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How does the game fit the theme?
A vampire hides among your congregation. Manage your church, investigate the townsfolk, and uncover who you can trust before the whole congregation is corrupted.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
All 3D assets are Synty
All UI assets are from asset store.
Sound Manager from old project.
How many people worked on the game?1
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The game systems are really well designed. having cheat codes to speed up the playthrough is just awesome :D
Game is not really holding your hand but after sometime you figure things out. Its fun.
I enjoyed, but i wish that the tutorial was interactive, and not just; do this stuff
Put simply, the game is very overwhelming, i feel like it has some potential but the gameplay was confusing for me, especially since i wasn't expecting such big games.
The sprites also have some weird scaling when i am in fullscreen and some buttons and texts are even cut off then.
But overall, great job, especially as a solo dev :)
What a project for but 1 developer. Having art assets that work together and good level of polish? Having a several layered management system with different stats to balance, and UI that represents all this information clearly? Skill trees, economy, dialogue, skill points? An overarching narrative about hunting a vampire? Fantastic!
I think what was probably a large challenge was conveying how the system works and what is valuable where. As the player I had no idea if Unity or Hope was better, or how any of the numbers interact with each other initially.
The pacing of the tutorial and intro combined was a bit slow, with the speed of the text and the amount of slides I had to read before I could pick up and play the game. Perhaps pacing and learning could have been improved if a couple mechanics were explained / unlocked at a time?
Hey guys since i have not balanced the game very well yet. I invented a guide for it.
1. Buy Chicken Coop at week 1.
2. Race to unlock Charity Sermon Topic, then spam use that every Sunday. It 2x your offerings money.
3. Keep spamming that, do not choose higher level semon topics even if you have unlocked them, till your congregation number is high enough to pay monthly without deficit.
4. Everything should be easy by then. Hope you will get better ending than Bad Ending. Enjoy!
With that strategy and without abusing the Auto Play Buttton i managed to get sub 10 minutes to best ending :)
Bug(s) found :
- Cannot buy facilities : cow, praying room etc. Temporary solution : try to buy it with 10% higher money amount in your pocket, the system checks pre-discount price.
Managing a church while hunting down a hidden vampire in your congregation is a good concept. Insane effort for a solo developer to pull off a simulation this detailed under jam constraints. Great work!
Cheat code for people who need it :
- noobwillsurvive : 9999 money and other resources
- badending, midending, goodending, raptureending, dogending : jump to those endings
I really liked the idea, but a few things stood out to me. The first is that the game takes quite a while to start getting interesting, for me it took around 30 weeks, and once the murders started happening, I wasn't sure I was playing the game the right way.
You did a great job on the simulation and the visuals, I thought they were really nice, and it's impressive that you made this on your own. I reached one of the endings and I thought it was great!
I also think you should invest more time in your game page, it's what's going to draw people into your game, so don't hide this gem from them!
Thank you for the advice and for enjoying the game. The murder should start happen at week 4. Will check what it wrong.
I will play yours later :)
I love the art style. The music is also really relaxing! I keep losing money lol! Great game.
Thank u, try to pick a sermon that double your offerings yield and a skill that double that sermon yield.
Wow, what a resource manager you have made. I was stunned when I saw that you did this alone! I also think it is great that you included cheatcodes. I was able to experience each ending. I like the dog ending :)
Also, the music was so relaxing, I love it!
My insomnia loves it that you enjoyed playing the game. I still can't sleep that well now after lack of sleep during the last 3 days, trying to put all those resources and features. The resource manager file is only 2000 lines, don't worry for my insanity :D
Love the dog too. It is a nod to Silent Hill.
Still have to debug things people mentioned below.
The game was super fun, but kind of long and it was too hard to make money...The store also didn't work sometimes? I had a blast and played for over 30 mins. great job!
Thank u for playing. Glad you like it, there are so much problems witht this game, mainly unbalance economy (due to bugs) and UI clipping.
If you want to jump straight to endings or infinite money, i got you cheat codes :
'noobwillsurvive' (9999 money)
'badending'
'midending'
'goodending'
'raptureending
'dogending'
And thank you for the sambel from your game :D
I cant rate the game but it was really fun!!! I got the good ending after like 175 weeks idk the normal amount of time but it took me like 30 min. Some things I noticed: First buying things breaks after getting the cow even with the cheat code couldnt buy anything past that. Second you dont actually have to unlock the new congregations you can still do them when they are greyed out. Some tuning with gaining members would also be nice but I still really enjoyed it.
Thank you for the input and bug finding. I will fix it fast. Glad that you enjoyed the game :)
It is made to inspire people. And to entertain. Will be improved upon your feedback. Thank you for saving the town (if you get one of the good endings).
Hey guys, welcome to this game page. Hope you all enjoyed my little game here.
This can be played on mobile too.