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Woodland Warfare by Kichex

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made by Kichex for LD 44 (JAM)

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Is chess but with limited resources, your tree can spend sap to summon units to the battlefield and use it to command them to move or attack. But beware! The lower your sap, the more vulnerable your tree is. If it gets to 0 you lose!

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Instructions

Every action you do (moving, summoning or attacking) consumes your sap life, recover it by conquering new tiles or killing enemy troops.

Take on your enemy tree when is weak on Sap to win.

Made for Ludum Dare 44 "Your life is your currency"

Programming by:

Kichex ​

Art by:

​Prideling​ and Zapatak.Art

Music:​

"Unholy Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Windows https://kichex.itch.io/woodlands-warfare
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/woodland-warfare

Ratings

Given 32🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

bobrocks
30. Apr 2019 · 03:48 UTC
Nice work for the time allotted. I hope you plan on expanding upon it!
VuvuzuellaInc
30. Apr 2019 · 03:53 UTC
Great job!
Graphics is giving the atmosphere of this game, very well executed!
The gam match with the theme.
Some improvments could be done on how the game work.
Liked it, keep the good work.
🎤 Kichex
30. Apr 2019 · 03:54 UTC
@vuvuzuellainc thanks! I'm looking forward to make some more fixes and a better balanced version next week for a post-jam version!
Madbarron
30. Apr 2019 · 03:56 UTC
Great concept. Some more polish would help me know what was happening :D I got game over and I don't know why :(
Enjoy The Tale
30. Apr 2019 · 03:57 UTC
The art is so beautiful!
Greon
30. Apr 2019 · 04:02 UTC
Really loved the concept, with some improvements it could become a really cool game, i would look forward it, good
work!
🎤 Kichex
30. Apr 2019 · 04:08 UTC
Thanks @greon I agree with you, I have so many things I want to add/fix in the game!!! You can follow me on Itch.io if you want to see more of it!
🎤 Kichex
30. Apr 2019 · 04:12 UTC
@madbarron remember that every move you take makes you more vulnerable. Probably you were short on sap?
I'm noticing that people feel confused if they lose after getting too low on sap and then get a friendly unit killed which in turns takes sap from them and kills them. I'll probably fix that next. Thanks for playing!
Iferit
30. Apr 2019 · 05:34 UTC
Great Idea! I hope you develop this further!
Koni
30. Apr 2019 · 13:12 UTC
I think the game looks really beautiful and has promise. My only gripe is that it took me a while to understand how to play it. However, with the time given I understand it's difficult to make stuff like tutorials :) I could see this being a really polished title with more time, ai and different environments. Maybe kinda like a Might Of Magic game?
JesusAcHe
30. Apr 2019 · 20:58 UTC
I think for a 2player game, calling one of the players "Enemy" is kinda misleading. The art is gorgeous, and I'm sure I'd enjoy the gameplay a bit more if I wasn't playing against myself :p But it's still a cool experience regardless.
I think adding a bit more feedback regarding the tile you are currently activating because some characters cover some of the tiles above them, and also the GUI could do a better job of knowing how close you are to the winning or losing, because I lost some games with 50 sap left and I wasn't sure why.
Some small tweaks here and there could make this game fully realize that potential.
🎤 Kichex
01. May 2019 · 00:23 UTC
@jesusache @koni Thanks your feedback! :D I'm glad you liked it
alphazeba
01. May 2019 · 02:19 UTC
bob ross tree summon bugs.
Prideling
01. May 2019 · 02:41 UTC
@alphazeba Well that's a solid tagline :,D
Eduardo Yukio
01. May 2019 · 03:31 UTC
The art is really good, everything is beautiful and polished. The music is nice too. But the gameplay is not so good.

I didn't understand how things worked, there is no tutorial, I thought that my tree could hit his tree, the summon that costs 20 does just a little bit more damage than the one that costs 5, I lost suddenly 2 times, really didn't get what happened. The interface is clunky, I had to click several times on the characters to make it appear the menu on top of them.

I think with more time spent to polish the design and the technical parts, this game could work well.
Lyrcaxis
01. May 2019 · 06:12 UTC
I just realized it's supposed to be a multiplayer game..
Name the trees "Player 1" and "Player 2"
Adam Clayden
01. May 2019 · 12:39 UTC
Music is great and the art looks nice. The enemy's turn should be renamed though as I thought it was an AI at first. Maybe some additional instructions on how to play as well since I feel like I shouldn't move my main character, but instead summon things.
Ryan Wine
01. May 2019 · 23:06 UTC
This game looks great. It needs to be marked in the game that its 2 player and yeah that the one player shouldnt be called enemy, but it looks like a solid game. Are you supposed to be able to summon multiple units in one turn? i did that once and then they couldnt move afterwards.

Keep on this one, it looks like itll be great!
🎤 Kichex
02. May 2019 · 13:03 UTC
Thankd for your feedback @ryan-wine !
Euler Moises
02. May 2019 · 18:09 UTC
a little difficult to understand what to do in the beginning, but once you get the jam it gets easier. Congratulations for the game. The art was very well done.

I also made a game for it's jam. try, rate and comment. Please.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/junkebox-panic
StrangerYann
03. May 2019 · 13:14 UTC
Pretty impressive!
I feel a tutorial screen would have been useful
Also, the hitbox to select the different chess parts feel a bit wonky and hard to click on
But beyond that, it's a solid game for a LD - nicely done thanks for sharing :-D