Ludum Dare #55compo

Runic Summoner

by freamdev

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Hello guys!

This is the game I ended up with for this game jam. :) It has been a roller coaster, almost giving up, just as usual, but ended up pretty satisfied! I hope you like it too.

Shout out to my amazing gf for the soundtrack and for putting up with me all weekend. :)

Soundtrack link: https://youtu.be/O68aAU9NYlg

In the game you play a dark mage, your task is to charge 3 runes, but after each one is completed a more powerful boss is summoned! Can you finish all of them to unleash Jorund The Molten Sear?

In case the Itch.Io link dissapears for a 5th time: https://freamdev.itch.io/runic-summoner the game is playable here :)

Screenshots:

* POST COMPO *

Based on feedbacks I added a few new features and did some ballancing for a post compo version (sorry still no animations :slight_frown:): https://freamdev.com/games/RunicSummoner/

The new GFX effects are from the Unity asset store.

Tags: #3d, #funny, #voxel

Genres: action

Tools: Unity

Comments38

The Lame Brain15 Apr 2024, 10:02

I don't see an embedded game, or a link to where the game is compiled and ready to play... just to the source code?

ComfyLenny15 Apr 2024, 10:02

it _looks_ pretty cool, but its missing an executable - there is only the source code, no release. would love to play it, but i'm not gonna compile it myself lol

LDJam user 1109315 Apr 2024, 10:12

We want to play, please, provide a link 😉

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 10:24

@the-lame-brain @comfylenny @patbgames I have set up that itch link 4 times last night and it keeps dissapearing, hopefully it stays now! Thanks for letting me know it went away again :P

Widerhold15 Apr 2024, 10:29

The art and mood looks fantastic but in the itch web build the three enemies spawn and after that none more. Not sure if i'm already dead since i can't kill them fast enough.

The Lame Brain15 Apr 2024, 10:30

Yay! The link is there now!
I am glad, you obviously put a lot of work into this!

josang156715 Apr 2024, 10:31

Fantastic game, how did you make the models?

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 10:32

@widerhold Yea, I probably should have made the first waves a bit more exciting. Enemies spawn every 40-ish seconds, and the plan was for the 2-3 waves to be very slow to give you time to familiarize yourself with the controls and the map. Things ramp up a bit more in later waves/once you fill one of the runes up.

Thanks for playing! :)

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 10:34

@the-lame-brain Thank you, was way more work then I put into any jams before :)

@josang1567 Thanks for playing! I used Magicalvoxel an open source voxel editor, and many many tears, I'm not an artist by nature so drawing/modelling is always a struggle :)

rhewid15 Apr 2024, 10:41

Cool game. I feel like the enemies had a little bit much hp. The art style is nice, I like voxel graphics and the glow on the projectiles was satisfying.

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 10:45

@rhewid Yes, I think the game desperately needed about an extra hour playtesting and ballance tweeking, both in terms of enemy stats and spawning frequency. I think cutting everything into 1/4th and making them spawn 4 times faster would of made a more enjoyable experience. Maybe a post comp version :slight_smile:

Thank you for playing!

ComfyLenny15 Apr 2024, 10:48

@freamdev very cool game! i really like the progression and the graphics - i think it could benefit from an experience bar and maybe some hit-feedback, maybe just flash the opponents in red when they get hit by a projectile. other than that, super nice work!

Rakowu15 Apr 2024, 10:48

I was searching too for the link :D

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 10:55

@comfylenny Thank you for the feedback! The experience bar is *technically* there. Completly charging a boss rune gives you about ~3.3 levels. Yes it's not intuitive and a terrible design, the game really needed an extra hour of playtesting by someone who wasn't me. Hit feedback I didn't even think of, should be fairly simple to do for a post comp version!

@rakowu Sure hope it stays there now!

LDJam user 38587815 Apr 2024, 11:50

Cool game but a bit too difficult for my tastes :smile:

LDJam user 38321215 Apr 2024, 17:07

Nice game, love the voxel style and models. would have loved some animation in the characters.

