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A jam submission

Invoke the Old GodsView game page

Summon Cats!
Submitted by jurelmetal, Cam, smith1813
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the Limitation#24.1364.136
Overall#153.5913.591
Concept#163.6823.682
Presentation#173.7273.727
Enjoyment#352.8182.818

Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
c4m (Music/SFX/Programming), smith1813 (Visuals/Programming), jurelmetal (Programming)

Software used
Unity Engine, Ableton Live, Aseprite, VS Code

Use of the limitation
We made a game about summoning cats, which naturally makes the game feature a lot of cats.

Cookies eaten
No cookies, but a good amount of cupcakes, chips, pizza, hamburgers and other snacks!

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Comments

Submitted

Hey really enjoyed the music and the art, like someone else said I also had a hard time figuring out which ingredient is which ( like I didnt know what incense or yarn meant but I also am not a native english speaker lol )

Developer(+1)

Image based rituals are coming in a future update :D 

Thanks for playing the game :D

Submitted(+1)

Great concept! love the memory game loop with the spooky ambience. You guys did a great job with the music, art, ambience, .. I always appreciate a  custom music for a jam entry :D 

It'd be super cool in the future to have some more progression, like unlocking new types of rituals, making them riskier but with more reward. 

Developer

Glad you like the game! 

Cam is the mastermind behind the music. And I did the art (this is my first time doing art for a game jam, it was super fun :D) 

We were discussing adding new mechanics and stuff if we keep working on it. I personally would like to have better UI and maybe some power up that helps you go through more difficult rituals (like a hint system that cost gold, or something that highlights which objects you need to use but reduces the time for the round) 

The sky is the limit :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I die on Day 4 lol. I think it would be neat to see the cat we summon in the background.

Developer

You can't, they were sold to the king for precious coins

Submitted(+1)

Really great jam submission! The art is charming and the audio integration is impressive :)
I'd really like if there was some way to know what symbol is what. (The hand symbols specifically were a little unintuitive.)  Maybe having the corresponding symbol next to the text in the directions, or the name showing up when you hover over them for long enough.

Developer(+1)

We have that coming at some point... sadly we ran out of time :( 

Glad you like it <3

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I liked the colors and pixel art

Developer

Thanks! Glad you liked it :) 

Submitted(+1)

Incredibly cool idea, my native language is not english so i had no ideaw what an incense is, but after i googled it it was really fun. Also the graphics are realy high quality!

Developer

We were planning on show the art instead of the name but ran out of time, will do in a future update :) 

Glad you like it :D

Submitted(+1)

Love the visuals!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed them :D

Submitted(+1)

A unique concept and I haven’t seen anything like it before! Although having all the buttons pop out at once is a bit overwhelming.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! We were thinking on adding the ritual steps progressively but ran out of time :( 

Glad you like it :) 

Submitted(+1)

I liked the idea and the project itself as well.

Developer

Thanks you for your review :D

Submitted(+1)

This was neat! It's a very fun idea, and the cat toys and balls of yarn do seem like what you'd need to summon a cat.

Once I got the hang of it, I could basically just play forever, since you only have to remember three things at a time. I think it either needs an end point, or for the rituals to get longer each day until you can't remember them.

Developer (1 edit)

We had increasing dificulties in mind (two more objects each day) but we ran out of time :P 

Thanks!

Developer(+1)

Increasing difficulties is implemented now. 

The ritual length increases per day. (3 the first day, then 4, then 6, then 8) it has an endpoint now for sure hahha 

Thanks for the feedback :) 

Submitted(+1)

Really nice visuals for this, and I also enjoyed the music a lot! I will say though I was pretty confused what to do at first and ended up losing on my first try. Some sort of tutorial would probably go a long way!

Developer (1 edit)

Tutorial an better descriptions are on the way.  I added how to play instructions to the game page :) 

Glad you liked it! Both the visuals and the music was done for this jam from scratch! :D 

Developer

We added tutorials and increasing difficulty now :)