to spawn tons of bugs very quickly.  I love the mouse-only controls, very intuitive.  Also the art work looks great!

Good job!