Rakowu15 Apr 2024, 17:43

I don't give up easily and still have the ambition to make it. But it's really close to the limit :D The troops spawn too quickly while you're still trying to beat the boss. But I think it's generally difficult to find the right level. I always try to make my games a bit easier because as a developer you know the game inside out. But this time my game was too easy xD...

freamdevauthor15 Apr 2024, 18:01

@potatofinch @rakowu And here I was worrying I made it too easy... but I belive in you!

@arcolm Thanks for playin, animations... man I was already crying from having to draw voxel :smile:

Rakowu15 Apr 2024, 20:48

Finally i killed them all xD

freamdevauthor16 Apr 2024, 04:53

@rakowu Awesome! Made my day you spent so much time on it :)
Now time to go for the secret achivment! :smiley: (hint in the lore page)

Rakowu16 Apr 2024, 06:30

Oh good to know xD I will look at it.

Sozey16 Apr 2024, 10:19

Awesome voxel art! I'm glad you didn't give up, it was a really fun game, challenging but fun.

freamdevauthor17 Apr 2024, 07:07

@sozey Thank you for playing :)

Game-mon17 Apr 2024, 11:46

Cool game overall! I liked the graphics and audio a lot. I have a few suggestions if you want to expand the game:
- make the character a little bit faster to improve feeling of control
- rotate the camera towards the closest enemies
- add character animations

Overall a cool entry, gg!

Domenixius17 Apr 2024, 20:49

Oh I love myself some voxelart! Great job on that! I did feel like the dash might have been a little bit too far as I found myself flying of the edge a little too easily but that might also be a skill issue. Some of the bosses attack seemed really hard to dodge but I liked the variety there. Small character animations like walking would have really elevated this further. Getting to choose what boss I fought was a nice touch!

freamdevauthor19 Apr 2024, 05:43

@thomas-bringer Thank you for playing and the suggestions! The character does get faster with levelups and it slowly feela better to run around... you are onto something :smile:

@domenixius Thank you! Yes the dash is way too long but I felt it was hillarious to fall off the platform :smile:

schadocalex21 Apr 2024, 21:49

Nice little game. Well balanced. I thought the red bases was hitting me... But after I understood it wasn"t the case it was quite fun. Camera would have been better if it was more top down. I REALLY liked the RMB effect, would love to see others patterns it's so satisfying. Great game!

Eric Nguyen21 Apr 2024, 22:16

I love the voxel models! The game was pretty fun, and the different enemy types added a good amount of variety. Very satisfying to melt down the bosses once I reached higher levels. I think a UI element for your current level would have been useful, I saw my left mouse attack upgrade but I wasn't sure why haha. Great submission!!

martonel22 Apr 2024, 15:52

It is a nice game, good job! The balance of this game is great, and the enemies are good

freamdevauthor22 Apr 2024, 19:47

@schadocalex Thank you for playing and well done taking over the world :P I'll experiemtn some with different camera angles, it did feel like you are way too blind to things "below" the player.

@eric-nguyen Thank you so much, the models was a lot of fun to make. I think I need to learn how to draw UI for the next jam because I couldn't even make a button scale normally!

@martonel Thank you for playing :smile:

LDJam user 37416824 Apr 2024, 05:40

Pretty fun shooter, and pretty tough too; I enjoyed the challenge of trying to summon and kill the 3 bosses. I was able to do it, but I had to retry 2-3 times before succeeding. I think the gameplay loop is solid, but the player movement felt way too heavy and made it kind of hard to dodge bullets. I also think knowing where the dash/teleport would take me before using it would be good info to know, so I could utilize the ability better. Overall though, I had fun with this one, great job!

freamdevauthor24 Apr 2024, 08:26

@alzhu1 Thanks for playing, I think maybe making a line where the teleport will end and only teleport on key up instead of key down could be a solution. Gona add it to my post comp version list :smile:

KrummSakura24 Apr 2024, 18:51

The game loop is quite enjoyable. Intricate back story and a presence of a lore is really nice. I like the voxel art style. It is not a huge deal but the character animations could make the game look much better. I did not encounter any bugs. Good job!

freamdevauthor24 Apr 2024, 20:12

@krummsakura Thank you for playing. Unfortunatly I didn't know much about how to export voxel models for Unity so all model is just one block, for animations I would need to redo all of them and slice them up at the body parts then make the animations. Maybe in a future project :slight_smile: