The Maze of Evil by RawBits
The Maze of Evil
Once a great hero got hit by a rock from the skys. 'The Light has choosen me!' - he thought, I'm not kidding! This sucker went and find his destination, your hidden maze. Being a good host you have immediately started the elimination operation.
RULES:
You have your XP flowing. Whit that, you can buy traps and monsters from the bottom right corner of the screen by clicking on the green bars under the item you whis for. Select the item by clicking on it in the red area.
Once the item is selected - and you have at least one of the kind then you can place it in the maze.
While time flies sometimes potions appear in the maze - this is why you have built it in the first place. The hero can pick those up and use them to fully heal him self. You don't know how many he got because you don't see in his pocket ofcourse.
Your monsters are start wandering as soon as they are placed and can wander into your traps - be wise. Traps are disarmed as soon as something walks into them. Multiple enemies can attack the hero at once and they can overpower him while he only can attack one at once.
You can estimate the heroes health by the amount of red on him.
Now you know everything. Kill that intruder!
P.s.: There is a goat and a unicorn reference in there somewhere. Who finds them first?
P.p.s: I've only 20 hours work in this project so sorry for no proper gfx. If you like the idea I consider finishing and expading it.
Once a great hero got hit by a rock from the skys. 'The Light has choosen me!' - he thought, I'm not kidding! This sucker went and find his destination, your hidden maze. Being a good host you have immediately started the elimination operation.
RULES:
You have your XP flowing. Whit that, you can buy traps and monsters from the bottom right corner of the screen by clicking on the green bars under the item you whis for. Select the item by clicking on it in the red area.
Once the item is selected - and you have at least one of the kind then you can place it in the maze.
While time flies sometimes potions appear in the maze - this is why you have built it in the first place. The hero can pick those up and use them to fully heal him self. You don't know how many he got because you don't see in his pocket ofcourse.
Your monsters are start wandering as soon as they are placed and can wander into your traps - be wise. Traps are disarmed as soon as something walks into them. Multiple enemies can attack the hero at once and they can overpower him while he only can attack one at once.
You can estimate the heroes health by the amount of red on him.
Now you know everything. Kill that intruder!
P.s.: There is a goat and a unicorn reference in there somewhere. Who finds them first?
P.p.s: I've only 20 hours work in this project so sorry for no proper gfx. If you like the idea I consider finishing and expading it.
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.39 | 293 |
| Audio(Jam) | 1.00 | 279 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.19 | 282 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 1.53 | 325 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.32 | 203 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.72 | 188 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.00 | 298 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.81 | 245 |
TwilightFlandre: Thank you for pointing out the humor. I'm not too good in it but this game just screams for it! :) The AI is one of the many I planned as well as the traps and monsters - the latter doesn't even have an AI here.
Cambrian_Man: Thank you! Yes there is a chance for that and it will stay like that basically. Tha potions spawning randomly in your maze. This is why you have it and must defend it - the princess is in another castle. I have the different directions planned already. ;)
Gungnir: I'm happy that I could finish this in time. I was very sick in the weekend... :(
tripleVisionGames: There will be a timer on spawning enemies and building traps for start.
iandioch: That is intentional and most likely there will be other stuff the hero will have like armour. Thoes are stuff you just don't know. It gives some excitement to it and adds a twist to the tactical side. Besides that, I can't tell from people what's in there pocket just by looking at them...
Thank you again for playing and commenting! It's really helpful. I'll rate back as soon as I get to your games. :)
with some polishing can be very good game
zenmumbler: Ok, we are going a little wild here for a little so bear with me. If you were a hero - let's assume that you are - the first thing you do before a quest would be what? Equipment yeah, but then the next is? Food yeah, there isn't any in this game though so what else? Potions! Yes! So there are only healing potions implemented yet and he uses them when his health goes below 50% - for now. You can not see in his pockets so you can't tell how many he has - here is a hint: 3 for now. Also you don't know about the armor he is wearing - you can get an idea of it through trial and error based observation though.
Thanks for trying!
Don't get angry on people complaining about the magical health refill. To be honest, I didn't read the instructions and was wondering about the health, too. Well, someone who ever player a RPG should be able to figure out, that the hero may use potions, but some kind of visual indication (no text! maybe particle effect) would be really great.
I like the random maze-generation. Throw in some fancy graphics, a bit more actions for the player to use and this could get a really great game. For 20 hours, I consider this as good work.
Bad:
-You explain way too much through the wall of text, expecting the player to read it. You're lucky we all have to play to rate it, otherwise your game window would be shut at the sight of it all.
-The button for buying resources should be more obvious than the green rectangle at the bottom of a bigger one.
(I also got a bug where traps stopped working, though I have no idea what caused it.)
Good:
+Very fun, from my tastes.
+The hero's A.I. and ramblings are pretty cool.
Thank you!
If there was decent gfx then the whole text would be 1 line after the story and if there were a short funny animation at the begining then there would be no need of any text...
That would be good if you could tell the conditions on that bug but hopefully redesigning will solve it.
I'm glad you liked the Hero's ramblings that is a cardinal feature. There was more planned but it was hard to implement the event monitoring of the AI in Processing.