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Valley of Trolls

By johannesl

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness354
Fun3253.34
Innovation3983.34
Overall4593.28
Theme5103.63
Mood5412.95
Audio6122.60
Humor6212.40
Graphics7502.77

Comments

2014-12-08 07:06

this is actually a pretty good game. i had to play against myself though because no one else was online

johannesl 2014-12-08 12:38

Thanks! Try to bring one or two friends and try it out again.. Had some great fun last night heads up against my friend Björn.. :-)

kalugny 2014-12-09 18:25

Very nice. You can make this an asynchronous game and solve some of the troubles of finding playmates.

lantto 2014-12-09 18:31

Confusing at first but as soon as I got the hang of it I was hooked and played several games. It's a simple concept but you still need some solid strategy to win. The feeling of mustering troops for a mission is great and after a while the logistics just come natural. The time limit is a great touch on something that would otherwise probably feel stale and slow (like waiting for each other to make a move). I also like that you move at the same time and not every other turn. It makes it very intense.

Nice graphics and pretty fitting audio as well (although the sound when losing a village is a bit loud). It's also very ambitious to make a multiplayer game and I'm impressed that you pulled it off. A couple of matched had 3 and even 4 players!

I would love to see this become a fully featured game with a lobby, ranking and ladder etc. It reminds me of KDice (a multiplayer version of Dice Wars) but without the crazy randomness. You can't blame it on the RNG if you lose in Valley of Trolls.

bushmango3 2014-12-10 03:05

My son and I played this for a long time and really enjoyed it!

equipejam 2014-12-10 19:54

pretty good game!

gene-z 2014-12-11 20:57

Very nice, congratulations

ruthiepee 2014-12-13 02:22

Great game! At first I couldn't tell which color I was, but I figured it out eventually. I'm super impressed you managed to make a fun, well-balanced multiplayer game for the compo! Now, if only I could win... :)

pvtroswold 2014-12-13 02:33

This is really innovative! Multiplayer was unexpected but really fun!

dkilford 2014-12-13 02:36

I wasn't able to play this game, no input seemed to be working. The concept looked cool though. Running on Firefox 34.0.5

rono 2014-12-13 02:41

Seemed ok, but sound was sometimes too loud, also the game behaved some sort of randomly sometimes.

johannesl 2014-12-13 02:45

Chrome or Safari is recommended.. I will try to make a firefox later this weekend, havn't tried it at all in firefox yet.. And huh, making this working before the deadline was sure a lot of intense§ work :-)

d3garcia 2014-12-13 02:55

reminds me to a mushroom game for the iPad. Excellent Idea, I would suggest you could start with more soldiers or less blank soldiers.

esaucm98 2014-12-13 03:58

Now i figured out how to play :) multiplayer games are nice! good job :D

ethanwebster 2014-12-13 19:32

Good game, well done :)

cmweiss 2014-12-13 20:12

Very nice game! The networked play was a surprising addition, though I wish there was local play as well (course that would be hard to do without letting the other player see the values on the villages).

valeour 2014-12-13 21:27

Felt a bit like The Kingdom of Loathing meets Eufloria. I kept losing, but it was enjoyable!

hbocao 2014-12-14 12:48

While playing I remembered of Mushroom Wars, which is a good thing. Good job, man!

klianc09 2014-12-14 15:33

Fun game, the idea with the sound indicating the end of each turn is cool and great that you got network multiplayer working. The trolls confused me at first, they tend to populate the whole map after a while.
Somehow I always lose, just because I keep sacrificing my whole army to the mountain gods.

gameproducer 2014-12-28 22:03

Nobody joined so... couldn't rate.