Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate by jadedResearcher

made by jadedResearcher for LD 44 (JAM)

Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate is the tale of a 🐥 wanting to save its city. A collection of Magical Girls help it fight horrible monsters. There are definitely no secrets or twists. By which I mean, there are two endings to this puzzle turn based RPG :)

By the FarragoFiction team :)

http://farragofiction.com/LudumDare/Spring2019/

Screenshots:

Uses our existing doll engine (including magical girl dolls), as well as a preexisting 'stat' engine. All other art (including the monsters, which use the doll engine) is custom for this jam, as well as the 90% of the code. One musical track was pre-existing, the others custom for this competition.

You can make your own monsters at: http://farragofiction.com/DollSimE/?type=427

HTML5 (web)	http://farragofiction.com/LudumDare/Spring2019/
Source code	https://github.com/FarragoFiction/MagicalGirlSim
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate

Ratings

Given

71🗳️

44🗨️

Feedback

Valden

30. Apr 2019 · 01:42 UTC

A cute and creepy game. The mechanics were kinda confusing, and I think my :hatched_chick: destroyed the world ? Nice graphics, and the music slowly descending into madness was a good touch.

Samuel Lee

30. Apr 2019 · 02:03 UTC

.....well the music genuinely terrified me, good work! The mechanics are confusing but I think we have ourselves a solid start

Lshiro

30. Apr 2019 · 02:14 UTC

The Madoka reference is strong in that one, and I loved it !

Team Kelly

30. Apr 2019 · 02:19 UTC

Just played this and it's so cute and fun! I loved the mixture of really cute stuff with some gore! It was really cool trying to balance being able to defeat the monster without losing later on :)

PenguinPotential

30. Apr 2019 · 02:27 UTC

Great take on Madoka! The chicken friend was a cute touch, and his celebrating even when the magical girls were dying was terrifying and hilarious~ xD The pact system was a tiny bit confusing, and by using multiple pacts in the same turn I was able to reduce the difficulty significantly. Was that intended? Overall had a great theme and humor!

gelisam

30. Apr 2019 · 02:43 UTC

The variety in the graphics and names was quite impressive!

gelisam

30. Apr 2019 · 02:45 UTC

> It was really cool trying to balance being able to defeat the monster without losing later on :)

Wait, is that even possible? I mean, the prices aren't even given, I don't think we're meant to think strategically about this...

🎤 jadedResearcher

30. Apr 2019 · 12:12 UTC

"I don’t think we’re meant to think strategically about this…"

Whoops, forgot to mention that there's two endings,and figuring out how to get them is the puzzle.

~~Did you know that not all blood pacts are only for your current Magical Girl? And even the ones that are might not be all that great for the girls who come after...~~

~~Having Magical Girls die is part of the learning experience, after all!~~

~~Kids and Fun (tm)~~

Harksa

30. Apr 2019 · 15:44 UTC

It was a nice game and I pretty much knew quickly I had to not make pact to win the game, but the battles are too random to make it easy. A little bit frustrating but it's okay.

GaryS

30. Apr 2019 · 17:18 UTC

The music was brilliantly creepy... Not sure I really understood how my actions would effect the game - but I _did_ manage to get the 'good' ending.

plexsoup

30. Apr 2019 · 20:36 UTC

Great game. Just felt a little short. Sorry, I didn't stick around to find the second ending. I saw "you win" and it felt complete.

aCactus

30. Apr 2019 · 23:52 UTC

I like how the deaths in this are handled so lightly. The music grows darker, you vanish suddenly with a splatting noise, and :hatched_chick: dances on.

SnowTV

01. May 2019 · 03:03 UTC

I definitely get the M*doka reference here lol

Very nice graphics

Fahim Faysal

01. May 2019 · 06:21 UTC

Creepy and unique game. I like the references to madoka and the deaths genuinely creeped me out. I do think that the mechanics are a bit confusing. The boosts from the pacts should be visible on screen along with blood pact cost. Otherwise it's kind of hard to know which pact to use.

Weine

01. May 2019 · 09:51 UTC

Silly and fun. Confusing mechanics, but winnable without corruption with some trickery (not going to spoil for others!)

🎤 jadedResearcher

01. May 2019 · 13:18 UTC

"The boosts from the pacts should be visible on screen along with blood pact cost. Otherwise it’s kind of hard to know which pact to use." Oh dang, I'd hoped it was enough for the damage to have a pact multiplier. I wish we'd had more time to polish play testing! But this is great to know for our post jam polish pass :)

Thanks for the feedback!

dusterherz

01. May 2019 · 13:39 UTC

I see no link to the game, it this normal ?

Anna Karpova

01. May 2019 · 13:40 UTC

Some creepy but fun, good work!

🎤 jadedResearcher

01. May 2019 · 13:56 UTC

"I see no link to the game, it this normal ?"

Uh. Huh. Where did the link go? Let me check dusterherz...

🎤 jadedResearcher

01. May 2019 · 13:58 UTC

Cool, looks like Ludum ate the links. Re-added them, thanks for the catch @dusterherz :) :) :)

Colin Misbach

01. May 2019 · 13:59 UTC

I couldn't figure out how to progress without making pacts. So I resorted to increasing my magic power so much that I one-shot every enemy :smiley:

The art is very cute, and the music to go along with it as well, at least in the beginning. I will ignore the underlying dark themes.

Love it!

dougLima

01. May 2019 · 17:18 UTC

Creeeepy, Blood everywhere, I liked it! One-shoted everyone after power buff as well.

YouBeStrong

01. May 2019 · 18:01 UTC

I loved the monster designs!
The change in music and the increasingly bloody scenery changes the mood so well. Great job!

TBaudon

01. May 2019 · 18:21 UTC

LOL

Loved how that cute looking game turned to be so gore.
Loved how the music evolve when everything goes wrong, cool idea, had fun !

dannn

01. May 2019 · 19:57 UTC

🐥 is the real enemy! Monsters are just trying to warn us!

Somehow it reminds me of NGE.

jjjjason

02. May 2019 · 04:30 UTC

How do I keep falling for this? You even literally put it in the screenshots above and I still didn't see it coming. The music flip especially is goddamn hilarious.

I got both endings, and they're both quite good (although obviously B I R D E N D is the superior choice).

I think there's things you can do to improve polish (e.g. animations, cleaning up the UI a little bit), but maybe that would almost detract from the outlandish horror of the world you've blood-pacted into existence.

MZA

02. May 2019 · 16:20 UTC

The mechanics reminded me of old school RPG combat and i also liked how the monsters seemed to be randomly generated (i think) and still look cool.

Kimily

03. May 2019 · 00:27 UTC

It confused me so much trying to play this XD I thought the sound effect for throwing the chick at the monster was really funny. I won by spamming throw chick at it until died in two shots OwO

Magnanix

05. May 2019 · 14:23 UTC

Can't play the game, link doesn't work. Also, website is pretty broken - lots of relative links leading to current folder, need to make those relative to root :P "/news.html" vs. "news.html" ;).

nebulousHarmony

05. May 2019 · 22:37 UTC

@mza The monsters are in fact (sorta) random! Though you may find some common themes. :)

abbie

05. May 2019 · 23:31 UTC

I didn't play through all the different endings, but the game was super cute and funny. Loved the references to M@doka and the use of the doll engine to generate the different magical girls! The music is really funny, but does get grating at times. Really gave me a feeling of nostalgia for older flash games, great job :)