Witch Solar

by alpacalypse

co-authored: @ruruie

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.59

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.21

A pretty simple Ludum Dare game because both of us were indisposed. However, it has beams.

As is well known, one's eyes contain light. However, industrialisation of this progress has produced problems. You have been hired to attempt to get the light from the eyes onto the solar panels that can collect it.

Move with WASD/arrows. Orient mirror with mouse. Fullscreen with ESC. Focus mode (slow movement) with shift. Use mirrors to focus beams onto solar panels. Try not to be hit by beams yourself. Beams can also destroy eyeballs.

Tools: Godot 4.4, Leshy SFmaker, REAPER, Asesprite

Alpacalypse: code, music, sfx

Ruruie: code, art

Tools: Aseprite, Godot

Comments18

xpoho7 Oct 2025, 08:35

Nice concept! Good luck ^_^

Kalbshack7 Oct 2025, 11:04

Nice unique approach, concept wise. Quite difficult especially with my mouse sense I guess. So maybe some possibility to adjust it ingame would be nice. Still overall very good job. :thumbsup:

Pimeko7 Oct 2025, 23:56

Interesting gameplay, a bit hard to play but liked the idea and vibes!

AldenWitt9 Oct 2025, 23:09

It's interesting for the thing you're collecting to also be the thing that damages you. That said, game got a lot easier when I realized you could move. Very simple, but made for a satisfying little chunk! I think some simple things like movement inertia, targets of escalating value, and alternative enemies (it's essentially a physics game; maybe they lob glowing blobs at you that you have to bounce into a receiver) could do a lot to enhance the gameplay.
Good job!

Starlight Glimmer is best poney9 Oct 2025, 23:13

Reminiscent of WitchDelivr. Standing in one spot on the right kind of breaks the game but in a fun way. Good job given the indisposition.

Jonction9 Oct 2025, 23:15

A cool concept, deserve further developing, I quickly found a safe spot allowing to do kinda infinite points

Nomelu10 Oct 2025, 22:24

I liked the idea, and the art was cute. It was a bit hard to see the UI because hitting ESC didn't work for me for more than a split second (I think it was counting 1 press as 2 presses). I also wasn't sure why there was hearts for health but also a number next to it. I liked directing the beams around, that was fun. I wish they lasted a bit longer, because by the time I lined them up it felt like they disappeared soon after.

ruruie10 Oct 2025, 22:30

@nomelu
Thanks for the report on the ESC key! Uh, in that case this is probably a bug that exists in every single game we've ever made with the full screen button and hopefully never again for any future jam game!

Vasea12311 Oct 2025, 21:18

Great game, and very unique gameplay, i like heating them cats XDDD

skiddings11 Oct 2025, 21:20

Nice little game :smile:

Aleksey Salion12 Oct 2025, 10:01

Nice visuals :thumbsup:

Dis0rder16 Oct 2025, 17:40

I didn't know cats where capable of photosynthesis! :cat2: :sunny:

First I was anxious that they'd die from the lasers :eye: :scream_cat: Including the cats on the rooftops was a nice little addition besides the solar panels. Maybe there could be plants as well? :seedling:

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I like the reflection-mechanic.

Took some time to wrap my head around a good strategy, but then I realized it's beneficial to wait for many of the eye-creepers to line up and keep your position, steadily retreat a bit and shield yourself.

I liked what you were going for here and you could certainly head to many different directions with the mechanic.

Keep on jamming!

Cody Raethke17 Oct 2025, 04:09

Very unique idea. It was fun trying to focus the lasers from 2 or 3 eyeballs. I liked the simple, relaxing music and sound effects as well. I think a simple parallax effect on the background when you move around and more emergent gameplay (power ups, different tools/weapons, different types of enemies, etc) would really help flesh out the game.