Heroes for Hire!

by ben657
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Intro


Heroes for hire is a dungeon crawler for those of us without an adventuring bone in our bodies.

Hire your team of worthy adventurers and dive into the dungeon with them, have them do all the fighting and hard work whilst you do the money making and gather that sweet sweet gold!

Screenshot!

How to play


The tutorial in-game explains it fairly well, but in the inn you can hire your team of heroes then jump into the dungeon.
There you can use left click to move your character. They will automatically gather from the gold deposits whilst your team of heroes fight the enemies off.

The Jam


As far as game jams go, this is the most ambitious I've been by far. The idea is something that some friends and I have been toying with for a few weeks and the theme fits pretty well to it so figured I'd give it a go.

There's two main areas it really needs work in due to lack of time:
* More variety (enemies, abilities, dungeon segments)
* More management

The more management part is what I really wanted in here, but getting the dungeon mechanics in place took up most of my time. I had plans for upgrading the inn, an actual progression of heroes you can find, and ways of managing them a lot more closely in the dungeon. (Formations etc.)

But overall, pretty happy with how it went, given how much time I had to spend on other things!!

screenshot

Comments9

bcvery18 Oct 2019, 08:49
On Chrome-Linux clicking "Enter the dungeon" just restarts the game. I'll hold off voting as it wouldn't be fair to vote on it when I can't play. But the music sounds good!
ben657author8 Oct 2019, 08:58
Aaah damn. That's what I get for assuming my rebuild was good, can't actually enter the dungeon. Bug fix will be incoming soon!
DoctorTurbo
DoctorTurbo8 Oct 2019, 09:08
The idea sounds similar to ours haha. Ill be waiting for the bugfix
Wolfrug8 Oct 2019, 09:13
Waiting for the bug fix here too ;)
Xakkar
Xakkar8 Oct 2019, 09:13
The game has a bug, after entering the dungeon the game restarts
FinnThePirate
FinnThePirate8 Oct 2019, 09:55
Now after pressing enter the dungeon, confirm screen shows up and quickly disappears without giving you chance to click it. Besides that I like the music
DaniilN8 Oct 2019, 10:06
Please fix the bug with the "enter the dungeon" button))
ben657author8 Oct 2019, 10:40
Having lots of issues with the web build, so I've uploaded a windows one for now whilst I work it out!
mosaic8 Oct 2019, 12:40
Good work. I liked the idea, the minimalistic graphics and the music very much. However, I found that picking up the money spheres kind of feels unresponsive and gets a bit repetitive after a while. Maybe some power-ups or something similar? I also had a few crashes when I tried to enter the dungeon (Null Reference Exception). Fortunatly, the money I gathered so far was safed, but my hired heroes were not. I felt a bit bad for killing my entire adventure party every time I went into the dungeon, so maybe an exit-mechanic would be a nice thing to have.
You have created a very enjoyable game. With a bit of tweaking and polishing, I think it would even make a commercial one.
Overall a good game.

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