Ludum Dare #43compo

A dangerous situation not to wear shoes in

by wie

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46

In this game you must make swords, which you sell to people. You get paid in gold, which you can use to buy more tools so you can make swords faster. You must also sacrifice the swords you have made to kill skeletons, who want to kill you and wreck your stuff.
Everything made by myself, music made in bosca ceoil and sound effects in leshylabs sfmaker.

There is a guide button in the bottom right of the screen, click that if you're lost.

BUGS:

Right now windows,mac and linux versions have a bug where it will become impossible to win the game, but the web version doesn't have that bug anymore.

Genres: strategy

Tools: Bosca Ceoil, Unity

Comments57

folex703 Dec 2018, 15:20

please release a web version!

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 15:23

I don't know where to host it though.

dk5000p3 Dec 2018, 15:29

@wie itch.io is pretty easy and a great site.

Kintama453 Dec 2018, 15:38

Fun and innovative, I love the graphics, a bit confusing on the controls though

Daniel_Abeleira3 Dec 2018, 15:38

Good work! It's difficult to win though

Blodyavenger3 Dec 2018, 15:42

That's one hard sim game! Sometimes I had to kill the skeleton with a mold and the mold was sacrificed! :smile:
But really, I like the idea of crafting, selling or fighting. Game could get some polishing on controls about grabbing & moving stuff.

Well done!

Sam Hindson3 Dec 2018, 15:43

Nice concept! The game works pretty well too, except somehow my anvil got destroyed by a skeleton and I couldn't buy a new one

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 15:44

Thanks for the comments! I now have a web version up too! @folex70

justalocalhero3 Dec 2018, 16:05

I'm getting 404'd on the web version.

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 16:08

@justalocalhero thanks for telling me, fixed now!

figglewatts3 Dec 2018, 16:11

Interesting entry! It was sometimes hard to pick things up if they were all dropped in the same area but I really liked the game.

kiv3 Dec 2018, 16:15

A fun tycoon with production line, economics and even fighting elements made in two days, great work!

justalocalhero3 Dec 2018, 16:20

I like the concept. It can be a bit tricky to get the item you are holding to interact with the world as expected. An indicator when an item is able to be used might have gone a long way. The art style is quite nice. Really quite fun, I'd like to see a more fleshed out version.

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 16:33

@justalocalhero Thanks for the advice. If i'll continue working on this game, i'll implement those. I just didn't have time to do it :D

Malghoul3 Dec 2018, 17:36

This is a very cool concept and execution is great however sometimes it is hard to interact with objects and I seemed to be able to stop the animations by just walking away, also when the skeleton destroyed my anvil I had no way to get it back which meant instant game over. But I love this game it is a bunch of fun and the art style is very nice!

mrnyarlathotep3 Dec 2018, 17:50

This is like a crash course in multi-tasking, fun little compo entry.
It seems like if you lose your anvil, you're in an unwinnable state with no way to buy a new one?
Particularly annoying a that seems to be the first thing the skeletons went to destroy, lol

mosaic3 Dec 2018, 17:50

Nice game. I just couldnt buy a new anvil after they took mine :(. Also, one skeletton tried to steal iron, although I didnt have any. That was a little weird. The rest was great though. And really cool graphics.

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 17:53

I'll try to fix the anvil thing now :D

Pompi Pompi3 Dec 2018, 17:53

Overall seems like a really great concept, but the skeletons seem to come so fast, I was only able to sell one sword.

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 17:58

I fixed the anvil bug now, but only for the web version.

Andrea3 Dec 2018, 18:12

Fun little game, great graphics!
I agree with @justalocalhero though, it's pretty difficult to get things to work properly and it makes it very frustrating when you get killed for that xD
Awesome job!

folex703 Dec 2018, 18:17

good idea! Pretty hard to play but i loved

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 18:19

Thanks for the comments, made the web version a bit easier.

wdelvi3 Dec 2018, 19:20

Well done man! This is a very well put together game. Fun, engaging, not too difficult to understand. Definitely needed audio (why didn't you exempt yourself from the category?)

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 19:36

@wdelvi Oh, i had accidentally removed music from the game sorry, i'll add it back. Thanks for telling me!

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 19:42

@wdelvi Sound is back on now!

Sargonius3 Dec 2018, 20:05

Great! I would like to play in non-compo version of this concept :-)

vinzBad3 Dec 2018, 20:08

Really like this game but interacting with the items is difficult. I don't know where to click exactly and the mouse sometimes resets (at least in the web version)

Simone3 Dec 2018, 20:12

You can feel the urge of doing everything super fast.

