Super Pal Summoner!

This is my first Ludum Dare Game Jam and second Game Jam done overall (if you count my last jam where my pc corrupted the project at the very end O_O)
Feedback very much appreciated!

Really fun! If this was an app I could see myself playing it all day. Love the vibe, it's very relaxing! Good luck!

This game feels really polished. I liked the sfx and graphics a lot! I found it a little confusing trying to figure out the direction each type of pal needed to be put in to match but once I figured out they were different it was a lot of fun!

Absolute banger, this is awesome! Would be nice on mobile I can imagine

I didn’t really understand the mechanics of this game but I liked the artwork and the bubbles!

Super cute game! With more visual and sound effects it could be a mobile banger. I would also increase the difficulty a bit since it's quite easy to not fill up the board.

Really polished and really engaging. I have a pretty low attention span and I spent *a while* playing Super Pal Summoner. That's a pretty good sign!

Once it clicked for me, it CLICKED. The strategy reminded me a lot of Suika Game. Was very fun cramming my pigs in a corner to try to get them to form the right shape! Great work.

I really enjoyed playing this game, its been a long day and this has been by far the most relaxing game I've played so far and it felt very relaxing to try to match the tiles.

I wished for some music, or more sounds. Great concept for a puzzle game, get's hard pretty fast once you get the piggies. Bonus points for starting with the cats :smile:

really polished game! loved the art style, the game mechanics really remind me of 4096, but with a little bit more depth.

Great game, simple and enjoyable

This reminds me of the hundreds of hours (I wish I'm exaggerating) I spent in Triple Town. I love the style and the theme. I wish it's a bit more snappy in gameplay, as in the amount of time to place a tile and/or the animation to place a tile.

Love this cute style

Once I got a hang out of it, it was a very pleasant experience! The audio is relaxing, cute art style, the puzzle is simple but quite challenging (at least for me)! My high score was 123000! From what I see there is a lot of strategy here in this game.

Overall, very nice game! I liked it.

Amazing job !!!!!

I think its a shame that the bubbles are off by default. Nice polished game with cool sound effects! Dragging and dropping with mouse is sometimes a bit inaccurate.

Really solid and cute game! The gameplay is simple but really addictive :smile: I realised only after several minutes of playing that the pals don't have to be dragged and dropped, you can also just click the tiles

nice and simple game and well made. I felt that I could go quite far in the game by just clicking randomly and rapidly... I need some sort of incentive from the game that rewards me for playing strategically :)

Wow what a super cute, fun, and polished game! Trying to place my tiles to ensure the next next transformation is in the right place is super challenging but rewarding.

Impressive, addictive gameplay, loved everything, I want it on my phone now! Thanks!

nice polished game. The drop could me more forgiving making a better assumption on where you place the object. Got RSI from dragging and dropping. Maybe i will give it a go on mobile. Thanks for making this and good luck.

I was a bit confused at first, since I was able to move around the stuff I placed on the board, so I though "what's the point", but I think that might have been a bug? At least I lost that ability later, and that made the game make sense. Cool, simple little puzzle game, that's probably has a lot of challenge, if you enjoy that sort of thing.

Good game, it's really cute and makes you think about your next move carefully.

Good TripleTown vibes. Is there a pattern in the upcoming pieces? I wonder how it would change with the number of look-aheads the player gets.

I spent way too much time testing this game, it's deviously clever and addictive :) It reminds me of 2048 but with a bit of tetrominoes added. A nice feature would be to be able to undo the last move, sometimes you click to fast and ruin your carefully planned strategy. it would also be nice if you were told somewhere that you destroy all connected similar items when doing a combo, regardless of shape because it's very useful :)

Huge fan! It was fun :D

Loved this game! Great idea, and excellent implementation. It felt very polished.

This was adorable and fun! I dove right in and was able to figure out what needed to be done pretty quickly, so props more making it intuitive! Bonus points for the bubbles toggle -- I loved it! Nice work!

This game is very mature. Hopefully there will be an official version of the game to play :D

If my score is bad, it's not because I'm terrible, it's because of the bubbles. Nice job :)

I made too many missclicks to go any further, but i think i can say i played quite a bit :D
Great game, really like the gameplay and love the cute art! Well done!

