Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Triflings
By squidly, RustedShell, blanketc, TheDyingSun and Praise Bob
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 227 | 3.88 | 28 | |
| Fun | 282 | 3.70 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 496 | 3.36 | 27 | |
| Theme | 255 | 4.00 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 45 | 4.55 | 28 | |
| Audio | 18 | 4.32 | 27 | |
| Humor | 335 | 3.41 | 26 | |
| Mood | 253 | 3.88 | 27 |
The artwork for this game is nothing short of stunning! Aaaand it has voice acting!! I found it hard to work out what exactly I was doing but the presentation on this alone is amazing! And yes, those are definitely little guys, right on theme too!
I really love the concept of this game. The artwork is amazing. I only wish each class had something unique about it, so it felt a little different playing the different classes.
wow the animations are so polished, watching the minions fight was awesome, and great sfx, music and voice overs. really really polished. one thing would be nice tho is a better indication of which units are selected. it was hard to tell and i felt i was constantly trying to reselect units. but overall really great!
Cristabel is the only character I could manage to win as therefore she is the best character. Loved the music and sound effects and loved to hear all the voice acting! FYI after my first win, it sounded like 3 different music tracks were playing over top of each other. Also it took me a hot minute to figure out what the heck was going on, but I had a great time once I did! Wish you could move the camera with WASD or arrow keys, but I didn't mind clicking the map either. Also, having to select my units every time I gave them a command was not ideal. Really nice job!
I have reviewed many games in many game jams, and the art work is definitely in my top 3 favorite game jam pixel art. It is 10/10! The gameplay is fun and challenging at the beginning. After a few tries you get the gist of it and becomes fun to win!
Nice! I enjoyed the polish pixel art and animations. The characters are nicely drawn and the voice is a nice addition. I wasn't very good at the game and I found it difficult to react quickly especially on mouse pad, given you need to reselect your units for every order. The combat was quite cool though and the gameplay loop was fairly easy to understand. Great job!
Cool game, you have to be quite fast at the beginning or it becomes a downward spiral. OR an upward spiral if you make it in time.
It reminded me of the game "Mushroom Wars".
I really wanted to move the Camera with WASD, Arrow Keys or by klicking and dragging rather than moving my mouse against the screen border or clicking on the map. Also I wanted my troops to stay selected, even when giving them a move order.
But those are minor complaints, I had a good experience playing this one. :)
Great game! Loved the voice lines and art.
The art is really nice, a fresh lineup of waifus!
I do wish that I didn't have to reselect my guys every time I clicked.
Like the style, like the art, animations and all, but controls feels a little unintuitive. Despite that, game's awesome!
It's a very interesting idea and style of play, and I also liked the mechanics in this game
cute art! i liked the pixel art and i enjoyed the music changing with the gameplay
I love the character design in this game, the characters are cute and unique, and the character animations are great. I really like the way the Select Character page mimics the CRT scanline background. At some times, there seems to be a bug where different BGMs are played overlappingly, which sounds a bit disharmonious. It feels a bit cumbersome to reselect the units every time you want to move them. Overall I really like this game.
Funny how I had the same experience as Wind1e above - lost the game with a couple of different characters, then finally won with Christabel 😅
I don't think I have anything to add here in the comments. The only issue I had was a lack of a way to focus on the spawn point... Then I re-read the description and I found I totally forgot about the spacebar, hahaha.
Game looks amazing --- loving the mood, art, audio, characters --- very appealing and impressive I found the gameplay kinda clunky, unintuitive --- having to re-select your characters every time you move them around isn't very handy (I played the web version from itch) --- I was hoping for an in-game tutorial tbh ^^# That being said great presentation --- love the credits right before the game starts, that works very well --- and the character select screen is really smart Keep it up, happy testing yall :-)
This is one of the few LD games with voice acting. Nicely made.
I really hate when unit selectition and move command are on the same mouse button, it's like having an FPS with: Up Arrow *move forward*, Down Arrow *move backward*, Left Arrow *turn left*, Right Arrow *turn right*, Comma *strafe left*, Period *strafe right* and Control *to shoot*. One thing that caught my attention was the R key being used to restart - it's a bit too easy to hit by accident when you're trying to use camera hotkeys. Also, due to lack of reference on the map (other than the girls), the triflings didn't feel as small and insignificant as they should be. But that said and I can't stress this enough these are just small nitpicks.
What really stood out was how well-fleshed-out this game is. The artwork, animations, music and UI are absolutely incredible. The voice acting adds a whole new layer of depth and personality to the characters. I'd love to see it developed further, with resource collection and base building, it could be a charming little RTS. **Great job on an amazing game.**
Also, playing this reminded me of an [RTS game](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/real-time-demoning) by @adamg and @anson-rutherford from LD55