Court Of Talis by noddingTortoise

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made by noddingTortoise for LD35 (JAM)
Court of Talis is an arena based game that uses shapeshifting and type matching to defeat waves of enemies.

Your aim is to simply survive as long as you can, using your shape shifting to match the enemies weaknesses to defeat them.

Unfortunately I was rather limited on time this Ludumdare so the game is quite simple and probably a bit clunky (and most likely buggy).

Controls:
Move: W,A,S,D or Left/Right and Up/Down arrows
Attack: Spacebar,
Select Shape: Q
ShapeShift: E

Thanks for playing :-)

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.00 751
Fun(Jam) 2.59 940
Graphics(Jam) 2.14 1047
Innovation(Jam) 2.90 671
Mood(Jam) 2.69 830
Theme(Jam) 3.69 268

Feedback

banana.hammers
19. Apr 2016 路 20:17 UTC
Interesting.
Since you have a limited about of shapes you could have added them on different keys. Pressing Q again and again becomes tedious.
And also making the game fast pace (and skill based) might be better.
I like that you included a tutorial :)
Good job!

Cheers
-Morco (Banana Hammers team)
EpiFouloux
20. Apr 2016 路 09:28 UTC
Well nice job, it deserve optimization and maybe some pause menu / rules menu, but good work !
leo_p_mahon
22. Apr 2016 路 21:05 UTC
Liked the concept. Took a while to grasp but was a lot of fun. The sound was great especially when shapeshifting!
馃帳 noddingTortoise
22. Apr 2016 路 21:27 UTC
Thanks for the feedback! :-)

@banana.hammers I thought about having the shapes assigned to different keys(namely keys 1,2,3) but ran out of time to try and test this, so I might look into this if I decide to do a post jam update. I also feel that the pacing needs improving, with a faster pace probably suiting the style a bit better than its current form.

@EpiFouloux If I decide to do a post jam update I will definitely try and optimise it a bit better, it really does need it :-D, and include a pause menu, which I wanted to include this version but ran out of time :-(
KairosXIII
22. Apr 2016 路 23:11 UTC
Nice concept, good take on theme.
fin_nolimit
24. Apr 2016 路 22:21 UTC
Thank you for posting the video!!! It made me want to come out and play your game again!!!! Fantastic job!!!
Darenn
24. Apr 2016 路 22:40 UTC
A bit annoying after 10 waves, but it's a very good idea, and a good game. :) Congratulations !
d3garcia
24. Apr 2016 路 23:55 UTC
Very good entry, I like the smoothness of the gameplay
kostik1337
25. Apr 2016 路 20:09 UTC
Very interesting, but when I found right tactic, surviving became too easy.
dalbinblue
26. Apr 2016 路 00:02 UTC
Nice game, though I think the player's movement was a bit slow. Also as a few others had noted it might have made more sense to either have dedicated buttons for three shapes or toggle between the shapes with Q and E such that the transform happens immediately.
OttersDen
27. Apr 2016 路 19:42 UTC
I survived 12 waves!
The concept is good, although the controls are a little tough to get use to initially. But good job! Keep up the good work.
rjhelms
27. Apr 2016 路 19:47 UTC
Nice concept. This could really shine with some polish to the graphics and difficulty.
zugende
29. Apr 2016 路 20:22 UTC
I like it. A bit complicated but cool. Music is simple but melodic!
Jaenis
08. May 2016 路 13:37 UTC
Very nice game!