Gnomageddon

by nikolaj
co-authored: @kevin-mooney
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.28
You must build gnome huts every 10s that spawn Gnomes every 10s , to defend from nasty skeletons that are spawned every 10s to come.. stand in the middle. Beware!

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Comments29

Ninnec3 Oct 2022, 23:52
Really enjoyed the humor aspect and I liked seeing all my gnomes being standing. Would have enjoyed if the skeletons started increasing in number quicker, since it became pretty easy with a bunch of my gnomes just sitting back and enjoying grandmas soup :-).
Riphitter4 Oct 2022, 00:19
Gnome Speed Ahead! What starts as a difficult defense, soon turns the tide as more and more gnomes join the fight. I enjoyed playing this and it has a lot of potentially
ccollider
ccollider4 Oct 2022, 15:23
Man, this is really good considering the time constraints! Love me some classic RTS.
ch33sybacon4 Oct 2022, 15:23
The art animation and sound of this game are nice and make playing it enjoyable. I found the control scheme/camera a bit clunky.
Leon Regula4 Oct 2022, 15:24
I really like the idea, it's pretty funny. Sadly I couldn't select the gnomes...
Sanjo4 Oct 2022, 15:26
enjoyed the gameplay, alot of potential
Jonrei
Jonrei4 Oct 2022, 15:27
I really liked showing those skellies whos the boss.

It was a bit awkward using right click to select and then left click to move, think id rather use left click for both.
settings
settings4 Oct 2022, 15:29
Hahaha I found the atmosphere hilarious, it was chaotic but in a good way. Also, I planted 5 houses around the cauldron (one of them right on top of it) and gg long live the gnome kingdom
Elros4 Oct 2022, 15:29
This game is hilarious! I ended up just bodyblocking the soup with my gnomes. A nice entry for this competition, you really hit the theme theme there, hilarious as well. It would be really aprreciated if there were a red icon signaling that you indeed managed to order your gnomes to attack that skelly.

With different gnome\house types, different skelly types, map design and some polish, you get a really cool steam level tower defence game which I would buy. Well done!
Pegasus
Pegasus4 Oct 2022, 15:31
A silly concept and I love it. Had a bit of trouble getting the gnomes to go where I wanted sometimes but most of the time it was cool to see them rush to a skeleton and destroy him. Wish the game got harder or more enemies/gnomes were introduced to give me a reason to play longer.
LDJam user 3013584 Oct 2022, 15:33
It's super fun. It became a little bit easy at some point though, as ninnec said it would've been nice if they started coming quicker. Sound design was nice too, I was definitely immersed.

Something minor but worth mentioning: the right-click thing sometimes clashes with the browser right-click. I feel like the game could use some simpler controls as well.

Good job!
Sean Esopenko
Sean Esopenko5 Oct 2022, 03:02
Sometimes clicking to place a mushroom would result in my gnomes running away from what they're doing. The concept is pretty cool though, managing the spawners every 10 seconds and the waves every 10 seconds.
LDJam user 3008735 Oct 2022, 03:30
Fun concept, I found myself playing it until there were too many gnomes for the browser to handle. I liked the 'hey' it felt oddly satisfying.
Davirtuoso
Davirtuoso5 Oct 2022, 15:43
Fun jam game - played until I had an army at my finger tips that protected my cauldron just through existing heh. Cool concept and fits well with the theme. Great job
goldenXD7 Oct 2022, 23:58
Very funny, like the overall idea!
Skleembof
Skleembof8 Oct 2022, 01:18
That was fun, but I found myself fighting with the mechanics more than with the skeletons. It was really confusing trying to send groups to fight because they would stop moving when I went to select another group, or they would run off screen, or hide behind the houses.
Technical issues aside, I think a fast paced mini-rts like this would be really cool with more buildings and unit types.
GERD8 Oct 2022, 02:21
Cute game! I will say, it felt like my gnomes listened to me maybe half the time which felt frustrating. But for a game jam rts, this is pretty impressive!
GameDevTraum
GameDevTraum8 Oct 2022, 16:48
very entertaining to farm an army of gnomes :smile:
I was playing for quite a while, at some point it's impossible to lose, maybe the gnomes could have less hp.
Which technology did you use? Did you just make a 3d game without engine? I was inspecting a little bit the page and found a "Three.js" which is a library to load and render 3d models. It's very impressive that you achive such a nice result :clap_tone3: :clap_tone3:
Urjarm10 Oct 2022, 15:33
A really nice idea and well looking graphics! The implementation of the theme was done pretty well, although I found the dwarves not always behaving quite like I wanted. But I imagine this to be quite hard to be done and overall, I quite enjoyed your game!
aDeCon
aDeCon10 Oct 2022, 20:10
I love strategy and you just made this game :)
LDJam user 298496
LDJam user 29849612 Oct 2022, 11:01
This is a really awesome prototype, I'd love to see it developed further.
Hawkin
Hawkin13 Oct 2022, 04:35
What a nutty game! Loved the creativity. I had a little trouble with the controls, because I think I expected left-click to drag/select and right-click to move (like some RTS).

Also, I found that I had to micromanage my forces more to attack skeletons, even when they were right nearby. I would have found it more fun to watch all my little minions just go crazy and chase down the skellies!
Nikolaj
Nikolajauthor13 Oct 2022, 15:40
@hawkin @urjam thanks, at the 11th hour I implemented a "defensive" mode where the gnomes observe all the skellies in their sector.. and auto-attack that.. but I don't think I got the mechanics quite right since they chase off on random skeletons and don't obey orders.. lol, but in a way them being a bit obstinant is kind of amusing and brings a little character...
blazec16 Oct 2022, 05:37
Very nice work, like the graphics
Oliver Richmeier19 Oct 2022, 00:51
Pretty fun game, although definitely needs some better difficulty scaling. It's a bit tricky in the beginning but quickly becomes unlosable
BlueDingo
BlueDingo19 Oct 2022, 00:55
pretty fun game, although I keep forgetting to place down the houses, it would be cool if the button to place down the houses was automatic or maybe a button in the world above the pot
maxr00
maxr0019 Oct 2022, 00:58
Nice job, finally a game that lets me stop skeletons from eating my soup
Trexxak
Trexxak21 Oct 2022, 21:42
gnomin' dem nasty skellies!

Awesome idea for a RTS, and a very rare sight, too! Sometimes the gnomes felt a bit unresponsive, but other than that I can't complain.

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