Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Swords and Kreatures
By ausstein and Maakus_1994
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 922 | 3.02 | 44 | |
| Fun | 885 | 2.87 | 43 | |
| Innovation | 365 | 3.32 | 43 | |
| Theme | 702 | 3.15 | 43 | |
| Graphics | 1023 | 2.28 | 44 | |
| Mood | 911 | 2.81 | 43 |
Hi! Is this really your first game ever?
It's really complicated and cluncky but I'm amazed by complexity.
Also cards have a lot of white space, but important stats on them are super tiny. Almost unreadable on my screen.
It is a nice game, the musique is very cool with this kind of game. But maybe it need more interaction with only red gem because I had it a lot and not the others.
@jestemstefan Thank you for the feedback I have published a board game before, but my first digital one. Plus I have a few unfinished gems on my harddrive. I entered this game jam to finally finish my first game xD. We are both computational physicists so we know our way arround code :)
@clementine yeah the balancing still has to be worked on, we plan on giving people the ability to build their own decks in the future. Also the graphics are of course a prototype
@ausstein Next time try getting feedback from other people early! It's really helpful!
@jestemstefan Yeah thank you. This games was made from one of my board game prototypes. We also took the card design and the art from that prototype, while not spending too much thought on how it would look on a screen. We planned on implementing a zoom mechanic on a right click to make the stats more visible, but ran out of time in the end.
The concept is cool and is a fun game, although for future projects give more importance to the ratios, the stats were super tiny compared to the whole card and the game didn't fit in one screen with 1920x1080 resolution so you had to scroll down to take a card every turn which was a bit annoying.
But overall it's pretty well done. Props!
I like the concept of a card game combined with a board, I personnaly always wanted to find a good game that succesfully manage to combine the two aspects. This game is a good start, although I would have appreciated that the game would fit my screen. I had to scroll every time I wanted to do something. The tutorial is a mandatory step, but it lacks a bit of interaction with the player. This game has great potential and I encourage you to develop it.
@hestrateja @Entropy thanks for your feedback! Glad you enjoyed it! Yes we certianly did not have time to optimize things like this in the timeframe we had. We will keep updating things like this as we move forward with the project. Cheers!
Really cool game!
The one thing that bugged me was, that the colors for the units on the board area get mixed up when one unit dies.
I also thought that having life mages would give you the surplus of life generation back, I spent almost the whole game on one single life. :smile:
@jeremia Yeah the mixing up has to do with the way we implemented things. We noticed that but decided fixing it wpuld be too much of a hastle since a lot of stuff depended on that. Glad you enjoid the game, We did not do life regeneration because it would drag games longer than they have to be :)
The game system is intresting, my big problem with it is the tutorial, too much walls of text and in the end doesn't even allow to try what you learned, my advice is to try and explain while you play, so the player assimilates instantly the rules of the game!
@andreadbx Thank you for the feedback. The tutorial was done within the last 2 hours before the deadline. We will keep working on the Project and keep this in mind :)
Loved the game! Want to see more of your work! It was an interesting game mechanic!
@lemur Thank you for the kind words :)
I got a bit bored with the tutorial and headed up in a game after reading half of it, but I still picked up the mechanics on my second try, and won. The gameplay is really interesting, it was fun to play ! As said before, the canvas is way too big, and the game doesn't completely fit on my screen. Otherwise, great job !
@fluffy-kaeloky Nice to hear that you had fun :)
@fluffy-kaeloky @hestrateja @entropy I added a windows version where youcan set the resolution, hope that fixes stuff also if you have a FullHD monitor if you press the full screen button on the web gl it should work
The gameplay is interesting, but to get positive emotions i needed to play this game about 10 minutes and understand what to do. And as said before, there are some bugs with canvas and screens, but at all, good work!
At first I was skeptic, but I got caugth at playing to many creatures and I was hooked. Thanks for that game! Also thanks for the tutorial it's great you took the time to do that.
@belug23 thank you for the kind words! Thank you for playing!
@someday-not-today thank you for the feedback & for playing! We do plan on making on making a more intuative interactive tutorial as we move forward, aswell as highlighting key components during game-play.
The amount of features is impressive and it has the mechanics to make a fun, solid game. My frustration with it is that it is very complex and confusing. Along with the fact that there are few cues to what is happening, perhaps add particles and sound effects to show the player what is happening and perhaps make it more straight forward.
I know the art is done by programmer but... add a background,dude and the UI of tutorial really need improvement
@sakkia we spend the 72 hours doing nothing but eating sleeping and coding with few breaks to not go insane. In the beginning we had everithing slightly better looking with assets from the store, but we decided in the spirit of Ludum dare to do it ourself. There was really no time to work on the art much more. However for the next Ludum dare a friend who is quite talanted with arts has offered to join us, so look forward to that. Also as we said before we are planning to keep working on this, we plan on having the board in an xcom like stile with actual 3D models for creatures(from the unity asset store). So keep an eye out for that
@sockyman I think it is quite interessting that we get such mixed feedback about the complexity. Whith people saying they skip the tutorial and still figure it out and then some people just being outright confused. I think it is on us to make the game more accesible to everyone, with a huge emphesis on a better tutorial.
