Small Tactics by JanGamesDev

Tactical battle game (I played a lot of Fire emblem in the last weeks) with a simple survival mode (1 Player) and a versus mode (2 Players).
First time doing some real game assets for my compo. I happy with the results.
Mouse only, if you have problems figuring out the game try the How To Play section on the main menu.
No sound effects and the music is made using Wolfram Tones (Next time I'm going to try doing some music too)
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/small-tactics |
Ratings
| Overall | 382th | 3.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 351th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 462th | 2.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 491th | 2.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 404th | 2.81⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 364th | 2.3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 437th | 1.765⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 450th | 2.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
@mwcz There is a how to play button on the menu with a lot of info about the game.
@automatonvx You can click on the same tile to change that unit into attack mode without moving.
The art is pretty basic and I am not a fan of the green/grey/orange colour scheme, but it's clear what things are and functional art is more important in a jam. Sound effects would have helped a lot in telling the player what is happening, which is part of the UI issues I mentioned.
GIve it some post-compo love and you'll have a fun little game!
Sometimes however, the UI would be buggy, etc.
The simple art style was interesting, and seemed to fit the overall aesthetic of the game. I could see you weren't able to make music or sound effects, and the lack of sound effects really impacted the gaming experience.
It was really evidence that Fire Emblem was your inspiration, and you pulled off the gameplay mechanic of turns really well in my opinion. Though, sometimes I was finding it hard to tell what was happening.
With some more polish I'm sure a complete game could be made.
A bit more feedback about what's going on could help - for example, it wasn't apparent to me what the red outline was the combat range, at first, although it made perfect sense once I thought about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKz6z64rgg