I would have made bigger collider for almost everything, in the middle of the action it's hard to be precise with the clicks :D

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 20:12

@vinzBad weird, i don't have this kind of a problem in the web version. At least not the mouse resetting.

Barrier3 Dec 2018, 20:46

Pretty cool game!
Interacting with items is a bit hard, especially if I want to do things quickly.
And why can't these people with fancy new swords come and help defend my stuff from skeletons?? :D

wie_author3 Dec 2018, 20:57

I finally realized what the problem is with people having difficulties clicking on stuff, you have to be a certain distance close to the item to click it, and that distance is too small!
(maybe i fixed it now :D)

MRUniverse3 Dec 2018, 21:25

All shop simulators get a +1 in my book. It was hard to tell how to interact with things at first, mostly just learning where to click.

MateusBoga3 Dec 2018, 21:37

Nice game! It is pretty hard but you get the hang of it after a while. I do think the skeletons spawn too fast. Very unique take on the theme!

Lelel3 Dec 2018, 22:17

Really cool game, it kept me playing for 30 min right at the first try. Graphics are well done, the music is cool too. The only thing I didnt liked that much is sometime when I click at something it wount register the klick accurat. But really good job!

Norb3 Dec 2018, 22:33

I liked the setting a lot! The commands are a bit off but its still fun!

Hadryel3 Dec 2018, 23:44

My guy wasn't that fast XD. I guess my game was over when a skeleton destroyed my anvil :')

Very cool concept. Only had to restart once because a mold was underneath the iron bars and I couldn't pick it up (I had no money to buy new stuff to get rid of the bars XD). Well done!

BenBurgh4 Dec 2018, 03:29

Really cool and mellow game!

Erendelous4 Dec 2018, 10:44

Amazing game! At first glance, It is not easy to understand what to do, but when I understood I really enjoyed it! And audio is cool, too:)

tpamir4 Dec 2018, 17:30

Great game! I remembered My Little Blacksmith Shop in it and great Art! Cheers!

schonstal4 Dec 2018, 17:32

Conceptually this is really funny... I like the fantasy of the situation: a blacksmith who has to fight skeletons. They're like pests.

Azael4 Dec 2018, 19:01

Good concept !
But very hard to finish,
There're coming too fast !

shp4 Dec 2018, 19:08

very nice graphics! well done

Cincerteri4 Dec 2018, 20:02

I really like the idea of the game, but I had some trouble with activating the structures. Also, I never figured out how to attack a skeleton. The graphics and sound were also very good
.

artbohr4 Dec 2018, 20:08

Very very cool overall; the graphics, the idea, the gameplay and the music.

wie_author4 Dec 2018, 20:22

@cincerteri There is a guide button in the bottom right which tells you how to kill the skeletons, but maybe it's kinda hidden.

Cincerteri4 Dec 2018, 20:28

Ah, I see now. Thanks for the tip.

Ethan Losten5 Dec 2018, 08:29

dude, i loved it, the graphics and the flow are great, id love to play it on my phone or something

wie_author5 Dec 2018, 09:14

@ethan-losten Thanks for the suggestion, will look into that.

dunin5 Dec 2018, 19:27

Good start for a good game. Unfortunately, some collision problems spoil the fun..

bradur6 Dec 2018, 09:54

Interesting game, loved the animations. So much work was put into those! I found it a little annoying that I lost the sword after tossing it. Lots of mechanics in this game, impressive that you managed to combine everything and still make it work!

wie_author6 Dec 2018, 10:18

@bradur Losing the sword when tossing it is the "sacrificing" part, as you have to plan ahead, what you sell, and what sword do you use for protecting yourself. Thanks for the comment!

arkiruthis6 Dec 2018, 10:35

Really nice idea, with some cool graphics and pleasant sound. Only crit I have is the previously mentioned collision issues, particularly hard when under pressure. A lot of work went into this, so well done!

markusfisch6 Dec 2018, 21:57

Well, that wasn't too easy :wink: I've played it a couple of times until I got how to make swords fast enough so I could kill the skeletons. It's very nice that you made the skeletons not immediately lethal but simply destroy an item you can re-buy later. Interesting and very creative concept! Well done!

Ente8 Dec 2018, 02:45

Beautiful graphics! One bug(?): if you take the iron in your hands you can't put it down anymore, means when you have iron in the smelter, you lose. Also if you have the iron in your hands the skeletons that come in don't kill you, when they attack you from the front. Maybe cause they attack the iron but it still stays in your hands.

wie_author8 Dec 2018, 07:01

@ente You can place rhe iron in the stack, i just forgot to add it to the tutirual :D