Really cool game! I wish combo section was just one big page or that it worked more like a classic 3-match formula. That would make it more fun imo.
But it was fun game overall and it was engaging to see what the art for the next new piece will be

Really neat game with a nice art style. Great job!

fun little game with nice graphics! some particle effects or graphical feedback on placing and comboing tiles would have been nice

It's a cute game, I love the art style! The gameplay I think is a good start, but it was bit clunky when it came to checking combos and placing the tiles. If that was improved, along with maybe a bit more kick when placing tiles or completing combos, then there's definitely a lot of potential! Nice work!

Really well polished entry with an addictive core gameplay loop. I thought the introduction of new pals was well done and could see this being really fun to rack up a high score in.

I don't understand how people getting so much points, my brain explodes when im getting about 20k haha, the game is really addictive, easy gameplay, looped, everything is perfect!

Wow! I was not prepared for how deep the puzzle mechanic was gonna get! I just know there's gotta be an optimal strategy to summoning.

It's not possible to ascend-merge the green pig right? If you tell me it is I will stay awake all night matching in my head

I really love that cute style! Great work

Simple and fun. It's addictive. I can play this game all afternoon xD

I could have gone further. But after thinking about it, it's impossible to join up 4 green pigs, correct? (even if you only got pig pieces and had infinite space). Unless I'm missing a "strat". Please enlighten me!

Quite fun, I may have spent... 15min playing? It's been fun to come up with strategies. I don't think I would play more / again, but I've quite enjoyed the mechanic of "the spot you place the piece in a way that combos is where the resulting piece will end". And the mechanic of having the different animals require different shapes.

I found it quite intuitive, like other people point out. Maybe what I didn't find so intuitive is that if you join up more pieces than you need for the combo, it consumes all of them. I was expecting it to only consume the ones that make up the shape, leaving some pieces behind.

Thank you for sharing

Fun cute game. It took a bit to find the combo information which left me guessing for a while but once I saw it, it was interesting to plan things out!

It's really cute and addictive. I was so proud of making a row of blue ducks disappear. Also, the moment you unlock a new type of animal feels really nice. The bubbles add to the chill vibe. Great work!

Such a cute game

Fun little puzzle game! I had to limit myself because I wanted to restart and use better strategy.

The slow movement of the icon while dragging was a bit much. Made me a bit impatient when placing them. Other than that, well done!

Amazing game for a compo! I LOVED the art in the game! But I also want to highlight the sound design, which at first seemed simple, but made a difference to the gameplay. Great job!

What a great cozy game!

What a cute and polished game! When you get a hang of recipes, it is quite relaxing and almost addicting. In the beginning it found it slightly annoying to have to constantly check for recipes but after a while you see those patterns and do not need recipes anymore.

Great work!

Super cute graphics! Really relaxing to play, I love it!

This is a nice, fun easy to understand game with a great difficulty curve. Good job!

Super cute and very addictive :)

Once you get the hang of the combos this is very chill and relaxing. Great entry! :smile:

This is really fun!! Once the board is filling up, it's really satisfying to clear a load at once!

Really nice game. Great idea, good execution.

Definitely super cute and fun!! Love the art!

This is the Cats Meow :smile_cat:

Its Purrfect :kissing_cat:

Its a Meowsterpiece :smirk_cat:

Your effort is truely nothing to scratch at :joy_cat:

Ok, Ill leave now :kissing_cat:

Cute puzzle idea, great execution. Could've used some cute BGM ♥ Fantastic job!

Really great game!
I had to just rip myself away from it, super addicting!
Will probably return to this in the future!

Good job!

Very cute graphics and game, just not my favorite genre :)

Really cute game with simple control, would be nice with a bit more gameplay instruction and feedback!

Great game! The only thing it might miss is a preview of what you will put directly on the case. I so many times just click thinking I had the same animals as before (most likely because I am really tired)! Great game!

Casual and fun!

very simple, easy to learn. Nice!

Nice artwork, good to have a unique theme, very simple and easy to pickup.

Great puzzle game, I love 2048 style games

This is a great game, loved the graphics, the colors, and especially the mechanics. It reminded me of Triple Town playing it, or Suika, awesome submission, well done.

