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We Blessed Few by koloquials

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made by koloquials for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

Congratulations on your new promotion!

Navigate as a new manager in Heaven’s prayer response department, summoning the appropriate angels for the tasks given to you! Listen to rumors and designate the best candidates for the jobs with your knowledge and ability. But even though you’ll need to satisfy the wants of the superior beings, you must be mindful of the needs of your underbeings! Choose to make nice and be personable or aim to become the department with the highest success rate - the choice is yours so do as a manager does and: manage!

And let’s not forget about… YOUR QUARTERLY REVIEW!!

COMMENCE ON ITCH.IO

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Credits: - Rachel Geng (koloquials) • • • Director, Design, UI Art - Kevin Ray (TheKevDev) • • • Design, Programming - David He (LinkedIn) • • • Programming - Richard Ortega-Amezcua (LinkedIn) • • • Programming - Ian Ouellette (LinkedIn) • • • Programming - Jay Taylor (LinkedIn) • • • Programming - Angela Song (gyoGUTS) • • • Narrative - Lukas Yang (YANM0RI) • • • Character Art - Cae Wang (caebeans) • • • BG Art - Ivy Xu (ivyvyx116) • • • Sound Design - Justin Shin (JYS_music) • • • Music

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itch.io https://koloquials.itch.io/we-blessed-few
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/we-blessed-few

Ratings

Overall 210th 3.938⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Fun 556th 3.475⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 255th 3.75⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Theme 306th 4.013⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 183th 4.3⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Audio 130th 4⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 282th 3.575⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Mood 330th 3.85⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Given 49🗳️ 86🗨️

Feedback

LocksmithArmy
15. Apr 2024 · 20:49 UTC
This is a great idea... I love the concept of managing prayers its so cute. great work :)
outstar
15. Apr 2024 · 20:56 UTC
Love the angelic color palette and music to vibe to. Big bad boss angel looked a bit like from Hazbin Hotel design-wise! Big plus for very interesting card design and crisp writing, the game is written in a great way and has a great overall quality/polish for a game jam time!

I didn't understand one thing: a card once said that I should be careful while speaking to an angel, but I haven't found a way to speak to them (maybe it was just flavor text!). Plus, initially I clicked on the "summon" button without assigning the card, because it was on top and I wanted to see what happens :)
Starexplorer
15. Apr 2024 · 21:01 UTC
Oh this is so cool! It was kinda hard for me to get how to manage every angel, but it was fun nonetheless. Though, what happens when you ignore a prayer? Does the game just deducts some points for it?
Justin Pena
15. Apr 2024 · 21:03 UTC
Very well put together. All in all a great use of theme and gameplay loop. Figuring out which prayer is best for which angel is a bit confusing, though that I may have missed something.
TheGreatCarpet
16. Apr 2024 · 01:42 UTC
This game has pretty nice graphics and sounds! But I liked the smooth animation in some places.
The game is interesting! And I would say that this is something new. With the theme of this Ludum, everyone decided to take a more demonic theme, and you decided to take paradise. And that makes this game unusual
Pusheeneiro
16. Apr 2024 · 02:43 UTC
Great "papers please" style game
JLV
16. Apr 2024 · 02:50 UTC
Really fun management game! I had a great time going over the various cards, the little stories and how they affect the overall game while always keeping you on your toes. Kudos for the awesomely cute art and the soothing music!
ferelily
16. Apr 2024 · 03:17 UTC
Fantastic on all fronts! My only constructive comment would be that it often felt like there was very little to actually indicate which angel would be best for each prayer. I would love to see this game fleshed out with a full story arc!
Nicol3
16. Apr 2024 · 03:21 UTC
This is an amazing game, it has been very intuitive and the drawings are super cute.
LDJam user 389806
16. Apr 2024 · 03:25 UTC
I enjoyed this game! Art and music are top tier. The idea and gameplay are very interesting. Really love games that put creativity into story and text, and not just combat and action.
Saprina289
16. Apr 2024 · 03:34 UTC
I thought the game was super cute! I can tell all the detail that and effort that was put into everything. I think it was really creative and I liked the mechanics. I was a bit confused for the first playthrough because I just clicked "summon" without assigning a prayer because I didn't know how to do the assigning, but after that it was a lot of fun!!
realwangziyang
16. Apr 2024 · 04:13 UTC
The game is super cute and interesting!
BenjaminW
16. Apr 2024 · 04:35 UTC
Very creative, great concept. The music is just amazing. Good vibes overall :)
Tesseus
16. Apr 2024 · 05:06 UTC
Surprisingly relatable higher beings and hints of humor was keeping me cozily engaged and reading carefully. I appreciate not having timer in the game.
EasilyDistracted
16. Apr 2024 · 06:55 UTC
Absolutely spectacular graphics, it took me a minute to fully understand the systems but that's less of a tutorial issue and more a I have a thick skull issue. I really like the bureaucracy management kind of gameplay loop. All around fantastic you guys should be really proud of this entry!
NinjaCatz
16. Apr 2024 · 08:33 UTC
Even in heaven you have to work, it makes me sad :sob:
Visuals are insane <3, nice work!
Ulziton
16. Apr 2024 · 08:38 UTC
Like this a lot very cool idea and realisation is also good
EmaZuro
16. Apr 2024 · 08:54 UTC
I love this game so much! I will replay for sure.
RaimondoSenpai
16. Apr 2024 · 12:51 UTC
Well polished and executed idea. the game is great, the arts and musics are also well made. truly marvelous game
konstantinreed
16. Apr 2024 · 15:02 UTC
Wow, got the zero percent ending. So much narrative work in limited time. Impressive! @gyoGUTS
GDMage
16. Apr 2024 · 15:25 UTC
Looks good! But there is a lot of text.
Soul Grinder
16. Apr 2024 · 18:30 UTC
Interesting and unique idea for the Summoning theme, The info cards looked good and I really liked the detail in the storyline and lore of the characters. I thought the art style and the audio fit well and didn't encounter any bugs. Nice work, a fun game!
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 22:33 UTC
Cool game, I liked it!
Joriska
17. Apr 2024 · 00:42 UTC
cute artstyle and nice arts, i really liked it) The concept of the game is cool. great job!
LDJam user 304226
17. Apr 2024 · 10:05 UTC
Really cute and cool art style ^^
Soojung Choi
18. Apr 2024 · 18:33 UTC
I loved this game so much! All of the angel designs were so cute and I enjoyed the prayer management! I love how you went for a mix between Biblically-accurate angel designs (in your boss and the card art) and the more humanoid depictions (for the main game sprites). Also, all of the angels having different audio cues was another nice detail for distinguishing them along with their character card stats and visual designs. Great work! :D
JuicyBrucey
18. Apr 2024 · 21:14 UTC
Lovely art and I'm impressed that the music was made just for the jam. For any constructive criticism I would say it would be nice to be able to hover over the assigned prayers to see the info again without having to drag it off of them. Nitpicking here, when a card is assigned to an angel and an angel's big info card is shown, the little card is drawn in front of the info card, and i saw a very minor typo in one of the prayers. Very nice entry so well done to the whole team
mvasko2
21. Apr 2024 · 21:01 UTC
Very well done. I liked basically everything - the visuals, the audio, the music, the concept and the writing.

One nitpick that I have is that it was a little hard for me to understand which aspects of an angel affected the outcome of the summoning the most. I ended up assigning based on the description of the angel and its stress level, which seemed to work OK, but not all the time - so I guess I haven't quite cracked it yet.

Very nice entry overall.