Ludum Dare #40compo

Cloak and Dagger

by ptsnoop

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.71

As Monarch of a tiny realm, you fear that your nobles are plotting against you. Your solution: induct them all into a secret society! They'll be far too busy looming around in cloaks to start any actual plots.

The trouble is, secret societies don't stay secret. And the more people join your secret society, the harder you'll find it to keep everything carefully balanced. Good luck!

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CONTROLS:

The inner circle of columns are actions. Click and drag cloaked figures onto the actions to have them happen. Drag more cloaked figures onto them to make them happen more.

The outer circle of columns show you how well your secret society is doing. If any of them reach the minimum or maximum, you lose. The aim is to keep the secret society alive for as long as possible!

Press the Spacebar to restart.

Mouse over things to see what they are / what they do.

Tags: #management, #mouse only

Genres: strategy

Comments12

JCMonkey5 Dec 2017, 03:12

iteresting game, took me a while to figure this out.

Azathothep8 Dec 2017, 11:24

Hum...where is the executable file (using Windows) ? i don't know how to launch your game

PTSnoopauthor11 Dec 2017, 09:15

@Azathothep: For the Windows download, there should be a CloakAndDagger.exe in the root of the zip file.

nekoballs18 Dec 2017, 16:56

Fun game! It was a challenge to keep it all balanced. Pretty graphics! Would be nice with some feedback warning when an outer circle is about to hit min/max.

Andrew White18 Dec 2017, 17:22

Really cool game concept. The art style really helped sell the whole consipiricy thing. Some mysterious music and sound effects would have made it a lot better.

TheMonsterFromTheDeep27 Dec 2017, 05:58

This game perhaps begins at a too difficult level. Keeping track of five quickly-changing stats as well as a whole slew of somewhat entangled actions is pretty difficult.

Rialgar27 Dec 2017, 21:04

This is a really cool concept. I would like an indicator how each value is changing at the moment, so I can adjust without having to wait for a change to see the direction it is moving.

colozz27 Dec 2017, 22:41

Very interesting concept.
I liked the graphics, the game mechanics and how it fits the theme.
Maybe only preventing the assets from reaching 100% (and not also 0%) could've been easier to deal with because the difficulty is a bit too high for me ^^
Good work :)

vfabien2127 Dec 2017, 22:55

The atmosphere is really stunning. good job !

But for someone slow, like me, the game was mostly a race of moving around the guys as quickly as possible, which wasn't really fun. Which is silly, because I fell that it deserves more enjoyment !

UmSingeloPugManco28 Dec 2017, 02:05

Really nice atmosphere. Maybe some sound effects and a pause button (So I could read what each of the pillars did) would've been nice.

Congrats on the game and thank you for the linux build!

Dumivid28 Dec 2017, 12:34

Sorry, can't let a quality review, don't have enough time, just want to help to get out of danger zone. Overall i think game is good, keep going. Happy Holidays.

explorer28 Dec 2017, 13:17

Interesting game, but it took some time to figure out what win and lose conditions were. Some dials go up, others go down and it is over before it can start making sense.

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