csaunders 2014-12-07 20:35
It looks pretty nice and I like the icons/art.
I had a bit of a hard time understanding what I was supposed to do and the attackers moved a bit too fast for me to figure it out.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Hidden Village
By cruion
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 283 | 3.53 | ||
| Graphics | 574 | 3.07 | ||
| Overall | 817 | 2.94 | ||
| Fun | 934 | 2.63 | ||
| Coolness | 2185 | 20 |
It looks pretty nice and I like the icons/art.
I had a bit of a hard time understanding what I was supposed to do and the attackers moved a bit too fast for me to figure it out.
With a little more art around the icons and their meaning and this would be amazing. Good work! Really good :D
I had difficulties figuring your game out
Hey man, congratulations on entering!
I can't lie, it took a lot of time for me to work out what to do. Despite quite lengthy instructions they still didn't sufficiently answer the myriad of questions I had about how the game worked.
I think 'Skills' was an odd choice of word for what appeared to be something akin to 'Elements'? It wasn't until I saw your skill matrix on this page did I get the idea of what these things were about.
I think there's quite a large number of these skills! It's very hard to remember in your head what-beats-what where the only relationships you have to go on are colours and very similar symbols. Elements often work because of intuitive relationships (Fire beats water, and so on) other than color "opposites" it's very hard to keep an idea of the skill relationships in your head with so many to track.
I unfortunately gave up on trying to understand the "Attacks" I tried very hard to understand what the formulas represented and while I could see the multipliers from relationships taking effect, I had no idea how to decide what would fight against what, whether there was any random chance involved or just what was happening in general. It seems like a shame because it appears a lot of time and thought was put into this system but it is very unclear to a new player.
That all said I like the concept of procedurally making continuous interesting "yes or no" choices based on resources, risk/reward, pros/cons etc. It's a similar flow to games like FTL and some elements of Civ. I definitely think the idea has a lot of potential, the main issue is just that the game can be a bit of an informational brick wall! The ideas underneath seem like they have a lot of merit it's just very difficult to approach.
Hope that was useful / not too harsh sounding!
-S
Very interesting game and well executed. Although i was not really sure what i was doing. Maybe it would help to display the combat rules more clearly.
I am very interested by this game. I found that it was hard to conceptualize the skills and their relations to one another, due to their abstract nature.
Looks nice, but it seems really complex entry-level. A tutorial would've come in handy.
Very hard to understand what to do or not, losing inhabitants without knowing what to do to regain/prevent them to start, have no clue of what the kind of "tribes" are doing, not doing, and wich one can help me to grow my population.
A lot of effort has gone into this, really well done. A pleasure to play :D
Took me a long time to figure out what was going on. I like the planetary symbolism! Good job :)
It took playing it a second time before I started to understand what I was doing. Very little is apparent the first time you play, and I still don't fully get the Attack versus Defense strategy, although I did eventually figure out how to make successful attacks most of the time and how to keep my units up.
i couldn't get how things worked but it was fun to watch what was going on. also i liked the visuals it was pretty cool :D
Its ok, gets kinda boring soon. Not alot to mess with, all you do is just click on the guys next to the 3 campfires and either fight or trade. Thats pretty much it.
All the bad guys look like me =(
In a overall 5 stars! =)