I was a bit disappointed when the game started and it wasn't a fighting-style game, but then again you rarely see that kind in a game jam. It was a funny combination of ghosts and boxing and I liked the punchline in the name fright-club. I couldn't really figure out the controls very well, or at least it didn't feel like there was a strategic way to use my controls in order to win and survive more.
Either way, good job!
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That plot-twist in the end was so good. I don't think anyone could have FIGured it out.
Regardless, the player was a bit tossed into a chaotic place and it was a bit hard to figure out what areas are walkable and what weren't.
I got spotted quite a few times and near the end I just had a hoard following me, but I could easily outrun them. Either way good job on completing your entry!
Sadly we overscoped and the game ended up with a bunch of features that we didn't manage to get in time and obviously no time for polishing. As such in the current version, there is the bug you encountered - The resident info table opens up - but if you click at a house while it's up, it's gonna get stuck there - and if you open up the actions menu in a building with no residents, you'd have no way of closing down the table- which will get you locked in that state- Good news is that I have already fixed this bug for the post-jam version.
You didn't miss anything. The build and murder buttons have no effect in the current version of the game. Didn't manage to implement them in time. We are planning for a post-jam update where all these issues are fixed, so stay tuned!
Thank you for playing and taking the time to leave a comment too!
I liked watching the ghosty moving around in the main menu and shooting at things. Also it's addicting to play around and get upgrades like that- I guess the same reason why Vampire survivors worked. The collect radius was a bit annoying especially considering that the enemy hitboxes were bigger than that.
Yeah we sort of overscoped for the final version and I should have hidden several buttons to prevent confusion with the not yet implemented features.
We definitely wanna get the game to be closer to our initial vision for it. I have already managed to find the bug in investigate. Fixed the issue with the resident information panel staying up indefinitely. Made the employee select go with click instead of drag and drop. So I hope that by the time the rating period is over, we'd have an updated more complete version!
This felt like forcefully trying to make a speed-run in a game you've never played before! Which to be fair felt rather stressful. Though I guess, that it simply needed more enemies and stuff that you can one-shot along the way.
Not sure about the Parry mechanic. Though it did provide an element of choice, it was so hard to use it successfully with the time constraints that I preferred not to.
Overall it was a pretty cool though. At least after playing a couple of times and figuring out the layout of the map .
The narrative was interesting. Though am not sure if I got to go through it all or not, for while a voicemail was playing and I was dashing to the field I sort of just fell right into the boogeyman.
Very atmospheric and definitely does a great job and getting you immersed (even though the game loop itself was rather boring. Am not a big fun of walking simulators, and seriously this guy could use a Cart or something to load his Pumpkins instead of picking them up one by one. But~ I suppose it's a mandatory element for horror stories for their protagonists to be stupid)
Great work and amazing voice acting!
The textures reminded me of Dark Cloud.
Overall it was a nice concept, I was rather annoyed at those weird slugs that kept chasing me around and weren't allowing me to charge my battery.
The idea felt rather original to me, at least the way of extending cables and lighting up the place.
The camera control was a bit hard to handle, would have preferred something mouse controlled on that regard.
Pretty good job. I was surprised to see that this game hasn't received many ratings yet. It's a nice entry and one that's polished enough to deserve more ratings.
It was a bit annoying having to depend on the rotation of the thing in order to attack your enemies. Especially considering that they would sometimes just stick in corners and you don't really have an option to approach them without getting hit. I think it would have been more fun with some active way to attack enemies.
The cover art was interesting.
The quality of these graphics and the polish in the introduction is really impressive. The camera reminded me of Digimon World, it definitely adds to the atmosphere, though it sort of annoys me having to walk with such cameras.
I got a bit tired midway through, mostly because this genre isn't really my type, but still managed to get to the end.
Really good job, just the looks of this game were enough to make me jealous.
At first I was a bit lost regarding what I can do with my things, but then I found the merchants and the blackmarket. I soon bought a nice hoe and cleared the plots in my property, building a huge crops farm. It was pretty cool to play through.
It was a bit hard to target the tiles you wanted overall and most of the times I would end up walking onto the tile I wanted to perform an action instead of next to it, causing the action to fail.
