HeXor by Sosolol261

made by Sosolol261 for LD34 (JAM)

HeXor
[A Real Time Hexagon Tile Based Strategy Game]

This game let's you command the fight between malware and antimalware.
You being on the antivirus side, your job is to defend the PC and recover every chip that was infected.

Theme: GROWING
You stop the virus's territory from growing while expanding yours.

The main idea of this game was actually a virus vs. immunesystem scenario but the textures looked so futuristic, we had to change it.

Have fun playing this game! Please rate fair and leave constructive critism.

The OS/X Version has not been tested.

[[0.1.1 UPDATE]]
BUG FIXES:
Fixed bug where updating and keyboard controls wouldn't work if you have played the tutorial before.
Fixed bug where music wouldn't play after the first song finished.
Fixed bug where the Debugging Tower wouldn't damage any cells.
Fixed bug where units couldn't be placed even if the requirements were met.

Tweaks:
Tweaked chip regen rate from 10 to 5.
Tweaked Debugging Tower's attack from 10 to 15.

[[NOT NAMED UPDATE]]
Fixed even more bugs and tweaked even more stuff.

This should fix the game getting stuck at ~90%.

Gamejolt	http://gamejolt.com/games/hexor/113821
Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/gxczmfnedvjclfz/HeXor-win32.zip?dl=0
OS/X(Untested)	https://www.dropbox.com/s/binra2v8d92ppbr/HeXor.app.zip?dl=0
Source(Probably better than the OS/X option)	https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsriuuqy8n1n8js/HeXor.zip?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=55711

Ratings

Coolness	90%	2
Overall(Jam)	3.40	435

Fun(Jam)	3.24	434
Graphics(Jam)	3.54	474
Humor(Jam)	2.35	672
Innovation(Jam)	3.35	354
Mood(Jam)	2.95	730
Theme(Jam)	3.63	552

Feedback

walaber

14. Dec 2015 · 22:17 UTC

tried to run it on OS/X, but (after enabling permissions to run any apps), double clicking on the icon, nothing happens :(

🎤 Sosolol261

14. Dec 2015 · 22:25 UTC

@walaber None of us in the team had mac computers, so we didn't know if it would work or not
I'm going to try and make another mac build

matthewd673

14. Dec 2015 · 22:29 UTC

Didn't work on Windows 10. I downloaded and extracted to a new folder (leaving all files intact). Got this error: http://imgur.com/vRJUpsA

evloss

14. Dec 2015 · 22:51 UTC

Same issue as matthewd673 happened on Windows 8

🎤 Sosolol261

14. Dec 2015 · 23:02 UTC

@evloss @mathewd673 @walaber New builds should be up. Hopefully no errors this time, though i still doubt that the OSX one will work :(

antonuklein

14. Dec 2015 · 23:03 UTC

Error on loading, same issue as matthewd673, Win 8.1.

Elit3dGaming

15. Dec 2015 · 00:01 UTC

Works great on windows 7, I hope you resolved the other OS errors because the game is really fun to play and challenging too. Good job :)

ashdnazg

15. Dec 2015 · 00:09 UTC

Mac OSX here: still a broken archive. When running the .love bundle directly using love2d, I get a stacktrace:

main.lua:29: module 'src.UI.winlosescreen' not found
no file 'src/UI/winlosescreen.lua in LOVE game directories

Evannex

15. Dec 2015 · 00:37 UTC

Okay so works great for me on Windows 10, but ironically the debugging tower seems to be bugged! :D You can't place it, even after having the prerequisite. And you can't destroy it if the enemy builds it.

Very fun game though, regardless, so great job!

Suui

15. Dec 2015 · 00:42 UTC

Nice game, incredibly big and well done for the time given, however..

After 15 minutes I was near the enemy and couldn't defeat it, stuck at 94% until I gave up at 25 min because I spammed the whole map with towers and couldn't win.

I wasn't able to build the Debugging tower also. :(

Great work!

Odyssey

15. Dec 2015 · 01:31 UTC

I'm a developer for this game. Thank you for your feedback, the debugging tower bug was overlooked in our rush and we fell short in that area. We're already trying to fix it now.

If you want, come back later and play to see if you enjoy it.

As for the OSX bug: none of us own a mac it's highly suggested that you download Love2D(very lightweight) and run the source through it. Thanks for your patience with us!

Odyssey

15. Dec 2015 · 02:48 UTC

I found the bug and it's because it actually wants you to have 10 or the prerequisites. It'll be fixed once I can logon to the main account

🎤 Sosolol261

15. Dec 2015 · 04:02 UTC

We are horribly sorry for the huge variety of inconvenient bugs. We still hope that you can look over our mistakes and enjoy the game!

