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Power Lich by rattower

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made by rattower for LD33 (COMPO)
You are a lich!
Destroy the living and their castle!

Left Mouse: Attack/Move
Right Mouse: Resurrect/Skeleton Attack
Middle Mouse: Cancel Attack

UPDATE (24.08.2015, 15:00)

* Fixed a tiny bug that let various players (probably with faster PCs than mine) glitch through walls.
* Fixed a small player control bug
* Added a line to game instructions


UPDATE (24.08.2015, 23:15)

* Fixed the bug that ACTUALLY caused the wall glitching. It was rather a flaw in the level design though. A classic corner/collider glitch... I think... I hope... fingers crossed.

UPDATE (25.08.2015, 2:30)

* Added downloads for Windows/Mac OS/Linux
Web (Unity Plugin) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/adsad70w27u41yw/PowerLichWeb.html
Windows http://gamejolt.com/games/power-lich/88461/download/build/241571
Mac OS http://gamejolt.com/games/power-lich/88461/download/build/241576
Linux http://gamejolt.com/games/power-lich/88461/download/build/241585
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/bi5oo7c5djtajtb/Power%20Lich.rar?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=51350

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.46 231
Audio 2.42 575
Fun 3.54 153
Graphics 3.49 258
Humor 2.57 527
Innovation 3.16 368
Mood 3.03 440
Theme 3.70 263

Feedback

sydan
24. Aug 2015 · 02:04 UTC
This was really fun! I was very engrossed playing it, it's very simple yet perfectly challenging!
Birke
24. Aug 2015 · 02:08 UTC
Lovely low poly art and fun gameplay. It took me a while to figure out how to use the resurrect spell. I'd suggest placing the graves closer to the player to start with and also play a negative alert sound when it is used on an invalid location to make it clear to the player she is doing it wrong. Getting points for how many houses, peasants and knights you get would also give it some more replayability.
OxyOxspring
24. Aug 2015 · 14:14 UTC
Really clean low-poly art and fun gameplay! I hope that you continue to work on this game in the future!
peterthehe
24. Aug 2015 · 14:16 UTC
The low-poly art and hoards of the death remind me of Death Inc. It's a great game if you haven't heard of it yet. Good Job - I thoroughly enjoyed playing it.
t4u
24. Aug 2015 · 14:23 UTC
I really dislike that skeletons can't attack (acts only as living shields).

Aside from that over all like in all (graphic, sounds, gameplay). I would probably preffer to move using wsad.

Big like for burning houses - Really nice effect.
🎤 rattower
24. Aug 2015 · 14:31 UTC
@t4u
Hi,
Right clicking enemies orders your skeletons to attack them.
architect404
24. Aug 2015 · 14:56 UTC
the undead prevail! wow, this is really fun, has huge potential. great job!
PixlWalkr
24. Aug 2015 · 16:12 UTC
Had fun playing it, I like how you can resurrect the undead and turn them into your army!
Polyganz
24. Aug 2015 · 16:25 UTC
Funny game but too damn hard thus disappointing to play. Could have a lot potential if you improve the controls and the guards/zombie dynamics.
Peach Pie Productions
24. Aug 2015 · 18:07 UTC
Holy crap! Amazing game :) Very fun concept. I love RTS style games especially when you get to play as a commander. Great job!!!
ZzCalvinzZ
24. Aug 2015 · 18:08 UTC
nice graphics and lighting...lacking hit animations though made it less enjoyable, but overall good job
snade
24. Aug 2015 · 18:11 UTC
Well made! I still managed to glitch thru the wall though. even though you fixed that?
mantis
24. Aug 2015 · 20:23 UTC
Very good game! I really enjoy the graphic style too :)
🎤 rattower
24. Aug 2015 · 20:47 UTC
@snade
That's really weird. Can you tell me where you glitched through?
HiVE interactive
24. Aug 2015 · 20:57 UTC
Yesss! Very cool dude. I really wanted a command to tell my skeletons to attack the closest enemies (and one to cancel it so they go back to just shielding me) simple and great game!
🎤 rattower
24. Aug 2015 · 21:18 UTC
@HiVE interactive
Thanks man! You can call your skeletons back by clicking with the middle mouse button.
FZeroRacer
25. Aug 2015 · 01:37 UTC
Overall a really fun game. Raising your skeletons and going to town is easy and works great, no real problems.
packetpirate
25. Aug 2015 · 07:36 UTC
You might just win this thing! Great job!
Halfbus
25. Aug 2015 · 12:23 UTC
Nice, take a while for me to find out how to resurrect)
Rocketship
25. Aug 2015 · 12:23 UTC
Love the style of the game. Although the gameplay is basically very simple, you need to be quite careful in assessing if you can take on those soldiers, as they are quite strong. Well done!
kmiitz
25. Aug 2015 · 12:28 UTC
Very good game, add some music and sound would be perfect
solorvox
25. Aug 2015 · 12:29 UTC
Nice game, clean art and easy to figure out. Did find it a bit hard as I think skeletons should auto attack and clicking them would not always register. Graves would sometimes miss raycast and no be able to cast resurrection.
Meat Us
25. Aug 2015 · 12:51 UTC
Hey, very cool game, this can be easily continued with different types of monster, ennemies... Good work !
Lane
25. Aug 2015 · 15:13 UTC
Cool Art, its nice that you kept it simple and polished it with a very simple scope. Seems bug free and does what you intended =)
Pickens Inc.
25. Aug 2015 · 15:15 UTC
Incredibly fun amassing an army of skeletons and setting fire to houses!
Andrew
25. Aug 2015 · 15:15 UTC
THe chess-piece style of the creatures is very fitting considering you're a lich and everyone is/can be your pawn.
Frozen Ninja
25. Aug 2015 · 15:25 UTC
Very Interesting, love the graphics style, although the game is difficult due to the speed that guards run at. good job man. Also, movement would have been better with WASD or arrow keys
Nikteddy92
25. Aug 2015 · 15:26 UTC
Damn! This is funny! I really like the gameplay mechanics and I played a lot!
The graphic is clean and nice and the audio well suited!
The game is also a little difficult to beat! Well done! :D
StaNov
25. Aug 2015 · 15:33 UTC
Best game i've played so far. I'd welcome some tutorial on ressurecting, because I was smashing all enemies by my self and it seemed unbeatable.

