{"id":1958,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13296,"name":"Battle commander - Middle ages","authors":[{"name":"Santi Herranz","twitter":"santiherranz","login":"santiHerranz","gh":961911}],"description":"<p>Prepare for battle!</p>\n<p>Choose your army and send them to victory.\nPress fight button to begin.\nScore points when you kill the enemy.\nEnjoy and conquer the campaign.</p>\n<h3>Controls</h3>\n<p>Mouse control</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Left button to place the unit;</li>\n<li>Right button to remove;</li>\n<li>Use the scroll wheel to place multiple units;</li>\n<li>Drag mouse to place continuously;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Better performance in Chrome.</p>\n","source":"santiHerranz/js13k2023-Battle-commander-Middle-ages","stars":5,"comments":[{"at":347254497,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"<p>I like it very much! I wish there was an incentive for trying or retrying missions in different ways - once I found the best units, the composition of my armies changed very little.</p>\n","games":["Feast Night"]},{"at":347261900,"author":"Alpine Games","login":"Alpine-Games-Dev","gh":143655814,"url":"https://alpinegames.itch.io","twitter":"Alpine_Games","text":"<p>Creating your army is fun and the battles are interesting although it would have been cool for more types of soldiers later on.</p>\n","games":["One Guard"]},{"at":347272928,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"<p>A very fun little game. It’s simple but effective. Maybe the troops shooting the giant cannons are a little OP, but that’s kind of okay to me, in this type of game I like to be able to just make crazy armies and have fun.</p>\n<p>I do think some incentive to like use less troops, or some other mechanic like that would help, but still, was fun! I was impressed by the fog of war effect as well!</p>\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":347313935,"author":"Andrei Iacob","login":"porumbeii","gh":66866296,"text":"<p>Very cool game! I love the idea, very juicy. But my computer’s fans are screaming when playing level 8 and up. Would be nice to see some music</p>\n","games":["13 Samurai"]},{"at":347336489,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"<p>Interesting puzzle like game about army building. You need to use different type of troops to deal with different types of enemies.</p>\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":347346861,"author":"Crystal Parker","login":"Vertfromage","gh":29644308,"url":"https://vertfromage.github.io","twitter":"vertfromageio","text":"<p>Good battle game. I was a little confused with the blank screen in the unrevealed army. I would have liked a move tool to reposition individual soldiers.</p>\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347368612,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"<p>Great game! I finished the whole campaign happily. Graphically maybe the units could have had a little more differentiation, it was hard to see who was who on the big battlefield!</p>\n<p>Gameplay was really fun. Not sure it was entirely balanced yet, but the idea works great. It’s engaging to set up formations and see how they behave. Well done.</p>\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"at":347407412,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"<p>I had a lot of fun with this one! I completed the campaign in the easy mode, and played some levels in the hard mode.</p>\n<p>I found a couple small issues:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I finished the campaign, I clicked some buttons (don’t remember the exact sequence), then I clicked “Play” again somewhere, and I went back to my finalized game, and I couldn’t go anywhere from there. Not even the back button would work.</li>\n<li>The enemy artillery seems to attack itself when there aren’t any units  in their range to shoot. In the level 4 I added one “Testudo” at the very left side of my area, and one “Cavalry” at the very right. At first the enemy artillery would shoot my Cavalry unit, and then they start to explode themselves. It is also fun, but probably not intended. :D</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":347442187,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"<p>I really like the ability to place a ton of units very quickly and come up with formation patterns.\nAnimations are really cute, sending a hundred tiny soldiers to fight is really satisfying.\nMusic would have been a great addition</p>\n","games":["Path to Glory"]},{"at":347446900,"author":"Misael Braga","login":"misabitencourt","gh":5315140,"text":"<p>It is really fun.</p>\n<p>This is the funiest game i have played in this contest.