Your Glorious War by coleott

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made by coleott for LD30 (JAM)
First Ludum Dare! First Unity project! A little janky, unfinished, and unbalanced, but it'll have to do!

Paradox Beasts have appeared in the Enigma Plains and you, Great Leader of This Proud Nation, must destroy them before they destroy your army! Raise young heroes to either sacrifice their lives in the war zone or take productive jobs in the homeland. Raise ordinary citizens too, unremarkable enough to be anything but followers and statistics, then guiltlessly deploy them as soldiers so they may give their boring, unremarkable lives in the name of Your Glorious War.

Basically, kill all the enemies and don't let your soldiers count drop to zero.

CLARIFICATION & KNOWN ISSUES:
* There's no animation, so it's easy to miss when numbers change or your turns end. Soooorryyyy.
* The enemy counter doesn't decrement, apparently, making it unwinnable. You can see how far you get though!
* There's no sound.
* The cryptic red button in the upper-left is "End Turn"
* To gain soldiers, you must first gain citizens. "Deploy " means "convert citizens into soldiers."
* The red bar on an enemy (after the 1st turn) means that that enemy is next (once your turn ends, they will do their action)
* GameOvers don't seem to trigger reliably (until you end a turn). Just keep an eye on that Soldiers count and use the honor system.
* Sometimes when you add a new hero they unintentionally start out greyed-out instead of playable.
* When adding or replacing cards (which demotes the Hero you're replacing to an ordinary citizen) you have to click the actual plus/boot button itself.

Ratings

Coolness 24% 1907
Overall(Jam) 2.59 716
Graphics(Jam) 4.06 130
Innovation(Jam) 2.81 505
Theme(Jam) 2.33 651

Feedback

🎤 coleott
26. Aug 2014 · 03:15 UTC
DISCLAIMER:
At the deadline (an hour ago), the game worked locally but, because I didn't realize Unity's web player doesn't allow asset bundles, the individual units' graphics weren't showing up. I fixed that very simply, and then made a few tiny fixes (unchecking a box here, replacing a missed instance of a word there, etc) that should totally fall within the bounds of LD’s “typo fix” policy. You can see them here:
https://github.com/cott/LD30/compare/87bf845dc978ed708a17962e2a8631e59b53fcd6...fcd19f089f494805e438fa0b3db725f520c8d3a9

(I also added a "CLARIFICATION & KNOWN ISSUES" blurb to the description and used a different screenshot after the deadline. I assume that's fair)
🎤 coleott
26. Aug 2014 · 03:21 UTC
oops, I meant "DISCLOSURE:"
kebabskal
26. Aug 2014 · 20:47 UTC
Gorgeous sprites. Totally incomprehensible gameplay :)
Naytron
26. Aug 2014 · 20:51 UTC
Nice job with the artwork - cool looking characters, although i didn't really understand what I was doing in the game.
Aumni
26. Aug 2014 · 21:11 UTC
Fun game!! I really enjoyed it. Took me a bunch of attempts to really get a decent strategy going but it was definitely getting pretty addicting haha. Good work!! :]
Incredible Ape
27. Aug 2014 · 04:46 UTC
The art really caught my eye but the game itself was pretty incomprehensible. Strategy isn't really my thing anyway, but with no sound and almost no visual feedback I basically had no idea what I was doing.

I could see this being quite good if the rest of the presentation lived up to the screenshots.
ChuiGum
29. Aug 2014 · 04:56 UTC
Really like the art style, a nice type of game!
TeamQuadratic
29. Aug 2014 · 04:57 UTC
Unfortunately I'm inclined to agree with the other commenters. It seems like it could be a cool game, but I had no idea what I was doing or what was going on. Still, congratulations on your first Ludum Dare and I can't wait to see what you make in the future.
elefantopia
01. Sep 2014 · 20:08 UTC
Very cool art. I was a bit confused by the gameplay.
H1S2
01. Sep 2014 · 20:17 UTC
This game has high potential and you should keep developing it. The graphics are really nice and the gameplay seems innovative. A short tutorial at the beginning would be great too ;)
Frankus
11. Sep 2014 · 18:52 UTC
The game could have been good if there was a tutorial... I've managed to play continiously without pressing the red arrow for ending my turn. When I've pressed it, it said game over and I didn't understood why. But love the graphics! Cute and attractive.
Rage Paint
13. Sep 2014 · 18:15 UTC
Definitely needs a tutorial of some sort