Fun puzzle game! It was really fun figuring out the different placement patterns and planning how to put each piece down. Also a nice sound effect when a combo forms. Overall great game

Ah, this game is insanely cute! How did you whip up such an adorable thing in no time? It's totally winning me over! I'd pay good money for your GIFs as reaction packs!

A really interesting take on a matching game that I don't think I played yet. The art is really cute.

Played this like a baby sensory game, just clicking around and watching stuff happened, had a blast. You hit the mark with a basic satisfying puzzler. Would play this on mobile, well done!

so cute!!! love this game art so much, I am very much to see how many kind of animals at last, spent a lot time on this game

Very cute puzzle games and quite addictive I must say !

That was nice and cute ! Remind me of game like suika game. Pathing is a bit slow for me and i think I had some little bug (like item that placed themeelves but maybe it's intended ?), overall a nice and well polished game ! Good job !

Cute game!

This is super cute! Definitely the type of game I get sucked into, would love to play more of this! ^^

Yippie ^^
Got 29250 points, very fun, cute and calming game :3

Easy to understand, hard to master, an very addicting
Took me a while to understand where the "fusion"/new piece would appear, but after understanding it, the game feels a lot more complex. Then when I think I'm doing well, I place one wrong piece without thinking too much and it ruins the whole progress (that's what i get for not paying attention)
If i would fix anything about the game, it would be the pigs. I think there is no way to fusion 4 of the advanced pigs to clear room, so they keep pining on until theres no space to do anything else
The visuals are very cute too! and thats my high score .. i don't think i will ever do any better than this

At first I was very confused about how the game works, but then when it clicked it became a surprisingly fun and addictive puzzle game, a great alternate take of threes/2048! Also, those animals are totes adorbz! Lovely!

I can see myself playing this for hours, a hooking small puzzle game with many interesting factors to take in account. Those ducks are the most annoying to get, and once in a while you misclick something and fail horribly. I would really like to play this with my mobile phone, hit me up after you have published your Play Store build.

For a second gamejam, this was very well made. Not exactly my type of game, but good regardless.

The game is complete, looking forward to more levels

nice and relaxing, well made, not much I can say negative about it, it's just very pleasant :)

Great game! My girlfriend spent a little too long on it haha.

It was very cuteeee !! I take few seconds to understand what was going on but once you find out you spend some time on it ! Good entry !

Thank you for the game, love the art-style :) Relaxing game-play, as long as the field does not get too full :) I found it quite handy being able to "delete" wrongly-placed tiles, e.g.

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Placing a duck in the empty spot would clear all 4 :)

there's no way to clear the green pigs right ?

Simple and addictive. Well done!

The first thing that attracted me to the game was the cute art design, which matches the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere of the game.

The gameplay -- eliminating items by rationally arranging the placement of different animals on the board -- is easy to understand and at the same time has interesting strategy and decent playability.

However, the game doesn't seem to state that adjacent items that don't meet the elimination conditions will also be eliminated when the elimination conditions are met, which made me initially think it was a bug, but it seems like it's be part of the design.

In conclusion, it's a relaxing puzzle game well worth playing!

turns out its quite addicting

This was a nice little puzzle game and I love how you made different sprites and combination. At first I didn't know what to do, but you added a very helpful combo-book. The sounds are cute and the overall look and feel of the game is also nice. I would love some more background music to encourage me to play the best combo's possible. Very great job and good luck on future games!

I love this kind of game like suika game or 2048. It fits very well the theme and everything is so polish. I'm sure i'm gonna spend a LOT of time trying to have the best score. Thanks for this masterpiece

CUTEEEE CAT LOVE IT OMG

It was an interesting experience, I really got hooked. The merge rules make you think)

Played with my daughter beside me (she is 9), and she really really really wanted me to give you 5 stars for everything. For some categories though, there was no argument, one of then was fun.. too of the top.

The game was confusing initially though. Combo feel like its something extra, not the core gameplay, so it took us a while to click that big flashy button. Of course after that, the game made sense and was loads of fun!
Congrats on the entry!

Wonderful, great, awesome, cute. Suddenly noticed that I was playing it for the fifth time, trying to optimize those combos

This is a really cool concept and a great twist from the tile-matching genre! The tile-placing mechanic feels really laggy but it's really fun to play with. Great job!

