techxsoftware 2016-04-18 02:56
I like the game, but in real life getting the amount of colours for the and matching with shapes is a bit too much. may don't worry about the colours.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Ejderhalar
By arhpositive
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 75 | ||
| Innovation | 74 | 3.90 | ||
| Overall | 409 | 3.28 | ||
| Fun | 481 | 3.11 | ||
| Mood | 485 | 2.91 | ||
| Theme | 573 | 3.21 |
I like the game, but in real life getting the amount of colours for the and matching with shapes is a bit too much. may don't worry about the colours.
As a massive fan of board games I spent quite a long time going through the rules though I will admit I didn’t get out a playing board and try the game out.
I thought the game was very clever and you have obviously put a lot of thought into it. The manual was very well written with good use of images and examples.
Some of the movement mechanics I liked a lot, it seems like the kind of game that would be easy to learn if someone showed you.
(also I liked your use of the Cosmic Encounter tokens)
10/10
Wow! Haven't played it but very cool to see real board games on Ludum Dare. Will definitely try this out with my family next weekend!
Hi arhpositive,
While not able to play it yet, I've made a couple board games before, and I really like the way this has come together. It is clear from the rules that you've thought a lot about the balance of the game, which puts you above a lot of coded games given the time available. While I agree that the lack of piece removal could potentially be frustrating, there are a lot of 2 player games which handle this well (e.g. Hive), so I am confident that a stalemate could be resolved by experienced players.
I've bookmarked this to try at home :)
First board game I've seen on LD, very cool
It's not the first board game that I have seen for a LD session, but yours is really funny. Interesting concept and a good idea. I like the initiative. I would like to see a party in live. Would you do a video? I want more ++
@FenyesJ, @CryoGenesis: thanks for leaving a comment, I have returned the favor. :)
@TechXSoftware: Alternatively, you can represent two sides with white and black colors but you have to use 3 pieces each of 5 different shapes for both colors. Still, I understand that it's a lot of work to find 30 suitable tokens to play the game.
@MrDave: It is easy to learn when I taught it to my friends, but some of the movement rules were still fiddly according to them. I've learned that a rulebook is very hard to write, especially if English is not your native language. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
@JoeManaco: If you try the game, please write another comment on how it plays. Someone learning this game with the rulebook and playing a proper game would be a landmark achievement for me. :)
@hugheth: Thank you for your kind comments. I think I need to play this game a lot more before I can see if stalemates are a problem. If you can try it at home, leave another comment below. These are really precious to me.
@Geckoo1337: A video is a wonderful idea. I don't have equipment to tape a good video, but I'm thinking about using a software to simulate the game on screen and I might put up a video playing against myself in my computer. However, this is not a promise.
Everyone, thank you so much. I've played all of your games and left a comment on your game pages. I'm hoping for more comments from the people who vote my game. Currently I'm at 7 comments with 13 votes and I don't think the 6 votes who are silent have played the game either. :)
That's the first time I see a board game there. Grats on pulling that out.
I must admit that I didn't go through to actually playing it but the rules denote that you spent a lot of time into making this.
I've heard about board games for Ludum Dare, but this is the first I've seen in the 10 Ludum Dares I've done.
Sadly I do not have the "hardware" at home to play it, but I did read through your rules, and tried to explain some of the rules to the Mrs, mainly to get a better idea of it myself (Learning by explaining other people works quite well for me)
I'd love to see a video of your game being played, to really see it at work.
I am very intrigued by this concept! Good job.
It looks interesting and will be trying it out this weekend
I've now uploaded a video of the gameplay of Ejderhalar! You can find it in the Links section above!
Without reading the rules, it might be hard to understand what's going on. But you should be able to figure out if the game is something you might be interested in.
Have fun and leave a comment here if you watch the video. :)
Just seen the video but it seems really cool game.
Love board game, and I will try it and come back to rate, promised.
This comment will be in Turkish.
Şu an okuduğum kadarıyla eğlenceliye benziyor. Ekipman bulabildiğim zaman arkadaşlarımla beraber denemeyi planlıyoruz.
thanks for making the explanatio video. it would have been quite annoying to real the docs
i somehow get the feeling though that the starting playing is having an advantage
I read the rules and got really interested in trying the game. So I got all the stuff together to actually play it (found all I needed in some other board games that I have). I had to play against myself though which is probably a bad thing. I imagine figuring out the rules with someone else is much less error prone as you can correct each other all the time.
