As an evil lord, ambition for power knows no limits, and you're feeling an incredible urge to conquer all the castles in the kingdom, defeating any meddling hero in your way.
Of course, you can always count on your minions, and let them do the dirty job for you :)
Known issues ================== There is a bug with the collision detections causing the player to get stuck sometimes (more frequently on level 3), or minions to appear displaced compared to the right position.
In-game controls: ===================
* WASD keys to move the main character around. * Mouse left click to attack enemies or destroy the environment. You must be right next to the tile (no diagonals allowed).
* J Spawn a new wave of minions. There is a cooldown of 10s before you can spawn a new one (provided that all the previous minions have died). * H Toggles the minimalistic GUI: Visible (sort of), Visible with background and Hidden. * P Toggle pause on/off. * Backspace to go back to the splash screen.
Controls are pretty smooth. It's a bit too easy and too much of a clickfest. Why would I ever *not* want to spawn minions? I love the intro screen, by the way :)
It is frustrating how the character controls. It gets stuck all the dam time. I think it would also be better if you could hold the mouse button instead of repeatedly spam clicking
The title screen definitely adds to the humor. But yeah, it's a clickfest and my poor mouse doesn't approve. Also, the collision detection is a bit off (sometimes not being able to move into free tiles).
It's annoying how easy it is to get stuck, but you knew that already. It seems that it's because the space between two objects are about as big as your character (including white space)? This often seems to be the issue since you would require to go through the space almost pixel perfect.
The minions don't seem to have a great AI too, they sometimes just wander in a random direction and thus make you fight the guard and castle alone. This is noticeable in level 3. It would be nice if they tried to stay close to you, move in the direction of the caste or something in that direction.
Despite my criticism, it's still a nice game that fits the theme well. I would play it more if not for the few levels.
Click it! :D cool idea but the controls ruin it a bit. The minions also seem a bit pointless since i can destroy everything by myself (and even faster then the minions can)
Nice little game. Yeah the collision problems in level 3 were a bit PITA but I still won. Was it even possible to die here? I didn't see any health bar and was pretty easy able to kill that king. I liked the graphics and it was fun while it lasted. Good work.
The controls are difficult work with; I kinda needed three hands. Might have been better to make the spawn minions as right click so that only one hand needed to be on the keyboard. Other than that it was easy as the hero always seemed to get stuck.
I think grid movement would have helped the movement feel a lot. Perhaps some attacking/fireball animation of sorts when clicking something might look better as opposed to a little icon/sound. The idea is good though, and it fits the theme well. Good work! :)
Thank you all for the feedback, it is much appreciated and the criticism is really useful, I've learned some lessons for the next LD :D
Some (but not all, of course) of the most important problems you've mentioned can be blamed on time.
For example, the collision issues (this will haunt me for weeks). And, to be honest, I didn't think of changing the level layouts for some more sensible ones, to at least help mitigate the problems with units getting stuck.
Time's also the reason why the AI leaves a bit to be desired. I started with a simplistic approach to have something more or less functional that could be replaced easily later with pathfinding, more complex behaviours and so on, but in the end it made it to the released game.
And the low final difficulty some of you are complaining about is a combined result of the poor AI and the lack of balance time (plus not giving the player attack a cooldown to avoid clickfests).
And I agree that the control scheme can be improved. Maybe mapping attacks to a key, or spawning minions to a different mouse button could have helped. (And, thinking of different keyboard configurations, using arrows rather than WASD if there are no customizable controls).
The controls are kinda buggy, I get stuck every now and then. And there are to less tasks to accomplish. The knights are to weak. But it makes fun for a few minutes. And that is all that matters for a game. :)
A good effort. Minus points are, it lacks any kind of difficulty, and the gui to show the hp and level was kinda difficult to see. Other than these, it's a decent game overall. :)
I get the idea, but it could be better. The controls aren't very good, because it's awkward to use WASD, J and the mouse all at once, there's no reason not to bind Spawning to a closer key. I don't get why you decided to use the mouse, either. I'm afraid there isn't much gameplay at all, and it's simply not fun. On top of that, there's the issues like the character getting stuck and clicking enemies at a distance.
Not a bad idea, but keep those things in mind next time =)
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Game was okay, but kind of tedious if I'm honest.
However, the game is simple and complies with the theme.
The minions don't seem to have a great AI too, they sometimes just wander in a random direction and thus make you fight the guard and castle alone. This is noticeable in level 3. It would be nice if they tried to stay close to you, move in the direction of the caste or something in that direction.
Despite my criticism, it's still a nice game that fits the theme well. I would play it more if not for the few levels.
One clear improvement is to enhance the minions AI or to add the option to have some control over them.
The sounds of the game are very funny and it has the best title screen ever :)
Was it even possible to die here? I didn't see any health bar and was pretty easy able to kill that king.
I liked the graphics and it was fun while it lasted. Good work.
Some (but not all, of course) of the most important problems you've mentioned can be blamed on time.
For example, the collision issues (this will haunt me for weeks). And, to be honest, I didn't think of changing the level layouts for some more sensible ones, to at least help mitigate the problems with units getting stuck.
Time's also the reason why the AI leaves a bit to be desired. I started with a simplistic approach to have something more or less functional that could be replaced easily later with pathfinding, more complex behaviours and so on, but in the end it made it to the released game.
And the low final difficulty some of you are complaining about is a combined result of the poor AI and the lack of balance time (plus not giving the player attack a cooldown to avoid clickfests).
And I agree that the control scheme can be improved. Maybe mapping attacks to a key, or spawning minions to a different mouse button could have helped. (And, thinking of different keyboard configurations, using arrows rather than WASD if there are no customizable controls).
it is a little bit glitchy but what can you expect
like the minions
Not a bad idea, but keep those things in mind next time =)