Great job! :)
Connors
25. Aug 2015 · 15:47 UTC
I didn't find it incredibly challenging, but this was mostly because I figured out that you can lure individual guards away from the others and pick them off one by one, so I had lots of skeleltons by the end. I still enjoyed it, though.

It took me a bit to figure out that you can order skeletons to attack but when I did it got way more fun.

The low poly art is pretty cool.
Muush
25. Aug 2015 · 21:35 UTC
had a lot of fun with this, good job!
rodobodolfo
26. Aug 2015 · 01:08 UTC
Great game! It was really challenging. Art was lovely too. I genuinely wanted to play more levels! top quality
vividhelix
26. Aug 2015 · 03:14 UTC
THE UNDEAD PREVAIL! this was way more fun than expected...
gty
26. Aug 2015 · 04:19 UTC
Really nice game, loved it!
Macecraft
26. Aug 2015 · 04:49 UTC
Really enjoyed this. It's a bit simplistic but I understand the restraints of a jam. It's something I was easily able to find funny and enjoyable.
djfariel
26. Aug 2015 · 04:57 UTC
That was a lot of fun, but I really couldn't beat it. Tried a few times and just can't figure out how to not lose three skeletons per guard. haha. Ah well, great job. :)
liquidmedia
26. Aug 2015 · 06:26 UTC
GG it's a copy of an older game, it runs and plays well.
BNeutral
26. Aug 2015 · 07:28 UTC
Spooky
jk5000
26. Aug 2015 · 10:13 UTC
Scary and great idea, but it's too difficult.
Digitaldude555
26. Aug 2015 · 11:12 UTC
Fun to play, not to difficult but still offers a challenge. I'd say this is my favorite entry of the ones I reviewed. Only problem is no music.
randomhuman
26. Aug 2015 · 11:47 UTC
Simple but fun. I actually felt quite upset any time one of my zombies got killed >:(
Otrora Games
26. Aug 2015 · 13:56 UTC
Amazing work for just two days. Congrats!
TLansdale
26. Aug 2015 · 16:23 UTC
Really cool, enjoyed this one!
gmaker
26. Aug 2015 · 16:56 UTC
low-poly art is awesome =)
monetai
26. Aug 2015 · 17:23 UTC
I love the low poly art =) It's pretty fun but it would be awesome if there were a music.
internetpaulicy
26. Aug 2015 · 18:25 UTC
This is a lot of fun and very much on theme :) Congrats :D
Josh H
26. Aug 2015 · 19:13 UTC
I like the art style you went with. It's simple, but effective. Cool game overall. Nice work!
AdayMC
26. Aug 2015 · 20:00 UTC
I liked so much this entry, the guards really kicked me out! I'm gonna try it once again with full horde :P
Ptolo
26. Aug 2015 · 20:39 UTC
Lovely art style and I liked all the units sliding around like miniatures :3 Interesting mechanics of building up your horde and attacking decisively. Impressive to make so much for a solo compo entry!
aeai
26. Aug 2015 · 21:21 UTC
This was really fun, it took some time before i figured out how summoning worked but after that nobody could stop my undead army :)
boardtobits
26. Aug 2015 · 21:53 UTC
I never knew I wanted a zombie army at my command until I played this game. Great concept!
Culturebosh_games
26. Aug 2015 · 22:18 UTC
Hey! Thanks for creating a game.

What we liked:
Having a big hoard of skeletons follow you around is really fun, and it was nice to be able to direct them where to attack. The art style was nice and the objectives (kill all the things) were clear from the start.

