It can be pretty challenging to get enough XP to summon any allies, I think being zooming out a tad more would help a lot.

Heads up to others. The itch.io download is Windows only (even if it says Windows/Linux/Mac).

Can you edit that to save people's time?

Have a nice day!

I could see this going places. A few things that tripped me up. The kamakazi dudes come out of nowhere and there's not chance to deal enough damage to take them out before they ruin your day. It's tough to collect enough to buy your helpers before you get overrun. And there's something funky going on with the movement that's causing everything to look jittery.

If you do flesh this out more though I'd love to take another look at it. Could have some good potential.

Cute little game and a fun concept! I didn't get far enough to get into the summoning theme but from the other comments it sounds like that's a skill issue. :laughing: Always good to have a leaderboard and your use of particle and sound effects were great. Could maybe clean up the text and be a little more cautious about enemy spawning. I agree that having enemies do less damage would be wise. Definitely has potential though.

I'd also say it was really tough to make progress on it. It doesn't help that my laptop's keyboard has weird arrow keys haha, but still things move too quickly and deal too much damage to let you get to your first ally.

I also found that there was a inconsistent time delay between dying and displaying the score board. I feel like I would have made way more attempts at it if that delay was short and consistent, like 2 seconds or so between death and starting again

Otherwise though, congrats on your first compo!

Love this little game! The use of particle is great!

Very cool! Love the different types of summons. I played a few times but never got very far. Good entry! Had fun!

Cool little roguelike ! Really satisfying.

so simple and cute game, wish for more detail of this game to play

very simple, yet engaging!

Good game and I have so much fun in it! But sometimes I was ambushed by some cubes and failed,,, They just appeared in front of my face

Don't mark your windows game as a web game.

+++ for humor :D

I liked the audio and simply graphics.

Really cool for a first game entry! I think some more feedback on taking damage/low hp would be helpful and also being able to hold the mouse to shoot. It was very fun!