Tonidachi by JSMCAG
Take care of your demon friend!
Have him eat, sleep, study and play!
And make sure he's ready to face the challenges of being summoned!
In this Virtual Pet game, you must help the friendly demon to be ready for the oncoming summonings!
They must have the necessary skills, and a good mood, in order to be successful.
Manage your time well! One missed summon and it's Game Over!
Made using Godot Engine, Sketchbook for Android (graphics), and Beepbox (sound effects).
Note that I did not (and can not) test the Windows build of the game.
PS: I can't quite get the HTML5 version of the game to play nicely with neither Ludum Dare's nor itch.io's embedded player... :(
| Link | https://github.com/ShyPiano/ludum-dare-55 |
| itch.io | https://jsmcag.itch.io/tonidachi |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/tonidachi |
Ratings
| Overall | 293th | 2.982⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 338th | 2.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 295th | 2.833⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 230th | 3.352⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 238th | 3.143⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 271th | 2.25⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 143th | 3.06⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 247th | 3.019⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
Suggestions:
- make the summoning events more frequent
- let the player know from the start which 'summoning skills' they should be levelling up
- perhaps add minigames for each of the stat-recharging tasks. For example, when you eat, you have to put together ingredients and cook for the correct time. For video-games, they could play pac-man on a mini-screen. I feel like this would massively increase the 'fun'-factor of this game
Overall:
- I really like the different drawings of the demon-pet
- The game concept is interesting
If you had any chance to fix the sound on windows i'd like to return to this.
- The wait is way to long, the speed up wasn't enough and I had a hard time knowing if it's on or if the pause is on
- Going to sleep tanked all my bars, it felt very punishing
The demon's design is fun and nicely done, though. I think you have a nice project that just needs some finetuning and maybe some more content (the idea above of adding minigames is a really good one) to make it better. Keep it up!
As others have said, if the game were able to be sped up more it would be great :)
I suspect part of it is that I really don't have a lot of experience playing this type of game (I'm too old to have had a tamagotchi!)
I think I agree with what many people have said, the art is excellent and the bits of music are nice (although there could be more), and a "skip time until you can do something" button would be nice. I fully understand that that's not there, you *want* a non-jam version to be slow real-time-ish, but for rating jam games it's not ideal :)
Very nice overall though!