What could be improved:
It wasn't entirely clear how to direct the skellies to attack. Once I worked that out the game was really really easy. Fun, but very short. A bit of music would have really added some atmosphere to the game and the sounds were limited but worked well enough in the game.
Realize2D
26. Aug 2015 · 23:35 UTC
It was really fun! And nice graphics too.
bigbuggames
27. Aug 2015 · 00:46 UTC
Really nice game. It remind me the level of Warcraft 3 where you play as Arthas and you need to slaughter infected citizens. You could add people inside the houses to make them interesting to destroy.
bouletmarc
27. Aug 2015 · 01:24 UTC
fun, nice design, clean game
CrazyMinnowStudio
27. Aug 2015 · 02:45 UTC
Awesome virus-style game. Love these things. Was very satisfying building my army up and then crushing the castle! ;) Good job.
Dizzyman572
27. Aug 2015 · 05:39 UTC
Really cool game! I like the direction you took with the theme, and you had very tight rts mechanics which I think I've seen so far who has managed to execute that correctly in Ludum Dare.
OFF
27. Aug 2015 · 06:19 UTC
Really fun and challenging.
Actually reaction from zombie would have been cool in order to avoid mass murder by a poor soldier.
Could be more fun with archer and other kind of zombie, skeleton, and also upgrade for creature by choice or automatically with xp point when they fight.
It lack of screams and war sound great.
DinnerInTheDark
27. Aug 2015 · 16:42 UTC
The undead prevail! I had fun, looks sweet, felt like a monster, good job!
TeamCosmitronique
27. Aug 2015 · 22:34 UTC
This was really fun. I enjoyed the board game aesthetic.
careless
28. Aug 2015 · 11:10 UTC
Great low poly models and a nice clean environment. Simple controls and task, was fun to play. Did not hear any sounds at all, maybe a bug on Firefox for Mac not sure.

A few attack FX and some basic animations you could make a nice game from this, you got a good solid base to something bigger.

Well done.
Flygamer101
28. Aug 2015 · 12:00 UTC
Really nice graphics :D Loved the low-poly art.
GarethIW
28. Aug 2015 · 18:33 UTC
nice, love the low poly style.

-CH
lycanpoet
28. Aug 2015 · 19:25 UTC
Clean, Smooth, well put together and really fun to play. Excellent Work :)
Mothdan
28. Aug 2015 · 20:02 UTC
High scores all around, great work man.
WizzardMaker
28. Aug 2015 · 20:33 UTC
Great game idea! loved the gameplay
Jacktheviper
28. Aug 2015 · 21:08 UTC
The idea of playing a powerful lich on a quest to increase your power and is a lot of fun, everytime you kill one of those pesky guards or villagers and raise their skeleton to be added them to your army of darkness is a joy.

My main complaint would be the lack of some features like pathfinding for the skeletons and enemies and more enemy variety but that is understandable considering the time frame, the game obviously has a lot of potential to be expanded.
aaronsnoswell
29. Aug 2015 · 04:48 UTC
Cool game mate! I love the art style :P Super cool. Some music would add a lot. The gameplay was quite balanced too - I wasn't able to defeat the castle guard :P 4/5!
Vladirien
29. Aug 2015 · 12:43 UTC
Loved that entry, the controls were simple and having a lot of skeletons felt powerful. Good job!
juxipolo
29. Aug 2015 · 18:30 UTC
We had some very similar ideas about how to approach this theme :)
I dig the art style. It would be nice if the skeletons had a little autonomy or it was more clear that the skeletons were attacking something and not just standing around. Was there a point to burning down the houses, or was it just cool to do?
Linus123xbb
29. Aug 2015 · 22:32 UTC
Very addictive game, it was super fun and I really enjoyed the game. Some replay value added to the game would be nice!
adsilcott
29. Aug 2015 · 22:51 UTC
What a fun game! I love the way the games progresses, either you get stronger and stronger or you get wiped out and have to rebuild. Reminds me of my days of playing Diablo 2 with a necromancer :)
Berserker_Chris
29. Aug 2015 · 23:00 UTC
Nice Idea, and good game.
commanderstitch
31. Aug 2015 · 00:01 UTC
this game is hard. I liked gathering as much people as i could, but it was just so hard not to attract the guards before i was ready to fight them. :-)
inbetweengames
03. Sep 2015 · 10:30 UTC
Pretty fun game, balancing your army and such. A bit annoying when they got stuck on trees but I guess they are only mindless undead!
Frump
04. Sep 2015 · 03:51 UTC
Pretty fun. Clicking to attack and walk was a bit awkward. satisfying to build up a horde. Liches are cool.
Jupiter_Hadley
06. Sep 2015 · 10:39 UTC
Really nice game! I included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/U5AMORGkiRk
bombjack
06. Sep 2015 · 19:51 UTC
haha I liked the gravestones :)
superfreak
10. Sep 2015 · 21:40 UTC
Enjoyable and polished entry :)