HEX ATTACK by Robber
A turn based tactical bullet hell kind of game involving centered around cell mitosis
Written entirely in vanilla javascript, without any additional libraries or basecode
Code, graphics and sound by Rob Bothof aka Robber https://twitter.com/RobBothof
[HINTS / SPOILERS]
"You Play Red, White is your opponent, capture all white cells to win the game"
"Avoid white's bullets, or use them to sacrifice one of your Red cells"
"You can switch between your cells with TAB or select them with left-click"
"Capturing a white cell performs a divide and gives you two red cells"
"Explosions can cause chain reactions, if other players or opponens are caught in the blast."
"White cells hit by white team crossfire can divide"
"It's hard to write proper A.I in a gamejam weekend"
"Keep Red Alive!"
[Gifs to get your hype on]
explosion chaining:

white cell reproduction

takeing out a group of white cells

| Youtube | http://planet-um.com/gamejams/hexattack/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/hex-attack |
Ratings
| Overall | 334th | 3.904⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 185th | 3.942⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 63th | 4.154⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 2016th | 3.212⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1247th | 3.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 466th | 3.692⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 682th | 3.68⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
Second, I have no idea what is going on. I don't even know what the goal is - are the red cells enemies? Or are white the enemies? Should I destroy them? Or should I destroy the whole map? Should I create as many white cells as possible? I genuinely don't know.
I have lost several games. I have been trying to understand the game for good 10 minutes. So far, I have found out this: each turn, you move one of your tiles. If red tile meets white tile, white becomes red. White sometimes shoots. Red explodes. Thats' it. After understanding those concepts, I was able to destroy all white cells just to see what happens, turns out I won.
After winning, I still have no idea how most of the game works: How does white reproduce? No idea. How explosions work? No idea.
Nothing of this is explained in-game nor here.
I believe there is a good game underneath all that is "lost in translation", but I just don't see it right now. Sorry.
A slightly smaller map might have been good: some games I felt like I was doing a lot of slow chasing of the enemy.
I could see playing this for a good few hours if more enemy types were introduced.
ETA: Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! You can watch again at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497058