Bloodalchemist

by rhewid
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.28
You are doomed to be a blood alchemist. To free yourself, you need to make a special tribute to the trophy statue. But aware the customers! Dont ignore them or you will pay with blood.

Controls

Move - WASD
Confirm - F
Switch Left - Q
Switch Right - E

How To Play


Create Potions, gather items to pledge your tribute to the trophy statue and make the customers happy - or give them a potion!

Oh and its sometimes worth to give your customer either a potion of luck, potion of royal or potion of richness. ;)


Bugfixes


- Player would sometimes get stuck in walls (was issue with mask)
- Mushrooms wouldnt spawn properly after first time
- Depthsorting for one machine was off
- NPCs would hide in wall
- Decreased overall difficulty
- Made the description more clear
- Items would get stuck in objects, where the player wouldnt be able to retrieve them
- Endscreen was set to Startscreen
- NPCs would request items, that the player couldn't get
- Adjusted hp recovery for heal potion (now you can regain hp)

screenshot

Comments14

johnnysix
johnnysix29 Apr 2019, 02:54
Amazed at the amount of stuff you managed to cram in over two days. Great work, would be cool to see it rounded out with the potion making. I couldn't find any gold sadly.
kyavi
kyavi29 Apr 2019, 20:25
it's got some rough edges but there's a lot of groovy stuff going on :) the customer collection aspect is super neat, i think if there was a tighter use of space it would be really special.

the people animations are great! and the music is fantastic ^-^
rhewid
rhewidauthor29 Apr 2019, 23:49
@johnnysix Thank you for playing!
Yeah it is a little bit too much, lost time for playtesting it properly. :(
I uploaded a bugfixed version - you could try that one :)

@kyavi Thank you also for playing!
Thanks for your suggestion to tighten the space! I actullay did that in the new bugfix version, as it was unnecessary large amount of unused space.
kyavi
kyavi29 Apr 2019, 23:53
@rhewid awesome! i think being able to see the customers from the back room helps a lot ^-^
Serious07
Serious0730 Apr 2019, 13:11
Pretty cool game, I'm like the idea about crafting a potions
businessman :D Well done!
Seb Jones
Seb Jones30 Apr 2019, 18:45
Definitely one of the most polished and complete games I've played so far in LD44. A few technical things that could be improved:
* *Please* don't make me install. It's such a pain. It should just be an exe that runs when you click it.
* Fullscreen mode please!
* I found some of the fonts were too small.

Anyway, great work!
rhewid
rhewidauthor1 May 2019, 13:14
@serious07 Thanks! :)

@seb-jones Thank you for your feedback!
- True I'll check if Gamemaker supports that!
- Yeah I will consider that for future entries.
- That is true, I had the problem where either the small was too small or to blurry, I went with the first one. Will check on a better solution in the future.
Xankill3r1 May 2019, 15:00
Cool game idea, really well executed. Glad to see a feature complete game - played to the end. :smile:
Kaisean Games1 May 2019, 15:02
Wow!
Very well done.
I never needed to make two of the potion types :shrug: but still, I managed to complete.
Although, 4 customers were unhappy until I actually managed to do it.

With a bit more depth, this could easily be the speed running heaven :)

Great game for compo, keep up the good work.
Webox
Webox5 May 2019, 00:29
Good one!! I liked it!. It could be a bit faster to make a little harder, I felt some Overcooked vibes. If you follow that path you can even add multiplayer! Great work
Madbarron
Madbarron5 May 2019, 00:35
Cool idea! But a lot of the trades that customers were offering me would have actually set me back, so eventually I just used the blood pack -> health potion -> gain 3 xp -> convert to 3 blood packs loop, and won the game by converting blood into everything. The customers need to offer the player something they can't get anywhere else. But I had fun with the game!
Attala
Attala5 May 2019, 11:37
Nice game. I liked the crafting mechanics and the element of customers. Well done.
Random Thoughts
Random Thoughts5 May 2019, 11:43
Found a bug where after I spammed exchanging blood for a blood pack 3 times, every time I pressed F I would have to exchange 1 blood again for a blood pack, which essentially made me lose because if I wanted to talk to a customer, craft a potion, even pick berries, the exchange blood for blood pack popup will open too. Other than that though, pretty fun store management game :)

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