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Mana Drunk by JustusPan

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made by JustusPan for LD 44 (JAM)

Mana Drunk

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Game Description

Gain Mana from enemies and treat mana as your life.

Rules

  • Enemy will absorb the accumulated mana on him every peroid of time and enhance themself.
    When enemy died, all of mana it accumulated will be gained by you .
  • Red emeny is special.
  • When mana less than 0, our little mage dies.
  • pay you mana by pressing 1,2,3 to enhance your ability accordingly
  • After defeat final boss, you can inherit all of your status and rush again with higher difficulty in next respawn generation.

Secrets

  • Mana Bomb amplify your consumed mana on enemy with a multiplier.
  • Enemies like mana.
  • Over-charge mana can kill a enemy.
  • Red Slime is a mana-polluted type. It will absorb huge amount of mana immediately.
  • If little mana applied on Red Slime, it will be in a mana-desire status, if you always give a little mana to it, it starts to increase mana by itself.

Secrets of Boss

  • His name is Mana Slime.
  • It has great ability to contain huge amount of mana.
  • Normal mana bullet is too little to overcharge it.
  • Mana bomb with incredible high bomb power may take effect.
  • How to get so much mana to trigger our super-power mana bomb?

Goals

Beat the Boss and refresh your highscore! mana<em>drunk</em>you_died.png

Me

JustusPan Twitter

About

Engine Toolkit

Controls Description:

Mana is your life and currency in Store. BottomRight corner of screen displayed the required mana to level up each ability.

move - WSAD
mana bullet - J
mana bomb - K
tuning bomb power - I / O(decrease/increase)
running - shift

buy mana max - 1
buy mana bomb multiplier - 2
buy mana bomb range - 3

Windows https://gamejolt.com/games/mana_drunk/410973
HTML5 (web) https://gamejolt.com/games/mana_drunk/410973
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/mana-drunk

Ratings

Given 17🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

🎤 JustusPan
27. Apr 2019 · 00:52 UTC
LD44
bnmkt
29. Apr 2019 · 16:25 UTC
That's a very nice game dude ! i don't understand why you put it in unfinished :(
🎤 JustusPan
29. Apr 2019 · 17:27 UTC
@bnmkt thank you! The bgm is not mine so I have to submit it in Jam Category. I'll pulish it before deadline of Jam.
elrobo
30. Apr 2019 · 05:53 UTC
Loved the cute wizard, the indicators for direction and mana under the characters were very helpful.
ScalphaMission
30. Apr 2019 · 05:54 UTC
The game mechanics are super fluid and well done
Rakowu
30. Apr 2019 · 05:57 UTC
Good and smooth controlls. Like how it fade out for Gameover. And the shooting behaviour is quick and response really nice! Great! :D
SvenErik
30. Apr 2019 · 05:58 UTC
A neat minimal shooter game with well matching graphics and the bg sound fits it well. Though I did expect little flying imps instead of slimes at the start, but I guess the wizard is drunk on mana, thus sees things differently.
SynysterCola
30. Apr 2019 · 06:05 UTC
Love the concept, graphics, and music. I had a lot of fun playing this! The mechanics are some of the best I've played!
🎤 JustusPan
30. Apr 2019 · 06:19 UTC
@svenerik hahaha xD
kuro
30. Apr 2019 · 07:20 UTC
First of all, the wizard movement animation is so cute it wants me wanna scream in a high pitched voice.
The game is really fun, cute, nice, controls well, sounds well, etc. etc. Really a great job, you got the highest rating out of all games I played so far. I didn't manage to beat the final boss, although I tried three times. Doesn't seem to take any damage. How do you beat him?
🎤 JustusPan
30. Apr 2019 · 07:28 UTC
@kuro
turning up the mana bomb power and continuously explode red slime! they will grow to a huge size. Then keep shooting on a same red slime and alway let it in a mana-increasing status, it will be killed soon. and huge mana will be leaked out and gained our little mage. quickly tuning the 'bomb power' to a incredible high value and press "Boom"(key_k). You are likely over-kill the boss immediately.

