Karma Cycle by atrodo

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made by atrodo for LD30 (COMPO)
After discovering that she's a witch 30 days ago while eating potato salad of all things, Mao and her new familiar, you, are about to be defeated by the very powerful WitchZ. Since witches can't fight directly or leave their protected planet, all fighting is between familiars who use their witch's power to fight, and whose injuries are felt by their witches. Because of this, you would give anything to save Mao's life since you assume the full responsibility of Mao's impending defeat.

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Familiars are represented by the outer circles, witches by the inner circles on the planets. Everything is mouse driven: Select a planet to travel to, launch an attack at or prepare to defend from. Select your current planet to help another witch attack or defend. Done enough you can convince witches aligned with WitchZ to join you. Not every familiar will attack you.

Ratings

Coolness 54% 3
Overall 2.06 1209
Audio 1.47 987
Fun 1.48 1204
Graphics 1.76 1185
Humor 2.00 776
Innovation 2.94 723
Mood 1.75 1112
Theme 2.87 808

Feedback

DragonMaster21
25. Aug 2014 路 03:06 UTC
Hi! I wasn't able to play the game. This happened: http://puu.sh/b6N1m/d53954982d.jpg

Maybe it's just me though.
highlyinteractive
25. Aug 2014 路 03:08 UTC
Didn't work for me in Chrome on a Mac
lucidsheep
25. Aug 2014 路 03:09 UTC
Hey - I wasn't able to run your game. I got a blank play area with a few buttons that didn't work when pressed. Using latest Chrome with Windows. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/iFYMKUE
馃帳 atrodo
25. Aug 2014 路 03:16 UTC
I have patched the game so it now works in Chrome.
ShadowStryker
25. Aug 2014 路 03:27 UTC
Interesting take on the theme :)
Crowbeak
25. Aug 2014 路 03:29 UTC
I'm just having too much trouble figuring out how to get anything done. The game doesn't really provide sufficient feedback.
haveric
25. Aug 2014 路 03:29 UTC
After playing for a while moving between planets and attempting to attack, I have no idea what I'm doing. You've got a great backstory, but a complicated and confusing user interface.
StencylTuo
25. Aug 2014 路 03:30 UTC
I got the game to run, but even after reading the instructions several times, I still don't get how to play. A better tutorial would have been helpful.
superzac
25. Aug 2014 路 04:53 UTC
Interesting mechanic. It's a bit confusing, but once you figure it out it's interesting.
Ramperkash
25. Aug 2014 路 11:20 UTC
I couldn't figure out how to play. I try to attack other witches or familiars, but always get a message saying that it was unsuccessful. I don't know how to convince other witches to join me either.
43iscoding
25. Aug 2014 路 12:35 UTC
The game was too hard to understand for me :(
TehSkull
27. Aug 2014 路 03:08 UTC
This game needs either a longer instruction book or a tutorial. Or at least something to show that I'm doing it right.
racarate
27. Aug 2014 路 03:12 UTC
that was really confusing! i liked the flavor text about the witches, but it was so strange that i had to look at the text to see whether or not i had selected a planet. i got pretty close to planet z but then days reset for some reason i don't understand.

just to learn, i repeatedly clicked on DEFEND FAMILIARS while hanging out on my home planet and it seems the other familiar just randomly wanders around without threatening my witch. also, determining which planets were connected to which other planets was impossible for me, not sure if that was intentional or not.
Cosrnos
27. Aug 2014 路 03:18 UTC
I spent 10+ minutes, and I still have no idea what's going on or how anything other than moving works.
scottyb
28. Aug 2014 路 22:40 UTC
I don't understand how to play I am sorry. Perhaps a visual tutorial would help.
dook
31. Aug 2014 路 00:30 UTC
I'm afraid I have to agree that this is really hard to figure out. It took me a few tries to even learn how I could move around, and even after that it was often hard to see which worlds were connected because the lines overlapped... and I never discovered what determined which familiar would win in an attack. Too bad, though, I'm always curious when someone makes something board game like :)
elefantopia
31. Aug 2014 路 02:57 UTC
Interesting idea, but a tutorial or on-screen guide would help a lot and make it more enjoyable.
Xentira
01. Sep 2014 路 03:17 UTC
A little bit of a help on screen might have been good. A little confusing figuring out whats going on at times.
mrexcessive
01. Sep 2014 路 17:16 UTC
Hi there. Moved familiar around a bit but lost outright in first combat despite defending... not sure how this is supposed to be played, an example 3 node level or something would be good. Shame no sound.