Ghost Link by willianfhs

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made by willianfhs for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

:crystal_ball: Ghost Link

Experience the quirky life of a medium in Ghost Link! Summon beloved spirits for one last chat in this funny short game. Can you survive the week and earn your paycheck?

🕹️ Controls

  • Mouse: Navigate on screen
  • Left Click: Grab characters
  • Keyboard: Summon!!!

📷 Screenshot

ss<em>mainmenu.png ss</em>Characters.png SS_Cards.png

👑 Credits

Ratings

Overall 130th 4.059⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Fun 191th 3.912⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 136th 3.922⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Theme 57th 4.392⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 114th 4.412⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Audio 77th 4.118⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Humor 35th 4.304⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Mood 112th 4.127⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Given 47🗳️ 80🗨️

Feedback

Josion
16. Apr 2024 · 00:59 UTC
Fun little game :)

Really liked the menu design and dialogue! Character designs were also pretty cute~
Art-Man-Oil
16. Apr 2024 · 02:11 UTC
The sound design and character designs were on point! super cute game
Matt Blake
16. Apr 2024 · 02:16 UTC
Really polished! I struggled a bit with the mouse scrolling though, it kept escaping the game window and messing up the controls.
FloweryAndy
16. Apr 2024 · 02:22 UTC
Nice references
Spit
16. Apr 2024 · 02:23 UTC
Super cute! I love the music and the art is adorable. Nice work!
Lila Pause
16. Apr 2024 · 02:38 UTC
Just wonderful! The funniest credits i have ever seen.
Jaycee Sandvig
16. Apr 2024 · 02:59 UTC
Awesome, absolutely love it. I loved seeing characters that were references. The audio and the visuals are soooo good, love the use of color and doodly art.
LDJam user 316658
16. Apr 2024 · 03:26 UTC
this is so cute! i love all the dialogue (especially the ones you use to summon everyone back)
namnam
16. Apr 2024 · 09:16 UTC
Nice polished game ! Visual is espacialy great !
Mololo
16. Apr 2024 · 12:27 UTC
Great game, I like the visuals and the music. And I love the references.
juninhostrife
16. Apr 2024 · 15:19 UTC
Great game, really fun!! Loved the visuals and music. Rent and food are really expensive :'(
Allax
16. Apr 2024 · 16:14 UTC
That's excellent. One of the best I've seen here and definitely the funniest, I wasn't expecting it but really laughed almost the whole game. And of course the art style is excellent and the audio work is top notch
ashleypox
16. Apr 2024 · 16:58 UTC
![Screenshot 2024-04-16 095109.png](///raw/f5b/f5/z/63c08.png)
lol :D

Super cute art style, I am LOVIN the color selections here!! This was a great take on the theme, and the credits are SO CLEVER!!!
Dywanix
16. Apr 2024 · 18:11 UTC
That was very interesting experience. I had a lot of fun while looking for a good soul.
Breaddysticks
16. Apr 2024 · 19:28 UTC
That was a really polished and fun game. I enjoy the different personalities that appear and I like the references as well. It's a simple concept that I enjoy playing. It has a nice art style that makes it stand out.
mariorod
16. Apr 2024 · 21:03 UTC
Super cute graphic and the concept is really cool! Great work :)
icebell
16. Apr 2024 · 21:35 UTC
Such a cool concept! I also love the color palette of the game, and the credits are so cool!!
mayitbeeld
16. Apr 2024 · 22:34 UTC
Love this game! The character design and the credits are my favorite!
leunarie
16. Apr 2024 · 22:41 UTC
I love the color palette, the UI (the cards specifically) design is so beautiful and the art style is so quirky and fun! Some of the phrases to type are a little long but the concept was very cool!
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 22:53 UTC
I like this game! You guys are great!
IonBingo
17. Apr 2024 · 02:14 UTC
Great music, art style, and writing!
tapehead
17. Apr 2024 · 11:31 UTC
:D this was fun! Great work!
LDJam user 233138
17. Apr 2024 · 13:15 UTC
It was fun! Maybe a little hard to navigate though the screen and the dialogue a little to slow. I like the designs!
LDJam user 147386
17. Apr 2024 · 13:20 UTC
5 star sweep from me, very smooth and clean UI, wonderful jam page, and I love the charming parappa-like graphics. Great work all around!
I think this is a great take on the prompt
Goofte
17. Apr 2024 · 15:31 UTC
Never thought I'd click an executable named ligma.
Nice little game!
blobo
17. Apr 2024 · 16:39 UTC
Great humor! I loved the occasional references I was able to pick up on!

