Hilda's Familiars
Welcome to Hilda's Familiars! 🧙♀️ Manage your stock of magical familiars and satisfy the requests of your customers. Every request you complete increases the shop rating, which unlocks rarer familiars. There are 30 familiars to discover, each with their own attributes. Can you get a 5 star rating? ✨
Controls
| Action | Control scheme 1 | Control scheme 2 |
| Move | Arrow keys | WASD |
| Inspect familiars/talk to customers | Z | J |
| Pick up/put down familiars | X | K |
How to play
Talk to customers at the counter to find out what they want.
Inspect your familiars to find one that matches the request.
Pick up the familiar and put it down in front of the customer to trade it.
If you offer a customer the wrong familiar 3 times, they'll leave.
Originally created for GBJAM 12, with the theme "spooky." This is the post-jam version with some small improvements.
- rose11 did design, coding, and art.
- celia14 did design and coding.
- Font is m3x6 by Daniel Linssen.
- Music is Yellow Goof by Trinity Paradox
Development log
- Hilda's Familiars Post-Jam Update43 days ago
- Hilda's Familiars - GBJam Devlog75 days ago
Comments
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Very cute! And, as always with your games, a fun time!
While I didn't see it initially that eventually a customer would leave, I did admittedly enjoy attempting to fulfill enough requests to try and get a matching familiar for someone before they left. Ended up playing a little off camera too because of the fun variety of familiars you came up with! Very fun little game!Cute game! Great descriptions!
Is it possible to always complete at least one available request with the 5 options available each time? Seems no, because after this, I got all Magical requests but only Mundane options:
I had a requests of "Cute and Stands Out", "Magical and Cute" and "Blends in, With Hands" and had Frog, Homunculus, Mandrake, Mouse, and Snake.
I ended up giving "Cute and Stands Out" too many bad choices and he got swapped out for "Water and Magical".
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Jack-o-lantern's name is too long.
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Stopping here. Got all 5 stars, not gonna try and keep looping customers to try and get what looks like Doll and Golem when my first customers with them aren't working out.
Are 2 Familiar Customers only at the 3 star level or is that just random chance?
Thank you so much for playing and commenting!
Indeed, it's possible to get stuck and need to send someone packing. Each customer is supposed to make a solvable request, but we have a bug where multiple customers might want the same familiar, leading to a chain of stuck customers. It's on the post-jam improvement list!
There's always a random chance of a customer having two familiars to trade, it's not related to level.
Thanks for the timely answer! May the jam go well!