B.E.A.S.T.S - Break Everything And Stack Towering Structures by Cosmic Adventure Squad
Play at Itch.io: https://cosmicadventuresquad.itch.io/beasts
🏙️🐵🐲 Summary
B.E.A.S.T.S is a 2-player game that combines the city destroyer genre with the city building genre!
In B.E.A.S.T.S your aim is to become mayor of the city by building up as many towers as you can before your opponent. Break Everything And Stack Towering Structures to create your own city!
- Destroy buildings for parts and stack them to gain city points. Taller structures score more points.
- Destroy or capture your opponent's buildings by stacking over theirs to make them lose points.
- Upgrade buildings by placing roofs on them. Upgraded buildings give double city points and have 3x health!
- Whoever has the most city points at the end of the round becomes mayor!
:video_game: Controls
Keyboard Player 1: - WASD - movement - 1 - jump - 2 - Action (punch/pick up)
Keyboard Player 2: - Arrow keys = movement - comma - jump - period - Action (punch/pick up)
Additional Controls: - Action button will punch unless you are standing by a building piece, in which case it will pick up. - Hold the action button to charge a special attack or throw a building piece! - Double tap a direction to run! - Controls can be reassigned in game
:bulb: Credits
- Vu Ha - Code :computer:
- Rose Peng - Art :paintbrush:
- Johan Soriao - Music :musical_keyboard:
| HTML5 (web) | https://cosmicadventuresquad.itch.io/beasts |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/b-e-a-s-t-s-break-everything-and-stack-towering-structures |
Ratings
| Overall | 83th | 4.052⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 184th | 3.817⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 131th | 3.933⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 123th | 4.217⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 172th | 4.183⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 221th | 3.667⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 106th | 3.893⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 229th | 3.724⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
The controls were a little difficult to understand at the beginning. It was unclear to us that we had to use the same key to destroy the buildings and can only pick up the darkened blocks with color indicators. I also thought you had to build on your beginning square, but it turns out you get points anywhere! But once we got the hang of it, we had no problems with the controls. I also liked that we can change the controls in Settings.
I think it may be a good idea to lengthen each round's time limit to force the players to really go at each other. We spent much of the game quietly building away in our respective corners. It's really way more fun to destroy and steal the opponent's blocks!
The idea is fun, and I loved Roofing :D I can see this being really competitive with 4 players!
Played alone and I think that this game could use a simple single player mode where you just play for the score.
@lyxil We'll try to flesh out the instructions more to make it clear that breaking/building uses the same key.
@weekend-panda Thanks for playing our game! I'm sorry you ran into the bug, did this happen as soon as the game started? Did restarting the game fix it?
@kromeboy We're planning to add a single player mode with an AI in the post-game build; keep an eye out!
@noumenus Oops, that's definitely a collision bug, we'll try to address it. Thanks for playing!
Well done!
Great sound and graphics. I enjoyed the whole theme and mood. I agree that city destroying and city building are pretty incompatible. I also laughed at becoming the mayor at the end of the game! :)
And I always liked the idea of calling a monster and other disasters in SimCity once the town is built :laughing:
Also, setting up controls was super duper easy. STOLEN. 🏙️🥊🌠