Realtime Strategy Dating Sim by Scott R Howell

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made by Scott R Howell for LD 41 (COMPO)

You're on a date in a castle, your date is rich and funding your war, keep her happy to get more gold, converse with your date to the right, audio cuse and reaction text will clue you in to whether you are impressing or upsetting her. Ignoring her will upset her, if she becomes upset enough she will damage your base from the inside. Left click or drag Left click to select your base (the textured castle) and or units, Right click to move and or set rally for your units. Units abilities are displayed and selectable at the bottom. While selected units display their damage range, attacks are passive. Your Units are:

  • The Worker (Costs 50 Gold) - fast, weak, low dps, but with the ability to saccrifice itself to heal a nearby units
  • The Ranger (Costs 100 Gold) - slow, weak, high dps, with an outstanding range
  • The Tank (Costs 200 Gold) - slow, strong, high dps, close range, with the ability to siege / destroy enemy Nests

Destroy all enemy nests to win, a nest will only be destroyed when a tank sieges without any other enemies in range.

https://youtu.be/qesN3-HD7iM

Controls:

  • Left Click - Select
  • Right Click - Move Command
  • Middle Click (Hold) - Scroll with mouse on Screen bounds
  • W, A, S, D - Scroll while mouse on Screen

Ratings

Given 13🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

Memel06
23. Apr 2018 · 09:56 UTC
Really creative idea, mix dating with economy based war by the rich girlfriend XD

I liked the overall product, and the graphic is ok for a jam entry.

Thanks for you work!
Aterlamia
23. Apr 2018 · 10:05 UTC
Interesting idea, "everything is allowed in love and war" they say so this should mix perfectly.

Some minor issues i had with this are that you do not start focused on the castle which confused me as i thought i might needed to build one. The idea of the dialog is also funny but i only saw 3 questions repeated over and over which started to get irritating.

keep up the good work
literallyjosh
23. Apr 2018 · 10:12 UTC
Neat. Took me a minute to work out how to use the unit abilities but a cool idea.
spthiel
23. Apr 2018 · 10:14 UTC
When you first enter the game it's pretty fun and you get stressed easily but once you figured out how it works it get's really repetitive to a point where sound & gameplay is just annoying :/
Some more dialouges, towers and maybe some upgrades would've been nice
Zinkler
23. Apr 2018 · 10:14 UTC
I love the general idea behind it - your date sponsoring your war. Of course, the game would benefit from a deeper dating system (three questions is definitely not enough), better balance (I only need tanks for all my needs) and smarter AI. Thank you for your entry!
Krystof Klestil
23. Apr 2018 · 10:26 UTC
Finally the truth about relationships...
🎤 Scott R Howell
23. Apr 2018 · 10:44 UTC
Aye I would have added more dialogue options were it not for getting stuck for 6 hours on an engine issue :'(
The Tech count at the top hints to the fact I was going to implement upgrades and such (you earn tech for successive perfect answers), but I simply ran out of time, thanks for playing everyone :)
fashionbatman
24. Apr 2018 · 17:58 UTC
Great concept! It's cool to see another dating sim on here. Good job!
stormburpee
24. Apr 2018 · 18:17 UTC
Interesting concept, for the economy management side! Really good work though good job!
Talops
24. Apr 2018 · 19:02 UTC
Fantastic one, I'd have loved more dialogue (gets repetitive after the first match) and more difficulty.
Visual & audio feedback to my actions were great, and cherry on top it's made with godot!
Well done!
sh1rogane
24. Apr 2018 · 19:45 UTC
Like the concept. Needs way more questions than the 3 there was and maybe more features/units but with only 48 make it I can understand not having time for that.
Kwisarts
10. May 2018 · 16:06 UTC
Took me a bit to understand how it works at first because your castle is not on sight. Not bad, but it feels a bit dull at some point. Your objective is often to just build tanks as they're... tanks and allow you to siege. Too bad her dialogue doesn't have more diversity (just 3 different dialogues), it's mostly just a "click here from time to time" thing cause at some point you don't even care what she says, you just click the right answer cause you know which it is.