Ancient Siege by dwhiffing

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made by dwhiffing for LD36 (COMPO)
Match tiles to create an army and defeat your opponent!

Use the arrow keys to move the cursor around
use space to select and swap tiles
Make 2x2 squares of different pairs of tiles to create units
Press Z to submit the bottom two rows and summon the units

You can make vertical lines:
OXOXOX
OXOXOX

horizontal lines:
OOOOO
XXXXXX

or checker patterns:
OXOXOX
XOXOXO

for different units. Try to find them all!

You can also use the 'U' and 'I' keys combined with 1 2 and 3 to spawn units
use Shift to spawn them on the enemy side instead (but thats cheating ;)

Feedback

masamunedragon
29. Aug 2016 · 03:35 UTC
The tiles seem to move too slowly to keep up with the enemy spawn rate. Great idea, reminds me of meteos a bit.
scriptorum
29. Aug 2016 · 04:54 UTC
Loved it. Really fun concept once you grok it. I'd like if there was a mechanism to teach you the patterns for the units, such as when a new pattern is made the game pauses a moment to show you a brief popup of the unit and its abilities. Nice job!
PotatoIng_
29. Aug 2016 · 05:17 UTC
Quite fun, once you get the hang of it:). But really hard!
ValiaP
29. Aug 2016 · 05:28 UTC
Lots of fun. The battle view really add spice to the eliminate part! But it's a little hard to memorize the pattern.
Diz Three
29. Aug 2016 · 12:32 UTC
The battle was fierce, but I decided to cheat :P
Fun game though... but without cheating, it would be somewhat hard to get to the other side...

I kind of get confused with the controls by the first time I played this, but it's fun once you get the hang of it.

Keep it up!
conrad123
29. Aug 2016 · 15:03 UTC
This game was really fun. It was hard to get at first, but once you got ahold of it, it was immersing and fun. I suggest that you make the computer a little easier. Even when I was spawning as quick as I could, most of the action was taking place in my half.
jakatpemadi
29. Aug 2016 · 20:39 UTC
It's fun. Really really fun. Thanks... :D
adaFish
30. Aug 2016 · 02:18 UTC
Good job, a little confusing at first, but once I got it, I smoked the opponent. Well done.
PeachTreeOath
30. Aug 2016 · 06:11 UTC
Glad you were fairly generous with the combinations, it felt good to know that most patterns would do something if I just winged it instead of remembering everything.
SamuelSousa
30. Aug 2016 · 18:11 UTC
Very interesting. I think it has potencial but I fail miserably at feeling it was doing something useful to gameplay. Maybe more instructions would be a good advice.
🎤 dwhiffing
30. Aug 2016 · 18:16 UTC
Thanks for the feedback everyone :) Am looking forward to doing a more finished version. Plan to have more units, more instructions, better ai with more difficulty levels, two player mode.etc Keep the comments coming!