Great game! I enojoyed playing this.

Awesome! It makes me want to come back and see what I can build next time with more resources

Thanks :) Once you get a bunch of turrets next to a spawner things start to get crazy!
Can build bridges also to access other islands.
Glad you guys enjoyed playing it

Really liked the graphics and the music, good job!

Atmospheric game! Interesting, unconventional setting and very fitting music! Game play is a bit on the easy side.
Remarks: It takes some time to gather the necessary resources to build the expensive towers. Also when I got the arrow turret the number of souls was often fractional (which could be a bit confusing).

@panayotis Thank you for playing :)
yes it does take a bit of time. Once you get a couple of towers and attractors the souls starts comming in much faster.
Also the turrets take a fraction of a soul every time they shoot.
Thanks for the feedback :)

Good game. Felt smooth and enjoyable. Only issue was it took a while to reap the necessary souls to start building things.

Great way to approach the theme. Loved the graphics, controlls were tight and it felt like things happened the way I expected them to happen. One thing that confused me is the way "healing" or "regeneration" works. Do I get life back with captured souls? 1 life per soul? Or 1 life per X souls? Or is it just regenerating. Knowing how this works would've been great. Still, I loved the little game. Just spent a good 30+ minutes playing and I can see myself playing more. Congrats!

Thanks @dawnscream for playing the game, glad you had fun!!
With every 15 souls you get 1 health back. We added that at the end of the jam so you are right we didnt explain how it worked.

The graphics are insane, Simple gameplay but addictive.
Really like your game

Good job.

@baski Thank you :)

The graphics are really cool, the sound too I really liked it, i can totaly see this with added bosses and other monsters. Good job ^^

@alazarius Hey thanks!! :) yep we ran out of time and did not manage to implement the bosses.. we even have a battle song ready. We plan on expanding the game since we had such a blast during this game jam.

battle song here -> https://soundcloud.com/mad_brokli/battle-music

Really very fun!

Great game! I enjoy the mechanics. I reallty want to get back on it and see what can i build. Good job

Download link does not work!

@palvel sorry to hear that. Once you click on it, it should automatically download. Did it give you an error? Try in incognito

very nice graphics and fun game

Beautiful start screen and graphics!

thanks @soyrandom and @clvp :)
Glad you like it

Awesome game, I love the art style and the music fits very well! Great job!

Nice game, big fan of the graphics :)

thanks @bredera and @bodmass! I'll pass your complements to our designer :)

I liked the overall feel of the game though i feel like the level could've been bit more interesting :). Definitely fun to play though. well done

Love the isaac's vibe from this game! mainly graphics and mood... the attack felt weird... maybe just because u had to spam it and the feedback was not satisfying... things like: sound when u hit/slash an enemy in half, particles of blood on floor, decal, screen-shake, knockback etc. same in other direction my only information when i lose hp is on UI. The idea of souls as money is cool but i would love to see upgrades to our character instead of towers, overall fun and simple : )

Nice entry and graphics it remind me some pleasant game. A pleasure to spend some time on it. Good job pal keep it up !

Thanks for the feedback @demuss. Due there were plans of character upgrades and more particle effects, due to the time restrictions we didnt manage to finish them in time. All great suggestions and will implement them in the future since we plan on developing the game more! :)
Thanks for your comment @randdir :)

Fun little game. Good job! I liked the graphics and the kill sound :smirk:

nice game ! nice graphics !

Nice Game I ony miss a way to Pause and Quit it.

Graphics is amazing! And gameplay is fluent and fun. Liked it a lot.

Cool and dynamic gameplay, as well as atmospheric music, but I have no motivation to build these buildings

Good game! I liked collecting sould, but I didn't get many because I used too many towers.

@shadow30 @hitnrun76 @bender-biber @superpaltus @daniiln @sprotex Thank you all for the great feedback we really appreciate it!!
The turrets needs to be placed carefully for maximum effectivness. Ideally next to an attractor and gatherer.
Basically a gatherer spawns more humans, and they all move towards the attractor. Then place a bunch of turrets.

