Witches' Brew by Likirus
Welcome to Witches' Brew!
Follow the potion recipes and create mystical potions! Unfortunately your Witches Cat has decided to take a nap ontop of your chimney and cut off the gas ventilation so the toxic gases accumulate and may kill you if you cannot complete the potion quickly enough...
Engine
The game has been made in C++/OpenGL/OpenAL using my own engine and libs. Due to their messy state I am not releasing the source code at the moment, which means I can only enter the Jam. However, everything except the final release build has been done in the 48 hour compo time and every graphic/sound effect has been created during that time.
Tools
- Visual Studio
- Photoshop
- Audacity
I am fairly happy with how the game turned out. Obviously there are still a ton of improvements that could be made, but I feel the game is in a playable -though short- and polished state.
Controls
Read the recipe and drag&drop the ingredients into the cauldron. Keep the cauldron temperature in the optimal green range by dragging logs onto the fire. The gases accumulate a lot quicker once the temperature gets out of the range so once the thermometer turns red, make sure to put more logs onto the fire quickly.
| Windows | https://cbehler.de/ld40/witchesbrew.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/witches-brew |
Ratings
| Overall | 739th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 674th | 3.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 415th | 3.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 784th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 662th | 3.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 664th | 2.423⭐ | 15🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 785th | 2.471⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 803th | 2.974⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 11🗨️ |
I also accidently dropped wrong ingredient and the ingredient started to bounce around. Was kind of expecting cauldron explosion or such :)
@nate-wec , @azuredraco : yes, the gases accumulate a lot quicker once the temperature of the cauldron gets out of the green temperature range ( the thermometer turns red when it is out of the range ), I should have made that a little more obvious I guess
Also I couldn't resize the window or make it full screen so text was hard to read on a 4k screen (not a big deal, I applaud you for using your own engine).
@samuli : my engine isn't completely consistent when resizing, so I chose to focus on the rest of the game, instead of making sure everything scales correctly, but I realize it's hard to read on 4k, something to work on for next ld ;)
Very hard game it doesn't give you enough time already on the second level! You need to make the learning process a bit easier I think.
Congrats on the 48hs entry!