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A jam submission

RevenantView game page

Build towers, mow down myriads of foes, die, repeat.
Submitted by )))))][((((( (@nathrakus) — 10 hours, 12 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
How good was it?#63.8933.893

Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Collecting those green orbs was way to satisfying! the sound and the way it moved :D

Submitted

Really cool! I will definitely come back to this game once I'm done rating all the other ones!

Submitted

I like the visual style - it's simple but the small things like shadows and the vignette give it some interest.  Also great job on the sounds!  It was a little hard to figure out at first, took me a while to discover that I could move around.  The info text on mouse-over is a good system though, and I was able to figure everything out eventually.  I hope you keep iterating on this idea!

Submitted

Interesting mix of different genres. Sound effects are fitting and impactful. The gameplay is pretty fun. Very nice work!

Submitted

i like the sound and atmosphere! great job!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting game and for some reason I found the graphics very cool. 

Submitted(+1)

I like the stacks building on each other. Tether and twist were fun. Glad to read that you're going to keep going on this one. The whole design works well together (art, sound, gameplay etc.)

Submitted(+1)

This is a really awesome concept. There are flaws like not getting attack cards right away, having too little green circles, and the enemies camping on the factory - however, i think the concept alone makes this special and stand out. Please keep working on this.

Developer

Hello Frog! I've been pushing updates on the daily, and intend to push this idea into some pretty cool territory that I haven't seen in a game like this. I just uploaded a new build which contains some subtle, but interesting changes.

You can find out more here (one of the changes is what you noted about factory camping).
https://tylerdavidkirk.itch.io/revenant/devlog/908541/rc8-changelog
Thank you for playing, and being a very cool frog.

Submitted(+1)

It took me a while to understand what was happening, but once I got the hang of it, I loved the concept! It would be nice to be able to see right away if you're getting an attack card or a buff card, but otherwise the card mechanics were exciting. The sounds are also very good!

Developer

Thank you so much for playing! I really wanted there to be an element of experimentation and discovery in the process, and it sounds like that comes through. I think I could definitely streamline the initial discovery process by telling less and showing more, then leave some of the nuanced things like Inverted Cards allowing for larger hand sizes buried a little bit. It was a really fun challenge to build.

Thank you for taking time to check it out and to give feedback!

Submitted(+1)

This is fun and interesting!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing idea, great game

Submitted(+1)

Loved the game

Submitted(+1)

I loved the sound effects and the tween effects. I couldn’t quite understand the mechanics, like when the cards should be activated or not, but I could tell there were deep mechanics going on there. Great achievement.

Developer

I really loved your project! Thanks for taking the time to check mine out :)

The general flow for cards is:

  • Place attacks down
  • Place modifiers on top of cards

So something like, `Burst-> Twist -> Link` would shoot a burst of projectiles that have a slight spiral to them, toward the player. Another nice property of the modifiers is that they stack. Most scale additively, and sometimes multiplicitively! For example multiple twists at level 3 will create a really tight circle around the target. I say `target` in this case, because homing and link exists, and its possible to get things orbiting around the player or enemy.

There are a lot of hidden interactions and mechanics when you start inverting cards (Faster becomes Slower for example) 

To invert a card: Collect 5 pickups, then drop a card on the black circle that spawns, you can continue levelling cards by dropping already inverted anchors at the inversion anchors. 
Beware that some inversions are very literal.

Submitted(+1)

Surprisingly compelling.  Audio is great.  Sorta hurts the eyes, but I think that's just trying to track everything.  I wish there was a better sense that you could manage to repel the waves and get yourself some breathing room, but maybe I need to play more.  

Submitted

The rc4 updates are good, though I don't have audio, and some of the enemies are faster than me, which ends the game sooner than if I was just messing up

Developer

I literally feel my eyes strain when I'm playing it. I have a rough idea of what's doing it, and I'd like to fix it hahaha

Submitted(+1)

love the entier consept of stacking cards on a tower 

Submitted(+1)

This is really fun! I would play it more if it had an objective or a scoring system.

Developer

Yooo thank you for playing! The scoring mechanism is very difficult to discern! I'll do a pass to give it some more juice! Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Love the concept and the juice for moving and placing the cards! Felt a bit quiet sometimes and some sounds felt like they were missing (like enemies and player taking damage). I also noticed sometimes that the bullets did no damage? Or maybe the enemies just had more health but their size was small so I assumed it would have killed.

Developer

Thank you for playing! I was extremely impressed by your project! 


I'm definitely going to do a discernablity pass ASAP! Thank you for the feedback. ❤️

Submitted(+1)

Takes a bit to figure out, but I really liked this one. Played for probably about 15 mins or so. Tether + Fork is very good.

Developer

Thanks for checking it out Kenneth! I was really excited when I got tether working with the other modifiers. I really love Tether + Twist + Faster it creates a whirling tornado of fun. Tether fork was fun to program. I wanted to add a `chain` modifier, but Tether + Fork and Fork + Homing was basically chain, so I opted to polish what I had.

Submitted

Oh that sounds like a cool combination! I had a burst + faster + twist + homing and it turned into like a galaxy swirl thing which was neat.

Submitted(+1)

Great game, although its mechanics weren’t immediately clear!

Developer

Thanks for checking it out! I'll definitely take another pass at making things more clear in the future.