You are a summoner who needs to feed the burning desire of the devils machine. You could do all by hand but why dont you summon some of those nifty demons to help you out?
Controls:
- Open/Close Summon menu by pressing B or using the UI on the bottom left corner. - Open/Close Items information menu by pressing H or using the UI on the bottom left corner. - Delete Machines or Demons by pressing R to get into destroy mode and left click on the object to destroy. - Exit destroy mode by again pressing R or using the UI on the bottom left corner.
- Move around with WASD
- Left click to interact with objects or destroy them with your mighty laser beam.
NOTE: Resizing does not work in HTML5 build, works on Windows.
Feed the requested items to the hellish machine to win!
I really enjoyed the smoothness to your game and the animations, It felt great to pick up items and place things down. I did have a problem figuring out what to do and what was doing what, I think some extra information whether tool tips or a in-game wiki would have been very helpful in that aspect. Regardless, I really enjoyed playing!
Glad to have the signs - there was a lot of to do, and it helped to not get overwhelmed. Resource gathering with a laser is something I want more of in games!
I, too, had difficulty figuring out what the goal was. Once I figured out how to walk around and craft, it felt like that was all there was to do?
PS - The tiled background on the itch page really clashes with the game itself - makes it kind of hard on the eyes.
@nickcherns@andrewkennedy Thank you for playing and for the feedback. I agree, that the game needs more information! I was too focused to add content and again deprioritized a proper tutorial... I have added a Screenshot explaining a little bit the mechanics in the post. Hope that helps if you want to retry or for new players!
Im a huge fan of automation games and this was a great spin on them! Was lost a bit at the start -reading is hard and I didn't found the B button- but I enjoyed beaming the trees to ash, that could have been the entire game and I would of had a great time, the visual feedbacks on mining is really enjoyable!
Couldn't finish the run cause my boss came into the room but definetly putting it on the list for once im home :)
@freamdev Thanks for playing! Sure please replay it :) With B button i meant the B key on your keyboard. Sorry that it wasnt more clear. You can also click the UI located on the bottom left :D
Enjoyed your game quite a bit, i'm really into automation games and this hits the spot! Intended on 5 Minutes per game, yours took ~30 Minutes - should say a lot about how much i liked it :D
If you intend on extending your game, you should know that after i got ~50 demons, things start to slow down - had to end my run because i was down to like 1 Fps in the end ^^,
This is a really fun automation game! I did like the animations and pixel art. The sounds and music were fitting, however I was about to have enough of them after my playthrough. Speaking of it, the mission system was nice, since it acted like a progression system and slowly made me try the different systems.
A small annoyance was the misplaced blocking of mining demons (they block the space above them, instead of the one where they are placed). It felt a bit cheaty to stack them up, but it sped up the pace a little.
Wow, really good! I love the sound, the animations, and the gameplay is very cool too! Some notes: The character was pretty slow and there was a sprint mode. Just make that the default, or make it a toggle. My left pinky hurts from holding down LShift... Also, the Escape Sin was committed here too...
Thank you for playing! Love to hear that you enjoyed it!
@thoastbot If you want to retry you could give the windows build a chance :) Yeah its getting laggy quite fast on webbuild... Amazing, 30 minutes is really a long time to play a LD entry. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it.
@stmatn Haha Ive seen the bug happening and deprioritized it until the end as I had other gamebreaking stuff. Really funny to see you found it as it only happens on the bottom row, right?
@pebkac Thank you for playing. Yes in future Ill just do sprint speed as default. Good point. Ohhh I didnt know about the ESC Sin. Will look into it on future entries. Thanks!
Really nice! Wasn't really easy to understand what was missing to summon and what the ressource I had. But crazy the content you did in such a short time.
Oh, forgot to mention: you can only see how many diamonds you have, not the other resources. A bug, I presume? It's really hard, as @swerky said, to see what you need for the next Summon...
This game is insane! So much to do! With the graphics the music all the constructions. When I appeared I just didn't pay attention to the path so it took me a while to find the central machine with the objectives, haha. But even lost I had fun with my demon workers and machines... so all goood 👍 Loved it!
Game was fun, the UI could be a indicate when a build can or can't be done a bit better, and the "1" in the resource count are almost invisible ! But the game was great GG !
Wow you built automation game in such a short period of time :O AMAZING! Was enjoyable to play, I like graphics the most. So much depth for a game jam game too
Awesome! I really want to play this game again. Automation game in only 48 hours is incredible! This game has lots of content. Very great! The performance was getting bad mid-game, probably because I was playing in browser with... a *few* tabs. Also at first I was confused on what to do but I shortly figured it out.
when i'm start the game there's too much information to gain at once. almost feel like you playing Factorio for 10hours then playing it again after months of abstain, its too much information cause mostly you forgot what you've been doing the last time play it. maybe for this game you should tell the player what to do step by step and not directly, ex: maybe start from 1 building then as the game progress unlock new building and ores, maybe unlock it after you completed a request. so that the player learn while also playing and keep engage them. i dont like laser SFX i think its too much and too noisy. doesn't comfort neither satisfy my ear. Overall its a good game, keep up the good work!
Yes so my main takeaway is a little less content but more tutorial. Hope to do better next time! Had also luck that the webexport worked fine this time, altough it was very laggy.
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I, too, had difficulty figuring out what the goal was. Once I figured out how to walk around and craft, it felt like that was all there was to do?
PS - The tiled background on the itch page really clashes with the game itself - makes it kind of hard on the eyes.
I agree, that the game needs more information! I was too focused to add content and again deprioritized a proper tutorial... I have added a Screenshot explaining a little bit the mechanics in the post. Hope that helps if you want to retry or for new players!
Couldn't finish the run cause my boss came into the room but definetly putting it on the list for once im home :)
If you intend on extending your game, you should know that after i got ~50 demons, things start to slow down - had to end my run because i was down to like 1 Fps in the end ^^,
A small annoyance was the misplaced blocking of mining demons (they block the space above them, instead of the one where they are placed). It felt a bit cheaty to stack them up, but it sped up the pace a little.
All in all very fun and satisfying game :)
Some notes: The character was pretty slow and there was a sprint mode. Just make that the default, or make it a toggle. My left pinky hurts from holding down LShift... Also, the Escape Sin was committed here too...
@thoastbot If you want to retry you could give the windows build a chance :) Yeah its getting laggy quite fast on webbuild... Amazing, 30 minutes is really a long time to play a LD entry. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it.
@stmatn Haha Ive seen the bug happening and deprioritized it until the end as I had other gamebreaking stuff. Really funny to see you found it as it only happens on the bottom row, right?
But crazy the content you did in such a short time.
Loved it!
Was enjoyable to play, I like graphics the most.
So much depth for a game jam game too
Overall, very nice game!
Enjoyed it
wish for more content of this game
Awesome game btw. I love a good factory game
i dont like laser SFX i think its too much and too noisy. doesn't comfort neither satisfy my ear.
Overall its a good game, keep up the good work!
Yes so my main takeaway is a little less content but more tutorial. Hope to do better next time! Had also luck that the webexport worked fine this time, altough it was very laggy.