Extracted Souls is based around the common act of being indebted to others, as the debtor is slave to the lender. In the game the character is doing collections for the lender in collections of lives removed from other plants and bandits that roam the game map. The character fights throughs the days collecting lives for the lender that arrives at night forcing collection for an amount of lives, if the amount is not sufficed by the collection of the lives the day earlier the lender removes the characters life.
The premise is a really cool interpretation of the theme here, I think - I like the idea of the shadowy people who are demanding that you harvest lives for them.
The actual gameplay/implementation seems a bit rough, however.
Took a minute to get into the flow, but I ended up having some great fun with it. Love that you put in a leader board feature, as that drove me keep going to be on top.. competition in games; good stuff!
I got really sucked in the game, it was really fun to play. The idea to suck lifes out of people is at firs a little questioning but you deliverd it really humerous. The music is great an fits perfect. The only thing I missed is that I didn't got any more plants after the first round, only bandits, so I needed to run around and find some, and got killed by the timer because there were not enough lifes to harvest.
@vjmunhoz@rhiannon Thanks for playing it! I've just fixed a game breaking bug. Maybe that could help to get a bigger score on the learder board! :smiley:
Nice... Took me a minute to relise I had to hold left click down to get the hoover to work, initially I was jusing the right click as left didn't seem to do anything. I got into it though. The only issue is that sometimes it seems plants and bandits aren't being generated and the level is kinda empty.
@garys We tried to add some props to make it feel a bit better but we didn't really have time. The plants can usually grow with a 50% chance and they have 50% chance to grow 2 times between days. The bandits spawn with more chance as you survive for more days.
I'm not talking about during general play... I died and played the game several times, and on occaion there would be no plant pots at all (at least, none that I could find) and very few bandits. I think it's a bug... after I die, the next playthrough has plants & bandits again.
Wasn't really sure if I was playing it right but I had fun anyway! I like the graphic style of the main character, but the rest of the art didnt' seem to match up.
@nayaki-anandan This was the first jam of the artist and he is not use to making art like this. But thanks for playing anyway and for the honest review.
I like the concept and i enjoyed playing for the first time but there is nothing new and after a couple of play it is boring. nice entry but i am not convinced may something more challenging could be added or even the frequency of the monsters could have been increased.
@nexusviper The enemies spawn more and more and they have more health. And you have to collect more. But yeah after 1-2 times it gets boring. Thanks for the review!
Nice. Made it to day 8. A lot of the designs are really cool. The player character and the bandits have really unique and characteristic shapes. I'd encourage you to be even more brave when it comes the design of the other objects as well. Are they hand drawn?
The game system is quite simple and creative as well. The dash is a cool idea as it is a nice multi purpose mechanic (movement and attack).
Ideas for cleaning up the UI: Get rid of the day counter and show the day at the beginning of the level in the center for a second or two. Show souls and required souls in the form of a progress bar. Turn the timer into a little clock that runs out (or at least a clock icon instead of text next to the number). Would raise the tension if it's highlighted when you're about to run out of time.
A little more feedback for when you gain or lose souls would be great. At first I didn't really understand that I lose souls when I touch bandits.
Overall a very creative and enjoyable game. Good job you two.
A bit more content would have been nice, but in generall a very nice Game. Everything worked really good and the Style was pretty cool. Especially the sounds of your vaccum cleaner XD
The actual gameplay/implementation seems a bit rough, however.