We plan on furthor developing the game and all of your feedback is much appreciated in creating a better experience! :)

Really great work here - well done! :D

The graphics are great, the art style and presentation over all feels very polished (even down to the itch.io page :thumbsup:). It's also always appreciated to find a game that errs on the side of being slighly to easy instead of murdering you in the first half a second :).

This was fantastic! It was quite polished and the death screams were hilarious. Building up a defensive fort with crossbows was really enjoyable. Mood was excellent.

Great graphics and gameplay

Great potential :thumbsup_tone1: just had to try it :speak_no_evil:

:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:

Fun game! Maybe consider adding a 'Sell' option as many Turrets will drive you bankrupt haha :thumbsup:

@cybikitty @vovin @geoff-nagy @coldsanwdich189 @purpledartfrog @danielk Thanks for the feedback guys. Difficulty balancing was low on our list to complete before the deadline, so we're glad we still got it somewhat right! Those death screams made the remaining development time a hilarious affair honestly :P. The 'Sell' option is a great idea, we'll definitely add something of the sort Post Jam! Thank you again guys!

its good i liked the SFX when i had headphones in...and also it would have been even better when you hit the other NPCs it produces some particles...GG

The characters are funny and the art style is cool. I've had a good time playing it. GJ! :D

great mechanics and felt awesome. but kind of wished this was used in a traditional TD setting instead

Excellent game. Very fun and smooth controls. I absolutely loved the sound effects. I think the map could be a little smaller so that you can focus on building a base. Also, the seemingly random spawn points of angels was somewhat confusing as I did not know where to position and found myself running around a lot. Again, though, awesome game.

Just a stunned cool game, if you only made one in three days. I wish you success!

@karanveer @crazyhomeboys @hkspadez @kushimoto @paulsams thanks for your comments guys! Particle affects were next on the list of additions given more time, they'll definitely find themselves in there post jam! Thanks for the feedback.

The idea was to implement larger, more varied enemies where your towers and buildings would come in handy, so I guess that would make the game drift further into TD, but we'll keep the options open for post jam.

Map size might have decreased had we had more time to play test the game, we agreed! As for random spawn points, I suppose we didn't want player to fortify spawn points and not have to worry about angels anymore, but we'll keep it in mind!

Once again, thank you for the feedback and we're glad to liked it <3!

Cool! Keep posted POST Jam roadmap for this ! :D

I played your game on stream, and what I can say, this game with graphics from binding of Isaac, music is great(I wonder in what programm you made it), idea is great and theme-fiting!!!

Nice work!

@aret24 @jan5366x Thanks for your comments!

As per your question, music was made using bosca ceoil (https://boscaceoil.net/). We're really proud of it because it felt like it fit real well <3. Thank you guys once again!

I liked the fast paced gameplay, controls feel tight.

I like the graphics, it reminded me of super meat boy, the effects on the soul wells were pretty great too, good work.
The music fits perfectly and it's also pretty catchy ^^

The idea is great though I felt like no matter what i do I kept losing about the same souls as I was getting, the "tax" on everything combined to being too high to reach satisfying revenues from automating stuff.
I'd really like the option to deconstruct stuff and maybe even floors to better plan traps etc, that could have been cool.

Overall it was fun to play, it feels pretty good. great job!

@cyberstarlight thanks for your detailed feedback. We're very glad you enjoyed the game and even happier to have such in depth analysis on our in game economy. If you have a moment, could you tell us which buildings you have used? This is so we can gauge which combinations aren't really working well with regards to the revenue vs tax.

Deconstruction of both buildings and floors will definitely be included in any future release, as it's very clear that something like that make the experience better.

Once again, thanks for all the detailed feedback, and we hope you'll be back to review our Post Jam releases in the future :)

@mad-brokli
I felt that the crossbows miss too often, so the 0.25 cost would minimize a lot of their revenue, combine that with the 0.2 cost for a human spawner, you lose 0.45 even in the best case scenario, if the crossbow misses once (which happens often) that's 0.7 loss, then angels come in and they try to hit those instead, and miss..

I tried a spawner alone, too slow for any benefit, tried it with a crossbow near it but the crossbow still shooting at other stuff reduced that revenue, it exists but very slow.

