Proximity War by Ravenmages
* The blue faction grows more and more unstable as time goes on. Starting from just one ore harvester, can you defeat the unstable blue faction before it's too late? * ``` * Instructions: *
- Use your harvesters (little red squares) to mine (grey boxes)
- Build barracks from your home bases (large squares)
- Build units from your barracks (large red circles)
- Your "Fighter" units will attack enemy targets in their proximity
- Use mouse to pan around ```
| Windows + Linux | https://ravenmages.itch.io/proximity-wars |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/proximity-war |
Ratings
| Overall | 1284th | 3.061⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1152th | 3.031⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1184th | 2.875⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1459th | 2.379⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1080th | 2.375⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1340th | 2.638⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 59🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
It was a little unintuitive, and the instructions took a while to digest. But it was a fun experience once I got the hang of it.
Overall, really nice job.
But still, crazy how much you got done!
But there are some issues with the user interface that make it very hard in the current state.
The screen does not scale up if you increase the window size. The resolution could stay the same, but it should at least up scale.
And because it is just this tiny window, scrolling the map is way too fiddly. Actually, map scrolling felt like the limiting factor in my playthroughs.
Also, there were some grey artifacts on the map which fooled me several times, because I thought they were mines, but when coming closer, they disappeared.
The controls were not obvious from just jumping in the game, but after reading the instructions it all worked out pretty nicely.
Great entry with lots of potential!
the mouse should pan with rmb down on white area rather than insanely precise mouse placement.
my units didnt attack, neither did i figure out how to get money in the 20 minutes that i attempted to play
overall very confusing
(and yes i read the instructions 5 times over)
Some remarks on polishing:
1. Window size is pretty small on 4K display, so it is hard to read the text and focus on things.
2. Sometimes harvesters bounce away of resources so no harvesting happens. It happens than you move multiple harvesters together.
Keep going!