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My Little Terrorist

By tomc

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness362
Theme383.94
Innovation803.30
Overall1213.21
Humor1482.67
Mood1592.83
Fun1892.70
Graphics2132.90

Comments

snutt 2012-12-17 22:40

Kinda hard to get into but has a deep mechanic.

Nonakesh 2012-12-17 22:50

Is it just me, or does the recruitment not work?

tomc 2012-12-17 22:56

Recruitment has only a probability of succeeding each. Sorry that wasn't clear.

We were really quite limited on time so it's lacking a lot of polish.

digiraze 2012-12-17 23:03

Is there an end game? Where your notoriety reach a certain level?

digiraze 2012-12-17 23:04

@Nonakesh I notice the best way to recruit is to cancel the command and try again.

tomc 2012-12-17 23:29

You win when your notoriety reaches 1000. It's doable in about 5-10 minutes.

ariake81 2012-12-19 03:52

decent concept and good sprite design!

mezzomatto 2012-12-21 02:35

Just fantastic! Slightly tricky controls at parts but certainly more than impressive for LD. Really well balanced mechanics and very fun. I blew up the damn moon! I love the quirk of a terrorist cell being a factory style program. One of the best I've played this LD.

zak 2012-12-21 21:46

I didn't really see how to play for awhile. I like the idea of this though.

goulding57 2012-12-21 22:03

Loved it. Cool art style, deep mechanic. Had a good time.

maiev 2012-12-21 22:17

Got very addicting once you have a decent operation running though initially recruitment didn't yield anything for a very very long time. The pathing of the terry's really impressed me and I'm really curious how you handled that.

tomc 2012-12-21 22:22

The pathfinding is just straightforward A*. It's much less scary than it seems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

tyruspeace 2012-12-21 22:27

Surprisingly good "management sim" gameplay. Ran out of things to do rather quickly, but the last job was a pretty comical one!

Nicely done.

ceronman 2012-12-21 22:34

Very nice game! I had a lot of fun playing it. I love crafting and gathering things. Took me some time to get 1000 notoriety points!

dagamesta 2012-12-21 23:02

Nice game as far as how deep the mechanic is. A bit of a slow start, but I was able to get into it. It seems the chances for recruiting were too low, but then again I probably killed off my henchmen far too quickly. I'd say this is relatively well done all things considered.

haxpor 2012-12-22 00:17

It's some what hard to guess what's the next action we should do for example after we finished making bomb, I just found out that I have to put it back to the shelf not holding it. Another thing is that I put an excess material to produce bomp, and it has gone as well, not sure if it's by design.

It's deep, that's the reason!

cabral 2012-12-23 13:53

It's cool, but it gets kind of boring because you have to stand around for a lot of time waiting for new jobs to appear. And you have to open and close the job window all the time, since new ones don't show up while it's open and there's often at least one job that you can't take for some reason, so the shadow on the monitor becomes useless. I guess you need an "Ignore" button for the jobs.

Sometimes I was clicking my terrorists but couldn't select them, which is a bit frustrating. I think it only happens when they're moving somewhere automatically, but still.

The rules are a unclear sometimes, like whether of not opening a window will pause the rest of the game or not. It would also be nice to know how much notoriety a job will give you.

It has these little problems, but it's a nice game, I wish there wasn't so much waiting time. The graphics weren't amazing, but they did their job. Good work!

krutech 2012-12-26 16:36

Cool mechanics, took me a while to get into.

ace 2012-12-26 16:44

Pretty interesting game, took me a while to realize exactly what I needed to do but after that it seemed like there wasn't anything like an enemy in it. As long as the resources kept flowing you could basically just sit and build bombs and use them to blow stuff up, never really losing notoriety at all.

deathray 2013-01-04 07:58

Great gameplay! I stuck with it to the end.

m-gryko85 2013-01-04 12:03

Interesting and rather complex game, some emails make me laugh