alexrose 2012-12-18 22:17
It feels like using traps is a bit pointless, and I really wasn't sure what the brown circles were. It was mildly entertaining, regardless.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD25 → The Maze of Evil
By rawbits
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 71 | ||
| Innovation | 188 | 2.72 | ||
| Humor | 203 | 2.32 | ||
| Theme | 245 | 2.81 | ||
| Audio | 279 | 1.00 | ||
| Fun | 282 | 2.19 | ||
| Overall | 293 | 2.39 | ||
| Mood | 298 | 2.00 | ||
| Graphics | 325 | 1.53 |
It feels like using traps is a bit pointless, and I really wasn't sure what the brown circles were. It was mildly entertaining, regardless.
Thanks for playing! :) The text says that there are potions randomly spawning though. There are a moderate set of things in the game so I didn't thought this would be a problem. Proper gfx would be a solution...
The concept is interesting enough though the game could definitely benefit from better player ai and different traps/monsters to spawn with varying characteristics. The humor in the game had me chuckle a couple times though.
I like the concept. Maze/dungeon defense sort of thing. It does, however, feel sort of arbitrary. Potions appear seemingly at random, so you might set up some careful traps only to have the hero wander into a potion, for instance. I feel like there are a number of directions you could go with the concept, though, and that's a good thing.
Pretty good game, too bad the art is not more fleshed out.
I like this. I found it quite easy though just spamming the hero with monsters near the entrance so it might be worth thinking up ways to increase the challenge. Great start though!
It would have been nice to have had some sort of indication of how many potions the hero had left, but I really enjoyed the game nonetheless :D Good job!
Thank you all for playing!
TwilightFlandre: Thank you for pointing out the humor. I'm not too good in it but this game just screams for it! :) The AI is one of the many I planned as well as the traps and monsters - the latter doesn't even have an AI here.
Cambrian_Man: Thank you! Yes there is a chance for that and it will stay like that basically. Tha potions spawning randomly in your maze. This is why you have it and must defend it - the princess is in another castle. I have the different directions planned already. ;)
Gungnir: I'm happy that I could finish this in time. I was very sick in the weekend... :(
tripleVisionGames: There will be a timer on spawning enemies and building traps for start.
iandioch: That is intentional and most likely there will be other stuff the hero will have like armour. Thoes are stuff you just don't know. It gives some excitement to it and adds a twist to the tactical side. Besides that, I can't tell from people what's in there pocket just by looking at them...
Thank you again for playing and commenting! It's really helpful. I'll rate back as soon as I get to your games. :)
cool idea, but monster should be more intelligent in order to catch heroe
with some polishing can be very good game
The hero's health would just reset randomly after fights or other moments, or so it seemed. Traps also didn't do diddly except reset his health to full. Not sure how I would win this.
JacksGamesSucks: That's an I'm out of time thingie. They are just randomly wandering bats. :)
zenmumbler: Ok, we are going a little wild here for a little so bear with me. If you were a hero - let's assume that you are - the first thing you do before a quest would be what? Equipment yeah, but then the next is? Food yeah, there isn't any in this game though so what else? Potions! Yes! So there are only healing potions implemented yet and he uses them when his health goes below 50% - for now. You can not see in his pockets so you can't tell how many he has - here is a hint: 3 for now. Also you don't know about the armor he is wearing - you can get an idea of it through trial and error based observation though.
Thanks for trying!
The concept is really cool. Unfortunately it was possible to overwhelm the hero kind of quickly, by sending ~20 monsters at him (or her).
Don't get angry on people complaining about the magical health refill. To be honest, I didn't read the instructions and was wondering about the health, too. Well, someone who ever player a RPG should be able to figure out, that the hero may use potions, but some kind of visual indication (no text! maybe particle effect) would be really great.
I like the random maze-generation. Throw in some fancy graphics, a bit more actions for the player to use and this could get a really great game. For 20 hours, I consider this as good work.
StMatn: Thank you for playing! I know that people doesn't read but I'm not angry. :) There should be a lot of indicators here. Like maybe you don't know but the hero actually falling into the trap and have to climb out - giving you some extra time as well as taking damage - and that is why he is just standing there. Gfx will solve all these but maybe I'll try to use particles for indicating magic effects.
Runs well. Unfortunately it's too easy :P
Drabiter: Then I shall do something about it! :P :) THX!
Actually, pretty fun. Thoughts-
Bad:
-You explain way too much through the wall of text, expecting the player to read it. You're lucky we all have to play to rate it, otherwise your game window would be shut at the sight of it all.
-The button for buying resources should be more obvious than the green rectangle at the bottom of a bigger one.
(I also got a bug where traps stopped working, though I have no idea what caused it.)
Good:
+Very fun, from my tastes.
+The hero's A.I. and ramblings are pretty cool.
Puzzlem00n:
Thank you!
If there was decent gfx then the whole text would be 1 line after the story and if there were a short funny animation at the begining then there would be no need of any text...
That would be good if you could tell the conditions on that bug but hopefully redesigning will solve it.
I'm glad you liked the Hero's ramblings that is a cardinal feature. There was more planned but it was hard to implement the event monitoring of the AI in Processing.