Alchemia by blzkz

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made by blzkz for LD31 (JAM)
You are an achemist, and you love discover new tricks, like magic, but you must eat everyday so you have to attend some orders... Do your job!

In the manuscript you will find some clues, the first "level" is the tutorial, so read it carefully!

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Additional hint: Recipes only has 2 ingredients
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This game is not only mine but my mate gonya too.

HTML and Linux licences are expensive sorry!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.04 650
Audio(Jam) 2.88 431
Fun(Jam) 2.69 777
Graphics(Jam) 3.10 584
Humor(Jam) 2.28 658
Innovation(Jam) 3.08 475
Mood(Jam) 2.96 557
Theme(Jam) 3.37 669

Feedback

skonkan
09. Dec 2014 路 11:35 UTC
Interesting crafting game :)
馃帳 blzkz
09. Dec 2014 路 19:19 UTC
Updated with some fixes, now you will have enough copper to pass the level if you stuck there
DiegoHenriquez
09. Dec 2014 路 21:56 UTC
Pretty cool and interesting game. A bit hard though - if I screwed up and used the wrong materials, I have to start all over.
BtheDestroyer
09. Dec 2014 路 22:01 UTC
Was this made with Fusion? You need to upload the source.
馃帳 blzkz
09. Dec 2014 路 22:06 UTC
@DiegoHenriquez Yeah, we know, we havent got time to make it easier and improve the gameplay. We thought about a shop where you can buy some more elements, and about a recipe book to search the ingredients, but couldnt finish these ideas.

BtheDestroyer we use Game Maker, standar version of it. We don't have to upload the source :/, but it is all spaguetti code so... nothing really interesting about that
Magicolo
09. Dec 2014 路 22:17 UTC
I keep getting random crashes :( can't play...
馃帳 blzkz
09. Dec 2014 路 22:21 UTC
Hi Magicolo, thanks for playing (o trying) the game, could you describe the steps you do to get that crashes? Wich OS are you using? I would be great If you can provide me a screenshot of the message error.

Thanks!
馃帳 blzkz
09. Dec 2014 路 22:28 UTC
I inspected some elements code (a variable that contains his "name") and I realise that there are some that where wrote in a bad way so I changed it!

Try again please, and thanks for the feedback! :)
Croze
09. Dec 2014 路 22:38 UTC
He doesn't have to upload the source, it's a jam entry
CMWeissMedia
10. Dec 2014 路 14:41 UTC
Overall this was a pretty neat crafting game. I'm not sure the time component was necessary since we could just reset everything as we were figuring out the correct combinations to make. Other than that, I think the puzzles were well designed with a gameplay flow in mind.

I'd say the main criticism I have is to clean up some of the user interface by removing the "Next" button when there's no more text to see, or displaying what components you put into the mortar and pedestal. I wish I could remove components that I've used rather than resetting the level, however in the end it wasn't totally necessary to make the game fun. Not to mention, it would be good to inform the player that they can only make things with combinations of two components (not more, though I could be wrong if that showed up later in the game).

Additionally, I received this error while clicking the grinder rapidly, which forced me to close out the game:
___________________________________________
############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Mouse Event for Left Pressed
for object oPote:

File is not opened for reading.
at gml_Script_loadRecipes
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_loadRecipes (line 0)
gml_Script_val_inPote
gml_Object_oPote_Mouse_4
馃帳 blzkz
10. Dec 2014 路 14:56 UTC
@CMWeissMedia thanks for the feedback! You are right, all that things you say that are useless now... it's because we couldn't finish the game, such get it more polished or decresing the time when you press the reset button.

I'm thinking about finish the game the way we thought about it as a postmortem
Techblogogy
10. Dec 2014 路 20:23 UTC
Cool approach on the theme. Fantastic job!
TeamQuadratic
12. Dec 2014 路 00:55 UTC
Pretty cool idea, though somewhat challenging.
Chaoseed
12. Dec 2014 路 01:03 UTC
I liked this! Well, it has some problems, admittedly. ;) Some of the stuff I was able to guess with what little I know of alchemy, but some seemed random...Like the Quintessence level, I had to try all 10 combinations, and it turned out to be the last one! (Incidentally, are there any combinations that are more than two ingredients, or is it always just two? Might want to mention that somewhere.) I still can't solve the platinum/gold/silver level. How about somewhere that gives hints? Or maybe a feature that shows you 'recipes' you've unlocked; I notice there's a book on the table that is just waiting to be clicked. ;) And finally, while clicking I got this message:


___________________________________________
############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Mouse Event for Left Pressed
for object oPote:

Cannot open another file (maximum exceeded).
at gml_Script_loadRecipes
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_loadRecipes (line 0)
gml_Script_val_inPote
gml_Object_oPote_Mouse_4

All in all, though, pretty good!
馃帳 blzkz
12. Dec 2014 路 12:24 UTC
@chaoseed only combinations with two element, thats why is not accurate with achemy. I will update the entry to mention it :)

About more hits... I said it earlier, we could finish the game, and we couldn't polish the gameplay.

I will check this error! Thanks for playing, and for that feedback :)
DarkEngineer
12. Dec 2014 路 17:55 UTC
Nice game
Wilou1428
12. Dec 2014 路 19:30 UTC
Nice game :D
Strandypants
13. Dec 2014 路 11:43 UTC
I really enjoyed this! You should maybe add in some sort of a recipee book or something, and give the player a goal other than just making recipees. But appart from that, great fun!
Nikteddy92
14. Dec 2014 路 17:51 UTC
Wooa I love crafting games!
Well developed, well done! :D
Myyyvothrr
16. Dec 2014 路 13:38 UTC
Really liked the graphics! I don't normally like crafing games, but I played it longer than I thought and it was fun.
Canyon
16. Dec 2014 路 23:07 UTC
I like the mood of this game! I managed to craft some dust, but I couldn't drag the coal to the tray. Not sure what I was doing wrong. I tried a few times but to no avail.
馃帳 blzkz
18. Dec 2014 路 23:21 UTC
Thank you guys!
Mechatodzilla
18. Dec 2014 路 23:42 UTC
Neat idea. I seemed to find too many ways to mess my game up. Cool project though.
Shivur
19. Dec 2014 路 23:48 UTC
Very good game.
Poupi
25. Dec 2014 路 01:57 UTC
Very nice ;)
Mach60KAS
27. Dec 2014 路 15:32 UTC
Quite an interesting little puzzle game, although I got stuck on Gold, Silver, Platinum before the game crashed (same error as someone else in the comments). Well thought-out and pretty smart, I enjoyed the core gameplay. I think some way of keeping notes in the game might have been nice, but I suppose that's why we have pen and paper! Overall quite a solid entry - good work! :)
馃帳 blzkz
27. Dec 2014 路 17:03 UTC
Hi Mach60Kas, I tried to fix this bug but it's seems like a radom bug in Game Maker with files :/
maxmetallica
29. Dec 2014 路 21:13 UTC
nice work
Hellequin
29. Dec 2014 路 22:06 UTC
Interesting game! Really cool concept! Well done!