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A jam submission

shrieky hallsView game page

A turned based game where you scare away trespassers in your haunted domain!
Submitted by shpwns — 2 days, 2 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#134.0004.000
Gameplay#193.5003.500
Overall#203.5003.500
Audio#233.3753.375
Art#293.5623.562
Polish#343.0623.062

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Arcade

No

Not an Arcade Game

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Comments

Submitted

This is cute! Fun mechanics and nice art and music.

It would be nice if the movement showed an arrow or max range so I didn't have to hunt down where 8 tiles away was! The circle also kinda blends in with the tiles.

It would be nice to move the camera with WASD (or the cursor + have the camera follow that)

Shriek is selectable while moving, then auto cancels upon arriving. Might be nice to disable the button if you aren't stationary.

I also think the level design would be more interesting gradually mixing the enemy types instead of all the same. That way the spreads and order are a bit more varied! (And of course, more maps?!)

The camera could also move to enemy position a little faster, found that it was pretty slow waiting for that for the enemy to be able to move.

Submitted

Really cool! Sometimes it was really frustrating that the shriek doesnt really work diagonal, so sometimes the human I wanted to scare was directly next to me, but I just could not hit it!

Submitted

A Good turn-base. I do wish there would be more features to play with, but the current amount is good enough. I beat all levels without restarted, and it was my first play.

Submitted (1 edit)

Very difficult, but fun game! LOVED the art!

Submitted

Interesting concept and fun game! The tutorial is good as it made it pretty easy to understand the gameplay. It was a bit slow but fun regardless. I only played a few levels but I would have liked if there was a different map each time. I liked the music and art is simple but nice :)  

Submitted

The overall turn based mechanics were very well done and it was a very interesting concept. Just for me personally it was a bit too slowly paced, but I generally dislike turn based games anyway. Overall a very well made game that feels like a tactical combat game. My only main complaint is there were a few elements that could use a bit more polishing and the music starts to get grating after a few levels.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted (1 edit)

The music is cool and the turn/camera system is very well executed! Nice game. A couple of notes:

- the scare system is confusing: sometimes scaring an enemy causes them to run away on their next turn, sometimes it doesn't. Is it random?

- if you end your turn with Shriek selected, the aim indicator stay

- after using Shriek, the Shriek button stays lit up even if you select Move

Developer

Thanks for playing & for the feedback! :)