Thank you for your deep playing!
🎤 JustusPan
30. Apr 2019 · 07:32 UTC
@kuro also don't forget leveling up by press 1,2,3 when you earned enough mana('plus' icons can be seen on the bottom-right price panel)
Alexar
30. Apr 2019 · 08:05 UTC
Nice game !
ttwings
30. Apr 2019 · 09:47 UTC
good job。 have fun。
MateusBoga
30. Apr 2019 · 13:35 UTC
Nice game! I found a few visual glitches, and I think the enemy AI is a bit bad (they run into walls all the time). Catchy tune! Great work
Gruni
30. Apr 2019 · 13:43 UTC
Love the sound and the art is cute. It's like Gandalf was a blue-robed badass motherflipper. The only downside: I wasn't happy with the keybindings. Good job, though! Keep on jammin'!
logoss
30. Apr 2019 · 14:35 UTC
I love this game!
DoggieBalloon
30. Apr 2019 · 14:38 UTC
Good project. I like the simplicity. Some things that can improve the game is by breaking up the monotony of "mashing shoot button" by introducing different types of attacks the player can use, and as well as additional enemy types. Pathfinding need a bit of fixing but it's okay for a prototype. I would say that the good thing about Mana Drunk is that the fundamental parts feel polished. So now you can continue iterating on your game and add more things to make it more interesting.
🎤 JustusPan
30. Apr 2019 · 14:50 UTC
@doggieballoon Thanks for detailed advices!:)
toasteater
30. Apr 2019 · 14:50 UTC
Simple but fairly enjoyable! The animations are juicy and the sounds fit together, if a bit loud when it stacks. I find beating the game a bit tricky because the mob enemies don't train you for the boss. It was a bit surprising when the boss came and your attacks suddenly do nothing.
Eelstork
30. Apr 2019 · 18:12 UTC
It's enjoyable yes but being a big fan of top down shooters, I really, really needed it to start way harder. Overall it feels like one of the more polished entries but what's holding it back a little in my opinion is breaking that mold
Ryan Wine
30. Apr 2019 · 23:07 UTC
Pretty fun, gameplay is great!
Darylsteak
01. May 2019 · 05:08 UTC
I felt it was great, I like the game over system, where your mana and lvls will carry forward, and the red slime mechanic was really really good for farming mana. The art and music also fit well

Never actually beat the boss tho, even with everything maxed out, tough guy.
Golden
01. May 2019 · 16:32 UTC
Felt incredibly solid and polished, nice job!
CorvatoCafeto
02. May 2019 · 22:45 UTC
Really liked the minimalistic pixel art with its animations, the controls felt good, overall it feels polished, need more variety but what can you ask for a jam game anyways, maybe ill be mirroring this basic pixel art with tween animations jejeje
Eduardo Yukio
04. May 2019 · 00:59 UTC
Things I didn't like:
- It's a bit confusing the part where we hit the purple one and then he absorbs mana and when we kill him we gain absurd amounts of mana. It scales too fast. It's kind of fun too, but more confusing than fun hahaha. It's too chaotic.
- The sound effects stacks when you kill many monsters. It gets really loud. (I use Godot too and have the same problem, don't know how to solve...)
- The difficulty curve ramps up too fast. The levels 1-5 are very easy, the green blobs pratically don't count as threats. Then the boss comes and instakills me, lul.


Things I liked:
- The effects were very good, like when enemies died or when I threw a large bomb and many died, satisfying.
- The music is awesome!!
- The boss fight is very challenging. I was satisfied when I finally killed him.
- The pixel art is simple but beautiful!
dasMaichen
05. May 2019 · 18:50 UTC
A nice game! I had a lot of fun playing this. :) And I like the music.