Gnomageddon by Shasaur

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made by Shasaur for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

A one-on-one stand-off between the most powerful gnomes known to history. Which one of you deserves retirement?

In this auto-battler, you play as the infamous green gnome (bottom-left)​, spawning tiny wizards to attack your old foe (top-right). By clicking on the buttons at the top of the screen, you can choose to upgrade the strength, health, speed, and range of the gnomes you spawn. Choose the right upgrades to overwhelm and defeat your enemy!

Music remixed by us into a few variants, sampled from the original gnome song: Blod Besvimelse - Misantrop.

Ratings

Overall 733th 3.361⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 311th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 817th 2.944⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 777th 3.361⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 127th 3.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 507th 3.556⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Kekwu
09. Oct 2024 · 23:18 UTC
Love the concept
poboy
09. Oct 2024 · 23:28 UTC
This is great, I love the cold open and the music changing randomly on upgrades and the GNOOOOOOOOOOOMEEEE when the guy dies, and the gnomes themselves exploding and most importantly the

YOU'VE BEEN

GNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED

I love everything about this. One challenge I've seen with really small-scale strategy games like this is the meta is almost always "greed economy as far as possible, then spam units", and the design challenge becomes how do you punish greed such that you can't freely do this. But idk, anyway I really enjoyed this :D
kuggenhoffen
10. Oct 2024 · 19:33 UTC
That's a cool game, kinda addicting I have to admit :laughing: I love the gnome sounds! Good job!

BTW, I think there is a bug where the money gets carried over if you immediately restart after losing.
rsheepdv
13. Oct 2024 · 02:35 UTC
The music remixes are nice! I think tying them to something other than the buttons would've sounded better. Spamming units was OP tho, nice game!
BabyGirl2005
14. Oct 2024 · 23:09 UTC
ahaha this is amazing, I had a lot of fun, good job and keep going!
ejmejm
15. Oct 2024 · 00:32 UTC
The sound effects lmao. Simple but fun. I ramped up gnome production and economy early before dumping into stats.
PeytonBrown
15. Oct 2024 · 00:52 UTC
Graphics are mid but fit the together - adds to the theme, love the UI for upgrades, camera angle is a lil odd imo. Gameplay is fun which is all the really matters. well done.
Dan_Nik_SG
15. Oct 2024 · 09:48 UTC
Cool concept, there are a lot of particles, but it feels like the ai just outscales you, for them starts to spawn only giant mobs but for me only small, maybe i was doing something wrong idk. I damaged ai base to half hp and then the ai just started spawning only big mobs, so the whole map was full of their giant mobs and i couldn't do anything. The game looks simple but it's fun so nice job.
Brendan Aeria
22. Oct 2024 · 00:47 UTC
LOL, this reminds me of the good old days playing Stick Wars. Very fun and simple system of "gotta grow econemy" but also "gotta fight enemy"!
ratly
22. Oct 2024 · 21:35 UTC
Simple fun game, funny little 3d models. I won too!
LDJam user 5143
22. Oct 2024 · 22:51 UTC
The graphics and camera angles are well done, and the music is lively and fun. It's interesting to watch the battles unfold, but I found it really unclear what to click on during the game.

It would benefit from a start menu, a tutorial, and some in-game hints to help guide the player. Adding these elements would make the experience much smoother and more engaging.

Overall, there's a lot of potential, but a bit more structure would go a long way!
Pachino55
22. Oct 2024 · 22:55 UTC
Very cool game!
La bread
23. Oct 2024 · 01:18 UTC
Nice jam game, the explosions are a little too blinding and the money didn't reset after each round but I did like the upgrade system.