Ghostslayer by ThatFirey

[raw]
made by ThatFirey for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

https://i.imgur.com/hI0TwD5.png

In 'Ghostslayer' you step into the role of a fearless Magician who has dedicated his life to eradicating the supernatural threat plaguing the world. Armed with an arsenal of weapons, you must travel through the ghostly ruins to confront the evil spirits that have invaded this land.

But be careful: spirits are not your only enemies: creatures infested with demons and otherworldly creatures will stop at nothing to prevent you from completing your mission.

Take part in challenging battles with enemies and hone your skills in dynamic, adrenaline-filled battles. How long will you be able to resist the supernatural force? Only the strongest souls will survive in ' Ghostslayer. '

CONTROLS

Keyboard

  • [W A S D] to move and create spells
  • [Shift] to run
  • [Ctrl] to open the book
  • [Esc] to pause
  • [LMB] to shoot

Gamepad

  • [L Stick] to move
  • [R Stick] to use the cursor
  • [L2] to run
  • [L1 and R1] to open the book
  • [Y X A B] to create spells
  • [R2] to shoot

Link to Itch: https://thatfirey.itch.io/ghostslayer

TEAM

  • Game Designers & Developers : ThatFirey, Soleyeer
  • Game artists : pinok_tapkom, MrDumpling5853

Made in 3 days For Ludum Dare 55: Summoning

April of 2024

We hope you enjoy our game >:3

Ratings

Overall 581th 3.566⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Fun 409th 3.647⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1040th 2.825⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Theme 922th 3.198⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 656th 3.629⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Humor 846th 2.567⭐ 54🧑‍⚖️
Mood 625th 3.509⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Given 46🗳️ 114🗨️

Feedback

Yurain33
15. Apr 2024 · 23:46 UTC
Ребят, залейте на итч
Графон прикольный
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 06:47 UTC
Made a link to Itch ^^
SvenErik
16. Apr 2024 · 09:02 UTC
Pew pew, works and decent! Lovely graphics and fine music~. I had an issue with the bottom left bar being a bit out of screen for me, so I could hardly see that one, but otherwise solid work!
LDJam user 385671
16. Apr 2024 · 09:04 UTC
Great submission!
Very fun game to play through.
Artwork was amazing and music was a banger.
Overall seemed very polished well done!
Tugaryn
16. Apr 2024 · 09:12 UTC
Cute drawing style, plus controls for this type of game
johsam
16. Apr 2024 · 10:16 UTC
jb pacani
Aaron Hart
16. Apr 2024 · 11:46 UTC
From one first-timer to another, well done - you've got skills and it's fun to play :)
Saffwong
16. Apr 2024 · 11:48 UTC
Cute art and nice music!
Cresceda
16. Apr 2024 · 11:53 UTC
Nice game! Shooting feels and looks nice. The Itch page is a bit glitchy for me, have to manually zoom out Chrome to see the spellbook? Music fits the game! Spells are cool, description would be nice (unless I missed it).
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 12:09 UTC
@cresceda Thanks for the feedback, yeah we screwed up with the resolution a bit hah and realized it too late. And nope sadly we didn't implement descriptions to the cards
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 12:09 UTC
@saffwong Thanks a lot, really appreciated ^^
Eveee_Cx
16. Apr 2024 · 12:10 UTC
I somehow did not get the spells to work ;O; but I had fun playing this nontheless :')))
biteZZZ
16. Apr 2024 · 14:13 UTC
Very fun and good game! Nice sounds and gameplay not boring, also looks like enter the gungeon, for art big point

