Mana Addict by Xaicious

made by Xaicious for LD 39 (JAM)

Mana Addict is a game all about staying alive as long as possible. Your mana is constantly draining, and you must kill enemies in order to gain it back. Destroying spawners allows you to manage how many enemies are coming at you at one time. Press "Q" to use the dash ability, "E" for the exploding orb ability and press "E" again to make it explode, and "R" for the slowing ability. Left clicking shoots a basic flame attack, and right clicking cancels abilities you've activated. All of your abilities cost mana, so use them wisely in order to get the most mana back as possible.

Instructions to play

You must have at least Java 6 installed
You must have a GPU with at least OpenGL 2.0 support
Download the dropbox link below (download works on all desktop platforms that support Java)
Unzip ManaAddict.zip
Windows: Double click the batch file named "run"
Mac/Linux: Open a terminal in the directory and type "sh run.sh"

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4p18ihs9szvqhv/ManaAddict.zip?dl=1
Linux	https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4p18ihs9szvqhv/ManaAddict.zip?dl=1
macOS	https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4p18ihs9szvqhv/ManaAddict.zip?dl=1
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/mana-addict

Ratings

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Feedback

Brent

01. Aug 2017 · 23:17 UTC

Fun game, I would say that the power abilities need tuning a little bit. I was able to out run my own projectiles which made it kind of interesting to send a bunch of fireballs out then get the ghosts to run into them.

Good work!

Damoy

01. Aug 2017 · 23:19 UTC

I did enjoyed the experience ! I loved the graphics and the music, the gameplay is quite fun too, maybe it would be better with more different types of enemies, congratz for the work !

Arden

01. Aug 2017 · 23:23 UTC

I really liked the mechanics of this game. A mage firing fireballs, with multiple different spells to cast... Super fun idea, and a fun take on the theme. Running out of (mana) power!

Unfortunately, the pacing was way too slow for me. Destroying spawners is quite easy, and if you get all of them, there's nothing to do for a while. I never really had enough of a challenge to use any of my spells. Which is unfortunate, because they were fun to use! I got to level 10 before I got bored and died on purpose.

As a side note, that ground texture really messed with my eyes... :dizzy_face:

DaragonGames

01. Aug 2017 · 23:42 UTC

This game was a lot fun to play. But the E-Attack is a little bit to overpowered as you can easily dodge the majority of ghost and then can kill them all with E and heal your self completely. The soundtrack is also very nice and fits the game well.