- One button RTS game. - Units move by themselves. - The objective is to destroy your enemy's factories (They still don't have a health bar though). - 4 types of units with different colors. - Click on factories to change the type of unit they spawn. - Click on a unit to change to unit camera. Click on the unit again to return to the map view.
We are still going to be working on this, but the version for Ludum Dare (the link above) will still point to the Jam entry, for the latest version go to http://bitly.com/SquareWars
A little hard to get into at first since there's no explanation as to what makes each colour different and the whole battlefield is pretty chaotic, but eventually some patterns emerge and it starts to make sense. I definitely agree, would be interesting to see a version of this with more flushed out mechanics, map variety, etc.
Yes, x2l2, I just uploaded the linux version. I don't use linux so I can't give you support for it. If it asks for the data folder, please let me know, but you can find it in the link for the windows version. http://bit.ly/SquareWarsLinux
@Avrec: you are right, but we wanted to do it that way, at least when publishing it at first, to see how people would react and see if they would end up seeing the differences in the units. And see if they would come up with their own explanations.
@qdowngames: The AI for the units is pretty dumb right now, but if units were smarter the match might last much longer. It's something we're considering though. The spawn rate of red units is higher so they're good for defending.
@Infernal: yes you are right, Green guys have a very low fire rate. we are going to add some way to see how long it takes for the next shot. Like some sort of bar, or pulse or something to indicate that they're reloading. I think there may be a bug too somewhere, because one of my green guys seemed to be sitting there too not doing anything.
I spent a number of minutes playing this to figure everything out. I'm still losing most of the time though - not sure exactly how to make it such that my units defend my factories. I played this a number of times though to see if I could improve.
I think the main issue I have right now is that it's difficult to see where battle lines are drawn since the units don't behave in a predictable way - you're not quite sure exactly where red units will go for example (many of them seem to charge out into the field). I think having the units behave differently as well as having certain characteristics will make this very, very interesting.
Fully innovative and really interesting to play/watch.
I rather like these experimental little games. They're like a more complicated version of a wind up toy. It's fun to set things up and then watch them go. :)
It's very satisfying to see them fight. The visuals are quite pleasing and it's just cubes. I discovered on my own that you could click on a unit to zoom in, that was a pleasant surprise. Great job!
The audio is a bit quiet and the music stops playing in game.
ok that was awesome and I think the concept has a lot of potential. However you have to work a lot on communicating to the player what does what or why for example certain units only attack certain other units and stuff. Because I had no idea what does what but I still liked it. :) Improve that and it'll turn into a great game!
Nice game in overall, although it could use some work. Would've been helpful to know exactly what each unit does, and what beats what. Maybe the enemy has an advantage since it starts with modified factories, while the player starts with all red?
Anyways, great concept, it was thrilling to watch them fight each other (even though I lost every time) :)
I didn't feel I had much control over anything! Keep at this one though!
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Jacques_le_lezard9 May 2013, 17:50
Good idea, I liked the concept! ...but it was difficult to understand relation between units (okay you said it was on purpose but I don't like it) And maybe add some music ;)
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@qdowngames: The AI for the units is pretty dumb right now, but if units were smarter the match might last much longer. It's something we're considering though. The spawn rate of red units is higher so they're good for defending.
I think the main issue I have right now is that it's difficult to see where battle lines are drawn since the units don't behave in a predictable way - you're not quite sure exactly where red units will go for example (many of them seem to charge out into the field). I think having the units behave differently as well as having certain characteristics will make this very, very interesting.
Fully innovative and really interesting to play/watch.
It was just difficult the first time, when I didn't know the colors but after, it was all fun !
The audio is a bit quiet and the music stops playing in game.
Anyways, great concept, it was thrilling to watch them fight each other (even though I lost every time) :)