A weird game about a mage and his aways-evolving-race of minions. This jam I tried to do something different, the game got a little weird and confusing, it's more of an experiment than a game but I think it's playable.
Use WASD or the arrow keys to move around and SPACE to rally/disband your minions. They can reproduce a lot and that causes a mutation on their attributes, creating a natural selection of your minions.Some have special powers, like flying (or having loads of HP)
The game objective is to carry the purple crystals (one by one) to the altar.
Still a lot of unexpected behaviors my happen in the game, and the game is very easy. I plan to polish it a little during the week!
Love the graphics, love the movement of the minions and the mechanic is good too. Got a similar feel to a tower defence game but without all that waiting around nonsense.
I'd maybe like to have something where different traits are better against certain enemies and a way to select who rallies to you if you do develop it further (maybe with groups you make though so you can keep the random ability splicing) -- get tweeting links to this after you've had your extra week on it!
This is a great one! Only thing I wish is that there was more of it :P I think an unlimited mode would work nice in this, if you end up developing more.
Great game, it was fun and the minion behaviour was very well done, it's impressive you made it in 48 hours. I like the idea of a tower defense-like game where you need to quickly leave your base to look for resources.
I think this could become a really popular game if you worked a little bit more on it - some things weren't properly explained, such as how the evolution and breeding works exactly, and that the red color means low HP (the first time I played, I thought that maybe it was an EXP indicator of some sort)
You could use a few "loading screen tips" during stage transitions to present this kind of information to the players, for example.
Also, sometimes I wanted minions that were low on HP to eat flowers instead of fighting, but they fought instead.
this is amazingly fun - wow, you're going to get some really high ratings, and you earned them the only bad thing I could say is that it's a bit too easy and the AI has some (minor) flaws to flatten out (but which AI doesn't)
Doesn't feel complete yet, but there's definitely a core mechanic that's playable. With a bit more player decision (how they upgrade), and more balanced levels, this could be quite fun.
The graphics and sound come together really well, and this has potential to be a really awesome game once the gameplay is balanced out and polished a bit more. Already though it is really cool, I am looking forward to the more fleshed out version :D
There is something missing from the game... some kind of mechanic involving the creatures. Maybe a sentry mode? I don't know, but I think you're close to something real good.
Cute game. At first I had trouble figuring out strategies for some of the later levels, but eventually I found that just leaving a bunch of minions near your base will work most of the time. I was surprised at how many different types of minion evolutions there were.
This has the shape of a fun game, and now it just needs more Guts! Fill the game with Guts and make the creatures evolve based on other player pickups? Or only reproduce when following the player? Or with a crystal? I think then, the agency of Choice would be more apparent.
Love the graphics, particularly the swelling altar. Sound is chirpy and functional. Enjoyed exploring with my swarm of minions.
Cheers :D