Samhein Souls

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Samhein Souls:tm: is a 1vs1 in a mystical, esoterical univers, where each players embodies a witch. The main goal of the game is to bring Satan the Darklord back to life by collecting innocent and pure souls from the living. Games are short, an average of 2-min-game. Graphics are flat and simple(pixel art from very very far). The scene takes place during the night, 3 days before the Samhein.
The player with the greatest amount of collected souls wins the games and becomes Satan's wife (no regards of the player's gender), and the other one is burned alive.

We've treated the theme "Sacrifices must be made" as a sacred and wicked thing, with an analogy to the Samhein ritual (Halloween nowadays). By sacrificing untouched souls, witches are sacrificing themselves to anger, pride and jealousy.

We had a lot of fun doing this game, and, as it is our first Ludum Dare (but not first gamejam tho), we are quite proud of the results, even if it is not perfect and some work has to be done. We are planning on working on it again later, to add some functionalities such as familiars which would help you collecting more souls, or changing light atmosphere or animations.

We are pretty satisfied of this final result, and we hope you will enjoy playing it ;) Also, if you have any piece of advice or any question, please, feel free to ask in the comment section ! :)

NEEDS: 2 X-Box (one) remotes and 2 pure and innocent humans

ROLES:
Unity Developper: Baptiste Guérin

DA/Graphist: Sarah GERGAUD
Graphist: Slevin Vloëbergh

UX and Level Designer: Quentin Renoux

Yacine El Makhzoumi and Quentin Thomas, two amazing sound designers.

All Game Design Students at School of Design nantes Atlantiques.

Lots of love,

Sarah, Baptiste, Quentins, Slévin, Yacine

Comments14

nolw3 Dec 2018, 11:25
Almog3 Dec 2018, 15:06
pretty neat !! those graphics in such short time is really impressive.
edit: darn couldnt really vote other then graphic and innovation due to not having someone to play with ;[ looks really good tho.
Baptiste Guerin3 Dec 2018, 16:58
Thanks for your feedback, we have two good graphist with us this week end :)
TasakaSama
TasakaSama4 Dec 2018, 12:01
the graphics are very nice especially for a jam, it's a good concept. Nice Game :)
morriss
morriss4 Dec 2018, 12:12
I like the graphics and the overall feel, All aspects are very good, No wonder so top ranking:)
sgergaudauthor4 Dec 2018, 13:04
Thanks guys! Really gets to our hearts and keep us going ! :v:
Mozitux4 Dec 2018, 13:45
wow, I really love your game (especially the turbojet
ElFunck
ElFunck4 Dec 2018, 15:14
Love the art style, but I'm so frustrated...

I have no friends to play with me right now.

Maybe later in the week :)
Baptiste Guerin4 Dec 2018, 15:38
@elfunk sorry we just have a two player game x)
JohnnyGinard4 Dec 2018, 17:47
Very cool idea! Good job! :smile: :top:
Brevitius
Brevitius4 Dec 2018, 18:54
Eerie. You certainly set the mood you were looking for.
oda
oda17 Dec 2018, 20:50
Too bad I have nobody to play with me, it looked great :(

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