The Mute King by vids

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made by vids for LD25 (COMPO)
Get your queen some flowers on her birthday before sunrise. Stay clear of the villagers, they don't agree with the whole idea.

Use W,A,S,D and Space to move around, use mouse gestures to experiment with spells/actions.

Get to the queen before the villagers stop you!

EDIT : Changed Windows download to an alternate link to Dropbox, for those who are having issues viewing it online.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.72 519
Audio 1.90 510
Fun 2.52 518
Graphics 2.46 543
Humor 2.10 507
Innovation 3.16 229
Mood 2.27 614
Theme 2.18 695

Feedback

monomanio
17. Dec 2012 路 04:54 UTC
The queen didnt get her flower :( Nice game, good job :)
馃帳 vids
17. Dec 2012 路 06:32 UTC
Hey thanks a lot! Does this comment system have spoiler tags? :-)
joyboxed
17. Dec 2012 路 06:50 UTC
jumping over angry mob is fun! =D
Falkreon
17. Dec 2012 路 06:57 UTC
I can't seem to get teleport working reliably, and sometimes the canvas doesn't accept my mouse input (maybe if something else on the page is selected... not sure yet) but definitely one to go back and mess around with to find more spells.

..cause without more spells, that queen is NOT getting her flower X)
amassingham
17. Dec 2012 路 07:42 UTC
I had a bit of trouble with the gestures, but I love the idea.

Why are those villagers so down on me givin' the queen some flowers? Killjoys.
chribbe1
17. Dec 2012 路 07:50 UTC
Cool idea! It was pretty hard to get the attack gestures right for me. Great job
Meep
17. Dec 2012 路 07:58 UTC
Interesting concept, but it was hard for me to get the gestures right. ):
馃帳 vids
17. Dec 2012 路 08:05 UTC
Gestures cheat sheet if you must:-

Short Horizontal Swipes : Hit
Upward Swipe : Turn trees/bushes into mana/speed fruits
Downward Swipe : Turn plants into health fruits
Diagonal Long Upwards : TP
Diagonal Long Downwards : Fimiliar using plants
Circle Large : Hex
8 Symbol (start and end at the center) : +Time
Horizontal Swipe Long (while moving) : Heal

Exaggerate the gestures if they're not responding. Will fix it in the next build. Thanks for the feedback!
h.attila
17. Dec 2012 路 09:02 UTC
I like games with mouse gestures, it is also nicely drawn. The sound effects could be better, though.
Edocentrique
17. Dec 2012 路 09:42 UTC
Nice work with the gestures
Vic
17. Dec 2012 路 10:11 UTC
Hi! I wanted to play the web version. But I think the link is dead, can you check it?
munchor
17. Dec 2012 路 10:49 UTC
Great entry, I loved the mouse gestures thing!
ParaPup
17. Dec 2012 路 10:58 UTC
Good job with the gameplay I liked playing :)
rasmusrn
17. Dec 2012 路 13:10 UTC
The web link is dead :(
BlockBrains
17. Dec 2012 路 15:03 UTC
Had to take a look at the gestures sheet cause i was pretty lost! Great concept, and love the gameplay, needs a little bit of polish. Cheers! :)
馃帳 vids
17. Dec 2012 路 19:44 UTC
Oh man, my server guy promised me no downtime. I'm extremely sorry for the inconvenience but you might have to do with the link to Dropbox for now. Thanks again for trying it out!
cardboard
17. Dec 2012 路 20:01 UTC
I made it to the queen! Fairly short, but unique. The mouse gestures are neat, but there are a few that I did that I am not sure how I did.
ilo
17. Dec 2012 路 20:50 UTC
It's great that it rewards players who experiment with the gestures and allows for different strategies. I couldn't attack reliably, but I discovered I could just turn everyone into trees and then turn those trees into more mana. :)
soupy
17. Dec 2012 路 23:14 UTC
The mouse gestures are really cool, but could use slightly better implementation. Once you lose once or twice the prospect of playing again doesn't feel that interesting or compelling.

I don't get what the point of NOT teaching the player the gestures. It may make sense to hide certain interactions, but leaving me totally in the dark wasn't particularly compelling.
Patrick64
24. Dec 2012 路 13:02 UTC
Nice to a see a HTML5 game - it looks good and the idea is quite innovative. Unfortunately it doesn't run well on my crappy PC. Check out this article about having a game loop with updates at fixed steps: http://nokarma.org/2011/02/02/javascript-game-development-the-game-loop/index.html
Drabiter
24. Dec 2012 路 14:10 UTC
Nice gesture mechanism.
soy_yuma
06. Jan 2013 路 10:40 UTC
Wow, spoiling me with the comments changed completely my concept of the game. I think it's a very good idea to use the gestures! Unfortunately it is too complicated to perform them...