Ludum Dare #40compo

Arcanum Darkened

by pyrovx

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.00

An evil witch has awakened the Arcane Powers within you. Now she has locked you inside a room filled with innocent humans and is channeling Arcane Power into you, forcing you to use deadly spells inside the room and killing humans, turning you towards the dark side, or be consumed by the Power itself.

Try to hit as few humans as possible with your spells, while not letting your AP reach the maximum. You need to become proficient with the powers you have, so you can use them to break out of the shackles that hold you.

Tags: #arcade

Genres: action

Comments3

alexv5 Dec 2017, 20:25

That's actually a really cool and unique idea, to try and cast big aoe spells but not hit anything. I've seen better looking games, but with a bit more work I think you can turn this into a great game.

BjarkeAL22 Dec 2017, 17:05

This is a pretty cool! It's a great idea and it was a lot of fun to try to not hit people with spells :) Won on my third try with 177 kills (still sounds like a lot!)
One comment is that I could use some more feedback when the arcane power is close to reaching max, as I lost the first two times because I didn't pay attention and suddenly had too much.
Another thing which you might want to look at for balance was I found a good trick was to spam a gascloud and a bunch of fireballs or other spells in the same area, because while the gascloud was there, people were going to die anyway, and so the others spells didn't matter--just to bring down my power.

PyroVxauthor2 Jan 2018, 22:38

Really glad you guys liked the game. I was planning on making the screen shake quite heavily when the power is close to max, but as the deadline approached, I kind of forgot about it and only ended up implementing the targeting shake.

The overlapping spells is indeed quite a design flaw, which I noticed a bit too late.