I like how the visuals and sounds are really calming but it got really stressful for me at the end lol. Nice work!

Definitely a Threes/2048 style feel for me, the mechanics are intuitive and work well and the game is pretty polished too

This game clicked for me and seems like it could be really addictive. I don't think I'm smart enough to get a high score but you really did a great job on this one. Probably one of the few games I play this jam that I might actually come back to in my free time.

really fun game you've made. I had to restart a few times after learning a bit of strategy for it, but once I got it down, I feel like I could go a long time.

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A good game on Catty.

Cute, fun and relaxing!

Cool. Just cool. Like neko

Its really fun! i love it, and the best of all are the cute animal!

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great game with nice graphics and cute animals. If you put this on the app store, I could very easily see myself playing it in class.

What a game! Loved every second.

A very sweet and fun game, I would play it more than once! Sometimes there are bashes, but I think if you refine the game, there will be candy at all!

Cute puzzle game, the art is really nice. It was hard to make combos without stepping on your own toes, but i suppose thats the point - great job!!

Maybe I'm just dumb, but where are the rules? I can't figure out what the requirements for the different matchups are. It took me forever just to figure out that 3 paws makes a cat and even that was confusing because I don't understand what tile surrounding the 3 you need to press.
Don't get me wrong, it looks cute and clearly other people have figured it out and enjoyed it, but it feels very unintuitive to me and I gave up playing.

Fun and cute puzzle game! My one complaint is the drag and drop mechanic. I don't like having to drag my mouse back and forth, occasionally having to wait for the item to catch up to my cursor. I think just seeing the item show up and stick to the cursor would make for more fluid gameplay. Maybe you could replace the old box where you'd grab the item with an "up next" indicator. Aside from nitpicks, this was a great game! Good job!

Am I a super summoner, or am I summoning super pals? Are my ducks in a row? Are my cats sitting kitty-corner? Are my pigs in a pen? Yes, yes, and yes. What an excellent game. Looks so simple, but there's a lot of strategic depth!

Cool game! I liked that the combos would take out additional bubbles that I placed nearby:)

The purple hats rekt me haha

Very cute puzzles, very easy to play. Enjoyed my time with it!

An excellent game.
I didn't find bugs, but I did become addicted XD
I will continue playing for more points.
THANK YOU and congratulations

Very interesting and sticky game!

indeed the concept is interesting and worth exploring. Wouldn't it be easier to have the shapes to be made permanently displayed on the screen, specifying that it is the last thing placed which will create the new one? And also the possibility (limited but existing) of going back or destroying boxes that have been filled in incorrectly? I also wonder about the need to bring the character onto the tile why not click where we want to put it? In any case it's very nice graphically and the idea is very cool.

Satisfying combos and strategy, good work!

Such a cute and fun entry! Incredible work, doubly so for a compo!

Very cute and interesting !

Really cute game. Enjoyed playing it wish there was audio though. Yes I got distracted by the bubbles

Really fun puzzle game! Art looks nice and pleasant. There is definitely room for some polishing. Adding some animation, effects and more audio feedback when placing/combining etc to make things even more satisfying. Also, bubbles "off" by default? come on now :smile:. Good job!

Quit fun! Really good for a second game jam! It could be popular on phone with more feedbacks I think!

Impressed by how original the combo mechanic is (at least for me), as at first glance, it could seem like just another Candy Crush game. However, the fact that you link them one by one is truly innovative in my opinion. Congratulations!

A really nice and captivating game! At first it felt like I could just go on and on, but eventually I realized how the different target patterns make it harder to plan ahead etc.

It feels polished in every way, with really nice graphics and top-notch playability — even if it's simpler to reach that with a board/puzzle game like this than with a platformer or something like that, it's still great if the game feels fun. Great job!

Very fun to figure out sustainable ways of dealing with each type. Once I was like, "hah I can keep going like this forever", you introduced a new Pal type, giving a new challenge.

Very fun game, its soo much fun trying to figure out where to put everything so you can make great combos

It's a very cute and puzzling puzzle.

Made in 2 days with such a great balance of gameplay & visual, so congrats! I have a real nice time playing it)

Not really enjoyble

Mindless enough for me. I'm big dumb so I can't get very far without having to think too much.

