Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Node Colony
By gmaanicus
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1909 | 3.18 | 26 | |
| Fun | 1794 | 3.04 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 537 | 3.64 | 26 | |
| Theme | 2377 | 2.77 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 1917 | 3.02 | 26 | |
| Audio | 1444 | 2.66 | 23 | |
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 1408 | 3.29 | 24 |
The graphics are obviously not the focus of this game, as all I really see are icons and lines. The color scheme is appropriate. Unfortunately, the game is a little deeper than my little mind can understand, so I didn't seem to get very far... (or maybe I did) I don't know. At least you were able to finish a game and get your entry in on time. I wish you the best and look forward to your next game.
@almighty-games Thanks for playing! It seemed like there were some concepts that I wasn't able to communicate with a lack of a tutorial. Some seemed to pick it up right away, probably because they were familiar with the mechanics and games somewhat like it, but I understand that others would be extremely confused, especially those that do not play many RTS games. There are some concepts in that genre that are really difficult to communicate without a proper tutorial.
Again, I appreciate you trying, and thanks for leaving a review. :smile:
Definitely tense, You should add some group movement so you don't have to move every unit individually. I don't know what marauders do if anything, they never seem to fire. You should also give some feedback when the player tries to build with a station that has more then one node.
@wolfier Hey, thanks for playing! The Marauder is a bit stronger in both health and damage, but also takes longer to fire. If they never did, that's probably because of the semi-buggy attack system. Enemies will sometimes spam attacks, therefore killing your units before they had a chance to fire. That shouldn't happen, and I will continue to look for the root cause.
Definitely on my TODO list. Thanks for the feedback!
This idea is really interesting. This is one of the games I'd like to see to get continued after the jam ends.
I agree. Interesting idea. I think I had some issue when I played (no enemies appeared), but concept is robust.
@perpetuummobile @robotsandmuffins
Thanks! I definitely will be continuing this. I had planned on so much more that just didn't make it in time! :cry:
Apologies for the enemy movement bug (which is why you didn't see them). Things are a bit complicated on my end, and I'm trying to find the root cause of the issue.
Really cool idea! Amazing how far you got it! Thanks for bringing it by the stream!
Cool idea! I can see this easily being fleshed out into more of a Creeper World type game. I think I encountered a bug where I took over an enemy node but I didn't get it and it kept spawning enemies even though it was part of my network. Also, just some little text pop ups explaining what each unit does would go a long way to decreasing the entry difficulty. Otherwise, great work!
@erebus @rhoka Thanks so much for playing! Taking a look, Creeper World seems to be somewhat similar to what I would like to turn this game into.
Thanks for pointing out the bug! I'll put out a patch very shortly here with a few other fixes as well.
This is a really cool idea. It was a bit tough at first, but the tutorial you posted here definitely helped. This would be a great game to see p post-LD for
Good job making a RTS game, It took a bit of experimentation to figure out though. Once I felt things out it was fun!
Nice entry!
@artur-hawkwing @no-grapes-games Thanks so much for checking it out!
Yeah! In hindsight, going for an RTS game is a *lot* more complicated than I thought. I'm glad you guys enjoyed what I was able to build before time ran out!
I'll definitely be fleshing this out a lot more, and I may even make a Steam release if I can give it enough content.
@gmaanicus Awesome, it would be cool to see this on Steam :)
The game was really confusing at first and I probably don't fully understand its mechanics even now. The nodes that can produce units seemed to be very rare, so it was hard to send units in time for enemy attack. Also selecting multiple units at once would be a nice addition. But good job on making an RTS for a game jam! It was probably really hard, and the result for a 72 hour game is very impressive! Are you going to continue development of this game post LD? I can see it becoming a really good game with some more work done on it.
@lamossus Thanks for playing! Yeah, the "map" is randomly generated. Sometimes those nodes can be rather sparse.
Thanks for the suggestion. That'll definitely make it in the post-LD version. I plan on working on this over the next while, or however long it takes to get it where I want it. I'd hope to make it good enough for a proper release by the end of May. We'll see!
I liked the concept and the style of graphics was simple but effective and it didn't feel too static. Colours fit well and I appreciate that you probably didn't get time to finish everything you wanted to, like a tutorial, but it did seem quite confusing to play at first so maybe just adding a more despcriptive and in depth set of instructions in the description would be nice! Good job!
Hello! Your game was played during my stream!
If you want to know the timestamp of when your game was played you can see it in this spreadsheet: https://tinyurl.com/yau8hjzn
And then look in my latest videos and find your game being play (after the current stream ends) https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos
Thanks @teto @ursagames!
An interesting concept , I wasn't good enough to get some units. If you develop beyond the compo, I'd say throw in some units initially, and maybe beef up the size of the icons on the nodes.