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Board to Death

By landosystems, Doug Graham, bainerd, brossman, Jeffrey Hwang, matso and Pete Valeo

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2463.8735
Fun2943.7735
Innovation1233.9333
Theme2684.0635
Graphics5273.8035
Audio2243.7931
Humor2253.6834
Mood4133.7534

Comments

richard-ortiz 2024-04-16 02:28

Great game, love the chess like combat.

adam-konig 2024-04-16 02:47

Very fun and interesting mechanic to summon multiple of your chess pieces. Felt a little slow, but overall had a good time and played to credits. Nice work!

wumbomancer 2024-04-16 02:49

Wow, a lot of stuff here! Great take on the classic "summon mobs in a line" game. Mechanics were well implemented, the story matched the art style really well. Overall awesome game!

katelyn-trout 2024-04-16 02:51

wow i feel like i know how to chess now?! also loved the scrapped ideas. Woe vs Raid???? Iconic

kilthorne 2024-04-16 03:18

Once you figure out how the movement works it gets much more engaging. Reminds me of the board game 'Duke'.

doonutsaur 2024-04-16 16:43

very nice and polished. good job! It would be easier if the movement shows when I hover over the characters.

dzejpi 2024-04-16 17:27

Wow, that's a lot of content. It always is a huge difference between Compo and Jam games. :) That's pretty impressive that this is your 30th game, and it shows. I like the mechanics (and I don't usually enjoy turn-based games!), take on the theme and those effects; it looks great! And another impressive thing is that it's written in Java, you don't see that much nowadays. I would also prefer if it was a little bit faster, but otherwise this is really impressive and well made entry!

anaastaska 2024-04-16 20:21

woow, it is great game. A huge amount of content and really interesting gameplay.

lelek-hunor-kadosa 2024-04-17 22:32

A very good game. I love how it looks and feels to play

trevor-lentz 2024-04-17 23:43

The polish on this is jam is wild. From the intro page turns, transitioning the screen into the game, the characters jumping, killing, or being summoned. Impressive. The music and sounds fit quite well, with solid song loop length that never got annoying. Gameplay of the turn based system is fleshed out with care.

The tone and visuals of this game really reminded me of Unepic. Great work. :)

meepster 2024-04-18 06:04

This is a really awesome submission!

While it was very simple to understand how to play, it is clear that the is a lot of mastery and strategies that can be learned.

The art style and sound design for this game is also very charming!

Great job!

denismarasan 2024-04-18 07:30

Fun narrative, solid core. Rock on!

snory 2024-04-18 16:40

Wow, originally I was about to create some turn based myself, but I thought it is impossible to come up with something, but you proved me wrong! It is a bit slow so I did not managed to finish the game, but I liked the take on chess, the music matching the art and the humor (are you really a go player?).

Thank you for your submission.

joshua-miller-pio 2024-04-18 16:58

Despite the name of the game, i was not bored at all. Loved it!

mekyi 2024-04-18 17:58

What a great experience playing this was! Really liked the idea and polished it feels.

angelalb 2024-04-18 20:08

I spent way too long at this. I may be very bad at chess. Nice game, I liked how it was kind of chess-based, but it wasn't chess, not even the movements and attacks. I had fun! I also had a laugh at the list of dismissed ideas, it felt very familiar.

matthewdrake 2024-04-19 21:58

I'm not very tactical so it took me a bit of time to come up with a battle plan, but I really enjoyed how this all came together. Visuals are well polished, good humour too. Well done!

pebkac 2024-04-21 13:28

This is a very solid and creative effort! Nice job on all of the chess pieces, making their movements, costs and damages feel balanced.

erivas-soulares 2024-04-22 04:24

The game is well balanced and the time it takes to perform the movements, add some strategical depth to the game! Solid entry!

ljol3 2024-04-23 02:57

very fun! I wish I could play two player against my friends!

rewzu 2024-05-03 12:13

Neat idea, great execution and overall it feels quite polished. I can tell that you like particles. :D