A Few Bits Left

2018-08-14 01:19

There's a fun paradox in this one: it plays almost like turn-based time management, where the strategy involves thinking about what sequences of actions you should perform in order to solve each combat encounter you can clearly see laying ahead of you. This is so you don't have to think about them in the heat of the moment! Only being able to control one unit at a time using the mouse gives the game a "conservation of energy" requirement, where, when fighting, you need to minimize the amount of time spent selecting your units, mousing across the screen to give them a destination, dragging out special abilities, and especially decision making. That's why this is a planning game at its core. Neat combination in a complete package - fun pixel art, works well, cool music.

youkaidrawing 2018-08-14 08:19

I like game concept, but a little off theme. Good job, dude!

hare-software 2018-08-14 08:20

The game felt really balanced to me and the controls were easy to use. Very well executed, hope you expand on this idea!

jtrink 2018-08-14 09:09

Pretty awesome game if you ask me! Works well in the scope of the jam and is really promising if development is continued afterwards. Would be really cool to see some more involved RPG elements if the game is fleshed out.

Controls could do with tightening up a bit, I had some issues with giving an adventurer a move command instead of selecting the guy I was trying to select.

belser 2018-08-14 16:13

Looks good, plays good, and it seems like a pretty much complete vertical slice - nicely done!

erebus 2018-08-15 06:44

Cool concept! Thanks for bringing it by the stream!

ursagames 2018-08-16 01:41

This has a lot of good mechanics that felt rather polished! With a bit more content I wouldn't even have guessed that it was a game jam project! Had a blast playing this on stream, thanks for sharing it! Hope you keep working on it in the future

historymaker118 2018-08-16 19:41

Nice little game, cool concept, though I did have the game crash on me several times and had to keep starting over. The graphics and sound are decent, and the game is responsive to play. There's a good game in this somewhere, just a shame I couldn't properly experience it because of the bugs.

gentoogames 2018-08-16 23:55

I love the pixel art, but a lot of what the other people said, some bugs are still super prevalent

dk5000p 2018-08-17 04:46

I killed the bats and am unable to move anywhere. Maybe the game doesn't work well in Chrome. I liked the idea but as people said it is only loosely based on the theme. The Jump Attack also seemed really powerful. I bet if I could have played the whole game I would have liked it more.

vekstr 2018-08-17 09:52

I like the artstyle, and overall it is a quite nice game. But it's not really challenging; I could clear the game using only the special powers, always waiting for the cooldown befor moving forward since the enemies weren't that aggressive.

Oh and you might want to know that the game crashes if the player click on an enemy that's already being attacked.

pushxtonotdie 2018-08-17 14:54

Hey all! Thanks for the comments and critiques! I've uploaded a new build of the game that should hopefully fix the crash issues people were seeing.

saoi-games 2018-08-18 08:00

Thank you for sharing your game with me. I played it on my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream.

You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298728142

eptwalabha 2018-08-18 10:31

Hey, too bad there is only one level, your game is great! I would suggest you to nerf the Jump attack as it is a bit overpowered. Great game nonetheless.

matank 2018-08-19 08:10

Really nice pixel art, and game is pretty fun! I kind of cheated my way through the final boss - I let the boss chase one of the characters around while the other characters hit him. Seems like a bug in the boss behavior - should probably at some point start fighting with one of the other characters.

In any case, the one level was really nice, would have kept playing if there was more content :)