Critter Duel by WubbaDuck
# Critter Duel
Summon small critters to fight to the death and protect you from the other critters.
You regain mana every tick, spend that mana on the critters. Your gems will reshuffle when the stack runs out!
Don't let the other critters hit you. And if you have too much mana... you may find it painful.
Stats: The critters mana cost, damage output, and HP are all linked. If a snake costs 8 mana to summon it starts with 8 HP and does 8 damage. As the HP is reduced, the damage output goes down with it. So if the snake is down to 3 HP then it only does 3 damage on the next hit.
Trample: If a critter does more than enough damage to kill another one, the excess continues on to the summoner!

Tools
- Engine: Godot 4.2
- Art: Inkscape
- SFX: Audacity
- Music: Chrome Music Lab
- OS: Arch BTW :penguin:
Known Issues
- Missing a few animations: Gems popping off the stack, gems leaving the bag and repopulating the stack, etc.
- Some error spam to console about bones that I didn't have time to fix, but shouldn't cause any problems.
The balance is also way out of whack. :shrug:
It may be lacking a lot of polish... and some decent audio :wink: but I'm pleased with how much I got done in the time frame.
| Source Code | https://github.com/WubbaDuck/Ludum_Dare_55 |
| Itch.io - WebGL | https://wubbaduck.itch.io/critter-duel |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/critter-duel |
Ratings
| Overall | 230th | 3.276⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 264th | 3.017⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 308th | 2.741⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 180th | 3.567⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 119th | 3.75⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 90th | 3.554⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 97th | 3.357⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 129th | 3.536⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 41🗳️ | 31🗨️ |


The artwork looks great and the audio was funny and charming.
For some reason the opponent was missing their head.
while more gameplay would be nice, for what was done in the time given it was good!
Great job.
Great job!