Witch's End

by roikku
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40
The Witches' Realm is coming to an end.
Make the most of your remaining time,
delay your end by fighting back the invading demons,
until inevitably you will have to submit yourself to the long dark.

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Controls: Left Mouse Button

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Theme usage: The World is ending from each side of the player and eventually will catch up to the player. The player can delay this end by leveling up and upgrading their powers.

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Made in GameMaker by me (Eero Höök / Lake Dead / Roikku) alone.

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About Graphics:
The environment background is a free Itch io -asset, but everything else is mine.

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About Audio:
Audio assets are either mine or remade from free source files.

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Better game explanation on Itch webpage.
Tools: GameMaker

Comments16

LukiX
LukiX4 Apr 2022, 21:17
I really like the graphics in this game! Everything looks so smooth and kinda minimalistic. But for a while I totally didn't understand what should I do in this game.
Nakami
Nakami4 Apr 2022, 21:30
Very nice pacing I really got catch into the game.
Bauke Regnerus
Bauke Regnerus5 Apr 2022, 09:26
Very cool pixel art. Looks like an arcade-ish game but was surprised when the RPG elements popped up. Sometimes I was a little bit overwhelmed by all the upgrades. Nice job on having a leader board.
AndideBob
AndideBob5 Apr 2022, 09:31
Very cool little game, the amount of variety you have in your upgrades is cool, it would be nice if they had a bit more synergy. The game feels a bit quiet though, which creates an interesting mood, but doesn't fit the overall gameplay experience, so maybe add some of that ;)

Well done!
JoeDev
JoeDev5 Apr 2022, 10:53
Super fun! And addictive as the screenshot of that stream shows ;) You can get some fun crazy builds, very much enjoyed
Okamit
Okamit5 Apr 2022, 21:52
Very fun and addictive! Really love the upgrade system, a bit overwhelming at first but makes for great replayability as it's fun to explore how the different upgrades affect gameplay.

Great work!
LDJam user 276593
LDJam user 2765936 Apr 2022, 13:00
Lola from the Twitch chat! Fantastic entry, best one I've played so far. Movement is great, upgrades get the endorphins going. Really brilliant core loop.

RE - the movement, what you said in the chat is what I meant. You change direction but you continue in the original direction for a split second. Would feel sort of like a "drift" if you get what I mean.

If you want playtesters for further builds, I am 100% here for it :D
HaaYaargh
HaaYaargh6 Apr 2022, 23:49
I played your game on the stream with almost a success at the end. Managed almost to get to the end of the world with a defensive build. The inspiration from Vampire Survivors is clear but it was a good shoot and the genre (can we already can it genre?) and I had a lot of fun because of the setting and the tempo. There are definitely more than one build to try, so it encourages trying again, enough times for a jam game. Playing Witch's End you need to pay attention because it is not so hard to die, which happened to me when I was a bit distracted.

We discussed a bit about what I like and dislike and future plans, so I will just mention that movement was something I had to get use to, especially when both movement and "attacks" are on the same button.

But overall, a great game :book:

PS: My favourite witch waifu was a blonde :)
PoshDan
PoshDan7 Apr 2022, 05:22
I see the potential here. Everything was smooth except for the pacing, perhaps. I had a clutter of books to go through at the start, so I couldn't really appreciate the individual power increase from them.
arya-s7 Apr 2022, 15:47
I really like the art style and the setting of the game. The ability pickup screen in particular is really nicely drawn. Flying around on the broom is cool but I wish it was a tiny bit faster.

Cool submission!
LDJam user 2807557 Apr 2022, 21:52
Great game! Really like the number of powerups. Cool idea and fits well with the theme.
JHax
JHax8 Apr 2022, 19:56
Cool game, the graphics all fit nicely with each other and the sort of distant firework like explosion noises really sort of hit the right vibe of "encroaching darkness ending the world". The darkening edges of the screen when you take damage also worked well to create the right sort of atmosphere.

Enjoyed it and will probably come back and play a bit more!
SnowyCocoon
SnowyCocoon9 Apr 2022, 16:13
It reminds me of the "vampire survivors" game. Very cool and playable, although some powerups are just a mystery for me (like "flame whip").
drentsoft11 Apr 2022, 17:29
Lovely game. More variety of tomes might be nice, it gets very stressful as the time ramps up! Would love to see more of this.

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