In the end there will be the Number by KAVERZA

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made by KAVERZA for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?

"In the end there will be the Number" is the game where you need to place as many little angels on the head of a pin as you can. If three of them fall down, then your experiment ends.

Controls: Drag-n-drop angels with mouse. Use mouse wheel to control the camera. ESC to return to main menu.

Take new angels from the cloud.

Angels can attach to each other with their hands; their bottom connects to any part of other angels. Angels come in different shapes. You should be especially aware of: - Round ones, because they have no arms; - Inverted triangular ones, because they have no bottom.

Good luck! GIF_1.gif

Ratings

Overall 325th 3.767⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Fun 480th 3.477⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 310th 3.58⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Theme 849th 3.221⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 255th 4.125⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Audio 116th 3.93⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Humor 351th 3.389⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Mood 100th 4.148⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Given 50🗳️ 68🗨️

Feedback

Dzukika
08. Oct 2024 · 06:51 UTC
Atmospheric and creepy a little bit haha. But still have fun, interesting idea!
DartDimon
08. Oct 2024 · 12:10 UTC
Nice atmosphere, art and music, idea also interesting! I played some, my record is 71 angel![image.png](///raw/dee/d5/z/67dfd.png)
InOnesGraveDed
08. Oct 2024 · 14:01 UTC
The best I've played yet. It's simple but feels completed. Music, idea, design and atmosphere are peak. Awesome work guys!
InOnesGraveDed
08. Oct 2024 · 14:03 UTC
Do you have any other games? Page on itch maybe?
MrBananaz
08. Oct 2024 · 18:25 UTC
Jessus.....what is this?
Great game!
Rum Ham
08. Oct 2024 · 18:29 UTC
23! This must be the most random game :laughing: but it was kinda fun. I don't understand where this theme comes from though I demand an explanation!
rufenerd
08. Oct 2024 · 18:36 UTC
So fun! I got to 49 and it was such a great experience when it started to fall and I just started throwing angels on it as fast as I could to try to get it to re-balance, but it was doomed. XD

Might be the best I've played yet. Thanks!
Lussard Studio
08. Oct 2024 · 18:54 UTC
Reminds me the old mobile games ! That was funny to play with the physics !
I loved the arts !!! :heart:
zzangshil
09. Oct 2024 · 19:56 UTC
I really enjoyed playing this, great job
fqds
09. Oct 2024 · 21:34 UTC
wow!!!!
imberny
09. Oct 2024 · 23:52 UTC
This is so weird I love it
Mateo Avventuriero
10. Oct 2024 · 01:16 UTC
Top mood! Perfect music and sound design, perfect art, both creates a really strange atsmosphere (in a good way), it's very Monty Python I love it! Love the fact that the game loop itself, perfect design! It's very philosophical yet very stupid. Perfect game <3

Probably my favourite game of this jam so far! ;)
zoglu
10. Oct 2024 · 21:59 UTC
Excellent entry, funny take on the theme, and a really well-thought mood and strange atmosphere, reminds me of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Great job !
Andriana Mantidfly
10. Oct 2024 · 22:00 UTC
Cool game
LarrySeinfeld
10. Oct 2024 · 22:58 UTC
I spent more time on this than I probably should have. Not a bad thing! I had fun, but my life, you know...

This was surprisingly fun for a simple gameplay loop. The setting and music made for an unexpectedly uncomfortable atmosphere, but in a good way. I love that stuff! And the gameplay and physics worked wonderfully! The physics sort of gave me World of Goo vibes.

If I were to nitpick, it would have be helpful if there was a number displayed somewhere that indicated the number of angels left that could fall before you fail because there were a couple of times where I lost, but thought I had only dropped one angel, so I assume something fell off screen that I didn't see. But again, just a small nitpick.

