You are the monster. The Loch Ness monster! Make your own decisions when facing the pesky humans, and don't forget to lay eggs.
The point was to make a game that is simple on surface (just text and choices) but deep underneath. The game world is running a simulation. Your human opponents use fuzzy logic to make their decisions. (The same fuzzy logic is also used to weed out choices that you wouldn't want to take.)
You may want to open the map in a separate browser window so that you have it handy.
I didn't get to implement an end game. You can die (that's implemented), but even if you subdue the whole region to your twisted rule, there's no fireworks. Sorry.
IMPORTANT: If things get boring fast, restart. The whole game is procedural and sometimes you get an unlucky streak and nothing much interesting happens for a while. In a complete game, this would be fixed by a Director agent or something.
@FiveIronFanatic: Oh crap, the points system! :O Yeah, you probably did well. I just didn't remember the implement the points. (It would be quite easy, too.)
Neat! I like strategic games, and I totally enjoyed this one. One has to remember the connections between the cities I guess, but that's part of the strategy.
Clicked away with pleasure, finding out how the game worked.
A worthy effort, but managing a dynamic system like this could use something more visual. Moving the map along the generated text and having showing markings about things most relevant to you in it would be helpful.
I agree. Since it pretty much evolved into a war game, a map would be super nice.
I initially thought it would be less about geography and more about "empire" management (managing children-monsters, alliances, resource, etc.) but I kind of brought it to this on autopilot. And anyway, even if I only made this about the geography, from the start, I probably wouldn't have time to implement a good map in the system I use in such a short time.
But I learn. A map (or anything visual that helps with situational awareness) is now on my todo list for egamebook.
And if I choose to build upon this game, I'll either de-emphasize the geography, or add some kind of simple mini-map.
I agree with other comments on almost everything! The theme is really great, I quickly was caught in the fact that I'm Nessie and wanted to hatch eggs everywhere, but an interactive map to keep an eye on everything would have been so nice... Finally I stopped looking on the map because I couldn't remember the positions of enemies and just played frantikally, until I was killed during a severe assault on one of my cities... Fun concept!
Really great! I wish there was a map to see where you had control of and where your eggs were. Also, I had no idea how many blows I could take without dying, so I kept being really risky, which didn't work out to well. Overall, this was a lot of fun, though!
I really like the idea, especially as a fellow Nessie-game maker, but I couldn't find any reasonable strategy or logic to work with so it turned into pushing some of the buttons to see what happened. Which was that I died, of course.
I agree with the other comments about a more informative display of where you are and have been. But even after I quit trying to remember which cities had eggs etc, it was fun to see what would happen next. Nice job!
Unlike others I really like the idea of separate map. If this was a longer game I would print it out and use pieces from some tabletop game to track the positions of armies!
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Biruts1 Sep 2015, 19:55
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
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Also, does the scoring system work? Or am I just terrible at this? (Maybe I don't want to know the answer.)
@all: Thanks!
Well done! :)
A worthy effort, but managing a dynamic system like this could use something more visual. Moving the map along the generated text and having showing markings about things most relevant to you in it would be helpful.
I initially thought it would be less about geography and more about "empire" management (managing children-monsters, alliances, resource, etc.) but I kind of brought it to this on autopilot. And anyway, even if I only made this about the geography, from the start, I probably wouldn't have time to implement a good map in the system I use in such a short time.
But I learn. A map (or anything visual that helps with situational awareness) is now on my todo list for egamebook.
And if I choose to build upon this game, I'll either de-emphasize the geography, or add some kind of simple mini-map.
Thanks everyone for playing!
Fun concept!