I tried making a human attracting mushroom, surrounding it with three spawners and two crossbows, and it was still pretty slow.

I think the crossbows need to hit more often, spawners spawn more often, and taxes to be reduced a bit.
well I hope that helps, but that's just my impression so take it with a grain of salt.

@cyberstarlight That's invaluable information! We're very grateful for your time! We'll definitely be putting in place some balancing factor for the turrets (either higher hit rate or cheaper ammo), as well your recommendation of faster spawn rates for the spawner.

Thanks once again!

This is a pretty strong concept with big potential. Core loop is smooth and easy to learn, the only problem is the balance, I think prices are too high.

Congratulations! nice game.

Congratulations! nice game.

Very cool game! The atmosphere looks amazing. For some reason I couldn't place the first building (it was always red), but the other buildings worked perfectly. Good job!

@artyom-volkov @ericbolseiro @greendinogames thanks for your comments guys.

We agree we do have to work on re-balancing the economy, or adding more content to make reaching such targets more engaging.

@greendinogames the first building (bits and pieces) is meant to make the lava walkable, so you have to make sure that the square is on a lava tile to be able to be placed :).

Thanks for playing it guys! We appreciate your kind words and your feedback!

That's a fun game! It was so fun to see all those souls flying around.

Thanks @coisne-nathan for playing the game :)

I have to say, this game looks very unique! One thing that I see is missing is game juice like particles when enemies are hit, screenshakes etc. That would definitely improve the game a lot :) Other than that, good job!

Thanks for your comment @geist-191. Yep we wanted to add more animations and particles but ran out of time :/
We will however be continuing development on the game and particles, screenshakes, etc.. will be the first to be added :)

This game looks great, game plays nice also nice. I like the idea, but feel the prices are to steep. The game got very to repetitive. Maybe remove the activation cost of buildings, so they pay for them self quicker, also since the turret often seems to use more souls then they generate.

The balance scale is quite touch with turrets taking more souls than they bring in. I was better off starting over and harvesting everything myself...then I died because I can't attack upwards. :rolling_eyes:
Addicting game nonetheless, you sure had me playing for about 30 minutes :sweat_smile:

I would immediately play it again if it would be rebalanced and the random generation would work better. Imho dont let the enemies spawn indefinetly on land where you arent or kill them after sometime, so that they spawn somewhere else again. And wait a little bit until you spawn Angels. Currently you can get overrun if you are one a nice and big island, but have a real slow and boring run if you spawn on little islands. Spawning on small island s and connecting them is super fun, so i would balance it towards being rewarding to have small connected islands.
Overall that was fun and i played multiple runs just because... :)

Excellent game ! really addicting. I do love the mood and the music. Thank you for your game

@zenris @itsdanidre @ancient-pixel Thanks for your feedback! We are working on the economy since it has been the main area where most people have commented about. We are very glad that you guys played it. Post-Ludum we plan on developing and expanding the game further. We have loads of ideas for upgrades, buildings and the game over all.
@shubart thank you dude for playing :)

Nice and fun initially, but gets a bit tedious late game. First and foremost: The graphics and atmosphere are awesome. But combat is kinda boring. Maybe add some weapon cooldown or increase the number of enemies which attack your structures. I'd also add some kind of level progression to spice up the game. I love the concept of turrets and idiot dispensers, but then your realize, that the whole game is only about an optimization strategy and it gets boring a bit from then on.

Nonetheless: Interesting concept with a lot of soul. But combat and progression could be improved.

Graphism are pretty nice! I liked the Isaac inspiration !

Insanely addicting! I found myself returning to it again and again after I told myself I already played enough to give it a rating. The art assets are nice, and the gameplay definitely tests your skills. I loved Jeff's design in particular!

I like it! The majority of the game was done quite well. Maybe the controls could be better, in the first run my mind switched to wasd moving and building with curseror - then an angel visited me ... The resource gathering is one of the clearly innovative points, there might be chance for some tweaks there e.g. a walllike construction like bits (changing the terrain is cool too), and towers can somehow become resource sinks. Overall a good entry, with it's strongest points in mood and innovation, it's weakpoint is the theme (you start with something, yes you don't start with some souls ...) but I would blame the theme not your work. Well done :dvd:

The game is pretty cool and fun to play!

