Shamanigans

by snoutup

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.06

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Small game about a tiny shaman trying to juggle various actions to please multiple gods at once to keep his tiny world alive as long as possible. Fear the wrath of gods!

Use ARROWS or WASD to control the main character, pick up, use and combine various objects to see what sort of [sacrificial] combinations this game offers.

LEFT/RIGHT: move around the world
UP: pick an object up OR use it on a nearby object
DOWN: put an object down

Some guidelines:
* Gods Kratos (blood), Loki (pranks) & Pyro (fire) like different actions and town has an opinion on its own
* Generally, it's best to slaughter, drown or burn bunnies to please gods, but there are other actions available too
* Angry gods will start bringing up curses to the world, which won't be liked by town either
* Game ends after town gets fed up by this situation.

Let me know what you think!

Tags: #2d, #dark humor, #endless, #funny

Genres: survival

Tools: GameMaker

Comments29

NothingPersonal3 Dec 2018, 20:04

I love how much variety you put into it. you can really pick up everything and do all sorts of things. It has a steep learning curve until you learn what makes who angry, but it's great.

Kusaihana3 Dec 2018, 22:36

Nice game mechanics and art :blue_heart:

angelnm3 Dec 2018, 22:46

Very funny to play and with a lot of options. The art is so cute!!

tehphen4 Dec 2018, 05:34

Art is cute, and its absolutely fun just running around wreaking havoc. Its slightly hard to find out what pleases who and why some things happen at times. But its a short little adventure to play though. Burning rabbits is the most satisfying thing in this game.

Mozitux4 Dec 2018, 13:47

Funny, i love your animations!

Centauri4 Dec 2018, 13:49

Nice little game. I like the graphics

Denzil Gomes4 Dec 2018, 13:51

I like the art style, and the pick ups were a nice touch that kept me spinning round

gamepopper4 Dec 2018, 13:53

I think the flat-coloured art style is pretty good, it's easy to grasp micromanager with an appealing art style. I did find myself mixing up the pickup and drop actions, mainly when I want to put rabbits on the altar.

Hydrogenium4 Dec 2018, 13:54

Nice use of the theme and graphics and fun gameplay mechanics. Only small problem I ran into is if you run around in a circle for to long it can become disorientated.

roNtz4 Dec 2018, 13:57

Funny! Some casual sacrificing for god... or just for fun, who cares :D I like it

tpamir4 Dec 2018, 13:57

@snoutup Loved it! Guess the movement creates a disorientation at some point and would love to see all the world at once. Other than these all amazing!

Joker_v4 Dec 2018, 14:01

Really good game, a wonderful balance, also see the little critous hh~~

SnoutUpauthor4 Dec 2018, 14:27

Thank you very much, everyone!

I totally agree that it can be a bit disorienting and needs a few pointers to explain some mechanics and combinations (either I forget some of them). Visual "usage indicators" had to be cut out of the todo list to save time and for post-jam version (depending on interest, there were so many more things I wanted to add!) I might drop the "round world" gimmick completely or experiment with some smoother camera.

SanyingLi4 Dec 2018, 16:04

Overall it is very fun to play, but in the beginning I got kind of confuse how the game work, if there is a "how to play" even in the Ludum Dare page would really help.
Beside lack of instruction, the game itself is very good and has huge potential become a successful post-jam game.

devilqube4 Dec 2018, 16:43

Nicely done, I saw some tweets during the jam and wanted to play this. As mentioned above some guidance would be a good addition.

Eclahn4 Dec 2018, 17:21

A complex system made of simple elements, I liked it! The feedback of the consequences of each action wasn't as clear as I'd like, I didn't really know what I was doing at first but it's very solid. Thanks for this game!

Derek Wilson4 Dec 2018, 19:20

Very cool! Love the art style. Wish there was a bit more visual connection between my actions and the consequences. Trying to focus on my character, and the text and the bars was pretty tough. I like the concept though, congrats on getting done!

wischi4 Dec 2018, 20:48

Nice mechanics but one needs to play a few rounds to get the hang of it. Graphics look pretty good for a game devoloped on a single weekend.

Lawrence4 Dec 2018, 21:49

This is really cool. Smooth gameplay, pretty graphics. The only problem I have from top of my head is that it's hard to understand what pleases who at first. Maybe it would have been better to introduce things gradually with more items appearing as times goes on. Maybe event gods could have showed up one at a time. Just a thought. :smile:

Good job! :thumbsup:

Kszaku4 Dec 2018, 21:55

I love the fact, that many item can be used in so many ways, opens way for emergent gameplay. Graphics are great, game was very funny overall :)

SnoutUpauthor4 Dec 2018, 21:57

Thank you for the feedback, everyone! Glad you liked (parts of) my game! I added a bit more information about core mechanics in the game description and hope it'll help at the start of the game. Still leaving sillier combinations for players to discover! :)

tweedle5 Dec 2018, 06:32

missing not having a tune in the background - liked the art and humor loads, nice work 🔥🔥🔥

sbeif5 Dec 2018, 18:00

Very well done, great entry. The graphics are really great and the mechanics work really well, with so much variety on the items and the actions. The guidelines were definitely needed, I was a bit lost at first. And I missed the audio, it would have made it a real gem.

Great entry!

garris6 Dec 2018, 02:57

I'm reeeeeal bad at this type of game, and since I had a good time anyway, I can safely say that this is a great game. If you keep working on this one, I'd say maybe introduce gods one at a time to help minimize information overload. Overall, it kind of felt like a sillier, fast-paced "Kingdom". Good game!

Jupiter_Hadley6 Dec 2018, 13:45

Funny game! 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/QGU5NZBTfXo

velvetlobster7 Dec 2018, 01:31

What a cute art! Miss some music and perhaps more ridiculous sound effects to create a comedy vibe in it ... ridiculous narrations would perhaps go nice with it too

EmCannon7 Dec 2018, 19:05

This game is super neat! I love the cartoon ascetic.

ecmjohnson9 Dec 2018, 23:10

This is a cool concept and I love the small Earth since it allows you to see different options and make connections about how to combine them! The lack of audio is very noticeable, but even without it the game is a lot of fun

Arvejeitor12 Dec 2018, 12:40

The art style is lovely!

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