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A jam submission

A Mimic's Lust for TreasureView game page

Play as a greedy mimic, collect gold to survive, purchase treasures, and fight off demons
Submitted by Malgios — 1 day, 4 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#14.0004.000
Enjoyment#23.8573.857
Overall#23.7623.762
Aesthetics#43.4293.429

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

this is a really cool game concept! i particularly like the balancing act of choosing how much money to use per attack. I think you could push this even further; give me some way (mouse wheel?) to control my money-per-attack mid round

I also would really like to see an auto-collect feature at the end of the rounds; I think it's one of the most satisfying moments in these types of games, and it feels like it's just an artificial buff to the magnet upgrades

also I love the way the character moves haha. this game was a lot of fun, thank you!

Really love the concept of the mimic, and the game is also very well done. I realized that holding the mouse button attacks faster than tapping it, which idk if is a bug or not, but did not diminish the enjoyment of the game. Overall great game.

Developer

Thanks you :) Yeah there are some problems with the shooting ^^

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I really like the concept and execution. I had the same vision when setting out to start my game of a unifying treasure mechanic where it touches on many aspects of play, but you pulled it off better. A couple criticisms though. The fact that a bullet waits for a timer before firing rather than firing and then waiting on a timer made the game feel a bit clunky and imprecise. Also your scaling system seems off, magnets barely seem to have an effect even after several upgrades, and all player upgrades are strictly linear while the enemies seem to scale in a multiplicative way, leading you to drain more treasure on attacking enemies, even when you buy attack upgrades every level.


EDIT: upon continuing to play i discovered the ammo cost feature. I still maintain the opinion about the fire rate, the magnet is better when you have a very high value, but it's still weird, and the game is (understandably because game jam) not properly optimized

Developer

Thanks for playing and the feedback :)

Yeah the thing with the shoot delay was a late addition to sync the animation and projectile spawn and in hindsight I agree that it wasn't the best idea^^ Did you had the performance problems only in the web version or also in the download version?

Oh and thanks for explaining some stuff in the livestream :) 

Submitted

for me, lag only occured at very high levels, but i did not try the downloaded version.