Quest for gold is a turn-based platformer board game. Your objective is to reach the chest full of gold at the end of the board. You throw dices in order to move around the map. Each number on the dice corresponds to a possible move. You can end your turn whenever you want or even wait a turn in order to move when its more apropriate.
NOTE: In order to play you need an internet connection! Game fetchers other players from a a MySQL database. If you win your player will also go into that database ... that way the next players who play it can play against your run.
Basic Controls and Rules:
"A" and "D" rotate the camera to the left and right.
"W" Zooms In the camera on the player
"S" Zooms Out the camera on the player
When its your turn to play press "Space" to throw the dices
Once you jump you can move 2 times in the directions available with the arrows. After this you fall down. Note that falling does not remove any move points from your play.
Button:
-> End Turn: Ends your turn. next player starts playing.
-> Wait: Game turns 1 time without you doing any action. You lose a move.
Objective:
Get to the chest before any other player steals it and wins.
Awesome concept, but could do with a few optimizations in terms of the gameplay speed (Although I just saw the comment about fixing the speed issue so I might take a look again.) Other than that very interesting adaption to the teme! Good work. :)
Nice game, I am amazed that you made this in 48 hours! The graphics are really good, I especially liked the palm trees. I did really miss a speedup button for the other players turns or a skip to your turn button. The waiting really tested my patience.
This is amazing! I love this conception of the theme. The incompatibility of the genres give rise to some very engaging interesting puzzles, really made me think there at the end with the moving platforms. Great work! Would love to see this as a full fledged party game. And how your using playthroughs as the "AI" is genius!
As others have mentioned a FF button would be nice but there is a reason for not having it ;)
The mechanic was easy to understand, except the rule of the "falling" that I had a hard time grasping. I even suceeded in walking through a stone and falling to my death. I found the "wait" button very late (not the games fault, it is quite obvious...) but once I did, it started to clic. I think if the game could be faster rolling the dice, moving etc, it would be less frustrating and much more available.
The interaction with internet is great, I failed to win :) @Linkwin ahah now I know where I have seen your name... in the game.
Some ideas were working well, my simple but favorite being the labyrinth at the beginning. Idea can definitely be expanded a little as a party game etc.
Wow, cool concept! The graphics and camera controls are super smooth which is nice. It does have some fun clever thinking, but some parts are perhaps a bit slow and/or random.
Seeing the other players move was really cool. I would add a fast-forward button when viewing their moves though.
I super dig the palm tree models in the game, and nice fun music as well!
This was actually really fun! I enjoyed the multiplayer aspect of the game, and the "waiting" system was really interesting! At first I thought it looked too long, but you kept introducing new challenges to expand on your concept. Great job!
This was really cool, actually! This was a compo game? There's a ton of good art and music, plus the ghost player? I don't know how you managed it. I just barely managed to beat @Linkwin :)
Really great concept and the game looks awesome! It just gets a bit slow sometimes as I am itching to quickly move foward! Might be a good thing :) I was confused with one puzzle where i kept dying as the grid I was on turned red suddenly. Did i miss something? Didn't fully understand that part. Great game otherwise!
Outstanding amount of goals achieved for a compo, and a fun game. I am interested in new ways of implementing the turn based genre for some time, this game is a nice example. Using 3D program like axis handle for movements is a nice touch. It would be great if camera could move by holding the right mouse button so I don't have to use two hands. Graphics is cool as well. Considering the amount of things you did well for such a short time, I won't be focusing on any flaws, that would just feel wrong.
Wow that was a fun little game! At first it was a little frustrating, but once I figured it out, I had a blast. Great execution! The level design was really nice, it added plenty of variety and plenty of freedom to explore the solutions.
Really cool that you could play with other players in this game. The 3d turn based movement took some getting used to (especially when jumping moving platforms) but did make quite a bit of sense. Needs some way to forward other people's turns. Graphics were neat and it felt really good to beat others in the game after a few tries! Great job!
Interesting concept. Good relaxing music. Multiplayer. Gameplay. But why, why you sets rotation on keyboard, and movements on mouse? It so inconvenient as for me. Or it is part of gameplay that I have missed?
@alex13 when I was trying the movement with W A S D the "W", for example, meant going in the forward direction .... when you rotated the camera at certain angles forward became backward and left became right ...
It became very confusing to rotate camera around and correct angles and know where you were moving if you pressed keyboard keys ... this way everyone knows where the player is moving
Nice game, I almost felt like playing a board game, considering boring waiting.Jumping on moving objects was really hard, but I had fun. Keep up the good work!
This is very impressive, well done on setting up all the multiplayer systems during the compo! I needs to be faster, since waiting for all the other players could take a really long time. A power-up system or different movement abilities could also help make it more fun.
Great amount of content for a compo entry, truely impressive stuff ! Never seen a LD game implementing some kind of Multiplayer feature this jam. It was a bit hard for me at first, but then I really enjoyed playing the game when I understood what I had to do. Great, great job !
I guess I had really low expectations starting to play after checking out the screenshot that make it look like an Habbo Hotel-era game BUUUT... it's actually decent to play :-D The system to record the playthrough of previous players is genius! The moving platforms are too complicated to figure out and the board wasn't thought of as a "Ludum Dare board" as in people on here won't usually play the game through if one playthrough is longer than 10 minutes [in my experience] so I'd argue it's badly tuned, but the music is really nice and soothing... I'd say it needs to be further refined but you definetely got something fresh in there, nice one m8 and thanks for letting us share this experience, it's definitely original :-D
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As others have mentioned a FF button would be nice but there is a reason for not having it ;)
The mechanic was easy to understand, except the rule of the "falling" that I had a hard time grasping. I even suceeded in walking through a stone and falling to my death.
I found the "wait" button very late (not the games fault, it is quite obvious...) but once I did, it started to clic.
I think if the game could be faster rolling the dice, moving etc, it would be less frustrating and much more available.
The interaction with internet is great, I failed to win :)
@Linkwin ahah now I know where I have seen your name... in the game.
Some ideas were working well, my simple but favorite being the labyrinth at the beginning.
Idea can definitely be expanded a little as a party game etc.
Interesting !
Seeing the other players move was really cool. I would add a fast-forward button when viewing their moves though.
I super dig the palm tree models in the game, and nice fun music as well!
That got pretty close in a few places, but the shortcut over the top of the rocks really helped :)
Excellent game, possibly the best I've played so far. Great work!!
I don't know why it took so long between dice rolls (was it letting other people take their turn?), it just slowed the game down a lot.
The graphics and audio were nice. Everything smoothly transitioned.
Nicely done!
It became very confusing to rotate camera around and correct angles and know where you were moving if you pressed keyboard keys ... this way everyone knows where the player is moving
I needs to be faster, since waiting for all the other players could take a really long time. A power-up system or different movement abilities could also help make it more fun.