</p>\n","games":["Death Sea XIII"]},{"at":347449921,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"<p>Well done:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great auto battler</li>\n<li>Units had distinct visuals that was easy to tell them apart</li>\n<li>Had fun with the different levels and unit combinations</li>\n<li>Controls worked out really well with being able to place a lot of units at a time</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Feedback:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artillery seems a bit too powerful. I would mostly just line up a group of artillery and then a group of shield warriors in font of them to tank the army and let the artillery clean house</li>\n<li>I was a bit confused at first on Level 5 (I think) where the initial playfield is in darkness. Didn’t know if it was a bug in the game or the game broke</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Necromancer Colony Sim"]},{"at":347454535,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"<p>Great entry! Played this for quite some time and would love to come back and play again.</p>\n<p>Graphics are good, cute animations, be good to have some music also.</p>\n<p>The cannons are a bit overpowered, would be good to limit those on some levels and also see some walls etc on the levels but for a 13k game this is very impressive!</p>\n<p>Can see this doing well overall.</p>\n<p>** I think you have a typo campaing rather than “campaign”</p>\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347462441,"author":"John Swana","login":"swashvirus","gh":30010266,"twitter":"swashjunior","text":"<p>Good concept and nice fights couldn’t get past fist obstacle</p>\n","games":["Trench Fisher"]},{"at":347520502,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"<p>Solid autobattler, but a little but unbalanced. Artillery erases everything even on Hard</p>\n","games":["Weird Cannon"]},{"at":347524018,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"<p>Lot of fun playing with this game!\nI like the battles with hundreds of warriors, I like the way warriors jump when they win, I like the controls (possibility to put lots of units just by left cliking),…\nMaybe the only improvement I may suggest is to add some music.</p>\n","games":["Cathedral builder"]},{"at":347585555,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"<p>My favourite game so far from the Jam. Superfun to play, very well presented.</p>\n","games":["Knights of Acre"]},{"at":347679811,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"<p>Super fun! It’s a very exhilarating game. The character in the game are so cute. And that’s great to see the ability of all solider types. Well done! The only advice is that maybe color scheme of the visuals could be adjusted to optimize the overall experience.</p>\n","games":["Mongol March"]},{"at":347707725,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"<p>Graphics were cute. game mechanic was fun.</p>\n<p>Sometimes difficult to see what was going on.</p>\n<p>The mousewheel idea to change placement size was handy. Ran out of money very quickly then had no choice but to fight and ultimately lose.</p>\n<p>Didn’t manage to win any battles, wasn’t sure how to strategise an efficient win.</p>\n<p>The battles were really slow, could have done with a FFWD button.</p>\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"typ":2,"at":347869315,"author":"Jeremy Burns","login":"jaburns","gh":620418,"url":"https://jaburns.net","twitter":"jaburnsnet","text":"<p>Nice game! It was fun figuring out a strategy for level 4 specifically, to avoid a tie from both slides blowing everyone up. The sounds work really well, and the interface is intuitive. The fog of war existing on my side of the map threw me off a bit, I thought the game had frozen on a black screen or something, but over all not a big issue.</p>\n","games":["CannonBolf"]},{"at":348023000,"author":"Arthur Brongniart","login":"Platane","gh":1659820,"url":"https://platane.me","twitter":"platane_","text":"<p>very fun an addictive game, I beat it twice :D</p>\n<p>cool details such as the army page, with all the cute animations.</p>\n<p>gameplay wise, If think the artillery is a bit overpowered, especially since the IA doesn’t use it much.</p>\n<p>I like the level where the IA align a lot of artillery, where one cavalry triggers a chain reaction of suicide.</p>\n<p>in term of performance, I could feel the game lagging with large army. Especially with firefox. I think it might show the limit of canvas 2d rendering (?)</p>\n<p>The source code is pretty neat. congratulation !</p>\n","games":["Jurassic Nursery"]},{"at":348220609,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"<p>I loved the graphics of the cores that had a shadow in flight! I also liked the graphics of the killed, as well as fog!</p>\n<p>When artillery became available it became very easy :). My strategy: artillery, shields and archers :).</p>\n<p>Although the theme of the game does not really resonate with the theme of the contest, I had fun and interesting, I completely completed the game, thanks and congratulations!</p>\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":28,"min":1.08,"score":3.74,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":32,"min":1.12,"score":3.17,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":12,"min":1.24,"score":3.77,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":61,"min":1.21,"score":3.4,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":72,"min":1,"score":2.37,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":11,"min":1.29,"score":3.74,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":25,"min":7.57,"score":20.2,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}