@shess @cyrolis @zubspace @oillen @addnone
Thank you guys for playing the game. Your feedback is greatly appreciated! We are working on establishing a more balanced economy for the items. We had loads of fun creating this game and we shall be releasing more content Post-Jam and expanding the game further with more content, bosses, etc..
If you would like to stay up to date here is our twitter account :)
https://twitter.com/MadBrokli @MadBrokli

I have an idea for a similar game once, not for this LD though. I never got to actually develop it, so good job beating me to it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I had fun with the game, it was quite challenging at some point. Nice art, reminded me of Biding of Isaac. Good bgm and sfx. Great game over all, good job.

Nice game ! Very fun to play ;-) I really like the graphics ! The art style is cute ! ("The Binding of Isaac" inspiration ? ;-) ) Amazing work ! Congrats ! :clap:

@hcursino Great minds think alike :P
@t-bo Thanks Yes, we loved to play binding of isaac its a great game and we love that art style.

Thanks for the feedback guys :)

Woah, awasome game. Great art & music. Really feels like complete game, not prototype.

Hey!

Very nice entry! I see you really know what you are doing! :3

Still, need gameplay polishing, prices are a little too high.

But for sure more polishing was nearly impossible to perform in the scope of a game jam.

Would like to see the development of your idea. :3

I placed 4 idols, 1 cookie, and 2 turrets. Spent some time on this and. It was my tiny piece of farming paradise. But then I was distracted by something and was killed by one enemy. -_-

So I not able to share a screen.

Anyway, I had fun! Well done! :3

Neat game! Visuals were great, reminded me of the good ol' flash games. The cost of buildings was a little high, and I would have liked to have a variation on your attack (maybe a dash n slash attack?). I also found my thumb getting tired from spamming the space bar so much, which is also a testament to how much I enjoyed playing this one. Well done!

Nice music and graphics. The gameplay is fluid and tha game seems pretty polished. Need some balance mainly in the price of buildings and more enemies types and challenges would be welcome. But overall is a good game. Good job!

Building is nice addition, but the price looks a bit higher than it is fun to build.

@team-on @mikeliosus @mharring @rodrigo-denubila @stark Thanks guys for your feedback! :) Economy update on the way :) trying to figure out a good balance with loads of play testing at the moment

Beautifull graphics! it reminds me of Binding of Isaac, I loved the music too. Very fun game! Good job

@mad-brokli I played your game a little bit. Nice concept and art style. The game even has some kind of economic model, that's cool. Maybe it should be tweaked or balanced more.

I feel Dungeon Keeper vibes!

@paulo-brunassi @room606 @asfdfdfd Thanks guy for your comments :) Economy update coming this week along with html and a mac build.

There's always at least one satanic game at LD that I have to play! I was having fun, even if I didn't immediately understand the building mechanic (I usually don't play games of this genre). Funny and great graphics, music and sounds. Really nice job!

Thank you @daria-toni! :) This was our first jam and the all of the team loves dark-ish games :P some more than others.

@room606 @stark @rodrigo-denubila @mikeliosus @shess @cyrolis @zubspace @oillen @ancient-pixel @itsdanidre @cyberstarlight

Sorry to tag you like this. Most of the comments here are about the economy of the game, and we agree it was a bit too high. So finally we pushed out an update. We have updated the economy and adjusted a few bugs. The turrents have a better hit rate while costing much less along with more small details.

I got an exception that crashed the build when i was building the last building. But it was a fun game and i enjoyed it. Well done.

Great game! Gorgeous art.
A shame that some buildings are broken and dont produce what you ask them to.

Hey @appoxgames and @cydouzo Thanks for the feedback, the buildings order broke after the last version. Its all fixed now if you would like to give the game a 2nd go :)

Really great game! The art was fantastic and so well done!