🎤 Sosolol261

15. Dec 2015 · 04:56 UTC

The windows build has been fixed! Still not sure about the OS/X version since nobody in our team has an OS/X device.

parias001

15. Dec 2015 · 06:11 UTC

This was really nice!

crucknuk

15. Dec 2015 · 06:37 UTC

Nice game overall, unfortunately, after a while, it seems I can't complete the level : I'm stuck at around 10% zone remaining for the enemy, and it keeps popping towers right after I destroy them.

Seems like a lot of work went in though !

🎤 Sosolol261

15. Dec 2015 · 06:51 UTC

The Difficulty is being tweaked. Thank you for your review :)

Weeping Rupee

15. Dec 2015 · 06:57 UTC

I like the idea, although it moved a little slow for my taste. clever unite names though

🎤 Sosolol261

15. Dec 2015 · 07:02 UTC

You can speed up the time if you want to. See more in the tutorial. @Weeping Rupee

Bloodyaugust

15. Dec 2015 · 07:26 UTC

I unfortunately cannot play the game, as after numerous tries, the little blue bar never progresses, and so I get no ticks. I tried spacebar, tried speeding and slowing the game. Please fix, I'd love to try it!

victorfisac

15. Dec 2015 · 07:42 UTC

Nice game! So interesting and good graphics

🎤 Sosolol261

15. Dec 2015 · 07:47 UTC

@Bloodyaugust We are sorry to tell you that probably, that bug won't be fixed for quite some time. An alternate way to play the game, is to download Love2D www.love2d.org, rename the .zip to .love and running it.

RougeRogue

15. Dec 2015 · 08:48 UTC

Nice concept but it gets stuck at 20% to 80%

Windmill Games

15. Dec 2015 · 13:52 UTC

I have a thing for nice menus and this is one of the nicest ones I have seen so far :)

The game is very complex for being a Ludum Dare game, It took me a little while to understand and read everything, but once you get it, it's a lot of fun!

The visuals of the game are very nice and coherent and it just feels like a full game.

Great job and an amazing entry!

peterthehe

15. Dec 2015 · 16:14 UTC

An excellent entry for the time it was made in. It did crash a lot though :P

SpringCabal

16. Dec 2015 · 05:46 UTC

Run on windows 10 fails every time with this error:
https://i.imgur.com/UPGXgBR.png

Same error running regular and as admin.

timeshapers

16. Dec 2015 · 06:08 UTC

a very interesting basis for a game, but I feel like it needs a lot more work. I didn't feel like I had any interesting decisions past building some economy first. Once I did that, I just dumped buildings on the board as fast as I could click them cause I had no money issues.
Possibly having buildings have a maintenance cost would provide some choice, and adjacency to other buildings for compounded effects.

AsixJin

16. Dec 2015 · 06:11 UTC

This was a very fun game. I played a full game and won. I didn't care for the text heavy tutorial, but the game is easy enough to pick up. Have to get more of this game....would be a great mobile game.

broknecho

16. Dec 2015 · 06:39 UTC

Really neat sort of tug of war tower defense like mechanics. Art style was great. set a neat mood.

Overall pretty good job!!

HongerTrollie

16. Dec 2015 · 07:05 UTC

Played this game from start to finish. You can be proud of this. I had a lot of fun. Well done.

qwetro

16. Dec 2015 · 07:43 UTC

Great job, except for the music. The music itself is very good, but doesn't match the game well. It's just too "Disco" made me headache when I trying to think, I have to turn it off to keep playing.
Other than the music, it's all good, even incredibly polished in the time given. I haven't meet any bugs, lucky me :)

🎤 Sosolol261

16. Dec 2015 · 13:04 UTC

We've tried to make our own calm music and asked many many people around and as they couldn't help us, we had to go with the easy option. Thank you for your review @qwerto

mahham

16. Dec 2015 · 14:11 UTC

@SpringCabal That's because you denied the game using the internet. It uses a library called lovebird for debugging in a browser that needs internet access.

Karai17

16. Dec 2015 · 21:47 UTC

Wow, a really solid game! It took a few moments to figure out how to play and I wasn't aware I would move the camera around so I was very confused about why red was doing so well despite my screen being mostly blue. I won in the end, though! :)

csanyk

17. Dec 2015 · 04:29 UTC

This looks really cool!

josefnpat

18. Dec 2015 · 10:04 UTC

Really awesome game! I was very confused at first, and I had to mute the music, but once I got rolling, it was great!

sP0CkEr2

19. Dec 2015 · 03:38 UTC

little hard to figure out what is happening - but felt like a lot was there so going to revisit again - nice effort

Kerdelos

02. Jan 2016 · 18:54 UTC

Nice game, I like what you did with the UI. I don't know why but at first I was persuaded to be the red one and therefore wasn't able to build anything hahaha. I feel the game need more balancing and more explanation as to how cells are conquered but impressive ob anyway !

SinclairStrange

02. Jan 2016 · 23:29 UTC

After some tries/experimenting/figuring out stuff I finally understood and it great. Very interesting idea and the whole thing was very effective! Great job! :D