Coward by tomdeal

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made by tomdeal for LD31 (COMPO)
Forgot to check the dimensions, so please play in extra tab :-) The server resets every two hours to ensure the best stability.
Available via the weblink above or here: http://coward.meteor.com

--- Genre ---
Genre: Waiting Game / Cookie Clicker / Adventure

--- Instructions ---
Your task is to gain as much prestige points as possible and compete with others around the globe.

Enter the Dungeon with Hero by clicking on the Dungeon Entrace. Hero will now try to get treasure chests, gold and more from the dungeon. You can watch his journey in the top right corner. Every once in a while, Hero finds a chest which will get teleported to your stockpile.

Open a chest by clicking on it. Every item serves three purposes:

- Sell the item for gold by dragging it on the store
- Put the item in your trophy display to gain a higher prestige multiplicator (the more epic the item is, the higher is the multiplicator)
- or equip Hero with the item to help him delve into the deep dark dungeon.

More help is included in the game.

--- The Story ---
Everyone wants to be the hero. Unfortunately, you are a coward. You are not going to get beaten up in dark and dangerous dungeons. But you want to impress everyone with the treasures lying deep inside the deepest dungeon of epic deepness.

Luckily, the might you are missing in your arms you got in your head. You brought your good old pal 'Hero Mc Herosen' of the 'Heroic Hero Order of Heroes' with you, so he will get beaten up and you will get all treasure. Isn't that cool?

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall 3.56 222
Fun 3.43 260
Graphics 3.22 472
Humor 2.85 325
Innovation 3.49 308
Mood 2.90 586
Theme 3.70 416

Feedback

hadesfury
08. Dec 2014 · 14:49 UTC
Super addictive !
harley77
08. Dec 2014 · 20:10 UTC
Wow, well thought out. I can see this as an addictive phone game. Great job!
karol
09. Dec 2014 · 03:56 UTC
A really cool game. Despite its simplicity it's very entertaining.
wilpel1234
09. Dec 2014 · 19:55 UTC
Like arley said make a phone game, i would play it!
error031
09. Dec 2014 · 19:55 UTC
Loved the game, very nice entery!
DeathBySnail
09. Dec 2014 · 19:58 UTC
Quite different. Well thought out layout. However I seem to have crashed it
Virtually Competent
09. Dec 2014 · 20:03 UTC
Really impressed with how much is going on here, especially for a compo entry! I had a weird bug that happened when I was looking away from the window...my character was in the dungeon, but his suit of armor was still outside (and it was lower than it should have been...there was an armor-sized blank space where it should have gone). Hitting "Leave Dungeon" got it back on track.
Antworks Studio
09. Dec 2014 · 20:32 UTC
Great game! It would be awesome if you could do something with your prestige besides just getting more.
Alendro
09. Dec 2014 · 20:56 UTC
Like the art nice job.
rallebauz
09. Dec 2014 · 20:58 UTC
I can't access the site
dusho
09. Dec 2014 · 21:00 UTC
welcome to coward dialog pops up every time health bars get filled.. can't play (using Chrome in new tab)
Ace
09. Dec 2014 · 21:01 UTC
A really nice game, well designed and lots of functionality for being a compo entry.
FrazzyBob
09. Dec 2014 · 21:06 UTC
Every 10 seconds I got some really annoying text thing pop up:( Couldn't get into the game which is a shame because the graphics looked good and so did the idea behind the game
🎤 tomdeal
09. Dec 2014 · 21:09 UTC
Hm, there might be a hickup in the current session. Just try it again later, server resets every two hours.
Dokthar
09. Dec 2014 · 21:54 UTC
Cool and addictive ^^
rallebauz
09. Dec 2014 · 23:33 UTC
Works now! So this was completely addicting. Getting the blues with crazy stats was super rewarding. Is level 5 max or am I just dieing?
🎤 tomdeal
10. Dec 2014 · 09:52 UTC
Level 5 is current max, because I had no time left to add more levels :) But blue is not the best gear possible, there is more... :)
Taldius
10. Dec 2014 · 23:01 UTC
It's an awesome way of thinking the theme, it was really fun. Great work! :D
hissssssssss
14. Dec 2014 · 06:01 UTC
This was really fantastic. You really nailed this style of gameplay.

-On Level 3 I got an Orange piece of equipment! Super Shiny Leggings with +675 stamina, +450 health, a value of 2500 and 12.0x prestige. The dungeon wasn't a problem after that. That was the only orange I saw before the scores reset, so I must have been really really lucky.
-I wish you would give a pop-up notification when the server's scores are reset. Maybe a note of your final score and place in the leaderboards? Give the whole thing a minute to turn around? It switched almost instantly and surprised me.
-I wish that I there was a sell-all button or something. I was getting stuff faster than I could sell it. Dragging items to the shop to sell individually took too long.
-I didn't seem to be able to drag items directly from my hero to the shop. I had to put them in my trophy case before I could sell them.
-Finally, you have some floating point errors happening: Items would be, say, +0.300000000000002 Prestige. I don't know how you would fix it, and it wasn't a huge problem, but it looked weird in the interface!

I enjoyed this and would love to see an improved version of it! Please consider continuing development!
alvarop
14. Dec 2014 · 06:56 UTC
Can you make this into a full-fleshed game so I can waste more time PLEASE???
🎤 tomdeal
14. Dec 2014 · 20:20 UTC
- floating point error: yeah, I noticed that, but it was after the deadline, so I had to leave it in :)
- drag from hero on store was also a bug I saw a bit too late
- I tried to include a "right click to sell item"-button, but for some strange reason it did not work all the time, so I removed it from the final build. One less feature is also one less bug :)
- The server reset is quite instant, yes. Had the problem that something was not stable enough and after a few hours, a bug prevent dungeon progression. Within the two hours timeframe, you get way less bugs.
- The orange equipment is a 1 in 1000 chance to occur. Really rare :)

Perhaps I will work on this game a bit more. It really needs more feedback for the player.
Vladik Plays
17. Dec 2014 · 17:12 UTC
Nice game there.. Can't stop playing it..
Shivur
18. Dec 2014 · 18:35 UTC
Wow I had a lot of fun playing this game. I will definitely play it, if you continue developing it.
OriginalOldMan
29. Dec 2014 · 18:18 UTC
One of my favorite games in the compo!