{"id":2373,"edition":13,"categories":3,"features":1,"size":12579,"name":"The Familiar","authors":[{"name":"Mohammad Jawad","url":"https://pdemia.com/","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462}],"description":"

You are the familiar of a young witch, but an apocalypse happened while you were at training

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Portals have appeared and mosters kidnapped everyone, the village is empty

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The old wizzard will guide and assist you to find your master

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Explore the portals in search for your master and fight monsters to gain experience

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The game wasn’t fit in 13kb as a whole for now the dungeon scene is under construction

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The combat practice is available and the main village exploration

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I will maybe continue development and publish it on my website and perhaps itch.io later encouraged

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only mouse/touch is needed for controlls and music is available from menu disabled by default

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Hoh, this looks interesting. But there isn’t anything to do in this version other than walk around right? I’m surprised by the expanse of the map. I tried the combat practice and it seems like you have something interesting brewing here. I definitely encourage you to expand on that. The music was nice.

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Thank you for the encouragement and glad you liked the game :)

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Great start for the game! I very much like the combat-system with the combos to create effects!

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Regarding the movement, I think it would be much more immersive to control the cat using arrow-keys, and make it run around freely instead only going from gridcell to gridcell? (In case that that matches your intended game…)

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Nice, that you managed to fit music into the game, I would just turn it on by default

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thank you, well the movement was intended to be minimal effort just tap to move but I could add an option to do both if would enhance gameplay. music need interaction to begin also most players don’t enjoy music so having it off and enabled easily from main is the mid-fit option

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Nice combat system, I love it. But the walking animation feel so slow. Overall I like this game

\n","games":["Cat and Spikes"]},{"typ":1,"at":410636037,"re":410567779,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

thank you for the feedback, maybe slowness due to device framerate I’ll try to normalize it next time thanks for the heads up.

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very interesting visually and technically but sadly incomplete

\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"typ":1,"at":410636343,"re":410573876,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

agree, the size went out of hand and my plan was too big to handle everything in 13kb, I had most of it but lost motivation since last year was a disapointment of all effort lost, so i went all in from start but lost it in the last few days, have you tried combat practice

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Incomplete, but I like the village. I would like to see what this game can become.

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the main gameplay is nowhere to be said complete, I’ve spent better time on making the combat system fit as practice and lost track of time, when i started making dungeons I’ve already reached big size so I submitted the version to see if its worthy to keep working on

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I like the clean interface and graphics. And good path-finding in the outer world. Didn’t really understand combat, though, I mostly just guessed the whole way thru.

\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"typ":1,"at":410985856,"re":410924291,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

glad something was likable and will work on clarifying the other aspects also. thx for feedback

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I liked where this was going. The overworld is well thought out and I liked how using emojis in different sizes made them look more like regular sprites. It took me a while to figure out the combat system, and I think it could be really fun if it was a little bit more accessible and integrated into the game. I totally see myself casting magical sigils by connecting elements and ingredients to defeat the opponent.

\n","games":["Lucky Charm"]},{"typ":1,"at":411067560,"re":411030271,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"

appreciate the heartwarming feedback, ineed the usage of sprites was a great aproach for the reduction of size and the map was based on a gif blueprint that was interpreted to having wide map, dungeon will act same way with a more of a twist and combat will be more complicated as some magic will do healing and poison and defence effects, also mana will influence all and it will need to be unlocked

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An excellent combination of merge mechanics in combat and RPG exploration! I played through the practice battle mode and found the merging controls to be very intuitive. Very unintuitive I will deal the damage or not (seems like random chance). Funny cute dancing black cat!

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A few suggestions that could enhance the experience:

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Admittedly, I felt a bit limited by not being able to engage in combat with anyone in the world map. I truly hope to see a more polished version in the future - I’m very curious about the story you have prepared for us!

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Great job!

\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":411453534,"author":"Elliot Nelson","login":"elliot-nelson","gh":58273,"url":"https://7tonshark.com","twitter":"7tonshark","text":"

Overall game idea is clear (even if not complete): go on quests from overworld, explore dungeons, fight monsters by playing a merge puzzle game to form spells and lower opponent health.

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Suggestions: I won’t give a ton since the game is incomplete, you might have many ideas already for future. I did notice my own health going down during the Combat Practice, but it was not clear why, so I’d make sure to incorporate some indication of how your spells hurt the enemy and how the enemy hurts you (or how to avoid it).

\n","games":["Ashes of Ulthar"]},{"at":411759577,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"

Congrats on submitting, the combat mechanics are very interesting, I think it has a lot of potential, and would love to see it explored further.

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For example, combining different types of elements to get different attacks, enemies that are resistant to certain attacks, special elements that can update/reset the grid, etc. a lot of ideas come to mind!

\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"typ":2,"at":411882642,"author":"Jedidiah Weller","login":"jedihacks","gh":996175,"url":"www.openforge.io","twitter":"jedihacks","text":"

Hey Mohammad,

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Good work on this submission! I was a bit confused due to the missing features, but overall I think this game has legs and if you continue it you’ll do great with it.

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I recorded a video review for all the games here so that you can see my initial reaction while playing, which is often quite helpful from a user experience perspective. https://www.youtube.com/live/jl6pC4OnVJA?si=hadQmN9JZB93hDUM

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Good luck in the competition and good job!

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I thought the game was good

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I liked the graphics and general art style, it was fun exploring the village, your path finding works well

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The music was really good, so I was surprised that it was off by default

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The combat screen looks pretty neat, I had a got at string sequences of blocks together to make new blocks - this looked like it could be really fun when you’re done

\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":2,"at":411941958,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"

Good start! It is a shame that the player almost immediately comes across unimplemented features such as the portals. The music was good but maybe a bit too much of a techno beat. Perhaps get rid of the bass and only keep the chords? I miss sound effects while moving and bumping into things. Good pathfinding!

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