Here's my recorded gameplay session for extra feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxr3r7G-2pc
velvetlobster
17. Apr 2024 · 19:05 UTC
so many interesting characters, amazing soundtrack that is both kinda haunting and cute and misterious kinda don't starve vibe ... loving this

TRHDGRTWYTYHBD!!!
CO5MONAUT
18. Apr 2024 · 17:27 UTC
Great idea, great humor and references! The graphics and sounds are great. Honestly I didn't realize until the end that it was necessary to retype the text, it seems like it could have been done a little more interesting here. Anyway I had a lot of fun, thanks!
JuicyBrucey
18. Apr 2024 · 22:18 UTC
Charming and simple to play with lots of cute references. In browser the edge scrolling was a bit tricky to contend with when holding onto someone. I didn't quite understand the food aspect of the game but i did win in the end anyway 🔮👻
She Wrote
19. Apr 2024 · 09:01 UTC
I really liked the humor, the adorable art, and the fun little dialogues. I didn't get all the references, but I enjoyed the ones I did. Great game! Well done!
zeminyok
19. Apr 2024 · 20:20 UTC
I liked it even before start playing when I was in main menu. It was so tactile and nice to interact with. Overall lovely colors, art, characters and feel. Theme, mood and story is fun to be in. I still listen the music of the game while writing the comment. Thanks for creating this game!
sami822
20. Apr 2024 · 18:39 UTC
Very good take on jam theme and it's cool that there is so many different characters, tho some of them was really cryptic! Also, maybe it's just me but mouse controls is somewhat clunky. Otherwise, cool game!
onqdll
21. Apr 2024 · 02:02 UTC
What a charming game! Art and music work together perfectly. Love all the effort put into the references. Mouse scroll felt quite unintuitive but overall a great work! Menu cards animation is super smooth by the way. Was it initially a card game and you pivoted? (And the most important question: What's ligma?)
dotiocat
21. Apr 2024 · 10:21 UTC
Excellently executed, polished and pretty game! The art on all the characters is so charming yet incredibly fitting for what they are being summoned for, especially the grandma smoking a big cig, goes hard! I didn't feel like there was any way to lose but that is not a bad thing because then you get to experience all these cute characters. What I believe made the game from awesome to really awesome was that you could move the little guys around in the post-day screen! My one and only issue was how fast the camera would scroll about when reaching for the edges of the screen (on the browser version) but even then the level was just big enough where that wasn't lowering my enjoyment.
ahistyap
21. Apr 2024 · 15:09 UTC
Yoo this is really fun! You even introduce new types of interaction at later levels. The visuals are also really cute!
Also I can relate to Will a lot :laughing:
Amerigo Gazaway
21. Apr 2024 · 18:40 UTC
Loved everything about this game! The theme, concept, art style, music, 90's cartoon references and even a secret Chrono Trigger style developer credits/ending. Nailed it!
Artyom Volkov
21. Apr 2024 · 19:59 UTC
Cute little game which brought me some Papers Please vibes through the core mechanic. I love art, music and humor. Well done.
Tetracold
22. Apr 2024 · 02:34 UTC
Fun idea! The designs are silly and charming, I like them!

Some of these were really funny, I also enjoyed catching all the references made. I replayed the game twice in order to see what other dialogue I may have missed.

I like the idea of having to type in a question in order for the character to say something back. even if I picked 1 or 2 wrong characters it was still fun to see what they are gonna say. I tried to do things as quick as I could but I only managed to managed to solve 4 problems per day

Good entry, really solid!
maxededo
23. Apr 2024 · 20:23 UTC
Fun game! I liked the character art a lot, and thought the presentation was very charming.
Euler Moises
02. May 2024 · 04:32 UTC
HAHA!

I loved it! A very interesting idea!
I understood several references and managed to use them spectacularly to add charm.

Art and audio are very beautiful and enjoyable!
Programming is well polished.

Congratulations for the game!
LDJam user 376320
03. May 2024 · 03:21 UTC
@josion, @art-man-oil, @matt-blake, @floweryandy, @spit, @lila-pause, @jaycee-sandvig, @npckc, @namnam, @mololo, @juninhostrife, @allax, @ashleypox, @dywanix, @breaddysticks, @mariorod, @icebell, @mayitbeeld, @leunarie, @kirass, @ionbingo, @tapehead, @fullsaphir, @cananaman, @goofte, @100th-coin, @velvetlobster, @co5monaut, @juicybrucey, @she-wrote, @zeminyok, @sami822, @onqdll, @dotiocat, @ahistyap, @amerigo-gazaway, @tricky-fat-cat, @tetracold, @maxededo, @euler-moises

**Hey folks!**

**Thank you so much for all your comments, feedbacks and just for playing our game, really. We've been reading it all and we are truly happy that you enjoyed it and that our game reached this many people!**

**Now that voting is almost done, I invite you to play an updated version of our game in our [Itch.io page](https://matheuscunegato.itch.io/ghost-link) with fixes, improvements and new SFXs! Once the voting is finished we'll be updating the game version here as well.**