Effigy

by sauski

co-authored: @catbutt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Sacrifices must be made...and then burnt! Arrange bales of hay into the specified effigy shape, then set them on fire as tribute to whatever deity you desire.

But watch out, some hasty individuals are attempting to set your effigy alight before it is complete! Whichever deity you're sacrificing to, you can bet they only accept complete sacrifices. Make sure to put out any unwanted fires using your bucket of water!

Includes Online Multiplayer!

Make sure if you see others online you challenge them to an effigy building contest! Be sure to set their effigy on fire before it is complete to nullify their sacrifice!

*You should receive a notification even in single player that someone has challenged you*

Controls

WASD : Character Movement

Mouse : Character Facing

E (Contextual): Pickup & Put down Bales of Hay. Refresh Water Charges at the Well.

Left Click : Light a bale of hay on fire.

Right Click : Use water to put out fire.

Mouse Wheel : Zoom

Notes:

-You can pick up more than 1 bale of straw.

-Overlapping bales are acceptable as long as your effigy shape is covered.

-Our water pickup sound isn't working but you can see your water charges in top left of UI

Tags: #multiplayer, #top, #unreal engine

Genres: action

Comments20

Akuirako5 Dec 2018, 10:52

Quite fun but a bit repetitive ! Good realisation overall. I think it'd be good to add a way to repulse the ennemies and also some feedback when you get water because I had to try a few times before realising I already had water.

Tolga5 Dec 2018, 11:39

nice entry. Gameplay and idea is good make your building and sacrifice it. Well done !

Arity6 Dec 2018, 08:52

Wish my computer was faster (3-year old lower-end laptop), after about the 5th or 6th effigy, got a bit of slowdown that made putting out the fires difficult-to-impossible. Not a slight against the game itself, but just fyi. Like the concept, seems fun as a multiplayer game, perhaps local splitscreen multiplayer could be worked out for it?

Nekonyo6 Dec 2018, 09:16

A very good game. First ludum dare I play this time that is multiplayer. It's a interesting strategy game where there is a lot going on. My main concern is that you can sabbotage your oponent so much that a duel can get very very long. Even so I have never seen a game with this mechanics and I loved it 😁. At the beggining it was hard to understnd the game about what's the water and how to know I got it. But most problems are small fixes so overall I give this game 4.5 stars

cdunham6 Dec 2018, 09:24

Me and another player spent about 10 minutes stealing each others bales of straw trying to finish our last effigy. Somehow managed to yoink enough of his away and put them on my side quick enough to make most of the shape. Other players would randomly come up and take or burn my straw. Nice use of the theme and a good implementation of multiplayer. I probably got too emotional over people burning my effigys prematurely. 8/10 would sacrifice to Cthulhu again :thumbsup:

Beardmage6 Dec 2018, 10:11

Concept is nice ! Makes me wish I could set other players on fire though. :D

meskaline6 Dec 2018, 13:09

Nice concept. Would have been nice to be more polish. But good job overall, was fun playing it!

AwiX6 Dec 2018, 15:46

An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)

Anthony Dunlap6 Dec 2018, 20:09

Nice game, didn't get to challenge anyone though. The NPCs help me light my effigy on fire after its complete, maybe they should try to put it out then. Overall, I enjoyed it. Good job!

skettyNmeebs6 Dec 2018, 21:07

I was straight up shouting at the dudes setting my stuff on fire lolol this was frustrating, but a fun kind of frustrating. well done

Kaley6 Dec 2018, 23:56

I only played singleplayer and I thought after a while it got repetitive, especially the music. However, I think this would be a lot of fun in multiplayer.

Aumbra7 Dec 2018, 11:19

Great idea and pretty well executed. Cool!

peterfonts7 Dec 2018, 13:06

Wow! The multiplayer is another thing! Stole, burn... I enjoyed playing with another player! There are things can be improved, like the gamee feel, polish, feedback about your actions... but the essential and the basic mechanics are there! Congrats! Good job! :clap_tone3: :clap_tone3:

Chao7 Dec 2018, 14:16

Cool mechanics. I liked the guys who ran in from the sides and set things on fire. It was nice that you'd implemented some stuff to make single player interesting, even though it was clearly designed for multiplayer.

GG Zaebos.

badpaul347 Dec 2018, 14:39

Quickly feels repetitive. Maybe fooling around with physic would have been fun. The ennemy mechanics is not we well added to the overall game.
But you manage to implement multiplayer during a game jam, and that.... respect.

Riyroo7 Dec 2018, 14:41

Super cool! I loved that it was multiplayer and single player. It was weirdly addicting for such a simple concept, I thought it was really fun! the movement was kinda weird at some points but I got used to it, after a bit.

PaperbackGorilla7 Dec 2018, 22:59

Fun, straight forward game, single player does get a bit repetitive after completing a few effigies.

ursagames8 Dec 2018, 05:21

Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on the fourth day of Ludum Dare streams. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8

Artur Hawkwing17 Dec 2018, 17:30

Fun game, and I love seeing the multiplayer! I liked it, though some more abilities or environmental effects would have been nice—it got a bit repetitive in single player.

Odlog Oglog26 Dec 2018, 15:54

nice and polished game! :) the theme is really fun and straight forward in this game,it would be nice to have a better placement system though. good job:)

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