Ludum Dare #57compo

School of Hard Knocks

by ehgoodenough

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.93

You and your friends attend a prestigious sorcery school - the most elite are born with their magic powers. While the freaks and the geeks need to earn their magic.

The Punk - gets experience from TAKING HITS.
The Nerd - gets experience for PERFECT TAKE DOWNS.
The Goth - gets experience from HEALING or HURTING.

Use the mouse to select and move your characters. Grind through each level, getting stronger and stronger!

Comments4

Gargantuan Janitor8 Apr 2025, 20:59

This looks really good, but it locks up when I try to take my second turn with the nerd. Tried it three times, same bug every time

Uzpykes10 Apr 2025, 18:26

Love the art style/assets. Enjoyed the gameplay too, but movement controls got stuck at one point.

Ryrumeli12 Apr 2025, 05:52

This is really cute, love the nice ideas for development using actions for exp instead of the usual. Unfortunately I couldn't finish after 3 attempts, all involving bugs that broke the flow.

ellaris13 Apr 2025, 20:30

Cool game, I liked the art, I didn't understand why sometimes units attacked twice, and it seemed like there were effective and ineffective attacks which again I didn't know how to determine, so more feedback on those would be nice. I liked the prediction for hp, but it didn't show if the nerd would be overkilling or not so couldn't always predict the xp gain. Also for the level up it wasn't immediately clear you choose between the options, since the level indicator had the exact same background.

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