This game is infuriating and addicting. Even after telling myself I would be super careful the next time around, I just keep accidentally finishing combos in the WRONG SPOT!!!

It's so simple at first, and then the "oh no" moment kicks in once you realize that you're stuck with your placements forever. Brilliantly designed, and really well executed. Great job!

I really like the combo mechanic. Having to think really far ahead to get the pals in the right spot is a great idea. Good entry!

I played this for way too long haha super addicting with fun gameplay. Loved the visuals too and sounds. Great game, gg

Great take on the 1024 game style. Some background music and wobbly characters would've made this a really satisfying game to play for a longer time.

Simple yet very addictive! Well done, fellow Paw-friend!

A very nice game, gives me 2048 vibes. Great job.

Very addictive!! Not great at it but still had fun. Cheers!

Interesting game! I love the art its very cute! I'm not very good at it but it was entertaining regardless hehe! Good job!

Really cute graphics! The experience of playing this game is relaxing.

Wow that actually kept me busy for quite a while! Great entry!

I liked how you introduced new paw types gradually. I also liked the different sounds as you matched different sounds paws. Decently polished experience and it's pretty calming and simple. Good job!

Small and fun puzzle game with decent art, great compo submission.

It's an interesting concept, nice game.

Very cute game and a ton of fun! Well done!

Cute little puzzle game. Plus it has bubbles!

Once I figured out the rules, I spent the whole afternoon playing this lovely game. Damn it! Your cat game is so much more fun than mine, I’m going to vote you in first rating!

Really cute! I love the cats. :cat2: The puzzle is really strategic. Nice entry! :confetti_ball:

I want to share my strategy here. It might no be the best but it is stable.

We can prove that the pigs cannot play infinitely, since one can never have a new green pig next to an existing green pig (because the opposite block must be pink and purple at the same time, which is impossible).

And we have the strategy to play cats and ducks infinitely, within limited area. It might not be the smallest area though.

Then we can save all the other blocks for pigs, and try our best to delay the unavoidable pig-end. XD

Wooow, super cool! I have so much fun. Absolutely love it!

Really fun and deceptively challenging!

You hit on something really addicting! Has some strong 2048 vibes. The sounds when you make a combo are very satisfying.

My main gripe is that the 4 green pigs combo is literally mathematically impossible :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Really impressive for a compo! Would have been nice with some music and some UX changes (a better way to see all the combos, not allowing you to drop the current piece on tiles which it won't "register", etc)

I ended up spending much more time than expected on this game haha! It's super addictive and really triggered my brain. It took me a while to realize that there is no way to combine 4 green pigs, which is a bit sad as it makes the game non-endless, but it saved me from spending my whole day here :) maybe I'm wrong and there is a way, I'd be interested to know! Amazing game anyway

Really cute! Fun strategy as well. Would have appreciated an easier way to check the combos. Text was also clipping out of the view a bit (also on fullscreen).

Amazing entry overall!

Simple but fun and addictive gameplay. Good Job !

A REALLY STRONG GAME ! i spend 1 hour on it, here is my hight score :

very cute animals :) just a note: maybe keep the feet for lv1 pigs as it is for ducks and cats.

Loved it! Really fun!

Watched my cousin play this for over an hour. Incredibly good game! The mechanics were easy to understand and required a bit of mastery to chain together at the end. If this were on mobile I could see myself playing for a few hours a day :laughing:

Lovely game, congrats on submission!

Awesome Game. Had a lot of fun. Please do a mobile version. As @ry-kil said, i could also play it all day long!

Fun little puzzle game, cute graphics and tricky to master. Pity there was no background music. Great entry, and well done!

So coooool my favorite xD in my bookmaaaark

Addictive! Normally not fan of puzzle games this one made me change my mind about them, so...thank you!

Great job

This game is charming an simple! I especially like the kitty it's really cute :)
It's simple but I like it, it's pretty addicting and

All I could think of is that I wish there would be some music, it would help

Good entry!!

Yeah this game is way too addicting. You have a duty to your players to allow them to go on with their day and not be thinking what they could have done or where they could have put that pig so it was in the way of duck. Simple idea but a lot of fun. Based on the amount of comments im sure someone has already said it but i would suggest you take this further. This would make a great mobile game. Good job.

