Skelemancy

by shlolo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.07

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.43

You play the role of a necromancer trying to grow his army of skeletons by defeating knights and reanimating their bodies.

#### Controls
- Click on an adjacent cell to move your summons.
- Attack enemies by moving your summons on top of them.
- After each fight, click the necromancer to summon new skeletons.

Screenshots

#### Strategize

#### Fight

#### Summon undead minions

#### Tools used
- Godot
- Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop

#### About me

This is my first game jam ever and the first time I've seriously used Godot. It was quite a struggle in the beginning, since I didn't quite click with the theme right away and I had to learn a lot of things about my chosen game engine on the fly, but now I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish. Unfortunately, I was only able to add a short few levels to the game due to the time constraint, but I hope you will like it regardless. Can't wait to check out everyone else's games 😊.

#### Notes:
- I fixed a small bug reported by some players where you can move during the summoning animation.
- Some people were reporting bad performance on the HTML5 version. I added an executable for Windows now, so if you experience any issues, you can try this version.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Godot

Comments23

Dorren16 Apr 2024, 00:53

Really love the animations on the little guys, gameplay is really enjoyable too. Great job!

Asrata16 Apr 2024, 00:55

Cool gameplay loop. Very nice art. Bone successfully chilled.

LyaMgtt16 Apr 2024, 10:25

Loved this puzzle game! Really simple and cute but yet really fun! I had a bug at lvl 3 where I was blocked and couldn't move (see the capture). Well done!

Bulba16 Apr 2024, 16:10

Nice design! Cool sprites.

Kseniya16 Apr 2024, 16:11

cool gameplay, the visual is also pleasant

phost.dll16 Apr 2024, 16:11

I liked the idea, cool way of thinking the summoning theme. It kinda bugs for me at the start and I can no longer play though, using Opera GX. Great work!

Melissa Stodolnik16 Apr 2024, 16:16

I really liked the animation

Landerack16 Apr 2024, 16:20

lovely little game I figured out how to beat the level 3 bug where they'd run to the middle even if they couldnt hit you. buuuuut yeah it still bugged with the spawn. Either way I think its super charming and you did really well :D Its a great cozy summon game, I'd love to see some level of unit overspill maybe, would feel rewarding

actualtian16 Apr 2024, 16:20

Game good, artstyle slaps.

Atan16 Apr 2024, 16:21

The visuals are great. I had some performance issues in first level but otherwise the game is really good. Good job.

Yochti16 Apr 2024, 16:21

Nice little puzzle game with a cool summoning idea and good graphsims but without SFX it sounds empty

Trux16 Apr 2024, 16:21

Impressive first jam entry, very nice looking!!

Only detractor for me was facing bugs where i lost battles on empty tiles (where there had been knights before, but they were dead)

Chibiata16 Apr 2024, 16:22

the artwork is really good, everything just fits together quite well! The levels were really easy, but still enjoyable!

Prepe16 Apr 2024, 16:23

Greate game. Would love to see some more levels and some Sound. I got a bit of laag on first load and first move, so maybe looking into it a bit would be adviced but other than that it ran smooth. Loved the game.

nusan16 Apr 2024, 16:32

Your little skeletons are so cute I love them! The visuals are top notch and it feels great to play, I'm just missing some sound effects as feedback. I had some trouble understanding how many skeleton you loose or win after a battle, I still don't get it, I just went from smallest group to largest. The web player on itch was a bit awkward with no fullscreen button. Anyway, I love those kind of small puzzles, I whish there was more levels but it's a great entry, thank you for making it!

YukimiItsuka16 Apr 2024, 16:54

Very cute little skeletons. I really like thoses little guys. Sometimes it feels buggy when I fight with some 'ghost knights' that does not actually exsist when I move into an empty cell. Anyway, nice work!

Shloloauthor16 Apr 2024, 17:11

Thank you all so much for your kind words :blush:

Some of you where pointing out a bug where you could move while it should actually be disabled which kind of breaks the game. I reuploaded it to itch with the fix. It should work now.

Also, some of you reported bad performance on the HTML5 version on itch. I addded a .exe for Windows on there as well which should have better performance.