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Summon Death by TheMadPangolin

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made by TheMadPangolin for Ludum Dare 55 (COMPO)

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Summon Death is a top-down action shooter. Two wizards are facing off in an arena, pitting their summoned minions against each other.

Why are they fighting? Who knows. All that matters is you've been summoned in by the BLUE WIZARD to help the fight... and also you're a fire-breathing demon!

Use your fire breath to melt enemies, and defeat the EVIL WIZARD (the one who is NOT BLUE!!!)

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Featuring:

  • An upgrade system between levels which scales infinitely
  • Slimes
  • An original song made in FamiTracker for the game
  • A state of the art FULL SCREEN BUTTON!!!
  • More slimes

This game was made in 48 hours using the following tools: - GameMaker: Studio - Aseprite - BFXR - FamiTracker - Audacity - Paint.NET

https://youtu.be/TRt3a-a7FTI

Thank you for checking out my game! Hope you have fun and good luck with your LD entries :D

Cover art by Baconfish! :bacon: :fish: Check out his Twitter - https://twitter.com/WitchfallGame

Link https://the-mad-pangolin.itch.io/summon-death
Link https://github.com/JackLeigh27/ld55-summoning
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/summon-death

Ratings

Overall 8th 4.354⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 4th 4.44⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 158th 3.38⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 50th 4.125⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 9th 4.46⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 7th 4.3⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 105th 3.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 16th 4.208⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 5🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

JCMonkey
15. Apr 2024 · 14:42 UTC
this is a well put together game. not sure i can say anything bad about this. nice job.
LDJam user 388563
15. Apr 2024 · 17:36 UTC
This was really enjoyable! I ended up playing quite a few games trying to get further. The game looks and sounds great too, loved the layered music. Great job!
Widerhold
15. Apr 2024 · 18:35 UTC
Great job on the polish! Plays and feels great!
stellarnightmare
15. Apr 2024 · 20:08 UTC
This is my favorite game from the jam so far. It's just so well made and feels great to play.
Bananplyte
16. Apr 2024 · 12:06 UTC
![madpangolin.PNG](///raw/384/43/z/639aa.png)

Super cute game :D!!
Loved it!
kuviman
16. Apr 2024 · 12:26 UTC
my best so far

![Screenshot from 2024-04-16 16-25-27.png](///raw/7e3/32/z/639bf.png)
goodwincek
16. Apr 2024 · 12:33 UTC
Amazing game!! Mad impressive for a compo. The level of polish and juice is just so awesome. Really love the animation and all the little details like flash frames, debris, camera shake, and slow mo death... So many interesting balance tradeoffs as well like having slower movement while shooting. A lot of game jam games feel short and sweet, but this one really hooks you in and makes you wanna keep trying over and over. GREAT WORK!!!
Sariiger
16. Apr 2024 · 13:05 UTC
Easily my favorite game so far. It's crazy how it's a compo game, it would be very impressive even for a jam game. Good job!
LDJam user 356534
16. Apr 2024 · 14:04 UTC
Incredible job, I had a lot of fun playing this! The music is also amazing
Tudvari
16. Apr 2024 · 15:05 UTC
Awesome game but a bit too punishing for me, but I guess I'm not a true roguelike fan anyway :smile: Personally I had to go lots of times for a health increase upgrade just to stay alive and when I accidentally fell off, losing all 5+ healths was a bit sad. :sweat_smile:

Though it's really addictive because you can instantly feel that you getting better and better after each run. As I'm typing this I can feel the urge to boot it up again. :smile: Nice entry, cheers!
Dywanix
16. Apr 2024 · 17:02 UTC
I really had a lot of fun trying to get as far as I could and it reminded me of playing the binding of isaac
BadPiggy
16. Apr 2024 · 17:29 UTC
![Summon Death 16-04-2024 22_42_48.png](///raw/8f7/d2/z/63c33.png)

Love the overall setup here. Sort of a twist on a pokemon battle. ( Though I guess this is more of a twist on an smt game )

The presentation as a whole is cool, let it be visual or audio-wise

Combat is cool as well. Love how your wizard also shoots. The enemy wizard's attacks were also telegraphed really well. The arenas are also well designed since you have to take into account which paths will get blocked somewhat since your wizard has to shoot as well.

The only thing I'm not too keen on is that falling off the arena feels a little punishing and should take away 1 hp rather than 2. It's pretty much the only reason I died whenever I did. Though this is probably just a skill issue lol

But either way, great work on this
LDJam user 388487
16. Apr 2024 · 18:18 UTC
That a great game (I saw videos), but it's really upsetting what I can't play it cause of MacOS:(
GodKnows
16. Apr 2024 · 18:28 UTC
Very addictive gameplay
kuviman
16. Apr 2024 · 20:31 UTC
world record update

![Screenshot from 2024-04-17 00-30-49.png](///raw/7e3/32/z/63d9d.png)

Edit:

![Screenshot from 2024-04-17 02-42-58.png](///raw/7e3/32/z/63e6a.png)
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 23:16 UTC
You are really great! The game turned out great!
DeadInfinity
17. Apr 2024 · 20:26 UTC
Lovely little infinite bullet hell! Just fun to play. The number of spawns from the enemy get overwhelming pretty fast, my best was 12. The different upgrades feel really well balanced against each other, range and health feel way more useful than they usually do in a game like this.
Linky439
17. Apr 2024 · 20:41 UTC
Super impressive! Graphics are top-notch, it controls very well (although I had to switch from AZERTY to QWERTY to be able to use WASD decently ^^) and there is a lot of juice which makes it incredibly polished.

I am very, very impressed, congrats!
My only gripe is how falling strips you of two whole health points, which seems a little overkill. Otherwise, I have nothing to complain about, this is very very good.
Paulsams
20. Apr 2024 · 17:48 UTC
It was definitely fun to play. Everything was comfortable, pleasant and beautiful. It's difficult to say anything else.