Mystic Power by seurimas
THE WHITE BULLET SPELL IS "OUT OF AMMO". IT HAS A MINOR SLOWING EFFECT, BUT YOU NEED TO PICK A REAL SPELL
Controls - WASD/Mouse
Pick a spell on the side of the screen (when on a font of magic essence) to claim your mystic power.
Can you survive the hoard? Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Hulks await! Cast powerful spells, but be warned: your mystic power will run out. Search the fields for the fonts of magic essence and gather power for new spells. How long can you survive?
Note: you start out without power. The white bullets slow but do not damage enemies. You need to pick a real spell to fight the hoard.
| HTML5 (web) | https://keui.itch.io/mystic-power |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/mystic-power |
Ratings
| Overall | 648th | 2.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 639th | 2.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 629th | 2.19⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 535th | 3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 550th | 2.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 315th | 2.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 508th | 2.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
The concept looks nice, but when I shoot the bullets don't hit anything (they actually go straight through the enemies without damaging them).
I think you should upload a fixed version if you get some time because it makes the game difficult to evaluate right now.
@incobalt Thanks, interesting is definitely what I was going for! I agree the icemines felt really good. Super happy with the spells, even if I'd have liked to add more, given the time :)
Another information I was missing that's quite important to know is that if you hold the mouse button it continues to shoot! At my first try I was only clicking manually for every bullet to shoot, and at rate the slow down effect is almost unnoticeable (that's why I thought there was a problem with collisions).
Silly me for not being a bit more persistent :D
A few improvements would be the option to keep the very helpful slow-down spell and maybe be able to trigger it with a second mouse button/switch between them.
The spells are nicely varied and feel good to use. I liked them :) The mine laying spell is quite nice :D
The enemies were a bit too fast. With some of the spells, you could fire at their maximum fire rate, and still not kill the enemies fast enough to avoid getting swarmed. Also, it was hard to survive on/near the platform for long enough for the spell cooldown to finish, for the same reason.
I liked the graphics and sounds as well. The "thump" when getting hit by the big monsters worked quite well, for instance.
>Beset by monsters,
>I must find effective spells!
>Muhaha! Ice Mines!
Beautiful haiku :)