My take on the theme 'beneath the surface' was to harvest a resource that's sparsely distributed underground, and for that to be the basis of an economy.
I chose pigs foraging for truffles, because I thought it would be hilarious seeing an army of pigs strip mining the land!
Alas I didn't manage to write all of the features I wanted in the game in 48hrs, so the following things were left out:
- Minimap does not function.
- No fog-of-war / visibility mask.
- No base construction nor repairs to damaged buildings.
- The range of sound effects is limited, and sadly I didn't have time to add unit responses "yes m'lord?" etc, which I really wanted to :(
- No pathfinding about the environment, which meant no collision detection with the environment either, otherwise the CPU player would get stuck.
- The AI for the CPU player is too simple and easy to defeat.
Controls
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- Mouse, and Keyboard for the camera
Things to note
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- Diverse array of animated units to play with.
- Move/Attack orders can be directly targeted at other units, or targeted at world points. Auto-attack behaviour for idle units.
- Buildings allow purchase of units, upgrades to unit stats, and unlockable spells.
- Combat system sees weapon damage reduced by armor. Reload timers for weapons. A simple particle system shows projectiles, impacts, and unit death. Screen shake is added for cannon fire.
- I spent about 20 minutes at the end trying to balance the game better, and arranging the buildings more logically.
This game looks really interesting, but it's really unbalanced. There is no way to survive the first 5 minutes. Also, it's not really linked to the theme, the only thing underground is the pigs' nose.
Thanks for the feedback :) Tititesouris: I disagree that the game is so imbalanced. It is fast paced though, so you can't hang about! cageinabird: Unfortunately not all of the hotkeys were added.
The first games are frustrating, but once you understand the enemy AI the game is nice (a little bit too easy ?). I really liked the speed of the game, you can't spare a minute. Congrats !
Loved the music, and there is an impressive amount of stuff to do, but the game itself dumped you into the action way too fast without any explanation. A gentler, event based ramp would definitely be better. Tutorialize! :)
If I might say so, you're over-leveled for this compo. Please go code elsewhere. This is a place for beginners and dabblers, not ... code-wizards like you!
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matthias_zarzecki1 May 2014, 09:52
Oh my god this is amazing. An entire rts, classic-warcraft-style. The level of detail in this is amazing.
Plus all the nice creatures and enemy AI and there's a sorceress! :D
Excellent work. Seriously, this gets 5 stars in a lot of categories :)
I had a very hard time playing this game. I think it should be a bit slower, giving a chance to the player to actually learn what it's all about. Still fun, but hard!
Nice one! Classic rts feel, but strange choice of control scheme - the need to switch to keyboard to move the camera is frustrating. Overall fun to play!
This was really great! I'm amazed you managed to make a Warcraft clone in 48 hours. It's missing several important features of course, but it's still quite impressive. Also, that music was awesome! I played it twice, and beat it the second time. For anyone having difficulty, the key is to make enough gatherers in the beginning to get your economy going early enough. There were a few quality of life features that would have been nice to have, mainly a better interface, and some things could have been sacrificed in order to have time to add that (for example I never made siege units, they weren't really necessary). But overall, this was really well done, nice work!
Sadly lacking in witty selection one-liners. "Poink me in the right direction!" Cough.
Neat idea with the truffles as a resource, but unless the tiles "respawned" after a while, it would lead to obvious strategic issues. Good enough for the blitz warfare we've got here, though.
Overall fun, fast-paced and challenging. As is, almost feels like a puzzle: "Find the holes in the AI's behaviour!"
Surprisingly complete and well executed given the scope of the game. The enemy AI could be a little less aggressive, as I found myself overwhelmed early in my first two attempts while I was still trying to figure out how to play. It is difficult to manage units without control groups, so I usually end up making a large patrol for defense and sending out smaller raiding parties. Still, in spite of any issues, this is a great casual RTS.
Nice game! cool graphics and music! I actually did suck playing but it was fun! Good job! Too bad you get disqualified due to not providing sourcecode.
That was probably the best game I've played this LD, well worth firing up Windows for! Only the mouse pointer was a bit sluggish, though that might be due to me running it in a VM. Everything, the graphics, the music, the animations, it was perfect - and all that as a compo entry!!!
Very ambitious goal, and a nice job at achieving that. Definitely needed some kind of communication of what you were supposed to do at first. It also seemed way too hard to me, but I think that mostly came down to me not really understanding how the pigs worked.
Because of the youtube video, I tried out the game...
Um, it is by no stretch of the imagination easy. Who thought the game was easy? It is just about impossible. :O
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sorceress22 May 2014, 21:29
Harvest as close to the market hall as possible. Get about 13 pigs asap. Then buy 5 archers. Then send them to fight! Don't let units die. Always remove injured to safety and let them heal. Buy replacements. Mix it up with other units to see how they work in combination.
I get "Error 403 It seems you don't belong here! You should probably sign in."