Thank you dear sir @sillyman987

I like it, very fun! Wish there were more to do after getting a good farming automation going, or if there were an ending. I like the vibe, sort of a cross between diablo and binding of isaac (?).

I think camera follow movement could be faster; and the scythe not being very effective in the up direction feels weird for a top down game.

Hey @hajden thanks for playing the game. There were loads of other stuff that we wanted to include, but unfortunately time ran out. We will be continuing development on the game and feedback from LD is a great starting point! :) Will be exploring different attacks for sure!

Really enjoyed your game, sadly I can only play for around 30 minutes at the moment before the game drops to around 1fps due to the amount of stuff Im getting, might be just because Im playing on my Macbook, looking forward to what content you are going to add!

Hey @tankypally thanks for playing the game! :) Thanks for your feedback! Are you using the web version or the mac build?

Nice game! Really enjoyed how simple the basic mechanics were and how many different strategies you can still apply. The sound effects are also super nice and the artstyle very much reminds me of Isaac (as other people already mentioned :D )

One issue I have is that my character tends to outrun the camera and that that leads me into enemies quite often. Other than that, solid entry!

Great game! Took a while to build up the resources, but when I finally got to a point when I could build something the game go pretty exciting! The build up the resources did take a while, so maybe balance that out a bit and maybe lerp the camera to the player a little quicker. Great game nonetheless! Graphics and audio were great, reminded me of BlackThornProd and the screams made me giggle.

I love the graphics and the sound, very atmospheric. Also great game over screen). The sole point to be improved is the economics that seems a bit too easy for the moment. Nevertheless a very fun game.

Great entry. Had fun. Took me a bit to figure out what I was supposed to do. Quite polished also which was nice. All in all great job!

Fun game, ran well on Web too. Fun take on some sort of a tower defense/tower builder. Fighting was a tad weird with only 4 directions to face; but it worked out pretty well in this game!

Graphics are excellent, loved the art style. The audio is good too, music got a tad repetitive but nothing annoying or weird! Good game and great effort!

Nice game! Cool graphics & audio. It was fun to play. I wish though fighting was a bit more interesting and less repetitive, as I was just smashing space bar all the time. (different weapons? enemies?) But it was overall a great game, congrats! :D

It'd be cool to see a little more variety in the souls, and a larger harvest once you buy the soul portal things.

Once you've got to building a few things, there's not much point in fighting any more. You can just sit your guy behind a wall of the cross-bows and wait it out.

Great music , sound and graphics. If you keep working on this, more traps please! : )


Thank you all for playing the game and for the feedback! :) The items at launch were a bit expensive and most people could bearly get enough for the turrets, hence we made the items a bit cheaper so you guys can get the items faster and build as much as you can. We will continue developing the game and we already have a list of more items & gameplay improvements thanks to your feedback! :)

This looks and sounds great, and it's very impressive for 72 hours. Those little souls are so cute.

Good stuff :8ball:

A mix between a hack/slash and tower defense, I love it :D Pretty fitting for spooky season too. Nice progression rate/system, starting slow then getting hellish. Definitely addicting. WASD controls as an option in addition to the arrow keys would be nice. I love watching tons of souls flow into the 'hotel' :fog: The ability to scale things up yourself by buying spawner type buildings is a nice addition.

_Let's get some souls!_


This was a really nicely polished game, the art was very on point, and the animations and designs were fantastic!
The game itself was a bit... easy? It seems to be framed as a tower defense game, but ultimately when I played it felt more like an idle game. Once I built 70 turrets for almost money I could just sit there and do nothing while the number went up.

I think the game would strongly benefit from:
* Enemies that are more resilient, perhaps even increasing their health pool over time or making them less prone to knockback
* More enemies - addresses the same problem as above, if a horde increases their numbers exponentially then it'll be impossible for my 10 turrets to keep up, and I'll be *forced* to build a clever death path for them to walk through
* Enemies that fire projectiles - Even without turrets, combat is a bit easy, just by spamming the scythe. Having bullets to dodge would make combat more challenging, and stop me from simply hiding behind a wall of turrets
* Damageable units, or units that need repair- The game has tower defense feel, but there's no tower or anything losing health ever. I set turrets up all over the map and reap (haha) the benefits without even thinking about it- making units destructable would make everything a lot more challenging.
* Build times- Currently, if I see an enemy, I can quickly slap down 10 turrets and then do a dance. Having to wait a few seconds for the turret to finish, or limiting what I can do in that time (if I have to directly spend time "working" on the turret) would leave room for juggling between survival and building.


