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| 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
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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.
thank you!
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!
As someone who plays healers in MMOs… love this game! What a cute idea! c:
Thank you!
This game is adorable! I like it
Very nice! I like the concept, and learning how to interact with all the different monsters is very fun.
thank you! glad you liked it
I really loved the gameplay in this! I feel like a more in-depth tutorial about the monster types would have been helpful, but overall this was really engaging to play, and not too difficult to figure out. Thank you for sharing and great work! :)
Fun game! The snake looked so sad :'(
I think it'd help if there was a note on how to get specific monsters into the healing area. I could never get the slimes in >.<
thank you!
the slimes have to be triggered with the wind spell and then you lunch them towards the campfire. the game DESPERATELY needs to communicate that better, because it seems like a lot of people ran into the same problem
Aah I see, they don't necessarily stay in the campfire, as long as they've passed through it once they've been healed
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
Nicely made! I had fun pushing around the monsters. I like that they each react differently to you. It does get hectic pretty quickly, but that’s part of the fun.
thanks a bunch! and it sure is part of the fun! chaos can always bring a game to life when done right. it adds that extra level of tension which is really nice
Really cute game, and more challenging that it seems ! Simple but fun :D
Super cute! the game gets a bit hard though but with a bit more tweaking it could definitely be expanded!
thank you! With the difficulty, the game is made in such a way that you are bound to lose at some point as it gets impossible to stay alive infinitely. Do you think that was that a good decision or would it be more fun to keep going infinitely, where it is always possible, yet tricky to stay alive?
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!
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!
Very cute pixel art and the concept is great