Sorcerer's Gambit by woofdog99

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made by woofdog99 for LD 43 (JAM)

ATTENTION MAGES :

We are looking for talented mages to rid the dungeons of horrid monsters, and terrifying beings from other dimensions. Your challenge (if you choose to accept it) is to fight the so-called "Boss Monsters", please sign the contract for food, magic and funeral expenses, if necessary.

Do you except the challenge?

Note for Nerds :

the game will be updated post jam, if necessary.

  • dapper mallard studios

Ratings

Overall 592th 3.352⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 613th 3.148⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 880th 2.685⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 992th 2.327⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 335th 3.87⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 733th 2.396⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 846th 2.804⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

FireBug
04. Dec 2018 · 01:35 UTC
Very pretty game! I like the art style and the idea of a mage job recruitment is fun. While the font looks good for headers, perhaps choose a simpler version of it for longer sections of smaller-sized text. I found the instructions a little difficult to read.
RacyRebel
04. Dec 2018 · 01:35 UTC
I really dig the artwork in this game a bunch!
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 01:39 UTC
FireBug I agree, but I could not find a good enough font that was easier to read, and fit the theme. But thanks you guys!
thedarkmagi
04. Dec 2018 · 01:39 UTC
The art is really nice. I couldn't read the instructions at all. Please consider using a more legible font especially for how to play sections, I legitimately had to get someone to read it to me.
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 01:59 UTC
oh no! sorry about that! I'll see too that immediately
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 01:59 UTC
oh no! sorry about that! I'll see too that immediately
Timothy Tarter
04. Dec 2018 · 03:00 UTC
Amazing job! This is really great!
jdelaay025johnd1788
04. Dec 2018 · 03:20 UTC
I really enjoyed playing this one. I actually stayed a while and kept playing. The sound effect got annoying after while but not enough to make want to stop playing so that's even more of a testament to how good the game is. Well done!!!
Jeffrey Hwang
04. Dec 2018 · 03:24 UTC
Good job on completing a game! It was too easy in my opinion, as I ended up ignoring most of the mechanics. If you could tweak the difficulty and boss hp to be a bit less spongy i think it'd be awesome! Congrats!
DWaM
04. Dec 2018 · 03:43 UTC
Neat game. I like the visuals. That said, I don't know if the bosses are randomized, but most of my bosses ended up looking Cthulu-like, so their design got a bit stale.

I'd also seen what I suspect were most of the movesets after the 3rd or 4th one, with all of them preferring to strike with lightning, almost never hitting me if I got too close. As a result, as mentioned by someone else, the game isn't really all that difficult. Losing health also never really seemed like too much of an issue, simply because of how slowly it seemed to drain.

Still, it's a neat idea and overall a well-made package. Well done!
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 05:01 UTC
@jeffrey-hwang it is not visible for the first few rounds, but if you stay alive long enough the bosses damage grows.
WalterP
04. Dec 2018 · 05:31 UTC
Neat boss mechanics, a bit easy and hard to tell how much HP the bosses had. Good work, keep it up
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 05:48 UTC
Hey every body, I just wanted to say I made the text a bit easier to read
Mouse
04. Dec 2018 · 06:20 UTC
Good work completing the game and responding to feedback. Overall I wasn't entirely sure what I was supposed to be doing and felt as though the game didn't give me a lot of feedback on when I was doing well versus poorly.

Art style, sound and music is great though!
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 06:36 UTC
thanks @mouse, nice icon
Ace17
04. Dec 2018 · 07:55 UTC
Nice art, and good controls ; although my spacebar is now officially dead.
Maybe an 'autofire' mode would be welcome?
Gebowunjo
04. Dec 2018 · 13:06 UTC
Nice Battle Boss game ! love the idea =D Meanwhile it's easy to win if you spam the space bar =P ! Well Done !
Ece
04. Dec 2018 · 14:34 UTC
haha I really had fun! but even though my life decreased and finished, I couldnt die
Jesper K
04. Dec 2018 · 14:55 UTC
The boss battle mechanics is nice, gets pretty hard as they hit hard after defeating a few bosses :-)

Art looks great and the music aswell :-)
What the game misses is a bit of feedback flavor, like when hitting the boss it could have a kickback and a slight flash as a hit reaction :-)
MrJackhpil
04. Dec 2018 · 14:58 UTC
Interesting idea. Want to have more options than just pressing space a lot of times)
Zhanna
04. Dec 2018 · 17:14 UTC
I end up just staying in front of the boss pressing space until he died. I was totally fine though, almost full hp.
Well... let's just say I'm not a hardcore gamer but it was just too easy even for me :dog:
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 17:30 UTC
ATTENTION FEEDBACK!!
I do not know if you can update your game mid-jam! if somebody could tell me, I have ideas as of how to change these problems
🎤 woofdog99
04. Dec 2018 · 18:27 UTC
thanks to all of you had pointed out some small bugs, here are some of the people :

@mrjackhpil
@zhanna
@jesper-k
@ace17

remember this is just some of the people!
LERPish
04. Dec 2018 · 20:47 UTC
@woofdog99 rly cool game man loved the art style, liked the music, mechanics where fun and i had a real blast playing this one, usually i only play 5 mins of each game but i kept playing this to see the cool boss combinations, my only problem was that i didnt rly understood the objective of this one, well anyway its a solid 4
Cincerteri
04. Dec 2018 · 22:22 UTC
Pretty cool. The graphics are great and the mechanics are pretty fun too.
wheatleyscience
05. Dec 2018 · 00:22 UTC
good game, i like art style. some of the bosses are quite thought :/ our game has a similar idea mainly we were focusing on boss battles. game with boss battles are cool :)
🎤 woofdog99
05. Dec 2018 · 01:32 UTC
@wheatleyscience I completely agree, boss fights are cool!
zanagi
06. Dec 2018 · 05:09 UTC
Very cool game, really loved the graphics and boss generation!
kamekai
06. Dec 2018 · 18:58 UTC
I'm getting CSP errors on Firefox and it won't load on Chrome :(