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Would like to have some activities while I am waiting for resource to gather","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045592,"author_name":"LocksmithArmy","author_uid":"locksmitharmy","epoch":1713285951,"text":"super cute, I love it!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045645,"author_name":"Rachel Green","author_uid":"rachel-green","epoch":1713286200,"text":"Graphics are great! I was a little confused on how to start but got the hang of it after a bit. I wish there was more depth to the gameplay while we wait for the resources to get ready to open the scrolls. 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Really amazing job, well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045843,"author_name":"vinzBad","author_uid":"vinzbad","epoch":1713287052,"text":"Great art and sound effects, the gameplay is very enjoyable but it gets quite repetitive after a while. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045846,"author_name":"Sampai","author_uid":"sampai","epoch":1713287063,"text":"Really cool art, I love how you played with illumination and different light sources here!\nThe gameplay loop does get kind of stale fast, some more added variety on screens (more than auto-gathering and producing) would help immensely! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045895,"author_name":"Supportlik","author_uid":"supportlik","epoch":1713287351,"text":"This Game was just superb. I really enjoyed the summoning and ressource management. \n\nWhat I liked:\n- Cute Graphics and Artstyle\n- Nice Sound and Humor.\n- Different Assets for the Luminaries\n- Great Controls and no Bugs!\n- Scenery was put well together.\n\nWhat I didn't like:\n- Kind of repetetive Gameplay.\n- Progression was a bit repetetive, too.\n- Fighting was kind of hard to manage. Maybe better selection? Multiple at once?\n\nOverall: Awesome! Keep up the good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045979,"author_name":"Roman Dubrovin","author_uid":"roman-dubrovin","epoch":1713287682,"text":"It is a very good game! I love the graphics and sounds! I enjoyed the gameplay but I would like to have more control over the battle. Sometimes I didn't really understand what was going on, am I winning or not. But besides that, it is an amazing game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046181,"author_name":"AkirAssasin","author_uid":"akirassasin","epoch":1713288591,"text":"Art and music goes well together! Would be nice to have more automation \/ faster production as I was getting bottlenecked with the basic runes","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046202,"author_name":"Tnnv","author_uid":"tnnv","epoch":1713288691,"text":"Awesome game!\nAt first I didn't understand the mechanics despite the help texts, but after I figured it out the game really shined!\nIt's really impressive how you was able to implement such a solid progression in a jam game format!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046244,"author_name":"BigTex","author_uid":"bigtex","epoch":1713288899,"text":"I got all the way to white. really solid game. could def publish this on the phone after some polish and additions. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046486,"author_name":"Cody Holt","author_uid":"cody-holt","epoch":1713290014,"text":"Wow great submission. You guys should be proud of your work here. I love the art and sound. I think they're great quality and fit together nicely. The gameplay gets very repetitive once you have many screens that you need to go back through. I like that there was sort of an auto gather of the energy through the statue, but going back and forth did grow rather old. I think some kind of unlock to make the early energy produce faster or add more workers to the books would have helped shorten the long waiting periods in the later half of the game. Something more to do while waiting would have helped. The combat sequences could have more variety\/other ways to help\/hurt your guys. Moving them individually out of the blasts became tough as you had more to manage. *Actually after playing more I realized that in the how to play it says you can just double click somewhere and everyone will react to it and move towards the clicked area.* The end is pretty anticlimactic. Maybe a boss fight or something would have felt better, but it's a jam so time constraints and all.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1047400,"author_name":"Hystaf","author_uid":"hystaf","epoch":1713294378,"text":"Ok i did the 100% xD\nLLove this game.\njust the best ! 5 stars everywhere!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1047423,"author_name":"AtzederSerbe","author_uid":"atzederserbe","epoch":1713294470,"text":"I like everything about this game. But I dont get the combat system tbh","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1047428,"author_name":"Tommes","author_uid":"tommes","epoch":1713294497,"text":"Very addictive played it for a hour or so while doing something else on the side. Love the art and lumination. Had a lot of fun grinding it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051400,"author_name":"lindote","author_uid":"lindote","epoch":1713319571,"text":"Very nice game!\nloved it. But i just think it is a little too much grinding... (personal preference)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051727,"author_name":"NBumgardner","author_uid":"nbumgardner","epoch":1713324197,"text":"I like the character\/crystal lighting, click controls, and the way the eyes follow the mouse while near. It makes for a cute approach to a clicker game without requiring as much clicking as most games in the genre, which is good. Given more time I would maybe experiment with crackling noises to make the minions sound more firey without becoming to loud? Additionally, adding a message on reaching the 2nd or 3rd safe room that you can use A or D to navigate between rooms as well could be helpful to tell users when it is most useful.\n\nI got halfway up the progression tree on stream, so I think the progression makes this game a good teaching tool for compounding interests, while being cute and low stakes. Also great job on the music and flute, it gives a medieval knights of the round table at dinner feel, festive.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051850,"author_name":"Codeman1010","author_uid":"codeman1010","epoch":1713326649,"text":"Amazing graphics! I couldn't get to green, so sad.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1052290,"author_name":"Squidly","author_uid":"squidly","epoch":1713334288,"text":"Our little ember thingies shall go East and claim new lands and no evil hole creatures can stop us.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1052635,"author_name":"kaesterin","author_uid":"kaesterin","epoch":1713340046,"text":"Awesome graphics and a very fun atmospheric soundtrack! Great game, really liked the summons, super cute","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053646,"author_name":"N3K0K33P3R","author_uid":"n3k0k33p3r","epoch":1713351801,"text":"Absolutely loved the art in your game\u2014super cute style! The gameplay is really chill and fun. Maybe adding some mini-tasks or activities to do while waiting for resources could spice things up? Also, while the gameplay is fun, it feels a bit too easy after a while since you can gather a lot of minions quickly. 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Wanted to ask if youre fine if I put some gameplay of the game in an intermission video. Last year for reference:\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TM_eIvjBmIQ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1062914,"author_name":"Baluj","author_uid":"baluj","epoch":1713490758,"text":"It's an interesting concept, I've had a good time playing it. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1063037,"author_name":"Jake G","author_uid":"jake-g","epoch":1713494254,"text":"@ategon Of course! Thanks for trying our game :grin: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066136,"author_name":"verti","author_uid":"verti","epoch":1713594591,"text":"Fun game, nice idea. Got to the end :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076361,"author_name":"bbaf","author_uid":"bbaf","epoch":1714446566,"text":"Funny game with quite cozy atmosphere, art style and music. Controls are super smooth that is also great!\n\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1077591,"author_name":"josang1567","author_uid":"josang1567","epoch":1714639750,"text":"fun gmame, it was great to play it, the sprites are amazing","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1077675,"author_name":"HollowTsun","author_uid":"hollowtsun","epoch":1714654226,"text":"Amazing game ! The art and soud design is bluffing and the gameplay overall is really fun. The only downside is that the combat system impossible to comprehend. What makes me win or not is a total mystery and I couldn't ply more after unlocking Green.\n\nthe game was still amazing, well done !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/jeremys-stuff.com\/games\/ld55","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"94569","g_author":"1004177","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"442037","g_title":"Luminaries","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"169","g_commentcount":"34","g_site2_node_id":"392400","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"392400","n_urlkey":"442037","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/luminaries","n_slug":"luminaries","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"4177","n_created":"1713222631","n_modified":"1778241952","n_version":"1224277","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing 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