Really cute and fun game! It has a lot of depth, making an arrangement that will end up with high-scoring evolutions is tricky!

This game is super brain power expensive. I am glad i played it in the morning. Very well done i hope it wins. Super polished idea and execution. This can be released on steam tomorrow.

Fun game, with a surprising amount of complexity when it comes to chaining combos together. Really nicely polished too, looks great and feels great to play.

Really nice! Took a while to get the hang of it, forming the combos, but then I was hooked!

I don't like puzzles, but this one is 6 out of 5 to me.

Nothin to say except that's an awesome entry! :smile:
Realy fun to play, thank you for this game :heart:

Congrats!

Very good game!

super creative

Creative and addictive. I'd keep playing this game as a mobile game.

Super addicting, spent more time playing than I'd like to admit! Thoroughly enjoyed that, well done on making such a fun game!

A super cozy game! Simple but addictive. The art is very cute and suitable for this game.

Cozy and addictive. I love it!

Got 269780, but mostly because I got to a point where I think I could play endlessly and so I rushed the lose state. Good game, good mechanics.

Simple yet effective! It's not easy to design this kind of puzzle that is easy to understand yet hard to master. It's fun, makes you think, and the combos are fantastic. My sincerest congratulations on this great work, all done in less than 48 hours! I look forward to seeing an expansion of this game!

This is a pretty cute game! good job!

Love the game, but a little disappointed that the pig cannot merge. I cannot pass the 700.000 pts due to that. Could have play this game a lot longer if it more to it, continue on this road !

I liked the concept, nice game :)

A good concept and good entry for a compo game. I liked the ideas, however it's not as intuitive to me. Also I feel the mouse dragging action feels weird (like with a bit of lag) and the animations might be a bit too slow. Also no music, I think a puzzler like this one would greatly benefit from some relaxing score. All in all I think you did a nice job.

I returned, just to beat my high score. I challenge ANYONE to beat my score ;)

This was fun! I liked the cutesy theme and the puzzle game was surprisingly deep and original. It took me a minute to figure out strategy, and I had some suboptimal placements, but once I figured out the patterns it made me want to play more. Great job!

at this point I still had a lot of space, but I was done. Fun time, thank you

Ah, I forgot to take the screenshot! :(
Very addictive, thank you :D

Nice game. I'm always so happy when I see time for little polish optional features in jams, "Bubbles On" forever.

@ben-toosey Challenge Accepted :D

Definitely some room for improvement so I'll have to try again at some point!
You were an impressive opponent (Seriously though great work on getting 2 mil!)

I'm not a stranger to merge games, but I think my time as an ipad kid has used up my merge capacity for a whole lifetime! That said, the cat / ducks are very cute, and the gameplay is smooth and graphically pretty! Great job

This game is very fun, with a little adjustment could be a great mobile game.

Great arcade/puzzle game!

This game was fun, relaxing and could very well be at a app store for mobile devices. The lack of music kinda suck, but the SFX are really good overall. And honestly, never would I rhink that a Match-3 game would be this good. You put a spin on the genre that I would've never stopped to think. Congrats.

Great job!

Nice little game :) well done, bubble feature is the best ^^

Nice fun little game with quite a bit more depth than what is initially apparent! Add some juicy animations, music and bit more polish and you have a winner that would really well on mobile!

it's a super fun game!

I had to check the comments to make sure I wasn't crazy about the pigs being impossible. Also wish you could pop the bubbles when you click on them. Overall great entry. :)

Fun little game, as others said making dragging less slow and floaty would make it so much better for me.
Otherwise really neat twist on these kinds of games.

Well done!

Simple and fun one! It takes some trial and error for me to figure out the rule, but it is ok. Could be better with more polish.

amazing and super cute animals. really simple and satisfying gameplay!

Nice! I made a cat summoning game too! Ha!

Really cute game! Took me a while to get the hang of it and I had to play really carefully because I kept misclicking but I had fun!

Cute and addicting. Great level of polish. The UI is nice and clean. Also playing with bubbles on is a must. The game wouldn't be the same without them...

Definitely a fun little game, with a few more tries I might be able to figure out a strategy that won't let me die horribly after a while XD