Completed Pokemon Saṃsāra

Pokemon Saṃsāra
by Cosmic Hierophant
Made in Gamemaker Studio 2

Theme: Rebirth

Synopsis:
You died. Before you are reincarnated, Jirachi wants you to help some other Pokemon evolve in the afterlife before they get reincarnated. It's hazardous work, though.

Spoiler: game info

Pokemon Saṃsāra is a tile-matcher/falling block game where you place 2 or more Pokemon together to get them to evolve to gain karma.
The more Pokemon are placed in a group and evolve together, the more points you get.
Some Pokemon will help you, others will hurt you or obliterate/steal/eat the Pokemon you are trying to help.

It's my first jam, and I couldn't devote much time over the allocated period to creating something bigger.

Spoiler: bugs

Technically a bug - the game timer will start before you finish talking to Jirachi if you take too long, but it doesn't affect the game
other than an instant game over screen if the game timer completes once jirachi leaves but you would have to be afk the entire game time.
Other than that, nothing big that I know of.

Download
https://www.mediafire.com/file/sstqplqkhezoz0u/pokemonSamsara_v1_1.zip/file

Spoiler: Screen Shots

Spoiler: Resource pack

Pokemon Samsara Resource Pack

audio created by me. sprites drawn by me (based on sprites of the original games or wholely original) for my eeveeexpo jam#10 entry. Cramorant: Sprite base by wolfgang62 on deviantart recoloured by me the colour palette is by Gabriel C. on lospec

eeveeexpo.com

Spoiler: Credits

Art:
Cramorant: Sprite base by wolfgang62 on deviantart recolored by me
The Pokemon Company
Fantasy 24 Palette Created by Gabriel C.
Cosmic Hierophant

The Rest:
Cosmic Hierophant

 

[ranko]

Holy crap this game looks SUPER cool!! I'm currently checking it out!

 

[Tomix9tomix]

Very cool game, I enjoyed giving it a shot!
Some thoughts

Spoiler

I don't have too much to say but massive respect for not only making an original game that plays different than pokemon, but also making an original game that plays differently than any other game I've seen! It was like a cool combination of Suika game and Space Invaders and maybe something else? Super creative and super cool.

The thing that really stood out to me the most, by far, was the art. ITS SO COOL AND UNIQUE AND AAAAAAA. super well done, loved the art

and two more little thumbs up, one for including so many fun ways to customize the game settings, and one for funny jirachi

Nice little arcade game! My highscore was 19,000 karma, try to beat it!

 

[ranko]

The art style and animations are extremely well done! I really liked the game, but was kind sad that the difficulty skyrocketed eventually to where I couldn't plop other Pokemon down. I wish I could've seen some of the game mechanics get fleshed out a little more, the skeleton of the game is excellent and fun.

I had some frustrations with turning the Pokemon around to place stuff I needed, and then moving or placing stuff 1 tile too far or back, I think I way to force a turn without moving (like hold SHIFT or something) would be a great idea.