Overall, a super cool game and veeery addictive! I really liked it!
Phyrocast
10. Oct 2024 · 23:13 UTC
Very creative mechanics! The lose condition isn't fully clear, and the theme connection a bit far, otherwise its a super fun game to play around with! Once my tower began falling I started spamming to add a few more to the count, so maybe a cooldown might help prevent that :sweat_smile:
WeirdBitGames
10. Oct 2024 · 23:25 UTC
Wow, I'm not sure what to say! This was far from what I'd expect from the LD56 theme haha!
They are certainly very tiny! A nice a idea taking a proverb or some such and taking it into a reality, or at least a game! The music was great actually!
Pachino55
11. Oct 2024 · 01:04 UTC
Nice mechanics, good job on this game!
jscommander
11. Oct 2024 · 08:00 UTC
Wow, this game takes a really creative approach to the jam theme! I never would have imagined interpreting it this way. The artwork looks awesome and really catches the eye. Building a tower out of angels is such a fun and unique gameplay idea. It's entertaining and satisfying to stack them up.
Miku
11. Oct 2024 · 16:38 UTC
Wow, this game certainly has a mood to it. I think it would have been nice to be able to move the angels without having them snap on because sometimes I accidentally just swing them around in a way that made them snap into another one without really meaning to (because it spins). It's awesome when they stack well though, and super funny when the entire stack falls.
Anchry
11. Oct 2024 · 16:39 UTC
Never imagined stacking angels would be that fun, incredibly well done on the visuals and just the general polish of the game. Everything felt very nice, although I would have wanted a more dramatic end when my angels inevitably tumbled down. Fantastic entry!
Mars
11. Oct 2024 · 19:06 UTC
Very solid entry, and also oddly the second religiously themed game I've played so far. The vibe is really creep here, but I suppose that's fitting considering angels are supposed to be terrifying for a human to behold.

The gameplay is simple, but oddly addictive, and the visuals and sound really add to the whole experience. Well done!
p0l4r
11. Oct 2024 · 19:12 UTC
:clap: A silly idea well executed. :clap: Art was perfect, music was perfect. My only quibble is that I felt like I lost control of the angels once in a while, they seemed to drop from the cursor without me release the button. But that's nothing really. The game is amazing, well done!
IonBingo
11. Oct 2024 · 19:13 UTC
I couldn't get far but I love the music and look of this game a lot. Designing creepy angels to fit the shapes of a block stacking games is a really clever direction
FAOFiD
11. Oct 2024 · 21:21 UTC
Weeeellll... It was something. Something creepy. I like creepy stuff, but that faces of the angels gave me an uncanny valley effect. I am not completely sure if it is a good or a bad thing, but I left pretty high rating for the mood :sweat_smile: I couldn't get a lot of angels on the pin, as it was very hard to use the attaching hands mechanic, so I just stacked them... And I'am really curious, what is up there in your game? Is there somebody horrible hiding in the background, maybe?.. I kinda wish I could see that
Cam Moore
11. Oct 2024 · 22:18 UTC
How creepy! In a well executed way. And a very unique idea so far in this jam I loved it.
LDJam user 235915
12. Oct 2024 · 06:19 UTC
A very interesting concept. I especially liked the music and the idea!)
Volkolak
12. Oct 2024 · 12:51 UTC
Wow, this is really exciting. It was a breeze, great job!
rsheepdv
13. Oct 2024 · 05:20 UTC
Felt vaguely creepy o.o, good vibes!
damdoshi
14. Oct 2024 · 08:08 UTC
Well made. x) A beautiful test of patience.
Avi
14. Oct 2024 · 10:42 UTC
Let there be ~~light~~ chaos. Fun idea and nice graphics :)
kr4ft3r
15. Oct 2024 · 20:52 UTC
34
I never played a stacker (or however the genre can be called) this crazy, it is good that they stick and so more fun things happen other than just the boring old tumbling down, like how the entire structure can bend over one way and then you can balance it back. Quite excellent graphics, audio, mood, theme.
Sockenpuppe
18. Oct 2024 · 12:07 UTC
41 is the most I managed thus far.

This feels so good to play. Like ... the atmosphere is amazing
and the angel designs are so perfectly unnerving.

At first, I was trying out how far up I can manage to stack them but those "constructions" were really unstable, of course. So, I tried a different approach after that and tried to build a somewhat stable foundation, at first. Not always possible (e.g. when luck is not on my side and I get tons of the round ones haha).

Feels great when the angel tower slowly starts to topple over but then you get some good ones that somehow manage to balance it back. Especially when they also start to hold on to each other.

Great work!

Edit: A day later and I got up to 60. Slowly getting there haha