uberneen 2012-04-23 17:09
I really like the concept. It seems like this would probably be a great deal of fun if it had more depth.
It's like a cross between Civilizations Wars and Star Control, both great games. Good work!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD23 → Tiny War
By vdogamez
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 71 | ||
| Fun | 214 | 3.21 | ||
| Innovation | 362 | 3.09 | ||
| Overall | 364 | 3.09 | ||
| Theme | 450 | 3.00 | ||
| Mood | 543 | 2.50 | ||
| Audio | 786 | 1.07 | ||
| Humor | 793 | 1.29 | ||
| Graphics | 837 | 1.95 |
I really like the concept. It seems like this would probably be a great deal of fun if it had more depth.
It's like a cross between Civilizations Wars and Star Control, both great games. Good work!
Sweet concept, it would be awesome with graphics, sound and other elements of polish. But it's good for what it is!
Pretty cool.
I love the concept but I think I would have prefered something a bit slower and more tactical personally.
I really enjoyed the concept though I wasn't entirely sure how to tell the strength of my ships, or whether it was just the number of ships that made it to the target planet that counts.
It's good, is like a Civilization game but with orbiting planets rather than fixed cities. Very good work!!.
I had intended to make graphics for the planets at the end of this, but I ran out of time. I had a nice program that I had written that made pretty world images, but I didn't have time to implement it.
As for the ship strength, I had wanted the nearness of planets to each other to matter to justify the several hours I spent researching how to calculate an orbit accurately. I had narrowed it down to three options, either I would set a hard limit on how far ships could go from the planet they started on, I could make the ships move slowly to make long voyages prohibitive, or, as was decided on when I asked for advice, having ships deteriorate if they go farther. The way it works is just that when you send out a fleet, it has a number of ships in it. That number decreases as it flies, so if you send a fleet with 20 ships all the way from your homeworld to your opponent's, there will be very few left, but if you send them to a nearby planet with a different orbit that will take it closer to the enemy's world so you can send ships at near full strength. I didn't quite make the AI understand this completely, so it's a bit weaker than it was when I initially released it, trying to send support fleets far away if it can afford it, even if it means it will be wasting ten or twenty ships just to make another planet slightly better defended.
The simplicity of the graphics does you some favors with this concept, imo. Keeping things clean really helped me figure out what was going on.
It took me a while to get that you could click and drag across multiple planets to send troops from more than one planet at once. At that point it made a lot more sense to me as a game :). I like the concept but wish it was easier to predict what will happen when I mouse up. I've accidentally abandoned planets pretty often. That said, the simplicity of the controls is a big bonus so maybe it's a good tradeoff.
Does the game get harder as levels progress or just generate a new system each time? The challenge seems to be somewhat random, rather than progressing.
It doesn't get harder directly, but the speed of almost everything increases each time you win, which means that the ability of the AI to multitask and move immediately upon stimuli becomes more of an advantage over the player. When I first put in the AI the speed was about five or ten times what it was, and it would overwhelm the player almost immediately. So it starts to get hard after five or so total wins. The demo mode, by pressing D, lets the AI also control you, so leaving that on you can see how it progresses. I didn't have a whole lot of time to balance everything once I got everything finished.
I like this a lot. Having a great time playing it. It's fairly derivative of Galcon Fusion but I think having the orbits adds a new layer of strategy. Good work!
Really good idea. Maybe needs a little slower pace, as I felt the AI was a lot quicker than I.
Awesome game, I really like the concept.
First thing to say: I HATE THE BLUES!! (the planets not the music)
And now... ¡Hi!
A very original and straight to the point game ¿How the little planet are so hard to destroy?
Very well thought and designed game.
Congratulations!
PS.-I missed some sound effects, but the experience says that when the time is limited this "todo" is the first to fail.
This was a lot of fun, I enjoyed the game play a lot. It reminded me of Eufloria in it's game play but with it's own environment. Good job all around.
Rather simple and fun game. I do like the fact that the worlds are moving, it makes it more interesting than the classic games.
This game is so simple, yet I had a lot of fun playing it. Very nice job
I like the concept a lot. It was hard to target the planets sometimes though when you really needed to push ships out.
It was fun though. Although I don't know if it really pushes the "Tiny World" theme. They are regular size worlds, just zoomed out.
Good work though! I ended up getting to level 4 before losing.
Cool game! Reminds me of Galcon.
Neat concept! It's pretty fun.
You've mentioned that you'd like to add more graphics...in addition, maybe some UI stuff? Like a line from your planet to the mouse, that automatically snaps to a target when the pointer is close enough?
nice simple and fun game.
great Job!
Very difficult to get those last few planets, but damn I want to try. Hard to click on things that small that are moving. Nice game, though, very fun.
I gotta say, I've come back and played this game like 5 more times since I first saw it. Great work. I'd love to see it fleshed out with better controls and graphics added.
nice!
Well, the concept is not new, although the orbiting planets are really cool. It adds difficulty, which is great. Great job!
Would have liked a way to see the effect of long spaceflights reducing army strength, but really nice. Graphics are nice and simple and do the job.
Really neat. It's a lot like galcon with moving planets. Had fun playing it.
Really great concept with this one although trick to get started. Good fun.