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Monstrous Search by Rafael Garcez

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made by Rafael Garcez for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Your objective is to find and capture monsters with the highest scores before time runs out.

  • You have only 5 slots, so choose carefully.

  • Click/touch on the ground and drag to move around.

  • Click/touch on a captured monster in the bottom menu to discard it.

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------ Outside assets Used ------​

-- SPRITES -- Creature Mixer by Kenney (itch.io)

​Pixel Art Top Down - Basic by Cainos (itch.io)​

Simple UI | 2D Icons by Unruly Games

-- AUDIO --

Interface Sounds Starter Pack by p0ss

Interface Sounds · Kenney​

Chill lofi inspired by omfgdude

town theme 2 by Geomancer ​​​​

Ticking clock. by bart ​

​-- Other -- Leaderboard Creator by Danial Jumagaliyev (itch.io)​

Link https://rgarcez.itch.io/ld54
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/monstrous-search

Ratings

Overall 400th 3.743⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 218th 3.868⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 619th 3.294⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 702th 3.441⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Humor 401th 3.242⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Mood 417th 3.7⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 46🗨️

Feedback

ABadHabit
03. Oct 2023 · 12:14 UTC
Nice fun idea. Would have loved some kind of depth to the collecting process, like combining 2 to a better one or someting alike. But it was a nice simple search and find game.
Avi
03. Oct 2023 · 12:17 UTC
Cool game!! Btw I was able to play this on my cell quite well :) kindof like eyes spy! I reckon this could be fun also in like other environments, eg like a city, or smth. Nice!
Avi
03. Oct 2023 · 12:18 UTC
Btw how challenging was it to set up the leaderboard? Any tips?
🎤 Rafael Garcez
03. Oct 2023 · 12:42 UTC
@avi Thanks! it was quite easy to set up the leaderboards. here's the video tutorial that I followed: https://youtu.be/-O7zeq7xMLw
zerohalogen
03. Oct 2023 · 13:10 UTC
simple and fun, well done!
sbeif
03. Oct 2023 · 13:14 UTC
The game is well made, it's very simple but I think it works well, mostly thanks to the leaderboard that brings out some competitivity
Annter078
04. Oct 2023 · 09:10 UTC
so cute mosters and It's really hard to find yellow hat monster
Wbertrand
05. Oct 2023 · 00:25 UTC
Loved the art, and it was an interesting mechanic, and well implemented!
Turner Austin
05. Oct 2023 · 00:41 UTC
You are such a jerk for making the most common and second rarest look so similar. Very solid and fun game. The leader board is a really nice touch
Sarenei
05. Oct 2023 · 00:44 UTC
Great little game! I found the 200 pointer once and then never again.
Amolker
05. Oct 2023 · 11:38 UTC
I would have liked more depth in the collecting mechanics, but this has been talked about before. Now it seems that luck is more important than attention.
Anyway, fun game, something like find Waldo, great job!
jefvel
05. Oct 2023 · 15:06 UTC
Surprisingly addicting for how simple the mechanics are! I've been trying to get a 600 for a long time, but it's challenging! I think you need a bit of luck for the high value characters to spawn though :)
The online high score really adds to the fun.

Nice work!
Vikatoria
06. Oct 2023 · 17:13 UTC
I trained my eyes for real for this one, still got a low score :( But overall the game is awesome
Tankou
06. Oct 2023 · 19:09 UTC
Very addictive game. The relaxing music and finding/ exchanging characters was very fun and chilled. Great job.
Agent_Peterson
06. Oct 2023 · 19:29 UTC
very simple and chill game! It would been nice to see how much you could have used the ld theme but for what it is, its very well done.
Shulyn
07. Oct 2023 · 11:07 UTC
Great game, had a lot of fun. And man is it hard to find the one with a green hat!:D
Like it a lot!
loveapplegames
07. Oct 2023 · 22:34 UTC
Simple concept, but surprisingly fun to play. There are not that many "search" games out there. At some point I wanted to kill all the low points scoring blue guys. I do find the big inventory bar a bit annoying, it gets in the way of the action.
Netarion
10. Oct 2023 · 10:59 UTC
A good interpretation of the theme, maybe a lot of the gamefeel come with the leaderboard. A other mouse cursor would be nice. I had fun to play this game, well done
ffffchai
11. Oct 2023 · 04:19 UTC
The built in leaderboard is really awesome and professional! I've tried to do it and know how many pitfalls there are. The game is simple but fun and would like to play more! Nice job.
LDJam user 314224
11. Oct 2023 · 20:05 UTC
Very cool little game ! I like your art !
Fun and addictive game :)
GG ! Good job team ! :D
rongon
11. Oct 2023 · 21:11 UTC
Super addictive game, I could see this working on mobile. I had a lot fun, at once point I started to question reality, do the monsters with 100 and 200 exist at all, hahaha. But then I got lucky, and found them both in one run, so I managed to have 540. It's really interesting concept, and it fits the theme perfectly.
Adding online leaderboard is great, it gives additional challenge in trying to compete with others.
Congratz on making such interesting and easy to understand game.

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Jahwffrey
13. Oct 2023 · 06:16 UTC
Really cool! Nice concept and well executed. It's like a moving where's waldo with various levels of success possible.
LocalPhilosopher
15. Oct 2023 · 19:50 UTC
Nice work
SevenOne
19. Oct 2023 · 08:00 UTC
The game is a lot of fun, great jam submission.