Its a good start, the games made so far are fun. A bit more time to implement more variety of games and you would have a solid game. For 72 hours, this is a decent effort!
Thanks for playing. Yeah a good suggestion, it should be more obvious when the boss is defeated (he retreats and will appear again other levels). The player health bar is the amount of ether that has been collected. It acts as a shield but also makes you more powerful (rate of fire) and agile (tighter control of the broomstick). It depletes when hit but also each time you fire or use a spell (that wasn't implemented in time).
The idea of the mechanic is that the player has to be strategic in how they use the ether, rather than go gung ho they may wish to conserve their shots. When battling the end boss, you may want to mix up hitting the boss or going for the red ghost that are more likely to drop more ether. I would've liked to have made this more obvious with a tutorial or similar but time was just too tight!
Thanks for playing. What browser did you have the issue with? I have tested on Chrome and Firefox and performance is flawless on both, even on my potato laptop.
The visuals are nice and the storytelling is good, but I find the battles a bit confusing. Not sure if it was a bug but sometimes felt it was taking my turns automatically.
Nice game, I had fun. The art and music work well with the gameplay. I found it difficult to begin with until I figured out that running blindly until I find a lantern is not the best strategy haha! Well done though.
Thanks for the detailed feedback, I appreciate it. All valid points that I have noted. although the sloppy handling is by design, it tightens up as you collect more ether. You become more powerful and agile, but admittedly the balancing needs work.
Thanks! Unfortunately, I am not able to readily test on macOS. I think ACB games was running it on a mac when he streamed it, not sure what he did but looked like he renamed it. It's something I am aware of now, so will pay more attention to in the future though.
Took me a little while to figure out what's going on, but it's a pretty cool, simple mechanic. Would be cool to play against someone on split screen. The music fits the experience nicely. Hope you continue to work on it.
The growth visibility is an issue, I have some ideas to experiment with. That's a good idea to use the mouse for the orb. I hadn't thought about that, I'll play with that idea too, thank you.
You have done the paper effect well and the gameplay is nice. Music fits in well too. Just the growth theme is missing but i see you have explained that below. Good job.
