This game is a submission for Ludum Dare 55. View all gamesView submission

Tonight is the lord of the manor's summoning soirée, but the manor has been infested with imps! 

As the butler(-in-training), you have to banish the imps by fighting back with your own summoned imps, so that you can combine them and banish them all at once in this imp-matching arcade puzzle game!

Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 55! Submission link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/butler-summon-the-imps


Features:

  • Spooky puzzle levels full of imps for you to banish!
  • A silly cast of hoity-toity demons!
  • Elegant music fit for any imp-summoning butler(-in-training)!


How to Play:


Aim and shoot to match three imps of a color. They will be banished with a bang, taking out any nearby imps with them! Take your time to line up the perfect shot!

  • Left/right - Aim
  • - Shoot/Confirm
  • Arrows or Mouse - Navigate menu

Powerups

Banish imps near these to unleash a useful magic spell!

Clairvoyance: Gain aiming guides for your next 5 shots.

Galeforce: Fwoosh! Pushes the level back a bit, giving you more space to work with.

Magic Bomb: Aim and shoot for a big explosion! You get 3 tosses.

Imp-B-Gone: Place an imp on top of this portal, and ALL imps matching its color will be banished at once!

Team:

  • chunderfins
  • DonutShoes
  • damifortune (HVB)
  • jummbus
  • Miragey
  • NomnomNami
  • npckc

Soundtrack available on Bandcamp!

Updated 11 days ago
Published 13 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Authorsmoonlightjammers, npckc, DonutShoes, HVB, chunderfins, NomnomNami, Miragey
GenrePuzzle
Made withClip Studio Paint, GameMaker
TagsArcade, Cute, Funny, Ludum Dare, ludum-dare-55, Music, Narrative, Retro, Short, Spooky
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard
LinksLudum Dare, Soundtrack

Download

Download
butlersummontheimps_ldjam_windows.zip 45 MB

Development log

Comments

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This is freaking adorable, and I made it all the way through! I was heckin stressed a few times lol but I made it. Well done! 

got stuck at kitchen B due to bad RNG

Cuteness is justice. =3

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This was pretty fun.

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my friends got to watch me be very bad at this game and we had a blast. 11/10 

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this game is a pleasure to play.

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I love this game! It's so cute and fun to play! ^^

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Fantastic game! Clicked on it at random and wasn't expecting it to be nearly as good as it was.

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Fun Game! :>

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Really enjoying the game! However, I got a bug report: Both in the web version and the downloaded version (ran through WINE)... I'm not sure if something else triggers it, but what I did was skip all the dialogue and the tutorial, and the final cutscene for level 2 gets stuck on the first line of dialogue - and Esc doesn't let you skip. This doesn't happen in regular gameplay, as I got halfway through level 3 in a previous run, which I had to interrupt.

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hi thank you for letting us know! the new builds for html5 and windows should fix it, fingers crossed.

IT DOESN'T SAVE?!

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played thru!!!! truly marvellous design and art and music and everything!!! love the story too! this feels very polished for 72hrs! (10/10) thank you guys for making this!

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A classic puzzle game, now with more cute demons and banger soundtracks. Love it.

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Butler! Summon the Imps! Gameplay

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this is so nice

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This is really tough, I wish I could *always* see where the pieces will end up... I like the art and music, at least! The characters (I've been able to reach) are all really charming..!

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This game experience is a great analogue for my day to day life: aim for something strategic for a great payoff, only to miss by a hair and backfire at myself 🙃

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Great work! The ending is cute! If you add a 2 player mode, I'm sure tourneys will run it 😈