The People's Army - a lite rock paper scissor TBS Game by Zapakitul
The People’s Army is a lite/streamlined turn based strategy game with a rock-paper-scissors mechanic and is played like a puzzle game. There are 10 levels to be unlocked ranging from easy to brutal-ish hard! The AI is almost-up-to-par and will try and hinder you as much as it can!
There are 3 unit types:
- The People
- The Army
- The Dictator
Each unit has a strength and a weakness. The Dictator can control the Army but will be toppled by the People. The Army can destroy the People.
There’s no tutorial but playing through the first 3 levels will teach you all you need to do. It’s a bit rough around the edges but hey, 48 hours is 48 hours! Note that the music is disabled on start-up. To hear my first attempt at Milkytracker press the “Music” button in the Main Menu to toggle it on (or off).
Also note that you can swap units in range of each other!
Levels unlock in succession. Complete the first one to unlock the second one.
| Source is available in the zip file | https://zapakitul.itch.io/the-peoples-army |
| Windows | https://zapakitul.itch.io/the-peoples-army |
| Linux | https://zapakitul.itch.io/the-peoples-army |
| Other (platform) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-NVNAXDT1pQq-HZQYfpiktbGO_hOp0ls/view |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-peoples-army-a-lite-rock-paper-scissor-tbs-game |
Ratings
| Overall | 364th | 3.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 180th | 3.6⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 296th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 613th | 2.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 451th | 3⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 388th | 2.75⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 407th | 2.417⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 403th | 2.947⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 11🗨️ |
Otherwise the game was fun, good job.
Congratulations, sir. You simplified Advance Wars and made it fun.
I agree with the opinion of @darylsteak, you need to have a powerful grasp on the mechanics. However, it's simple enough for you to learn. It's chess, it's rock-paper-scissors, and you just have to put the units next to each other than over it.
I can't really say much here but if you want to make this game's better, I suggest you start your design aesthetics from scratch. The "Tower, People, Tanks" aesthetics doesn't fit the rock-paper-scissors sense. It's bad enough that I start to call them as chess pieces: The Pawn(People), The Tower(Dictator) and the Tank.
You made a great job of this and this should be certainly improved.
I love the simplified tactical, is makes it more like a clasical board game. Securing teritories, controlling the space... Plays like a Go game :)
The gameplay is pretty good (I guess I'm biased since I like Advance Wars quite a bit) although in my opinion the game isn't very readable and sometimes it's hard to understand what is going on.
Overall it's a very nice game, good work ! It'd be worth polishing if you are interested in continuing your work on it.