Dungeoneer

by dearon
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.08
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.88
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★48%
Made in roughly 48 hours thanks to prior commitments by Dearon and Skas (with major props to Skas for doing the art)

Comments17

Kane18 Dec 2013, 21:07
Funny little dungeon crawler, maybe a bit hard (or i was unlucky), the possibility to run from a fight may be a plus!
Nelien
Nelien18 Dec 2013, 21:13
A bit too hard for me, kept dying all the time. The probes were a nice touch but I wonder if a space exploration game wouldn't
Blooperly
Blooperly18 Dec 2013, 21:19
Good idea. A little basic though :)
udo
udo18 Dec 2013, 21:19
Very minimal, yet the fights can get pretty interesting. I love dungeon-explory stuff and I enjoyed playing this :)
van noctar18 Dec 2013, 21:20
I don't understand the rules, but the game is cool.
ACE18 Dec 2013, 21:32
i loved the challenge i got better the more i played, prob move to chest fight easy enamy and use heal up just before you kill the last one as you get a potion each time loved it
pkenney
pkenney18 Dec 2013, 21:32
For the first six or seven games my best score was 4.

But I kind of got the hang of it, plus got a little luck, and together I got a score of 24!

I also found a monster that wasn't the wizard, one time. He was enormous and destroyed me, of course.
Dir3kt
Dir3kt18 Dec 2013, 21:42
Quite fun minimalist dungeon crawler.
Denis Chakarov18 Dec 2013, 21:45
Very nice little dungeon crawler! From game design's point of view, you've managed to find the core of the genre! Well done!

Btw you have some numbers (dices I guess?) being dumped in the console :) probably a leftover from the development.

Easel.js? We've used it last time at LD27, but now I've switched to Phaser (http://phaser.io) Give it a try, you'd like it!
sprawl18 Dec 2013, 21:47
Finally Won with a score of 1 !
Great game, addictive. It could use a lot of balancing but I'm sure that's due to time constraint. Good job!
miwuc
miwuc18 Dec 2013, 21:50
I really enjoyed this game once I got the hang of it (ALWAYS USE PROBES), but it's frustrating how much you have to rely on luck (NO MORE PROBES? WELL TOO BAD, YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD).
Fritzendugan
Fritzendugan18 Dec 2013, 21:51
Overall, pretty fun. There are several areas you could've improved which would've made for a much better game overall.

Balance. 10HP doesn't give me much, but it gives me way more than 10 atk, which doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't help me kill things faster, it doesn't help me stay alive. I'd need at least, what, 20 or 30 more atk before it makes a difference? And since the rounds don't last very long, this never happens.

I think probes should give you a little more view of the surrounding rooms, or you should start with more probes.

You should have multiple floors, exiting once and then it's over meant I never wanted to exit.

Maybe a "ball of smoke" object that lets you exit a room without killing things. Alternatively, you could just make the probe do this.

Might I suggest using left/right to select enemies since you can't exit a room until they're all dead anyway?

Other than that, sound was effective, music would've been nice. Graphics were good.

Overall nice iteration on common mechanics. There were just a few things holding you back from a really fun game.
Rothens
Rothens18 Dec 2013, 21:52
I loved this entry! The retro-feeling is awesome. I managed to find the exit after the 20th try :D
robhor
robhor18 Dec 2013, 23:21
Got a bit addicted to it. Scored 72!
Skas19 Dec 2013, 08:30
Wow, Thanks for the feed back guys. Really glad to find people enjoyed it. :)
Lacutis21 Dec 2013, 20:53
Interesting game. To me it was really hard. Highest score I got was a 3. Good entry though.
foumart5 Jan 2014, 23:30
This game is very well thought. Once you understand that you get both items on battle win it becomes really interesting. I won with 83 points but without potion and with 70x180HP/DMG165 - considered risky to hunt further - the elemental dies, but vs 5-6 gremlins is tough. Really addicting *5!
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