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Fog of War

By jcurrie33

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation933.00
Overall1002.95
Fun1012.82
Theme1033.14
Audio1072.50
Graphics1252.77
Humor1491.93
Coolness1811
Community2091.56

Comments

elegwa 2010-12-20 04:30

Awesome game, totally going to bookmark it! Its addicting even though I keep losing >_<

increpare 2010-12-20 22:45

It feels a bit unresponsive? Might be the fixed turn rate -

zillix 2010-12-21 20:15

Well made, and pretty fun. It feels a little too random though- sometimes monsters start right next to me and I can't do anything about it!

stevejohnson 2010-12-22 00:40

I can't stand the music and the monster movement is maddening when it keeps going between a gold square and an adjacent square so I can't click the gold. And it keeps disappearing my already explored squares. Rawr.

ranklar 2010-12-22 05:44

I think you need checks in so monsters can't start right next to your castle. Otherwise it seems good, and I enjoyed it, nice game.

endurion 2010-12-22 08:21

Hmm.. A good mechanic, nice and simple game.
However it's too dependent on luck. Sometimes you just can't get to gold because the monsters keep moving back and forth between two tiles. Other than that it's quite fun.

devinmoore 2010-12-22 19:41

It's not bad, but it is confusing how you are supposed to actually defend other than clicking the squares to force the mosters to re-hide them. I do really like the game mechanic of the monsters being able to re-hide squares, that's definitely unexpected.

meep 2010-12-23 23:11

It's an interesting game, but I think the instructions could be clearer.

fireslash 2010-12-25 04:15

AI is a bit annoying. I got in a stalemate with one monster over 30 some turns before I gave up and just let him roam about. Maybe there's a way to kill monsters that I'm not aware of, but I couldn't take the mine because he kept hopping back and forth over it whenever I tried to click near. Then I let him hop somewhere else and he got to the castle. Also sometimes I noticed I could click multiple times before a monster's turn came about. Not sure if thats intentional or not.

Bugs aside, still pretty fun. Would be interesting to see the idea expanded a bit.

acodegerm 2011-01-02 05:59

Really neat unique concept.

Echoing the too random sentiments. Dominant strategy seems to be, reveal enough to harvest 4 trees, build fences around castle, hope monsters randomly wander off, grab gold.

Good stuff!

ryan 2011-01-09 02:25

Addicting game! It feels like there must be some pattern to how the monsters move, but I don't know it well enough to manipulate it to my advantage.