Ropasquib by Groggi

made by Groggi for LD 43 (JAM)

Can you beat the mayan god ROPASQUIB in an epic duel playing the rarely known traditional mayan god game "ROck PAper Scissors QUill Bucket"? If you loose though, you will be sacrificed to the gods - as it is tradition. Sorry...

I wanted to bring in some strategic thinking into the classical rock-paper-scissors game. I added two more items/options: quill and bucket.

Every turn you use up the items like ressources - so every turn your options are reduced as they are for your enemy. To bring back all options you can sacrifice a bit of your health by clicking on it.

I hope the game is explaining enough to be playable, because I had no time to build in some hints. Hopefully that adds to the experience. Looking forward to your feedback! :)

Updates: There is two versions of the game: 1) The oficial compo release. If I will do some bugfixing, I will publishe here: http://ropasquib.mausundspaten.de 2) Updates after release version. All other future updates - that includes for example new sounds, grafics, features and general polishing - will be published on this link: http://daidalos.mausundspaten.de

HTML5 (web)	http://daidalos.mausundspaten.de
HTML5 (web)	http://ropasquib.mausundspaten.de
HTML5 (web)	http://ropasquib.mausundspaten.de
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/ropasquib

Ratings

Overall	322^th	3.643⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	292^th	3.548⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	521^th	3.143⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	604^th	3.333⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	71^th	4.405⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Humor	510^th	2.861⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Mood	445^th	3.405⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		21🗳️	19🗨️

Feedback

Camcam_S5

04. Dec 2018 · 10:39 UTC

The game is really polish, everything is very smooth. The concept is simple but it's works and it's funny. Great Game :)

Pyjamaboy

04. Dec 2018 · 10:39 UTC

This is a really interesting game, having the same concept as scissors paper rock, however twisting it by not being able to use the same "sign" after you use it once, making you often look back over to see what the bot cant defend against. The art is really good aswell, very clean.

Constantin

04. Dec 2018 · 10:41 UTC

Great mood and aesthetics !

kjanik

04. Dec 2018 · 10:49 UTC

Smoooth and simple. I like it ;)

alhime

04. Dec 2018 · 11:11 UTC

I have to agree with the other folks here, this game is simple but super polished. Nice sounds, nice sprites and it works seamless. Great job!

randomphantom

04. Dec 2018 · 14:24 UTC

The artstyle and sound effects fits the simplistic yet engaging gameplay totally. Great job on the visuals! Didn't really feel the theme here, but otherwise super well done!

🎤 Groggi

04. Dec 2018 · 14:46 UTC

Thank you so much to you all! :)

designernap

04. Dec 2018 · 20:59 UTC

Clean and smooth entry. Great work! lovely visuals too.

namnam

05. Dec 2018 · 12:38 UTC

love the minimalist graphics. Simple concept that work great.

joh

06. Dec 2018 · 04:54 UTC

Highly polished well thought out game. elegant minimalism oozing with style. Its funny cause I just played the game that was a bit like this and since at its heart it was an expanded rockpaperscissor game my mind saw the possibilities and Bam! here it is, actually accomplished and well executed. Not even some skin to hide the nature of the game, rock-paper-scissors(-quil-bucket) in its naked glory and yet it fits the theme. On two levels even.
Could have benefitted from the having the relashionships show on screen (toggle or a non-intrusive interface element) and making the sacrifice ability more obvious. Only noticed it cause the Ai used it.
Overall nice job!

🎤 Groggi

06. Dec 2018 · 19:44 UTC

@joh Thank you so much for your nice and valuable feedback. Appreciate it!
Yes, I was thinking about making the sacrifice option more obvious with some kind of hint or tooltip. I guess most people didnt notice at all... :) Finally I didn't have the time and energy to implement it and thought its ok that people have to find out by playing like you did. Maybe in the future I will implement an info-button if I catch some time.
Thanks again, going to test your game now!

lilou_cormic

07. Dec 2018 · 02:46 UTC

Nice game. Simple, yet engaging. Art is superb and sound fits in well.

PabloDap

08. Dec 2018 · 17:08 UTC

Beautiful graphics and palette!

Like others said, having the wheel of strengths and weaknesses in the middle (even a bit faded out) would help a ton, as the first matches you don't remember the equivalences. Having the line of elements in an order of strength, like the external pentagon (rock, scissors, quill, paper, bucket) to at least be able to see one of the matchups would be really useful. I know you went for the order of the title, but I think gameplay should come first and the acronym doesn't suffer either.

After a while you remember them, but it would be really appreciated.

Also, it didn't make much sense to me how the paper could win agains the bucket, does it... cover it...?

You have a beautiful and fun game and I could even see it as a small mobile game. PVP would be an awesome addition too! Good luck with it!

Tymus

09. Dec 2018 · 10:43 UTC

Wow, the game's beautiful, there's a real mood in it, with the music and the leaf patterns <3
Gameplay wise it's a simple but clever twist on a classic, well done!

I loved it

Yaen

14. Dec 2018 · 03:17 UTC

Wonderful visual design!
The game does benefit from the sacrificial aspect a lot. It actually made it pretty hard. I couldn't beat the AI consistently, to be honest haha.
Sounds were also very well made.
Good job!