Of course, there's always more room for more building types- but that's limited by how much time you had, and for 72 hours you made a very nice roster of buildables.

The one issue I had was the lack of an end goal. I ended up stopping after building at least one of each building and then filling up all my wells. In idle game situations, I suppose the end is usually determined by building an ultimate object (if idle games even end), which isn't much different from an arbitrary number goal. Either one would have worked here- at some point I just had no point to continue doing anything. I no longer needed to "survive" since nothing could hurt me and souls were generated infinitely- and because I have no "needs", it's not really a survival game at all... So ending with building something like a portal bridging hell and earth would have worked nicely.

Sorry if this post was a bit long, ahah, I just really enjoyed it and think it has a lot of potential!
Overall I think you have something really nice here, and I would love to see it developed post-jam!

I really like the vector style graphics, animation, and the audio! Very polished with a great aesthetic. The controls are responsive and the building mechanic works well. You also incorporated the theme nicely. I found staying alive to be a bit too easy (mashing space seems to do the trick) and little incentive to build anything since there isn't really an overall goal besides staying alive. Also you should probably provide a link to the original submission since 1.1 contains additions beyond bugfixes. Great job - I enjoyed playing!

@selkkie Wow what an in-depth analysis! thanks for playing the game and providing such incredible feedback. Breakable buildings will definitely be added, it was part of the original plan, we even have buildings breaking sound effects ready, but we unfortunately ran out of time. Will definitly be looking at your suggestions during the post-jam development!

@balance686 Thanks for playing the game and for your feedback Will be uploading the original one thanks for pointing it out! :)

I had so much fun playing this! Nice graphics and music! Maybe spawning more enemies or making it more difficult over time could make the player stay even longer! I'd love to see more features! Great job!

Game was pretty fun! I think I kind of broke it when I forgot I was in build mode and accidentally spammed turrets everywhere. Turns out they are really powerful, so I could just sit back and relax while they got me free souls. Eventually I got bored and ran around until I died, but it triggered some kind of exception when I lost. I would give more info but all it said was:
```
An exception has occurred, but exception handling has been disabled in this build. If you are the developer of this content, enable exceptions in your project WebGL player settings to be able to catch the exception or see the stack trace.
```
So I doubt that's useful. Overall though the game is super fun to play, the graphics are great, music works well, and I could see this being balanced and expanded upon further in the future. Great work!

This game was a lot of fun! The gameplay feels great and I like the graphics style. It felt really polished, great work!

Fun game, though I pressing 1 to 5 didn't seem to build anything, like some others had managed to do. I played the Web version, was that the one updated to v1.1? I did manage to get 150 souls without dying though, so it was rather easy in a way~

@lexyvil you have to press the space bar when you are in build mode :)

That was as fun as hell!

But at some moment sound in html5 version got broken

ya'll slayin it; I've played this multiple times now; cheers!

Damn!!! Why didn't I play your game before. Its just amazing and love the idea of including building.The music goes very well with the game. I had a problem while playing, not sure if its a bug or not but I was not able to build. I pressed the space bar but still I couldn't build but that didn't stop the game from being awesome. Nice work!! :thumbsup:

Hey @noobdev thanks for you comment! you have to press the spacebar to build!
@coachsisyphus thanks dude very glad you enjoyed playing our game! We will be continue to develop the game furthor!
Making of video here if you guys are interested: https://youtu.be/lsK2Fk8dxmY

@a-bond The downloadable versions are much better than html5. Thanks for your feedback tho and we will look into it ! :)

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/494941349?t=4h41m10s

Hope you got some valuable feedback on your game and looking forward to seeing you next LD jam if I dont catch you before then! :D

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Fun game!! I included it in my Ludum Dare 45 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/98_o2aOM-SQ