I like the overall idea very much. Although I often missed feedback. For example, I didn't realise when they eat. ( I fed them with apples, but the floor was just full with apples not eaten). Or if they killed someone? Or which Trolls were mine. ButI liked the Troll designs very much, not so typical!
@ratking: They do throw some apple cores / bones after eating, but it doesn't happen right away, and there is no other animation, so not very good feedback.
And I absolutely agree about your own trolls being too hard to spot. There is a faint blue aura on them, and they generate mana stars, but it's not easy enough to connect to individual trolls. We were thinking of making a post-compo version with various improvements, one being having distinctive hats for your own trolls ;)
@Gidaio: Point taken, tooltips and an intro screen outlining the objective at the start might be other good improvement ideas.
We also want to add a bit more of a level/wave progression, now it's maybe a bit too sandboxy and not challenging enough once you manage to grow your tribe a bit.
Interesting, but very hard to tell what is really going on. I just ended up killing all the other trolls, and won like that. Graphics and sound effects are very nice.
I like the idea of a kind of 'pocket Black & White', as well as the thoughts from your trolls when you watched them (reminded me of the punters in Theme Park a bit). It ran very fast on my HTC One X though and was all a bit bewildering with trolls flying everywhere. I think it would be much more enjoyable if it was slightly slower paced and identifying your own trolls was easier. Once the basic gameplay was down, it would be good to see this developed further (e.g. with missions or simple resource management).
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Although I often missed feedback. For example, I didn't realise when they eat. ( I fed them with apples, but the floor was just full with apples not eaten). Or if they killed someone? Or which Trolls were mine.
ButI liked the Troll designs very much, not so typical!
@ratking:
They do throw some apple cores / bones after eating, but it doesn't happen right away, and there is no other animation, so not very good feedback.
And I absolutely agree about your own trolls being too hard to spot. There is a faint blue aura on them, and they generate mana stars, but it's not easy enough to connect to individual trolls. We were thinking of making a post-compo version with various improvements, one being having distinctive hats for your own trolls ;)
@Gidaio:
Point taken, tooltips and an intro screen outlining the objective at the start might be other good improvement ideas.
We also want to add a bit more of a level/wave progression, now it's maybe a bit too sandboxy and not challenging enough once you manage to grow your tribe a bit.
I played it on my Nexus 7 tablet, and found that performance degrades rapidly. Not sure if it's an issue on the other platforms or not.