In Color Commander you try to control all minions on the board and make them follow you. A very unconventional fighting mechanic ( :-P ) lets you take minions from your opponents.
You win by taking all minions or all tiles from your opponents.
If you capture a tile by controlling more minions on it than any of your opponents, all minions on that tile will switch to your color.
Controls: Left Mouse Button: Move command Right Mouse Button: Rotate the camera
Simple but nifty mechanic for sure. I like it! Not sure its that unconventional though. Also, the pathfinding wasn't too great, so enemy minions would sometimes get stuck on tiles I already had captured or get surrounded by my own horde of minions. This made finishing games a little tedious as this often led me to try and lead them back to their own commander so I could capture them. All things considered, still pretty solid stuff!
The visuals are basic yet really really cool! Solid game, although getting your minions caught behind a wall does cause some weird effects with the AI and there is a bit too much luck involved with the random layouts.
The game is really fun, and as others commented, it would be great to have this as multiplayer. I found some minor "bugs", such as some aisled AI minions left alone in my coulor area making it difficult to capture (they have to go to an uncaptured area first).. but that's just being too picky! good job.
Great game! Quite simple, but it seems most great LD games are simple. I can imagine this being a ton of fun as a multiplayer game. Imagine yelling at your friends in the couch to "stop stealing my f#¤"ing guys" :-). If you have any plans of post-LD work, I highly suggest looking into getting gamepad+multiplayer support. Theres room for multiple maps, powerups and more as well if you feel like turning it into a full game. I'd probably buy it as I'm a big fan of couch-multiplayer games.
Fun game, I had a problem with the camera once I got to the top of the map however, a player-controllable camera would have been nice, besides that I enjoyed it!
What a fun game! Great mechanic, I really enjoyed trying to get every one of the units to follow me. Simple and effective. With some tweaking and polish, this could be a really nice little game!
Good design to adjust the hall width and follower circumference allow follower siphoning. I was a bit confused exactly how followers were stolen- perhaps you could make this more explicit. A lot of potential here, hope to see you iterate on this!
I really like the concept, is like a simplified version of total war, really neat. I wish there was pathfinding but besides that I really like it, very addictive. Not really sure on the theme though, the mechanic is very unconventional but is hard for me to see it as a weapon. Great job nevertheless! =)
Nice and original game mechanic! The game is a bit too easy perhaps, better AI and bigger board? It's sometimes boring to convert that last enemy minion even though you've practically won.
Cool idea. It's deceptively simple, but requires some strategic thinking to prevent your opponents from stealing all of your units. My only complaint is that I would've liked a button for quick restart, since it's possible to become impossibly outmatched without losing completely.
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This is the most innovative game I played so far. Well done !
Good luck!
I found some minor "bugs", such as some aisled AI minions left alone in my coulor area making it difficult to capture (they have to go to an uncaptured area first).. but that's just being too picky! good job.
I really wish this game had some pathfinding though, but solid with or without it, esp because its 3d!
Great job nevertheless! =)