I failed horribly because I wasn't able to internalize the rules (partly because my cats where jumping my bag while I was sitting on the floor, partly because I had a sip of scotch during the gameplay and partly because there was more to remember than I thought when I read the rules for the first time. But I mainly blame my cats!).
I turned my cam on and filmed everything that I did, completely uncensored (it's just the board guys, no jumping cats seen in the vid) and uploaded it to youtube so you can watch it Arhan. In my experience watching someone failing to play your game teaches you much more than someone being super good at it.
I would like to mention that I intentionally did NOT watch your youtube video before I started recording (I still haven't, will do in a sec and will probably be enlightened and realize all the things I got wrong :D)
I hope you find this helpful and it will make up for not being able to see other LD participants play your game (I can at least see someone play mine on twitch.tv).
Going to watch your vid now and hopefully will play the game again with a friend later today. Also still have to rate it when I did that.
Here is the video: https://youtu.be/LKIGDYPYx6s :)
A boardgame on here, unique, I like it! :) Haven't tried it though so no real rating from me.. but kudos!
Everyone, thank you for your kind comments. Do return and comment again if you find the time to play the game. :)
@timtipgames: You've done an amazing thing and thanks a lot for this. In your video, the first game gets the rules about movement correct, while on the second game you do lots of mistakes. Still, this has been very insightful for me and I was able to tweak the rulebook slightly to make it v1.3 thanks to your contributions.
I just got around to playing it with another person, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. It felt like there was a lot of depth in a seemingly simple concept, which led to a fun, easy to pick up, concept. It did definitely feel like we kept trading the same blows over and over again, but it eventually worked itself out. I really enjoyed it, and I'll definitely keep my pieces around to play more. Nice job!
@NarwhalMan53 thanks! if you have any suggestions, i'd love to hear them.
It's great and much much more balanced than I expected. Really enjoyed trying the game with my friend. B)
5-6 el kadar oynadık. İlk oyunda kurallar tam oturmamıştı ama sonrasında bayağı çekişmeli/dengeli ilerledi oyun. Direkt olarak bunu test etmedik ama başlangıç oyuncusu (Kurallar pdf'indeki kare oyuncu olsun.) 4f kontrol noktasına yönelik agresif hamleler yaptığında durdurması zorlayıcı oluyor. En azından benim savunma odaklı oyun tarzım için öyle oldu. Çözüm çok basit bir şekilde savunmayı denemek yerine simetriğindeki noktaya yönelmek olabilir. Bayağı sardı gibi bizi oyun B) Tekrar geri dönüş yaparım eğer farklı birşeyler keşfedersek.
Bir de itme hamlesini yaparken diğer (Hamleye dahil olmayan.) ejderhaları duvarlar ile özdeş kabul ettik. Dikkatimden kaçmadıysa eğer, o durum özel olarak belirtilmemiş açıklamalarda. Farklı bir şey uygulanıyorsa onu da sormuş olayım.
@Mantlair (Turkish):
Çok teşekkürler yorumların için. Kurallara göre başlangıç oyuncusu, ilk turda tek bir hareket yapabiliyor. Daha sonra herkes ikişer hareket ile turlara devam ediyor. Oynadığım oyunlarda başlangıç oyuncusuna yönelik çok büyük bir avantaj hissetmedim, ama oynanış tarzınıza göre bu durum değişebilir tabii.
Senin de düşündüğün gibi, en azından en yakın üç kare için kabaca bir tehdit oluşturmak önemli çünkü rakip sizin galibiyete yakın olduğunuzu hissetmezse kendi planını daha iyi uygular hale geliyor. Her zaman bir tehdit sunarak rakibin planlarını ertelemesini sağlamak gerekiyor.
İtme esnasında diğer taşlar da duvara eşittir. Doğrudur. Öbür türlü iyice karışırdı ortalık zaten. :)
Nice game but really difficult to make it happen
First time I see a board game and I must say that it's really awesome. I'll try to gather some friends to test it. But even before that, you have all my respect. Congratulations !
Just by having made a board game already worth mentioning ! Very good your game , I liked the game concept.
Really congratulations for the idea and execution.
I will always admire this kind of entry, and mainly the idea behind those! Cool!
Not the first time I've seen a board game entered for Ludum Dare, but it's the first that's tempted me to play. My girlfriend and I sat down (with all-paper pieces and game board) and studied your rules, and after a shaky start (as with any board game), we had a lot of fun! It's surprisingly deep for a physical game created in just a weekend - I just hope that we didn't trample all over the pronunciation of the name with our English accents :P