This is my entry for my first Ludum Dare. I tried to use both themes. Two Button Controls means that you can only rotate your base left and right. Growing as in the snake grows out of the base.
It is a 4 Player multiplayer or single player with AI. It works fully on desktop but it was designed for big tablets or table top touchscreen(See: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlc0wld22by83ah/TouchTable.jpg?dl=0). [The game would have just have 2 buttons as touch controls per corner]. In the menu you can toggle each player as a human or AI.
In the game you basically try to destroy the enemy bases by using your snakes without dying yourself. There are 3 types of snakes, they are:
Basic snakes: They just wander around. (You can only grow these by default)
Defensive snakes: They wander around in your corner.
Aggressive snakes: They attack an enemy base at random.
There are power ups (the purple circles with letters in them). Any snake can pick one up and you can of course shoot towards these powerups. They are:
A: Grow 3 [a]ggressive snakes.
D: Grow 3 [d]efensive snakes.
M: Grow [m]ultiple (4) normal snakes at half regular snake growing intervals.
B: [B]omb/Destroy all enemy snakes in your corner.
You also have a nub... in the direction where you grow your snakes... this can also be used to repel enemy snakes.
Really cool! The tactics around getting the upgrades are interesting, and it's really cool when you get a bunch of your snakes filling up the screen at once. It was kind of annoying that my snakes seemed to steer away from getting upgrades a lot of the time, though.
Interesting. I think that I don't understand all about the gameplay, but the concept seems outside the ordinary. Maybe with more time, you could do a tutorial - and other aesthetic. Thank you ++
Took me a few tries, but I think I get it now. It's a pretty cool game that I imagine would be a lot more fun with other people. Only complaint is I wish there was a quick restart so I don't have to wait for the AI to finish.
It's a pretty interesting game that could have been improved with a little bit of love (graphics, "feel", tutorial), but was entertaining enough. However, loading it fullscreen cut off half of it for me
Cool concept, although it took me some time to understand what was going on. The main menu could use some work. I also wish the basic snakes wouldn't change direction because it makes it harder to aim for the powerups.
i like the options in this game, though it seems quite highly luck based, the way the balls turn. Its no big deal but i am curious what in this game takes the 100MB+ size. good compo work!
Played on Mac, btw, and it works fine.