Ragnar The Village Defender

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.27

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★14%

Ragnar the Village Defender
(theme: growing)

--- PLAYTHROUGH GIF VIDEO ---
https://twitter.com/sandbaydev/status/676818422508994561

Defend the village from the nasty evil Niddhog that awakes. Upgrade your items to chop wood faster, to hunt better, and to beat Niddhog. Use wood to upgrade your tools at campfire location (consumes 1 wood). Use wood to build houses (consumes 3 wood) to earn more final score points. Hunt deer to get score boost (doubles your current score).

And use your Hammer wisely.

--- CONTROLS ---
A = Move left
J = Move right
E = Toggle weapon (axe=wood chopping, spear=hunt, hammer=end game weapon)
J = Use weapon (each weapon has different effect)
X = spend wood use campfire (=upgrade current weapon) OR build house (=increase your score)

Now only Windows. I try add web + other builds as soon as possible.

Credits etc appear too.

--- EDITS ---
EDIT: (Fixed 2 crash bugs + scoring bug this morning and-reuploaded, Win should work now)
EDIT2: (Scoring bug did not reset your previous game score, meaning you could reach scores high as 1228864... not intended, fixed and re-uploaded)

Genres: strategy

Comments13

matthewd67315 Dec 2015, 00:33

"Ooops! That page cannot be found!"

Hjalte50015 Dec 2015, 08:16

The animations in this game are AMAZING. They're so silly but it doesnt feel out of place. Those deer are great. The game is great. Pretty awesome way of doing things really awesome across the board. The weapons were a little janky but you know.

sandbaydevauthor15 Dec 2015, 14:49

whoopsie. fixed that 'page cannot be found' also fixed crash bug, and the another crash bug that spawned when I fixed the first crash bug.

maunovaha15 Dec 2015, 15:55

Hmm. played your game, it was a bit raw in terms of graphics, but managed to get to a point of "boss" showing up and he beat the crap out of me.. Thus, maybe he should appear a bit sooner so it could be faster gathering of resources and they making a duel?. Anyway, good job.

sandbaydevauthor15 Dec 2015, 17:23

@hjalte500: thanks for playing!

@maunovaha: my thought is that player must gather wood and then choose which way he goes: axe improves wood gathering, spear is used for hunting (=doubles current score), hammer is the end-game weapon (plus teleport specialty).

And then there's huts: the more housing the faster you gain score.

so it's balancing between them, and when the time is up your hammer level determines your chances of winning (it's a dice roll in the end).

I'm not sure what you mean by 'boss appearing sooner'...?

Either way, thanks for reviewing and playing!

dweebster15 Dec 2015, 21:55

That was a weird but fun game, I couldn't kill any deers with the spear, couldn't figure out how to hit them :(

But nice game :)

Dmitrix16 Dec 2015, 08:04

I won! Something I'm noticing about a lot of games is that instructions are not clear (this applies to my game as well). I stood at the fire and just kept pressing x without knowing what was happening. Fortunately I leveled my hammer pretty high and won!

randomhuman16 Dec 2015, 21:23

Bit hard to figure out what is going on, and very quiet, but the art is lovely.

csanyk17 Dec 2015, 05:51

It didn't seem like I could hit anything? Some sound fx would have been helpful feedback to know if I hit or missed. I ended up watching the walkthrough .gif, and it looks cool.

Cherishing.Team17 Dec 2015, 20:46

I love the deer, they look so cool. Ragnar looks pretty neat too to be fair. I found it a bit confusing (even after carefully reading this page) the first time around but I always love a bit of deforestation. Was good to see a guest appearance from the Niddhog!