sayurinyooko 2025-04-08 11:21
Nice game, I liked it!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊
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Nice game, I liked it!
I like the word-based Age of War game style! Unfortunately I ran into a number of bugs with certain units acting invulnerable, units stopping to attack invisible units or simply stopping permanently, units simply passing right by other units, and words overlapping in the book stage making them impossible to read. In the end I was able to get the enemy down to three hearts but had to leave with all three lanes locked up, which I will still consider a win.
EDIT: whoops thought this was an LD57 game, not sure why it showed up in the list.
cool game for upgrade your writting skill
The game definitely needs a tutorial or some in game instructions explaining how it works. My first attempt to play was very confusing and I thought it was just broken. Pressing enter on the book screen did nothing, and then the fight started but nothing happened for like a minute until a little spider creature moved across the screen at the end which resulted in...nothing. I think most people are going to have that kind of experience when they first play your game if you don't explicitly tell them what they have to do.
When I realized I had to type out the spells it started to make sense, but clicking to spawn a creature takes a few seconds for anything to happen, and watching your creature cross into the enemy territory but NOT visually do any damage just made the whole thing feel really unresponsive and unsatisfying.
It's a cool idea, but without more feedback for the player it just feels too undercooked.
Aaaaand I just realized that the ludum dare page glitched out and showed me games from LD 55 instead of LD 59 lmao. So if you're confused as to why your 2 year old jam game got a review, thats why.
I was also brought here by a glitch in LD59. But while I am here -- really cool concept! Have you ended up going further with it?