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Interezza by oskardevelopment

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made by oskardevelopment for LD31 (COMPO)
Interezza is a real time strategy game that is inspired by the classic board games of its genre. Interezza is a fast paced joy of a strategy game that get you hooked, where the focus have been on the smaller and hidden gems that the player will rarely see.

- Click on a blue territory to select the units, click on a neighbouring territory to attack.

- Requires Java 1.7.

- F6 to switch to another player.

- F4 to restart.

- F11 or ESC to toggle full screen mode.

- Every number represents the chance of a dice thrown. So if a 4 attacks a 3, then winner is highest total of the 4 dices thrown versus the 3 dices thrown.

- Units "received" each turn is the amount of the largest connected area size.

- I have noted that the music disapears on Linux, I am unable to fix that before deadline, sorry, I hope no one minds!

Best regards, please enjoy and have fun!

// Oskar
Jar https://app.box.com/s/nvmlcfaqx70gsfi9aps0
Linux / Windows / Mac OS https://app.box.com/s/nvmlcfaqx70gsfi9aps0
Website http://oskarprantare.herokuapp.com/
Source https://app.box.com/s/mcq379p4u8d14sjpdsjl
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=21518

Ratings

Coolness 76% 2
Overall 3.51 264
Audio 2.67 574
Fun 3.40 273
Graphics 3.00 607
Humor 1.93 862
Innovation 3.36 384
Mood 2.86 630
Theme 3.36 851

Feedback

Spacemyname
08. Dec 2014 · 03:43 UTC
Very fun game, would play many times over, though I was confused at first
Snuux
08. Dec 2014 · 07:48 UTC
Fun, and good game! And java - best crossplatform language!) Thanks for game)
raincole
08. Dec 2014 · 16:19 UTC
Nice. Minimalistic but harmonic.
uniquecorn
08. Dec 2014 · 16:20 UTC
Really fun game. I would legit play this game for fun.
OpenGL
08. Dec 2014 · 16:24 UTC
Good puzzle game :)
LostTrainDude
08. Dec 2014 · 16:40 UTC
I was a little confused at first (even if you have just one basic action you can possibly take), still it gets amazingly addictive when you get it.

I would use more visual feedback to cover the areas you can attack and I still don't understand very clearly how much is "chance" (if any) is involved when you attack other areas. I hope I'm not missing anything! :D

Good job indeed!
furriKira
08. Dec 2014 · 16:42 UTC
This is very fun, especially if you made the right moves.
This helped me think critically by a lot!
🎤 oskardevelopment
08. Dec 2014 · 16:48 UTC
Thanks everyone! :)

@LostTrainDude, every "number" represents a dice thrown. So if 3 attacks 4, 3 wins if the three dices thrown are together a higher value than the other 4. If you select an area which is yours (blue if you haven't changed player), it note all neighbours. You can attack all neighbours that isn't of your own colour.
jellyislovely
08. Dec 2014 · 17:03 UTC
Took a little while to work it out, but there is a nice deep strategy there. Avoiding the opponents big guns while trying to gain territory. One suggestion I would have is to add a 'concede' button so you can skip to the next game when it's quite clearly going to be a loss. Excellent game!
🎤 oskardevelopment
08. Dec 2014 · 17:19 UTC
@jellyislovely Thanks! You can skip to the next game with F4 at any time, also if the enemy refuses to die you can always switch to the enemy side and making him move out from his hole with F6. :)
sam101
08. Dec 2014 · 17:36 UTC
Made me think at Risk, but still fun and efficient !

