{"author_link":"\/users\/eli-delventhal","author_name":"Eli Delventhal","author_uid":"1012279","comments":[{"author_name":"wdelvi","author_uid":"1026750","time":"2018-12-03T03:55:24Z","epoch":1543809324,"modified":1543809324,"text":"It could use so much more to it but it's already awesome. I love the little battle animations","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hugonun","author_uid":"1122671","time":"2018-12-09T17:50:44Z","epoch":1544377844,"modified":1545325195,"text":"I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to pass level 2, but I think that forging 2crystals at the same time is supposed to make me stronger, but only shows as if I only used 1.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eli Delventhal","author_uid":"1012279","time":"2018-12-19T06:52:31Z","epoch":1545202351,"modified":1545202351,"text":"@hugonun \u2013 looks like there was a tiny bug in there where the wrong prefab was dragged for the 2 crystal recipe (which as you found made it impossible to proceed). Also I noticed that the sounds weren't working when played from the browser due to another minor issue. I fixed those if you want to try again.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hare Software","author_uid":"1079680","time":"2018-12-20T00:26:47Z","epoch":1545265607,"modified":1545265607,"text":"I figured the game out after a few tries and played it for much longer than I had planned for. Very well balanced mechanics that forces you to sacrifice a few heroes for souls. Well done!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PlagueOfMinds","author_uid":"1128895","time":"2018-12-21T00:27:52Z","epoch":1545352072,"modified":1545352072,"text":"Cool game. I liked the strategy of building your character. It needs a win screen though. I don't know what the people above are talking about with the crystal, but I did have to exit and renter the game twice to get enough demon essence to beat my first dungeon with demons. Overall, I found this game great.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LeviDSmith","author_uid":"1000425","time":"2018-12-21T01:13:40Z","epoch":1545354820,"modified":1545354820,"text":"Cute graphics.  I eventually got to make it past the first set of enemies.  The crafting system was sort of confusing to me.  I wish I could have crafted more than one item at a time.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hacktier","author_uid":"1011904","time":"2018-12-21T02:00:47Z","epoch":1545357647,"modified":1545357647,"text":"I love the grafics. Really nice game, but unfortunately stuck in the snow biom. \nWell done!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dorukh","author_uid":"1059889","time":"2018-12-23T08:23:40Z","epoch":1545553420,"modified":1545553420,"text":"I really like games like this, it plays well, and has some flavor into it, and you seem to be a solo dev who made all the assets. (wow) Really good job, exceptional work! :)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"luker128","author_uid":"1122120","time":"2018-12-23T19:50:52Z","epoch":1545594652,"modified":1545594977,"text":"I really like the idea, and the fact that the game 'plays itself' when you watch the battles unfold. Harvesting souls is however quite tiring.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eli Delventhal","author_uid":"1012279","time":"2018-12-23T22:55:30Z","epoch":1545605730,"modified":1545605730,"text":"@dorukh Thanks. :-) I cut a lot of corners with the assets so that it would be possible. For example, the world map is actually a zoomed out version of a Minecraft server map I play on. :-P Keeping the characters and items super low res (16x16) and based upon art I've already drawn before makes them very fast to knock out. It only took me about 3 hours to draw every character, and 2 more to draw the items. The UI took by far the most time, and probably looks the worst!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eli Delventhal","author_uid":"1012279","time":"2018-12-23T23:09:27Z","epoch":1545606567,"modified":1545606567,"text":"@hacktier Auch, you're right! Another balance problem. Looks like it's impossible to beat the demons. You'd need to kill at least one to be able to kill one, it's a catch-22. I'll type a new number into the config and update it.\n\n@luker128 Yeah, I was planning for a quest that just gains you souls, but never got around to it. I agree it's a bit slow.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"miziziziz","author_uid":"1005749","time":"2018-12-24T02:21:59Z","epoch":1545618119,"modified":1545618119,"text":"really fun game, enjoyed this a lot! Would love to see some more story and polish on this.