Draw your own species of tiny creatures and have them compete with races from all over the world. Your creations will join the server and can be encountered by other players.
Took me a while to realise what they were (assuming I've guessed correctly), but those little pentagonal shapes representing the stats distribution was a subtle and nice touch; it reminds of Octalysis! And after playing long enough to win against every species bar one... I think it's safe to say I enjoyed it!
This is SUCH a cool idea!! I love the fact that you've hooked this up to the server so you can play against other creatures almost spore style! The combat part could maybe use a little work, but seeing as you managed to set this up for a jam I think you did a great job! I think the biggest thing I would maybe ask for is a better tiebreaker than just who falls off the map second.
Also, after a while I did get a bug where the two parts of the game were both active forcing me to restart, and since you cant cache creatures or log in to get them back in any way that ended my play session
@inonesgraveded ah sorry! I have a theory why this happened to you. I think you were too fast in creating your creature and fighting it, so the server probably wasn't awake yet to serve you the species of other players.
I should've added a repeated ping to the map selection, so you would've gotten a second chance when the server was ready.
(or your browser is too safe, to let my app send web requests)
Awesome game! I got sucked into finding the best strategy and leveling up my froge army :) I love seeing other players creations too! It feels very complete too. If I had one suggestion, it would be to have an XP system so that you can't reach a super high level just destroying level 0 armies.
I was min maxing for the horde lol. Really fun. There were a couple times where I was up against another creature that had high agro and we just ran past each other.
@elzach yes, you was right about "too safe", I'm a privacy nerd a little :3 Changed some settings and everything works fine now!
My horde invasion
boob eater xd
King Olaf was a great warrior
I lost only twise: to @sockenpuppe creature (Hutfroschs are magnificent!) and to myself, stuck in the endless fight...
It was fire bro, absolute cinema, the peakest peak, one of my most favorite games in the ludum56 now. I will come back later to play again (hope the servers will still work)
This is really great! I love seeing other people's visual designs and _also_ getting to fight their power choices =). I double-clicked once on level up and things broke horribly, but that at least gave me an excuse to make a new creature with a better design.
I wish I could easily see my level (later I found if I scrolled to the end of the list, I could "fight myself" and therefore see my level, but that was a pain), so I could know if I was fighting above or below my rank. When I leveled up my speed ("aggro"?) too much often battles would end with both of our troops just walking off the edge, sometimes counting as a loss, sometimes a win (maybe whoever walked slowest / spawned last won? :laughing:)
Seems like you've got something potentially addictive here, I stopped at level 48, but kinda want to start over already and try a new build =).
Ran into a bug on my second playthrough... Fighting as The Great Wall (all HP build) against someone with the default sprite around level 7ish, and the battle just never ended, though it _looks_ like they killed all of my guys. Probably for the best, as battles were getting _really_ long with that build... :laughing:
I had a lot of fun playing this. Even though the player interaction is simple, it still managed to get me very invested. Every battle was unique, since each player evolved their creature differently. The music was cool, although we may need more tracks if people keep adding creatures and the game becomes longer.
I really liked your idea. Have you thought about making a post-jam version? I'm curious to see what you'd come up with if you had more time.
My Drinlan army was unstoppable. We constantly rose from the dead and defeated everyone, including our clones.
@drinlan a friend of mine is basically forcing me to make a post jam version haha.
I plan on adding ability selection to levels 5, 20 and 40. So you'll be able to give your creatures things like fireball attacks, splitting on death or life Regen.
Also I really need to teach the armies to not suicide off the cliff ever time. ^^
Plus, Improvements to the abyssmal UI of course...
It's a very fun game! I really enjoyed seeing all the designs people came up with and got to level 90.
While playing, I got an idea: what if power ups were trade-offs instead, so every squad will be at a similar power level, but those with many fights behind them could get very specialized...
It's amazing how much stuff you managed to make in such a short time: graphics editor, planet scene, battle scene and multiplayer stuff. Great job!
This was really ambitious for a game jam game, and it turned out really cool! I was a little lazy with my design, but it was hilarious to see these smiley faces beating up other creatures
This game had me hooked the moment I could make my own icon. And since I've been working to defeat EVERYONE. That being said it would be nice to see my own level! Super fun game, would love this idea to evolve further.
Very neat idea and well executed for a game jam. For some reason I kept ended up fighting myself. I'll try again a bit later and see if I connect with other players.
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Also, after a while I did get a bug where the two parts of the game were both active forcing me to restart, and since you cant cache creatures or log in to get them back in any way that ended my play session
But all in all, great job!
It's awesome that you took the time to create a species of kirbys. I love it.
Well done.
I should've added a repeated ping to the map selection, so you would've gotten a second chance when the server was ready.
(or your browser is too safe, to let my app send web requests)
Totally forgot to take a screenshot of the stats but let's just say that I went for a lot of atk, a good amount of swarm and some range.
Very cool idea to have other people's creatures fight each other!
Kudos to reaching such a high level! And thank you very much for sticking around that long!
My horde invasion
boob eater xd
King Olaf was a great warrior
I lost only twise: to @sockenpuppe creature (Hutfroschs are magnificent!) and to myself, stuck in the endless fight...
It was fire bro, absolute cinema, the peakest peak, one of my most favorite games in the ludum56 now. I will come back later to play again (hope the servers will still work)
Capturing your journey in screenshots is very cool!
I wish I could easily see my level (later I found if I scrolled to the end of the list, I could "fight myself" and therefore see my level, but that was a pain), so I could know if I was fighting above or below my rank. When I leveled up my speed ("aggro"?) too much often battles would end with both of our troops just walking off the edge, sometimes counting as a loss, sometimes a win (maybe whoever walked slowest / spawned last won? :laughing:)
Seems like you've got something potentially addictive here, I stopped at level 48, but kinda want to start over already and try a new build =).
I really liked your idea. Have you thought about making a post-jam version? I'm curious to see what you'd come up with if you had more time.
My Drinlan army was unstoppable. We constantly rose from the dead and defeated everyone, including our clones.
I plan on adding ability selection to levels 5, 20 and 40. So you'll be able to give your creatures things like fireball attacks, splitting on death or life Regen.
Also I really need to teach the armies to not suicide off the cliff ever time. ^^
Plus, Improvements to the abyssmal UI of course...
While playing, I got an idea: what if power ups were trade-offs instead, so every squad will be at a similar power level, but those with many fights behind them could get very specialized...
It's amazing how much stuff you managed to make in such a short time: graphics editor, planet scene, battle scene and multiplayer stuff. Great job!
That being said it would be nice to see my own level!
Super fun game, would love this idea to evolve further.