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Wrath Of The Gods by AfroAnt

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made by AfroAnt for LD 43 (JAM)

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It's just another day for the village shaman. Help the villagers make sacrifices before you incur the Wrath Of The Gods!

Ritual Companion Guide download

Prepare the Sacrifices

  • Listen to villager requests
  • Boil ingredients to match the ink color with their prayer type
  • Grab a sacrifice (doll, bird, cat, or even goat!)
  • Draw their god's symbol
  • Return the object and pray the gods will be please

Shaman Hut Features:

  • Bowl: Holds all your ingredients at once!
  • Fire: Boil ingredients to concoct a new ink!
  • Fountain: Need a new color? Wash the old one away!

Controls:

  • Click and hold to lift objects. Release to drop the object on the table or villager.
  • Release the pen on the bowl liquid to change its color. Then click a sacrifice to draw
  • Draw symbols by click and holding
  • Esc: Menu (useful if the book gets knocked away...)

Rated M for animal sacrifices

Created by MessinaBrothers - AfroAnt - programming - EvilAsShiz - graphics/audio

With special thanks to twitch chat! (coughterryrileycough)

Post-LD Version (Do not use for rating!)

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  • Graphics: new color palette, villagers now sport various '80s-inspired apparel
  • Controls: hover over the bowl to change pen color, objects in bowl easier to take out
  • Villagers: enter through door, stay until given a sacrifice, satisfy 10 to win the game
  • Ritual Book: less words, fixed phantom first and last pages
  • Resolution: changed from 640x514 :sob: to 1280x960
Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axfiD9z4s-G2MEp0XQNDMvE4DcAqVG7H/view?usp=sharing
Linux https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aRlNYtKu2wwFuH5_t-kQAZGnGGO-1gxn/view?usp=sharing
macOS https://drive.google.com/file/d/16NCpw6J8IBd404bwJmS-wx2NoDePBY8k/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/wrath-of-the-gods-1

Ratings

Overall 757th 3.135⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 715th 3⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 272th 3.481⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 436th 3.593⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 729th 3.077⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 503th 3.019⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 377th 3.115⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 835th 2.846⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

Sickdot
04. Dec 2018 · 10:57 UTC
This was pretty fun! It needs more polish tho
fizzhog
04. Dec 2018 · 11:39 UTC
Sorry to be dense but I can't figure out how or where to write the symbols. Please explain the mechanics a bit more clearly. Also if you accidentally drop an item on the book it knocks it out of view. I'm bothering to comment because I really like the idea and look of the game and I want to be able to play it properly.
🎤 AfroAnt
04. Dec 2018 · 15:10 UTC
@fizzhog Hold onto the pen, and release it onto a sacrifice (doll, bird, cat, or goat). You can also release it on the bowl to change colors, which you then click on a sacrifice afterwards.

The sacrifice should move to the camera, and you'll be given a window to draw in. Draw a symbol from the book, and when you click Return, a gold symbol will appear to confirm your pattern. If no gold, you can try again on the same sacrifice.

Thanks for the interest!
fizzhog
04. Dec 2018 · 16:05 UTC
Okay. I get it now. I had fun. I was terrible at it, the clumsiest shaman in the village's history. I think I'll be coming back to this and playing it again - which is not something you think often when playing games made in short gamejams. I can see that it is a game where you would get better over time. I suppose it's somewhat akin to a game such as Surgeon Simulator or Octodad? With some variety in the gameplay I could imagine this being popular. Only annoyance is the problem I mentioned with the book disappearing. Fun game - thanks for making it.
disperse
06. Dec 2018 · 04:24 UTC
This is amazing, so good. Cook serve delicious meets surgeon simulator meets magicka. I wish I were better at it. I'll probably come back and play more later...
catbutt
06. Dec 2018 · 07:50 UTC
fun little game good job!
TheCrittersCove
06. Dec 2018 · 13:36 UTC
It's an interesting idea, but the controls and UI need some work. I think the symbols and recipes need to be permanently listed somewhere. I was really lost on how to sacrifice an animal until the end. I also think the people with requests come and go too quick. Maybe they could speed up later? I do like the idea of the drawing symbols mechanic, but I didn't get a chance to try it out much. Overall, still a lot of polish needed, but a neat and ambitious idea.
Vlad Ilisan
06. Dec 2018 · 16:45 UTC
It's a cool game but a bit hard to understand what you are suposed to do at the beginning.
shulololo
06. Dec 2018 · 23:34 UTC
I'm pretty bad at this game lol. I got the hang of it after a couple of tries but it took a while. I think if the game had more polish, it will be much better. Overall I had fun with this game. Great job!
Iluvatar
07. Dec 2018 · 09:07 UTC
A love those cute models! :) Interesting game. Maybe too hard, but that's just me being noob.
disperse
08. Dec 2018 · 03:00 UTC
Yellow is the color of 'Thanks' right? I got a 'bad color' message trying that. Any updates to this game?
disperse
08. Dec 2018 · 03:15 UTC
Ahh, I see, I was reading black as yellow but there's actually orange and yellow. I think I got it.
LukeL
11. Dec 2018 · 15:11 UTC
Cool concept! Took me a while to get to grasps on what to do. But pretty fun once i knew what to do! Nice job