Under Heroes by Just Tom

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made by Just Tom for LD29 (JAM)
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----- Blurb -----
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The Legend of the UNDER HEROES (c)1984

Only the BRAVEST HEROES survive the dangers of Caverns Old and Dungeons Deep. When your Fighter's fatigued in in the Mines of Moria, when the Hunter is the Hunted in the Dungeons of Yore, when the Wizard's light meets only the darkness of the Underground...

Only the Under Heroes can save you now!

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----- Concept -----
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I mulled a few ideas over when starting this, but decided on building a Visual Logic Puzzle that could I could port to Mobile Platforms later.

I also love Table Top Roleplay, so I wanted to make a game about Dwarves (naturally). The premise is DnD parties keep getting lost in the many many underground Dungeons, Mines and Caverns of the world, who saves the Saviours?

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----- Some Technicals -----
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The game's UI and Logic Grid are technically independent, but the implementation was bigger than it needed to be, was rushed and is just terrible. Built from scratch, I'd lump Tiles into one structure that tracked it's UI and Logic half rather than have two separate Managers tracking two separate Grids.

Otherwise came out well. The Grid problem did leave a really janky bug, occasionally, on one of the levels the Logic grid will just straight up be wrong. I think it miss calculates a grid commit somewhere. It's far from game breaking and it only happens every now and then, so your gameplay experience shouldn't be affected. But jesus, my Grid system is. Just. Terrible. Bad Tom.

- Built in Unity
- Adobe Shooped' the Graphics
- Sound FX were generated in sfxr

Thank your for playing. Really, I mean it.

Ratings

Coolness 14% 2090
Overall(Jam) 3.55 154
Audio(Jam) 2.50 554
Fun(Jam) 3.68 62
Graphics(Jam) 3.17 455
Innovation(Jam) 3.28 258
Mood(Jam) 2.94 449
Theme(Jam) 3.83 67

Feedback

Bevilacqua
29. Apr 2014 路 02:34 UTC
Very fun. Either this game is hard or i am terrible. Most likely the latter. :)
Fox_in_sox
29. Apr 2014 路 10:57 UTC
Neat little game, I can imagine it on an old NES console.:) Yet i can't help it, but I miss some osrt of a title screen or a little introduction.
馃帳 Just Tom
29. Apr 2014 路 16:08 UTC
Agreed, I really wanted to put in an Old fashioned start up screen with just a tiny bit of text and an image;

The game is the worst taught of my one man jams. Really stretched time on this one!
Gamepopper
29. Apr 2014 路 17:58 UTC
Very fun, clever for a simple puzzle game. Really lacking a music, and a title screen.
eatsleepindie
29. Apr 2014 路 18:55 UTC
Clever little puzzle game. Great work!
MunkeeBacon
30. Apr 2014 路 21:53 UTC
Something odd happened where all of the rocks fell and my points just went up infinitely. Good game though! I like the graphics.
xdegtyarev
30. Apr 2014 路 21:54 UTC
Nice game. I don't get why the rocks are falling sometimes cause it does not cause the level to end and just looks weird.
Wish levels were more challenging.
crocantidepollo
30. Apr 2014 路 21:56 UTC
Nice puzzle game, I'm a bit rubbish at it but I liked it ;)
hanoth
30. Apr 2014 路 22:02 UTC
Fun! And I like your fake NES cover art. :)
mrexcessive
01. May 2014 路 03:56 UTC
Hi. Nice idea. The dropping rocks seemed a bit over the top (they all fall once one does). Completed 3 levels.
Techblogogy
01. May 2014 路 09:30 UTC
Oh, wow!
PlasterPhantom
02. May 2014 路 08:03 UTC
I don't really get the point of the game but it looks pretty cool though :)!
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
03. May 2014 路 12:51 UTC
Haha very very fun! Also very cute tileset :))

Kudos Just Tom!
Rodaja
04. May 2014 路 22:10 UTC
click&dragging was somewhat awkward on the laptop's tap thingy, keyboard support would be nice.
randoman
05. May 2014 路 15:30 UTC
Very nice! Had lots of fun playing it! Here is a suggestion; the 'range' tiles could match the color of the dwarf, that way you know exactly which character you need to move!
joe40001
05. May 2014 路 22:30 UTC
Fun little game but just seems to go on forever without any changing much after you get to a certain point.