Maybe don't toggle full screen on first play ? Especially since there's nothing on screen telling me how to exit full screen :)
MoltenMustafa
08. Dec 2014 · 18:16 UTC
I'm honestly really impressed by the simplicity and elegance of these mechanics. The only thing I would consider changing, is player feedback. Due to the brightness of highlighted tiles, it can be hard to see whether or not your color has overtaken a space. This could be fixed by changing the sound for when the player loses, or highlighting the tiles in a different manner. Other than that minor complaint, I think this is very good. I'm a huge fan of simple procedural games :D
talecrafter
08. Dec 2014 · 18:18 UTC
Great game. Was a lot of fun.
Perhaps you could use border graphics or overlay graphics to let the color of the field itself remain unchanged when highlighting etc.
TheScragglyMan
08. Dec 2014 · 18:19 UTC
Love this game, At first i had no idea what i was doing, then it made sense, its simple fun and quite an inventive take on the theme.

Nice work, and merry christmas to you too :D
GoudaGames
08. Dec 2014 · 18:19 UTC
Fun game, very harmonic and relaxing to play, in my opinion.
Alter
08. Dec 2014 · 18:22 UTC
Addictive puzzle game. Well done!
AlSweigart
08. Dec 2014 · 18:50 UTC
Good visuals, but I really didn't know what was going on. I've played the Risk-like dice games before, and I get that this is a real time version of that. But what happens when I click on a hex? How do my actions change what happens on the board? I can switch to other players, but why? Also, when it says "Blue player" does that mean the light teal-like blue or the dark purple-like blue? Kind of confusing to play. But if you work out the UI issues, this seems like it'd be a great game.
Donutttt
08. Dec 2014 · 19:44 UTC
Awesome idea, strategic and interesting. I liked the graphics as well, very nice
Windmill Games
09. Dec 2014 · 17:53 UTC
Simple and addictive, well executed and polished! Good job!
mr_tag
09. Dec 2014 · 18:01 UTC
Loved it! Requires fast thinking. Do not get trapped into thinking you have everything under control, things can turn pretty quickly :)
rincewind_cz
09. Dec 2014 · 23:18 UTC
Nice real-time implementation of dice wars. UI definitely needs some work though as in this state it's too chaotic to see what's really happened. But otherwise it's really good! If you're going to continue in development of this I would definitely like to play it!
aidinviper
10. Dec 2014 · 15:24 UTC
good job.
floorman
10. Dec 2014 · 20:07 UTC
Really interesting game. Took a while to get the hang of (and I'm still not entirely sure if I do understand it) but I won a game! So that counts! =D

I think I'll need to come back to this game to try and understand it better. But nice work nonetheless!
taviandir
11. Dec 2014 · 12:06 UTC
a good game!! it feels like a flaw to not being able to do friendly movements of resources. It wouldve been nice if the game was explained more in teh actual game. :)
Sartemis Smart
11. Dec 2014 · 13:45 UTC
Pretty hard, but really well thought, good job ! Dice rolling is pretty frustrating haha
Kuality Games
12. Dec 2014 · 20:39 UTC
Good puzzle game, got me confused at first but got me hooked very fast. wish the graphics were more interesting though, but then again, a very nice compo entry!
6DownStudios
13. Dec 2014 · 07:25 UTC
This is so much fun! A very elegant set of rules, reminiscent of Risk, Go, and Settlers of Catan. Also I love randomized maps, good onya!
Wevel
13. Dec 2014 · 20:21 UTC
Fun game but some times things happen that don't make any scene.
dunin
15. Dec 2014 · 17:38 UTC
A real time strategy board game was a weird idea, but cool (and stressfull)!
Some idea to make the experience better:
- feedback for the dices' values
- create the possibility to discharge one area in an other
- create the possibility to choose the rapidity of cpus (easy-normal-hard mode)
hwinwuzhere
20. Dec 2014 · 11:12 UTC
I didn't really understand it, but it's pretty cool though.
MaesK
23. Dec 2014 · 01:46 UTC
Fun game, reminds me of Dice Wars, but it is extremely unfair with numbers. Most of the time you lose even with greater (by a lot) numbers. Is a tie considered a loss? If so, the player is at great disadvantage, specially at the start. Maybe a standard turn system would improve the game, giving the player more time to react and see menaces.