Also i can add point for gamepad support
Kseniya
16. Apr 2024 · 14:20 UTC
Cool game, but off topic, it's more of a shooter, good job
F13
16. Apr 2024 · 14:30 UTC
So cool animations!
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 14:33 UTC
@bitezzz @kseniya @f13
Thanks a lot for the feedback ^^
LDJam user 302152
16. Apr 2024 · 14:40 UTC
Perhaps should modify the screen size of the web version! Besides, the visuals and music are very cute~
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 14:43 UTC
@ophelialee Thanks a lot for the feedback, yeah we kinda realized too late that the game is not gonna run well with this resolution on web hah
LDJam user 302152
16. Apr 2024 · 14:48 UTC
The page is still editable now! Just upload a new zip file. Because I also just modified my game page haha
Meru
16. Apr 2024 · 14:58 UTC
Also nice music and it feels smooth. The shooting feels nice and I like the grafics!
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 15:03 UTC
@meru Thank u ^^
Storeyware
16. Apr 2024 · 15:28 UTC
Music and graphics are great. Shooting feels great. Some of the enemy bullets go through walls for me and its not terribly clear how to avoid the bullet hell from the fast shooting guys. Still, played it twice! Fun stuff.
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 15:47 UTC
@storeyware Thanks a lot for the feedback ^^
The ghost bullets are intended to go through walls and yep hah it gets very bullet hell-y
viscera
16. Apr 2024 · 15:51 UTC
отличная графика, крутая механика стрельба, нашей команде понравилось играть в нее!
Storeyware
16. Apr 2024 · 16:07 UTC
@thatfirey Oh! that makes sense. I didn't realize there were multiple types of bullets.
atomicptr
16. Apr 2024 · 16:43 UTC
Cool game, not quite sure about the theme though, good job regardless!
karamaajalt
16. Apr 2024 · 16:43 UTC
Very fun game, good art style, cool effects and music. Really loved the machinegun spell, quite fun to use!
cmakota
16. Apr 2024 · 16:44 UTC
Great polish, for a jam entry. I had a hard time figuring out how to close the weapon selection menu after opening it, but other than that, fun game!
LDJam user 282870
16. Apr 2024 · 16:47 UTC
Very good game. Well done. You could use a better bad guy pathing system rather than just passing through everything. A* algorithm maybe?
Unbreakable
16. Apr 2024 · 16:47 UTC
Spell casting is similar to what we did in our game! Not saying it is a great idea but it is a great idea.

Was a bit difficult to manage the spell casting whilst also dodging the bullets.. :grimacing:
bittripbrit
16. Apr 2024 · 16:49 UTC
Love the theme, love the feel of it. Gattling skeleton is terrifying and will haunt my nightmares. 10/10
RhysT
16. Apr 2024 · 16:56 UTC
Cool game. Did some weird things to my browser though, tabs kept closing and my favorites got clicked. Possibly to do with it hiding the mouse and I was clicking on them by accident. Also after pausing I couldn't unpause. For gameplay the basics are good but using the spellbook feels awkward since you can't move and there isn't really any down time. Appreciate the music volume slider.
dotiocat
16. Apr 2024 · 16:58 UTC
The game is fun if rather difficult in the enemy balance. What hurts the game the most in my opinion is that while casting spells youre a sitting duck, and without playing for a long while you'll always have to sit there and carefully read every cards input order. Having the game enter a sort of slow-mo or bullet time would've made it a lot more fun!
helviett
16. Apr 2024 · 17:40 UTC
Congrats on your first submission! Fun to play, great art!
zhzhpupkin
16. Apr 2024 · 18:00 UTC
Cool shooter! Remind me retro games, grafics look just nice. Enemies were quiet hard for me and it was hard to control shooting without mouse. Overall, i enjoyed playing it!
hlebnay_kroshka
16. Apr 2024 · 18:35 UTC
Очень круто получилось! Пиксельная анимация и графика очень приятная. Только у меня возникли какие-то проблемы с разрешением(
Bladxaund
16. Apr 2024 · 18:44 UTC
Cool sounds and gameplay
Conrad Etherton
16. Apr 2024 · 19:06 UTC
Very cool concept! Though it took me a bit to figure out how the book worked and it was still very challenging, would have liked some more breathing room to cast things haha. Good sounds and visuals too, nice work!
LightOfGloRy
16. Apr 2024 · 19:40 UTC
Funny game, but i can't open the full screan(
winie
16. Apr 2024 · 20:57 UTC
Cool
Jake G
16. Apr 2024 · 21:08 UTC
Has good potential! The spell combos are cool and challenging while bullets are flying toward you. However, pressing ESC freezes the game and I couldn't figure out how to recover. I kept instinctively pressing ESC to get out of the spell book menu, having to restart. Is there a way to unpause after pressing ESC?
ne_sofa
16. Apr 2024 · 21:14 UTC
It's a pity the interface flew off, but the game is super
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 21:21 UTC
@jake-g @ne-sofa Sadly the web version of the game is a bit broken, the pause button just shuts the game entirely for some reason, but the desktop version works fine, same with the interface, Web version just pushes it away :(