\nBy the way, is there any way to get defense against normal attacks?","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eli Delventhal","author_uid":"1012279","time":"2018-12-25T19:21:26Z","epoch":1545765686,"modified":1545765686,"text":"@miziziziz You're right, there's no way to defend against normal attacks. I was planning on it but it ended up out of scope. Also, in some cases, I had to add a bit of normal attack to an enemy because otherwise there was an edge case that could cause the battle to never end (each side doing 0 to each other).","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Erkberg","author_uid":"1000213","time":"2018-12-26T15:09:20Z","epoch":1545836960,"modified":1545836960,"text":"Pretty nice game already and it would make for a solid foundation for something much bigger. Visuals and audio are nice and gameplay is really interesting, but a little grindy. If, like you already mentioned, you added a bestiary and especially some parallelization (gaining souls is quite awkward at the moment), this could become a really great little game. It is already quite enjoyable in its current state though, good job!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"honey","author_uid":"1080533","time":"2018-12-30T01:25:54Z","epoch":1546133154,"modified":1546133154,"text":"Very fun game, though very grindy. Maybe if at least some of the crafted progress can be carried through then it would be less of a grind. But the premise is great! Should you make it less grind heavy and more progress heavy, then the idea of elements and battle preparations is awesome! Also the artstyle is great, audio is nice, the overworld map, though not really good for anything, is awesome touch that hooked me in the first place! Add some story here and there and I'm in! Overall pretty solid entry!","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld43\/132817-76478cefcdf6c08fd4093a13134907ed.gif"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/flintgames.com\/builds\/hero-souls","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"http:\/\/flintgames.com\/builds\/hero-souls\/Scripts.zip","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"45636","g_author":"1012279","g_event":"LD43","g_eventkey":"71","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"228238","g_title":"Soul Crucible","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"163","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"132817","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"132817","n_urlkey":"228238","n_parent":"120415","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/hero-souls","n_slug":"hero-souls","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"12279","n_created":"1543802279","n_modified":"1545234697","n_version":"414605","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":132817,"parent":120415,"superparent":9,"author":12279,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-12-03T02:10:21Z","created":"2018-12-03T01:57:59Z","modified":"2018-12-19T15:51:37Z","version":414605,"slug":"hero-souls","name":"Soul Crucible","body":"### Story\n\nIn Soul Crucible (renamed from \"Hero Souls\"), you are the overlord of a kingdom that has been possessed by evil. Your final village is about to be destroyed when you decide to do the unthinkable \u2013 unlock the power of the legendary Soul Crucible, a relic of dark power. With it, you think you just may be able to save your kingdom from the forces of evil.\n\nThe Soul Crucible combines rare gems and a rarer resource still \u2013 souls, to create ultra power artifacts.\n\nTo conquer the evil of the 9 realms in your land, you will have to send many heroes. Will they go to their death, so you can gain their valuable soul, or will they be outfitted well enough to conquer what awaits?\n\n\n### Gameplay\n\nSimple clicky chill game. Manage resources, send guys on quests. Enchant gear.\n\nDidn't have enough time to draw nearly as many enemies etc as I wanted, or backgrounds, or any of that stuff, but so it goes.\n\n![HeroSacGame3Small.gif](\/\/\/raw\/7ff\/2\/z\/1fbaf.gif)\n\nOne major feature that I think is missing is a \"Bestiary\" that tells you the stats of stuff you've faced. As it stands, you sometimes get only a flash if you get killed very quickly. There are also balance issues in here, for sure, although it's all beatable if you do the right combination of stuff.\n\nAlso, the original idea was to have a whole lot of heroes all doing lots of things at once, being able to recover lost items, etc but all that got cut to keep the scope down.\n\nNote that I fixed a bug post-compo that a reviewer called out \u2013 there was just the wrong number on some of the level data. Since I had less than 48h to work on this anyway, I just replaced the existing build with that very quick fix version.\n\n### Bestiary\n(spoilers, use only if you want to):\n- Skeleton: 1 Fire attack\n- Cpt Skeleton: 2 Fire attack, 1 Normal attack, 2 Normal defense\n- Zomber: 2 Cold attack, 1 Normal defense\n- Zomber Poet: 1 Normal attack, 3 Cold attack, 2 Normal defense, 3 Fire defense\n- Cactus Man: 2 Lightning attack, 2 Fire defense\n- Caxetus Man: 1 Normal attack, 2 Lightning attack, 3 Fire defense, 1 Cold defense\n- Ghost: 1 Shadow attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense\n- Dark Ghost: 3 Shadow attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense\n- Evil Eye: 3 Shadow attack, 1 Monster attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense, 1 Shadow defense\n- Evilest Eye: 5 Monster attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense, 2 Shadow defense\n- Demon: 6 Demon attack, 4 Fire defense, 4 Cold defense, 4 Lightning defense, 