Crowns

by max-cahill

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.37

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.64

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★45%

Heads up this is a board game for 2 players - I'll hopefully get to coding an AI for it at some point, but for best results play it with a friend or enemy.

The readme has a description of the cards, which you may find useful (particularly for the buffs)

$ cat readme.txt
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CROWNS
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Crowns was created in a weekend by Max "Geti" Cahill
for Ludum Dare #31, in December 2014

email: [email protected]
twitter: @1bardesign
notable: kag2d.com

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To play, run PlayCrowns.bat
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Rules:

Each player has a deck of cards
Each player has an open hand of 4 cards

Players each place 1 card onto the board,
and then the game advances one step.

When a player's deck runs out, their
discard pile (except any discarded crowns)
are shuffled and used as a new deck.

The game continues until one or both players
are out of crowns.

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Pieces

Crown - protect these!

Pawn - advances one step each turn
- dies upon taking any piece

Wall - doesn't move, provides simple
protection from pawns

Tower - attacks 2 squares ahead
- doesn't move

Farm - lets you draw an extra card
each turn

Flag - lets you use an extra card
each turn

Sword - lets you use all your cards
in one turn

Shield - prevents enemies from moving
or attacking this turn

Siege Engine - attacks 3 squares ahead
- only attacks if not blocked
- moves forward if cant attack
- dies if it hits an obstacle

Bomb - kills whatever it's placed
on top of
- can be used to clear walls
and flags tactically

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Comments13

sharp9119 Dec 2014, 02:37

Not my type of game.

rzuf9 Dec 2014, 07:46

So, this is why KAG updates take so long. :D
It's fun, once you wrap your head around the rules. Some AI would be great, as it's really hard to find another human being willing to play board game on a PC. :D

psychomonster9 Dec 2014, 08:48

Its a good prototype for a real board game. It needs some more gfx and a better presentation, but I like games to play with friends. Nice !

dieblume869 Dec 2014, 09:20

Nice game but need better graphic style.

Getiauthor9 Dec 2014, 09:30

@rzuf - haha, I don't work on KAG on the weekends anyway :) Hopefully an update is just around the corner, but as you will have read there have been build server issues.

@sharp911 - sorry to hear that, thanks for commenting

@psychomonster @dieblume86 - I wanted to get some particle spam in there but ended up focusing on the sound and gameplay, smooth transitions of cards, etc rather than making it as pretty as I'd usually fuss about :)

deyteris_team9 Dec 2014, 10:57

Like for not using pre-made game engines

Crushenator9 Dec 2014, 11:12

Cool. good foundation for something fun. An animated battle chess type thing would be cool.

2Bit9 Dec 2014, 11:35

As rzuf said, it was hard for me to get into it cause it is hard to find someone else then get them up to speed. AI would be good, I like the ideas.

skonkan9 Dec 2014, 11:49

Good concept.
If there was any audio I did´nt hear it.

Getiauthor9 Dec 2014, 12:00

@deyteris_team - nothing like coding some containers on day 1 ;) first ld in pure C for me.

@crushenator - yeah it'd be fun to add some more types of cards, was thinking something that could attack sideways

@2bit - understandable, that was a concern for me but I didn't want to half-ass the opponent.

@skonkan - interesting, its using SDL's audio so should work ok with just about anything you throw at it :/

aidinviper10 Dec 2014, 08:15

nice job .

rmc12 Dec 2014, 21:06

Nice foundation for a board game!

it lacks some graphic work though

Franklin's Ghost14 Dec 2014, 08:07

Fun card game and think the simple design with the blue and red works. Liked that you got the smooth card transitions happening and hopefully you'll get sometime to add the AI in later.