Thanks for the feedback!
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 21:23 UTC
Thanks a lot everyone for the feedback ^^
I honestly hope to grow this game further, because I'm sure there's more to be done for it
WeeFairyFabi
16. Apr 2024 · 21:42 UTC
This game is super cute, the art is stunning and super polished! I love that the summoner also has a gun, he clearly adapted to the time hehe.
I was definitely challenged but had a great time figuring out casting and running away from all the mobs without dying :)
Somnnum
16. Apr 2024 · 21:43 UTC
very cool game, nice to play <3
LDJam user 304226
16. Apr 2024 · 22:39 UTC
@weefairyfabi @somnnum Thank you so much for the kind words ^^
Also yep >:)
Wizard Self Defense
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 22:50 UTC
I like this game! You guys are great!
Zerolarih
16. Apr 2024 · 23:03 UTC
The game idea is interesting and fun, I found it amusing to see a wizard with a weapon lol
Merb1000
17. Apr 2024 · 00:59 UTC
Great graphics and good music, overall a good and polished game jam submission! I think the best thing to do to improve this game would be to speed things up. My bullets should go faster, they are bullets after all. Same with enemy bullets and the enemies themselves. They are so sluggish you can just run circles around them and shoot until they die. I don't expect this to be included due to time constraints, but if you continue this project later, adding a dodge roll or dash would be cool! Great job with this!
Prussichger
17. Apr 2024 · 01:03 UTC
Very addictive and simple game! I like it
LDJam user 342640
17. Apr 2024 · 01:39 UTC
Cute game, with great music! It was kind of hard to focus on summoning with the overwhelming amount of enemies though - wish I could have seen more but I kept getting overwhelmed pretty early on haha. Good job!!!
Aviv Levy
17. Apr 2024 · 09:28 UTC
I haven't noticed parts of the screen were cut off for some reason and I only realized there's this blue bar to the bottom left after pressing escape to see if there's an upgrade menu or something. Unfortunately, the game froze when I did that, and I had to start over :(

On my 2nd run I only later realized I could press control to select a new weapon, but it was kinda tough to figure out how to do that while being swarmed.

Other than that, I think progression could be a bit faster and that the movement could do with some smoothing.

But solid entry nonetheless. :)
Sudno
17. Apr 2024 · 11:28 UTC
Очень прикольная игра, приятная графика. Залипла, пока играла
Dywanix
17. Apr 2024 · 12:20 UTC
Very nice game. Playing was really enjoyable
Answer21
17. Apr 2024 · 12:26 UTC
love graphics so much!
LDJam user 0
17. Apr 2024 · 19:01 UTC
Quite alright. Decently made shmup with ghosts :)

I wish the bottom part of the screen would not be cut at 1920x1080 browser resolution though, it's hard to reach the bottom panels.
synthol
17. Apr 2024 · 19:32 UTC
The gameplay felt very smooth and the graphics are really nice!
spookyrobloxman999
18. Apr 2024 · 03:22 UTC
idk why for me the screen isnt a full screen and i have to use the scroll bars to see the game
Alex1
18. Apr 2024 · 06:29 UTC
Really enjoyed visuals and smoothness of gameplay, you did a great job!
Constance
18. Apr 2024 · 06:51 UTC
What a cute game with great graphics and diverse variety of sounds! It does give me a retro kinda vibe of some shooter games from the early 2000s. I had a really enjoyable and fun experience playing it!

But there're some issues I'd like to point out. First, it took me a while to get used to the controls and upgrade mechanics. They're a bit confusing because I didn't know how to select an upgrade at first, until I figured out that I needed to press the buttons in a correct order, and then had to click on the upgrade to finally select it, but it took me a couple retry attempts though. I think some sort of tutorial would've helped a lot on teaching the player how the mechanics work. And it would be nice if the game was paused whenever the book is opened, I couldn't have count how many times I died just because I was busy on figuring out what buttons to press and the enemies just did and onslaught with their hell out bullets and projectiles.

Second, the pause feature was off, I couldn't un-pause the game after I paused it, no matter what buttons I tried to press, so to get around that I had to manually reload the page and start over. I'd suggest making the feature toggleable, by pressing the ESC key to switch between Pause and Un-pause states.

Third, the game window was cut off a little bit at the bottom so I couldn't see the health bar and upgrade. To get around this I had to go to full-screen mode by pressing F11 on the browser.

But overall, solid entry you guys got here and I appreciate the effort put into this, well done y'all!
Rubikon
18. Apr 2024 · 07:54 UTC
Really well polished experience. That was awesome!
LDJam user 387548
18. Apr 2024 · 21:10 UTC
CutE!
Romulo_Developer
19. Apr 2024 · 00:16 UTC
The game is really cute. The Pixel Art is really well made. And the music you choose for the game really fit the Ghosts and Ghouls theme you were going for.I had problems with the resizing of the game, the html was way to big for my browser, and often I would just be shot by something outside the screen, but overall it was really fun!
Patrick Pang
19. Apr 2024 · 03:23 UTC
I love the sound of bullets hitting the wall. A very interesting game.
Baluj
19. Apr 2024 · 03:41 UTC
I like music and art, I have had a good time playing it. Good job!
willhoit
19. Apr 2024 · 19:04 UTC
Did not get very far but was definitely running and firing. It ran well on Firefox but I couldn't bring the spell book up. On Chrome I could bring the spell book up but the framerate was unplayable and the screen was clipped.