Either way, very good work, nice and original implementation of the One or Two? Wildcard.
I was very confused with some vegetables as of what is supposedly rotten or not and in many cases I just hit the eldritch vegetables even after I had them under the flashlight for the entire duration of the Flashlight.
Felt like too much gambling for my tastes, but its pretty good work for your first jam.
It took me a bunch of time just to figure out how this works. First level was the hardest for me. Afterwards it felt like a nice breeze. Like the controls were smooth, and I felt like a very skilled player for managing to complete those levels first try XD.
It was really enjoyable and fun. Good work!
I liked the aesthetic, felt pretty gothic. I think the mechanic I enjoyed the most would be the Fusion. As in it's always interesting when you can fuse weird things together and see them coming out as other weird things.
Attacking enemies was a bit tough, considering I'd frequently just bump into them, then attack and miss them, but the flaming skull tower made things easy. I felt the crow was a bit useless, though I did enjoy the speed boost from the other tower.
At some point, the enemies cleared out an animal pen, and afterwards I could no longer use it. Probably some bug.
Overall, I really enjoyed the experience. The character portraits were very nice and the game had a nice pace between exploring new things and progressing. The nights did feel sort of big and it was so dark that I could barely see anything.
Very good work!
I played both endless mode and story mode. It took me a while to figure out how to access the shop.
The upgrades didn't feel very useful, though I was either singling out attack speed or attack damage in my runs.
Placing weird bosses at the end of the map was rather annoying. I think it might be an issue with the web export, but for some reason my movement would get locked and I would be dragged to move in one direction. I shall try to play a downloaded version after I take my time to rate more games.
Pretty good work here though! I enjoyed spamming my z button to attack enemies, and was addicted to the looting! In games like these it's interesting to add combos to when attacking multiple times,
Figuring out the controls at first was a bit of a task, but after some failed clicks and just smashing buttons to figure out what works and how, I was able to play by the end of stage 1.
The stages sort of felt repetitive and I didn't really understand what was the difference between them. I think that in all them I had to follow the same strategy in order to win. (Played all 6 stages).
The mechanics were interesting, until that interest run dry from the repetitiveness of the levels. Also turns out the crows were my biggest ally by the end of it.
Either way, it was pretty good work!
An interesting display of special abilities. It was a fun experience, mostly felt like an easy mental puzzle where you had to figure out which would be the most efficient way of you using choosing sides.
The level felt a bit empty. With just people roaming around. It was interesting to see the whole visuals and auditory elements change when switching sides.
Either way good work!
It was annoying at first as I was trying to figure out the controls on how to fly, but they were pretty smooth after figuring them out. In such flying games, I tend to nose dive just to see if I get this special gliding/acceleration feeling.
I had limited time when deciding to play this, but I lost track of time while flying around. Sadly I couldn't get to find all the parts but I will be playing it again after I go through all the other submissions.
Very good work, if you plan on continuing it, I hope it becomes the next Stray but this time with a Parrot!
My completionist side pushed me towards unlocking everything and completing the game. Definitely loved the lore building going on with the flame and how you get it to grow.
As mentioned in other comments just having +10 as options later in the game is weird, perhaps as you reach certain scales or when you get specific upgrades it also improves offering +100 or +1k options.
This was a very interesting spellcasting system! Definitely tests your skills at memorization and drawing the shapes you learn under pressure (probably one of the best spellcasting systems I've found in a game). Probably this spellcasting system would have been great for some kind of PvP game (considering how nicely it incorporates reflexes, memorization and precision. Perhaps having some summoning spells as well to make AoE effects more useful in that pvp context. I wonder if it might be possible to incorporate ratio geometries and similar traits to allow "inventing" new spells by mixing up old ones - sorry for the enthusiastic runt about the idea).
What I didn't like was the level design and how most of the time I ended up just shooting the block I was standing on instead of the enemies. Perhaps being able to hit enemies from the first floor would have been nice? And if the teleport could work on demand and without needing to go to the portals.
Surprised this game didn't have any ratings yet. I think more people should play it.