Fellowship Manager by Honest Dan

Controls: Mouse only. Left click to move. Right click to pan the map.
The idea behind Fellowship Manager was to combine medieval combat with the classic football manager franchise formula. We wanted to focus on developing a game where the battles were simulated, but you would be responsible for managing your fellows (soldiers) between battles and deciding on strategic formations for battles.
UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback! As always we overscoped, but we are glad that people are trying to appreciate the ambition and ideas, even if the lack of balance / ease of use features can impact the "fun" factor. We would have loved to have included a "assign all role X" button, or "order fellows by stat" feature - but alas, time was our foe!

The project was really ambitious for a 3 day game jam, and so sadly the game is still not very well balanced or fully complete. However, you are still able to enjoy the current content, including: - Name and manage a fellowship of soldiers, who are set on bringing an end to an unbalanced king's rule - Generation of fellows with randomised faces and features, along with names submitted by the community - Manage the vital statistics of fellows, avoiding statistics drop too low and leading them to an early grave - Decide where your fellowship should rest and perform out of combat activities - Micromanage which fellows perform activities; such as hunting, healing allies and resting between battles - Decide which weapon each fellow uses in combat (sword, mace, polearm or bow) based on their individual characteristics - Allocate fellows to strategic blocks, which are given specific tactics for battle. - Decide on a battle formation for your fellowship's strategic blocks - Watch simulated battles with context specific commentary (tribute to Football Manager) - Visit villages to recruit new fellows to your fellowship - Do battle against the mad King's armies to grow in reputation - Take on the mad King at his castle to bring back stability to the lands - Explore a hexagonal game board with vibrantly illustrated game art - Listen to 3 original, fantastic, sounds tracks made for the game

There are still many bugs and balancing issues, but are really pleased with how far we got with a rather ambitiously scoped jam game.
Some notes to keep in mind the following bugs while playing the game in its current state: - Please don't spam-click buttons too fast - Try and close popups in the order of how recently they popped up, if possible - The gold mechanic wasn't fully implemented - You can still eat even if your food supply isn't high enough - ALT + F4 to quit
We patched in a fix that would break the game if you clicked on either Fellowship Overview or Battle Management buttons during a battle, and stopped you from being able to attack enemies regardless of range as it made the game mechanics confusing.
Created for LD49 - Unstable by BrainoidGames, HonestDanGames and ElysiaGriffin
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| Link | https://honestdan.itch.io/fellowship-manager |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/fellowship-manager |
Ratings
| Overall | 696th | 3.563⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 956th | 3.234⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 673th | 3.381⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1338th | 2.754⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 557th | 3.813⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 486th | 3.5⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 707th | 2.974⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 877th | 3.294⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 71🗳️ | 138🗨️ |
@validdark @Juanlu there is now a build uploaded.
I want to clearly state this is a huge amount of work for a game like this, and I love it so far, but I know from experience how these UI things can stack up.
And fair @ollieoa - fun and accessibility wasn't high enough a priority for us this time round!
Great job!
Brainoid did great on music, I love how quick he can make something sounds so epic. The 2D sprites in 3d really gave a lot of character too thanks to Elysia.
We agree it would have been nice to see each unit health in battle (like when you monitor the energy of players and do substitions in FM). Appreciate you giving the game time <3