King of the Mountain by dollarone

The ultimate challenge. The legendary mountain. The one king.
Can you brave the obstacles and claim the throne of the mountain?
Beware, warrior! Bring friends and your challenge will only harden:
The more you have, the worse it is...
King of the Mountain is a single-instance online boardgame where the aim is to become the King of the Mountain.
You move by clicking the move button, and attack the same way - if you can get to the king. Note that you need three hits to bring down the king, and each time you attack he will also retaliate!
This game should ideally be played by many people simultaneously.
Oh - and beware of traps!
| HTML5 (web) | http://dollarone.games/games/ld40/compo |
| Source code | https://github.com/dollarone/ld40 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/king-of-the-mountain |
Ratings
| Overall | 664th | 2.478⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 645th | 2.396⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 488th | 2.854⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 634th | 2.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 594th | 2.479⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 475th | 2.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 617th | 2.152⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 5🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
With many people it was a bit hard to grasp the actually pretty simple mechanics, but once you did it was fun trying to "outsmart" the others. Kinda feels like a LD-scaled DiveKick for boardgames game.
Probably the mechanics are meant to be very simple, but it would be cool to maybe have some more tactical options or something.
How did you make those graphics in such little time?
And what do the different models have to do with? I spawned as a giant thingie instead of the normal soldier sometimes before I got to be king of the hill.
Also, maybe a keyboard shortcut to move and a way to walk backwards would've been nice.
Also, you've given 0 ratings, that may be why so little people played your game. The more ratings you give the more your game will be visible and more people will play it! On the next ludum try rating at least 20 games so that your game can get to 20 ratings itself faster. =)
will play some games now
The trick to getting enough votes is to vote on other games and leave a comment. This way, people will see your comment and many will then check out your game and rate it as well.
It may be bit late for this LD to get enough votes, but definetly try it next time. I recommend rating like 20 games or so in the first week of voting. That should get you enough votes rather wuickly.
Concerning your game, I think there was some kind of bug for me becasue at first everything kept changing all the time without me interacting with anything. After a time it stopped and then I could play. The idea is certainly interesting, but needs some clearer explanation. Also there were some resolution issues for me.
Anyways, I hope you will particpitae again next LD. Cheers!
Nice idea anyways, I think it just need something more, but… I can't find exactly what (by now, at least). If I found it out, I will let another comment here. ;)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/greed