4 Shadow defense\n- Mal King: 16 Demon attack, 1 Normal attack, 10 Monster attack, 6 Shadow attack, 8 all elemental defenses\n\n### Enchantments guide\n(spoilers, use only if you want to):\n\nI planned for complicated recipes but I just nixed them because I didn't have time to explain them really. So, put gems of a single type in there, 1-4. If you put 4, you get the most powerful that sort of element, 3 is less powerful, 1 is least powerful. If you combine types, it will just make the best enchantment it can and won't use extra gems provided. Simple. Combine slots to get multiple defenses, but you can only have one sort of attack. New enchantments will replace previous ones in the same slot, even if they're weaker or the same. You need 1 soul per enchantment.","meta":{"author":[12279],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/7ff\/2\/z\/1fbb0.gif","link-01":"http:\/\/flintgames.com\/builds\/hero-souls","link-01-tag":"42336","link-02":"http:\/\/flintgames.com\/builds\/hero-souls\/Scripts.zip","link-02-tag":"42332"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/hero-souls","parents":[1,5,9,120415],"love":0,"notes":15,"notes-timestamp":"2018-12-30T01:25:54Z","grade":{"grade-01":25,"grade-02":25,"grade-03":25,"grade-04":25,"grade-05":25,"grade-06":25,"grade-07":23,"grade-08":25},"magic":{"cool":101.82544403356,"feedback":17,"given":24.625,"grade":24.75,"grade-01-average":3.609,"grade-01-result":163,"grade-02-average":3.478,"grade-02-result":162,"grade-03-average":3.543,"grade-03-result":120,"grade-04-average":3.913,"grade-04-result":109,"grade-05-average":3.543,"grade-05-result":188,"grade-06-average":3.152,"grade-06-result":203,"grade-07-average":3,"grade-07-result":179,"grade-08-average":3.37,"grade-08-result":167,"smart":15.688540417097}},"text":"### Story\n\nIn Soul Crucible (renamed from \"Hero Souls\"), you are the overlord of a kingdom that has been possessed by evil. Your final village is about to be destroyed when you decide to do the unthinkable \u2013 unlock the power of the legendary Soul Crucible, a relic of dark power. With it, you think you just may be able to save your kingdom from the forces of evil.\n\nThe Soul Crucible combines rare gems and a rarer resource still \u2013 souls, to create ultra power artifacts.\n\nTo conquer the evil of the 9 realms in your land, you will have to send many heroes. Will they go to their death, so you can gain their valuable soul, or will they be outfitted well enough to conquer what awaits?\n\n\n### Gameplay\n\nSimple clicky chill game. Manage resources, send guys on quests. Enchant gear.\n\nDidn't have enough time to draw nearly as many enemies etc as I wanted, or backgrounds, or any of that stuff, but so it goes.\n\n![HeroSacGame3Small.gif](\/\/\/raw\/7ff\/2\/z\/1fbaf.gif)\n\nOne major feature that I think is missing is a \"Bestiary\" that tells you the stats of stuff you've faced. As it stands, you sometimes get only a flash if you get killed very quickly. There are also balance issues in here, for sure, although it's all beatable if you do the right combination of stuff.\n\nAlso, the original idea was to have a whole lot of heroes all doing lots of things at once, being able to recover lost items, etc but all that got cut to keep the scope down.\n\nNote that I fixed a bug post-compo that a reviewer called out \u2013 there was just the wrong number on some of the level data. Since I had less than 48h to work on this anyway, I just replaced the existing build with that very quick fix version.\n\n### Bestiary\n(spoilers, use only if you want to):\n- Skeleton: 1 Fire attack\n- Cpt Skeleton: 2 Fire attack, 1 Normal attack, 2 Normal defense\n- Zomber: 2 Cold attack, 1 Normal defense\n- Zomber Poet: 1 Normal attack, 3 Cold attack, 2 Normal defense, 3 Fire defense\n- Cactus Man: 2 Lightning attack, 2 Fire defense\n- Caxetus Man: 1 Normal attack, 2 Lightning attack, 3 Fire defense, 1 Cold defense\n- Ghost: 1 Shadow attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense\n- Dark Ghost: 3 Shadow attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense\n- Evil Eye: 3 Shadow attack, 1 Monster attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense, 1 Shadow defense\n- Evilest Eye: 5 Monster attack, 2 Fire defense, 2 Cold defense, 2 Lightning defense, 2 Shadow defense\n- Demon: 6 Demon attack, 4 Fire defense, 4 Cold defense, 4 Lightning defense, 4 Shadow defense\n- Mal King: 16 Demon attack, 1 Normal attack, 10 Monster attack, 6 Shadow attack, 8 all elemental defenses\n\n### Enchantments guide\n(spoilers, use only if you want to):\n\nI planned for complicated recipes but I just nixed them because I didn't have time to explain them really. So, put gems of a single type in there, 1-4. If you put 4, you get the most powerful that sort of element, 3 is less powerful, 1 is least powerful. If you combine types, it will just make the best enchantment it can and won't use extra gems provided. Simple. Combine slots to get multiple defenses, but you can only have one sort of attack. New enchantments will replace previous ones in the same slot, even if they're weaker or the same. You need 1 soul per enchantment.","title":"Soul Crucible"}