Alchemist Ascension

Very nice game! I messed up between spamming left and right click, which made for some hectic gameplay :) Luckily, the game is quite forgiving, so that was nice. Good job!

The concept of attacking with what heals you was interesting. Also I loved the sound effects! It would be great if the effects were also applied to enemies so it feels more tactical.

Thank you for the great game!

I liked this entry, fun and original concept. It was a bit too easy to just spam mouse button to regenerate health, maybe some self-drinking cooldown or a self-damaging potion in rotation would make sense to limit the players capacity to outlive anything. In a similar vein, it was a bit weird to just keep spamming potions at the enemies, felt very one-dimensional at times. Overall however, good start and I played for quite a bit to see if there was more.

This is an interesting concept, I enjoyed the idea of having to drink cursed potions in order to keep your health up while fighting monsters and deciding what to drink and what to throw - there are a few graphical glitches with the tiles which I think is just a small issue that can be fixed easily and I did find it quite easy to just let an enemy land on top of me and spam the mouse until they died, but balancing can be tricky to get right with the limited time-frame. It's great you've gone for different themes in each level and I enjoyed it overall :)

There's a lot of effects going on, which is cool especially since you have to drink the potions, but none were super interesting. I would've loved a little more enemy variety and side effects. You guys did a great job, though!

Interesting entry! I included it in my GM48 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/mhNq7rNpmB8

Pros:

• Nice side-effect mechanics
• Decent art-style
• Good music
• Liked how the tutorial is presented

Cons:

• Although the side-effects made the whole game, felt like it was easy to just spam throw potion on enemies to defeat them (maybe having a random side effect once in a while to stop you from completely spam-killing enemies)
• Was not sure how to start the game (tho enter was the way, felt like it was a clickable button on the "opening scene" / menu

Neat idea, would like to see it polished and could probably see myself playing this more!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1268766636?t=00h54m03s

still glad to see you guys make a game this time around!

Really loved the idea and most of the execution, had a lot of fun with this, I'd like to see a bigger cooldown on throwing potions and maybe give the enemies less health and have them do more damage? Might add to the balancing! Overall I'm super impressed, this seems like something I'd absolutely love to play more of! It hit the nail on the head in regards to the theme also!

That's actually a cool concept! I found out a strategy of just throwing away the potions I didn't like and using only the blessed ones. The enemies were rather tough! but using the potion concept I would like to see certain potions have more effects, Like burn, freeze, or other elemental damage would be pretty cool! Overall I liked the game and really did fit the side effects theme perfectly. Great job!

The idea is great, but I felt like the enemies had a little too much health, since you essentially just had to spam right click on them for the entire game. But the potion mechanics are great, I like it!

I really liked the concept of the game a lot, using potions for health or attack. Once I figured it out it was a bit too easy. Some more balancing would go a long way that keeps the player from spamming. The grates were drawn on top of the player character (which I assume wasn't intentional? I've heard GM has some odd behavior if you don't have things like that in different layers).

I can see the ideas you were trying to incorporate and I think they have a lot of potential. However, in this case the execution of those ideas fell short in a lot of ways. Most notably, it's easy to be invincible simply by rapidly clicking both mouse buttons while attacking enemies. Also, related to this, the potion type you attack with doesn't matter at all because they all do some damage. I think there are potential solutions to these problems, such as a longer potion throwing cooldown and enemy invincibility to all but one potion color. There were other areas lacking polish as well, but this is your first game jam and I commend you just for making the effort. Also, the music was really good.

Enjoyed the "drink or throw" mechanic. very cool idea!

I feel like you could have done more with the theme and game mecahnics you started here. It felt annoying to mash right mouse button and that's kind of the only thing I did? There wasn't much of a penalty to throwing out bad potions, so I just found myself only ever taking good potions and it felt a little easy. Except for the gigantic health bars, there didn't seem to be any differences between the enemies.

I also saw some graphical glitches with the player (not facing the right way, etc).

The music was really good though! The intro art was really nice. The tutorial was well done and clear.