The sound and particle effects are a good point you are bringing up. Especially that the attacks have no feedback other than damage counters displaying. We actually had a sound libary ready loaded in the project. If there was one more day in the competition you would have had your sound effects for sure:)
I couldnt really understand what to do, but it looks like a lot of effort when in, so gj, im sure some people will love it :)
Pretty interesting game, not so good at card games, liking the level of complexity in the limited amount of time, props!
Very complex but it need work on the UI. Keep it up: there is probably a game here, but it may need a fixed scale interface and some information bigger. (played fullscreen 1920x1080)
I had no idea what was going on with this game, the tutorial was more confusing than anything else and the poor grammar and spelling mistakes combined with the bad UI made it really difficult to follow. You seemed to have made a rather complicated game here, but didn't do a great job of explaining it properly which you really really need to do. The music was nice though so that's something good.
Whoa! Really complex game for 72 hours, good job! It took me a few games to get a win against the AI, so good job on that! Was there a way to recover health?
I thought the tutorial was pretty easy to follow and the mechanics made sense. The UI is fine but more feedback would definitely be good (e.g. if you don't have the resources for a card, some kind of error beep or a message like "not enough resource!" would be really helpful). Maybe a ring around units that can still move on the current turn too.
@kromeboy Thank you for the Feedback. We had the mechanics of the game working only after two and a half days of nearly non stop coding, therefore we only had time for a bare bone UI, since we also worked on the ai after that. The problem with the information size is completly on us and something we will definetly learn from, since this was our first game ever :) We are currently working on a complete graphical overahaul of the game so keep an eye out for that after the rating is over:)
@tattomoosa Thank you a lot, No currently there is no way to recover health. Spells for that will come in future version tho :) We will keep your feedback in mind when designing the next version.
Nice! The UI is quite rough, but works. I've attempted a card game in LD before, and know exactly how challenging it is for 72 hours. Overall, well done!
The idea of the game is quite nice. I feel that the execution could be done better though, but considering the time constraints, this isn't too bad.
@veilastrum stay updated, we have news about a better executed version in the hopefullly not too far future :) We've been working a lot since LD is over
The tutorial unfortunately didn't explain how to play the game that well. I eventually figured out how to play through trial and error. Having the cards being represented by a counter made it super hard to tell who was an enemy and which card over powers the other.
My suggestions would be to increase the size of the view for the world and have placed cards as an icon on the tiles. When you click on the tile or hover over the title it should show the card occupying it as this would allow you to lose the clutter of cards on the sides of the screen making the game more manageable to players.
I admire the ambition to make something big and grand but my suggestion for future jams is to go with something simple that you think will only take a single day to make, because it'll probably turn out to be more complicated than you first think. The bonus of finishing early is that you get to polish the game and add new features whilst having a completed entry.
@littlew00d Thank you for playing and the suggestions. I am really Happy we chose something bigger, because now we started a project out of this. In the current state of the game we got rid of the counters completly, every creature now has its own 3D model and if you hover over them, all important stats will be shown. The world is in 3D and the camera can be controlled like in a RTS game. Also every piece of art has been replaced by some Assets, visually it looks amazong now. We will probably drop a Trailer in the next week or two. The gameplay is still completly the same for now, we will touch that once we got the new version in a playable state (Only some Bugfixing left for now).
Fun game, and given the time constraint I'm impressed with how thorough the tutorial was, maybe a bit text-heavy but at least it was all in-game (some of the other entries I had to keep switching back and forth between the game and the entry page to try to figure out what was going on). Nice work!
@jestemstefan @clementine @hestrateja @entropy @jeremia @lemur @andreadbx @fluffy-kaeloky @belug23 @sockyman @sakkia @kromeboy @tattomoosa @kovakomes @veilastrum @littlew00d @soundgnome
We worked a lot since LD and can announce:
The first Pre Alpha Teaser for the Post LD version is out (Full 3D world now).
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Thanks to all of you for your genuine feedback!
If you are interessted in Alpha Testing message us at QuantumSpaceGames@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjGjeeIIEE
As someone who also did a board/card game, I love your idea. There is some lag for me on the html5 version but overall a great effort. the complexity is deep but frankly I understood the whole thing after reading the tutorial. I think the new 3d version is going to be stellar. Good work look forward to what you make, join our discord and drop this game and its updates there if you want https://discord.gg/RcpwD64
The Post LD Jam teaser looks pretty sweet! I can already see the possibilities on how you can evolve this game beyond its concept in the jam!
@ausstein Congratz on continuing your game, I'm really happy that the Jam inspired you to continue.