Orcs v. Trolls (HTML5) by David Greene
Overview:
You are the leader of an Orc tribe, and the evil Trolls have been encroaching for far too long. Keep your Hut alive while burning the Troll Hut to the ground. Fight each of the ten Troll villages to bring peace to your region and ensure prosperity for your Orc tribe for generations to come!
Directions:
- Spells: Cost 10 mana, use to gain the upper hand
- Mana: (max: 100) Persists from level to level, regenerates slowly
- Minions: Random chance to spawn on each side of the map. Simple combat AI: chase closest target and attack!
- Big Minions: Sometimes, a Big Minion spawns, these have double size, attack and health
- Levels: Levels start easy, but progress in difficulty. Can you win 100% of your territory back?
- Power Ups: After beating a level, you have the choice between continuing with no changes or selecting one of three power-ups. Some power-ups come with a negative side effect while others are simply positive. Pick your strategy for defeating your enemy!
Post-submission to-do list:
- Directions/tutorial/main page - the game is relatively self-explanatory since it's mostly AI driven, but the user needs time to "figure it out". Sometimes that's fun, but most of the time it is not.
- Create multiple layouts for the levels
- Put up some sort of border graphic and generally make it prettier - landscape, etc
- Create a "loadout" of spells. Start the game, choose your fav 3 spells, etc
- More "types" of minions, perhaps earning them as the game progresses
Screenshots:
Submission Time

Mid-Sunday

Mid-Saturday

| Youtube | https://github.com/trumpetx/ldjam46 |
| Youtube | https://trumpetx.itch.io/orcs-v-trolls |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/orcs-v-trolls-html5 |
Ratings
| Overall | 2322th | 2.868⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1727th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1993th | 2.868⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 2487th | 2.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 2310th | 1.868⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1439th | 2.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1740th | 2.361⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 2124th | 2.763⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Also, if you used Unity 2020.1 and failed to build for HTML5 without development build, you can turn off the compression in publishing settings.
The strategy that seemed to work really well was picking meditation and spamming orcs near the troll hut. Of course, if I didn't get that power up one of the times it would have messed me up. That made for a fairly good risk vs reward system.