Infermum by Brandon Gonzalez

Infermum is a mother-of-little-devils simulation. Take care of baby Satans while summoning Baphomet. This is a multitasking game of Hell. If you don't play well, babies die =(
CONTROLS
To pass on to the next level, fill the pentagram by typing the incantation text at the bottom of the screen.
At the same time, use Key 1, 2 and 3 to interact with the babies.
- Use the mouse to select the baby you want to interact with and to interact with the other elements like the souls of the damned !

A hell of a game made by...
- DEV = Adriana De Pesters & Brandon Gonzalez
- ART = Johanna P & Tamara Virag
- MUSIC = Luc Jolivet
We'd be happy to have feedbacks :)
| Youtube | https://brandygonz12.itch.io/infermum |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/infermum |
Ratings
| Overall | 466th | 3.829⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 391th | 3.763⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 307th | 3.803⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1234th | 3.658⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1171th | 3.671⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 365th | 3.789⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 393th | 3.618⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 649th | 3.697⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 57🗳️ | 51🗨️ |
The gameplay itself is super stressful and honestly really fun!
It gets kind of confusing when you reach 2 babys, but it's a great game. You could add some sort of ui alert to advise the player to type the spell ingame, i don't know if it is because i'm sleep deprived or what but i got like 150 souls till i realized i had to type xD
besides of my experience, i am realy amazed of the polished level of the game. it's so simple, yet it's complete and it feels great. The ambience and humor are the main strength of the game. just the menu with that music made me take on full screen.
thank you for this game!
Thanks though !
Typing latim (or whatever) was also an enjoyable added difficulty but for people not so used to typing I guess the game would be pretty hard.
Keep on making great games! :smile:
Nice overall, big shoutout to the sound departement!
@vulgaris yeah when you type you increase the pentagram and when it's full you go to the next level. There are 5 level before the ending with Baphomet xD @narom42
@thibaud-ligneul wow good job :D It's very hard to finish the 5 levels but you got the good technique xD
Got to have a good typing speed for last levels !
The harp seemed to break too much though. Having to repair the it after one click for a long period of time was quite annoying. In addition a sound would be nice if your try to play the harp when it is broken or throw diapers when the trash is full. I often thought the game was not reacting spamming 3 to play the harp until i repaired it.
Nevertheless great entry! I needed three attempts to beat it which is a good amount :grin:
Maybe a small animation letting all babies start to rotate around the vicious circle going faster and faster. A bit of screen shake and smoke filling the visible area. Everything fades into black except the glowing vicious circle which merges into the forehead of Baphomet, combined with evil laughter and a quick cut into black.
Something like that could be more interesting but takes time which is short during a game jam :)
Sadly wo also have a single image at the end of our game ^^
When I was playing though I kept finding myself clicking each baby and then pressing 1,2,3 rather than trying to solve each problem as it came up, not sure if that's really how it was intended to play.
Very well done overall though.
Maybe you could step it up a bit it one of the demon babies start to teeth or gets chicken pox >D
@sweetznezz maybe it is because you have to select the baby with the mouse before interacting with him, which is not necessary when there is only one baby.
@infinite it was not clear enough but you have to type the incantation in latin (Bottom of the screen) to go to the next level =)
@pilarius I agree a single image is not a big reward considering all the effort the player has to do x)
Well done! :D
Moreover, I liked a lot the devil ambiance of your game, the art style and the music helped well to be immerse in your game.
I have nothing to say more, the only issue I had, was the loading time of the web player which was very long.
Overall really nice game !
But anyway a fun and creative game. It was sometimes hard to decide if there is an I or an J (are there even J in latin)? I had to laugh when I read lorem ipsum. You keep the player busy and your UI has a lot of useful hints and is intuitive. Well done :).