Game Cultist of sacrifices was made during Ludum Dare #43 in 3 days. In this game you take on a role of young cultist. Cult which he belongs to is a target of king's attack. Protagonist and his master must sacrifice a bull to get unlimited power from the demons and take revange on king's army.
Controls:
W,S,A,D or arrows - Move Space - Attack, pic up mushroom E - Eat Mushroom. F1 - Fullscrean on/off
Really enjoyed this. Everything about it appealed to me. At first I thought I hated the sound but that grew on me too as I played. I'd really like to see this one expanded into a bigger game.
Cool game and concept! I especially liked the sounds you made for the dialog!
It took me a while to figure out what "bring a bull" means (I kept killing bulls and wondered why it didn't work), but eventually managed to figure it out and complete the game. Had a lot of fun!
One thing that bothered me a bit though - in the last part where you have to kill 100 knights, this part is not very challenging. That's fine, and it was fun to feel all-powerful and kill tons of knights easily, but it got old after the first 20-30 knights I killed, and then it took me a long time to kill 70 more. I think it would be nice to make the number of knights you need to kill in this section smaller (or at least make the knights crowd in more specific regions so you could kill many of them at once).
Maybe something like junior, beginner, intern, trainee, apprentice, journeyman, etc. in the title? E.g. 'Cult Intern', 'Apprenticed to the Cult', 'Sacrifice for Beginners'. I don't know, it may just be me; other people may like the current title.
I love the way the dialogue works, unintelligible babble that still conveys personality, especially as the cult leaders rambling "undoes" the King's words. Unfortunately I got stuck in the game because I couldn't figure out how to bring the bull. After slaying a few cows for leather, I made a bull follow me back to the cult base, but nothing happened. What do I do next?
Thanks for feedback. I see this isn't really obvious. If the bull see you in vertical or horizontal line it will be rushing into your's direction. Make him follow you into the cultist's base and then go to the Master. I'm really sorry for this.
@falak Ah, thanks! It took a while for me to get the Master to trigger properly. Poor knights being used as fodder against the cultist. A fun game and interesting idea!
You managed to implement a lot of mechanics that's super cool! I liked it, the quests had a nice variation and it's a finished game. The sound was hilarious :D
I loved the voices xD I think some other soundeffects would have been nice too. I think a "muuh" when you kill a cow would have been hilariouse if you would have just spoken it like the voices and also other Soundefects like this. The Intro was realy nice and the whole story was soo strange and funny. I think it would have been nice to let the text stay there a bit and not immediately scroll it back. Sometimes it was a bit hard to read it that quick. but this scroll back effect was nice it seamt like the people spoke backwards or something xD I tink it is almost imposible to get a bull through the top and bottom entrense. I think the doors should have been a bit bigger.
I laughed out loud in my work space when I heard the characters talking, that's great voice acting ! Very fun concept, fighting is really hard and a bit messy, though. maybe having a greater range could have helped. I hope you had as much fun making this as I had testing it o/
Interesting art style and brilliant sound effects on the characters. However, the game could use some music and some of the aggressive cows seem to hit really hard
Interesting story. I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/3-5x0DQqrYk
This is a very good project for one person, I liked how it looks and sounds) Especially the sound of the hababaa) Thanks for the cool project that made me laugh) Very worthy)
Thanks. I saw it. I'm Ur subscriber and I love what you do on your chanell. Although I'm disapointed you gave up on my game that fast. But I will take your opinnion into consideration and balance it more next time.
There's quite a bit of content here, having multiple stages to the level is very nice. The audio... wasn't too good. I presume it was deliberately ridiculous, but it was used too much for it to remain funny.
It's good to hear a different opinion. Everyone stated that the audio :notes: was good well I'm happy :smile: to see that someone have other feelings about it.
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As i can see on the net your PC missing DirectX or something. https://www.lifewire.com/fix-d3dx9-43-dll-not-found-or-missing-errors-2623288
@sapphiris
OK! Thanks for telling me it! It was my fault and Im fixed it a moment ago. Sorry about problems.
Thanks! I think that :microphone2: voices characters are good because the are non any particular language. I'm happy that you like it. :smiley:
@fizzhog
Mayby some day. You can follow :handshake: me on my gamejolt. I'm thinking about it too.
It took me a while to figure out what "bring a bull" means (I kept killing bulls and wondered why it didn't work), but eventually managed to figure it out and complete the game. Had a lot of fun!
One thing that bothered me a bit though - in the last part where you have to kill 100 knights, this part is not very challenging. That's fine, and it was fun to feel all-powerful and kill tons of knights easily, but it got old after the first 20-30 knights I killed, and then it took me a long time to kill 70 more. I think it would be nice to make the number of knights you need to kill in this section smaller (or at least make the knights crowd in more specific regions so you could kill many of them at once).
Anyway, really nice game!
any suggestions about the title?
@matank
Thanks for feedback. What you say is really important to me. :smiley:
One thing I didn't like....the attack button. It would be a lot better in my opininon if it was the usual left mouse button. Good job nonetheless!
Thanks for feedback! I didn't think about it but it is really good idea :mouse_three_button: ! Thanks!
Thanks for feedback. I see this isn't really obvious. If the bull see you in vertical or horizontal line it will be rushing into your's direction. Make him follow you into the cultist's base and then go to the Master. I'm really sorry for this.
The Intro was realy nice and the whole story was soo strange and funny. I think it would have been nice to let the text stay there a bit and not immediately scroll it back. Sometimes it was a bit hard to read it that quick. but this scroll back effect was nice it seamt like the people spoke backwards or something xD
I tink it is almost imposible to get a bull through the top and bottom entrense. I think the doors should have been a bit bigger.
Nice Work verry Funny :-D
Very fun concept, fighting is really hard and a bit messy, though. maybe having a greater range could have helped.
I hope you had as much fun making this as I had testing it o/
@thomas-olsson
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@syrok
Thanks for feedback. It means a lot of to me. I understand it is hard. I will nerf knight next time.
@stames
Thanks for feedback. Very nice idea! If I continue, it will implement it.
@legulysse
Thanks for feedback. Oh! I didn't realize it when I was testing it. Thanks!
@jupiter-hadley
Thanks. I saw it. I'm Ur subscriber and I love what you do on your chanell. Although I'm disapointed you gave up on my game that fast. But I will take your opinnion into consideration and balance it more next time.
Hope you develop a post jam version of this game.
Good point! Thanks.
@zicboy
Maybe I'll do it but surprisingly I have less time then during game jam.
@bificommander
It's good to hear a different opinion. Everyone stated that the audio :notes: was good well I'm happy :smile: to see that someone have other feelings about it.