That was pretty fun! It's neat that each monster has its own behavior (although the ghost seems to be harder to guide than ther others). The game is pretty engaging, and the way the difficulty increases creates a nice balance. There could be some improvement on the UI: the color and font are not easy to read, same thing for the timer with transparency. But that doesn't prevent the game to be playable and enjoyable.
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Heal the Monsters! (Because somebody beat them up)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1253 | 3.655 | 3.655 |
| Overall | #1294 | 3.511 | 3.511 |
| Presentation | #1334 | 3.638 | 3.638 |
| Enjoyment | #1520 | 3.241 | 3.241 |
Ranked from 58 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Where in a normal game you would fight the monsters, here you are healing them, because some other guy beat them all up.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
Comments
A very cute and wholesome concept, great interpretation of the theme, relatively easy to play and the artwork is very cute :]
I don’t have too much to say about the game I think that it’s already pretty great if you did want to add more depths maybe different levels (forest, underwater etc) and some form of upgrades to make yourself stronger as you heal more monsters for extra fun!
1 year ago(+1)
I thuoght it would be funny if you could bully them and the ghosts out of the campfire, but they still return to it by themselves after getting healed. turns out - that only caused confusion haha
For the Jam going infinite was a great idea!
If you want to continue this beyond the Jam though, I think you could add something more to the core game loop at this point. some way to show progress, either through a meta or through upgrades of some sort. A great way to also do this is to add a story to the game!
1 year ago(+1)
Those are pretty cool ideas! adding upgrades sounds fun, i can see how by adding upgrades you could turn it into either a roguelike or a tycoon game. and a story would be definitely be nice. thanks for the feedback!
1 year ago(+1)
thank you!
did they not turn semi-transparent and started going towards the fire if left alone?
if no, then congratularions! you found a bug haha
if yes, then the game needs better telegraphing
1 year ago(+1)
thank you!
nope, it's not you. the game DESPERATELY needs some gradual introduction to enemies. i think that throwing in a ghost next to a bat in the lobby would be nice, as well as making the first way contain both a slime and a snake (and also for nothing else to spawn until you collect all the 4 monsters). this way you would know what you are getting into. as the game stands right now, you need to play it once or twice just to understand it, and then you are good to go on the third attempt. while at the same time, the game's round lasts too long for me to expect players to stick around for 3 rounds
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