{"id":1919,"edition":10,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":13069,"name":"Moth","authors":[{"name":"Elliot Nelson","url":"https://7tonshark.com","twitter":"7tonshark","login":"elliot-nelson","gh":58273}],"description":"

Ambushed, beheaded, burned, and trapped in a wrought iron coffin. Once an almost invincible necromancer, your last remaining toehold in this world is the only nearby creature – a moth.

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Escape your tomb, now full of vengeful ghosts, by possessing an army of restless moths. Gather resources, build defenses, and then strike out for the tomb’s exit. Are you ready to reclaim your former glory?

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Playable on your phone, tablet, or any desktop browser.

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Feels like it needs more hand holding in the beginning to understand how to play. Having to press action twice gets annoying after a while when you know what they do.

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Love the vibe and graphics are really nice <3

\n","games":["Deadly Affection"]},{"at":315791682,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

I liked playing the game, it’s a solid entry.

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The pixel graphics were really good, as was the atmospheric music.

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It was a little hard to get going, maybe a tutorial would be good, or starting with some currency to get building right away to know how things worked.

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The darkness of the whole game with a dungeon at night feel fitted the theme well, as did the light moving around.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":315898719,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"

Great game but I think a tutorial would really help. I wasn’t sure what I was doing until I gave it a few tries. I ended up creating a ton of towers until I realized I was supposed to move the coffin.

\n","games":["Incident at BIO13K"]},{"at":315961884,"author":"Antoine Dricot","login":"gagamoto","gh":89348536,"text":"

Hard to understand how to pass even the first wave!\nBeautiful and nice to play!

\n","games":["Nimbus"]},{"at":315965108,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"

Great atmospheric mix of tower-defence / RTS game, First 5 times I just explore how to manage and build towers, then I easily pass the level. Like the palette choice and pixel size, great music and Fx by the way

\n","games":["13"]},{"at":316053993,"author":"Justin Gilman","login":"EyeOfMidas","gh":3173530,"url":"https://eyeofmidas.com","twitter":"eyeofmidas","text":"

Great concept! RTS-style escape the dungeon was really fun to play. The “bwooo” of incoming levels added a ton to the creepy atmosphere, as well as the elaborate lighting of the spooky cave.

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Controlling the moths was tough; I found myself wishing I could specify just one to take certain actions like building a tower or exploring. Definitely died one time because I sent all of them out exploring just before a wave came.

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Did eventually escape the dungeon and make it out to terrorize the villagers. Excellent entry.

\n","games":["Merchant of Death"]},{"at":316161708,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

This is an amazing game with some serious replayability!! I haven’t reached the stairs yet, but it’s really fun to play.\nThe game’s atmosphere is really charming and on point. The music is really nice too.\nThe controls are confusing at first. It would have been nice to know i can double click on things to direct the moths there. But also, I don’t understand why the moths don’t obey me sometimes. Are they too far? I lost too many moths because they just continued working instead of taking shelter as I wanted. I will probably return to this game to play it until the end. Great job!

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316176019,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Nice graphics and music, looks good and plays well.

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Quite tough to get started but once you have lots of towers you just have to be careful to stay away from waves and let your towers do their job.

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Sometimes got confused with building, clicking in the build icon and placing the item would be handly so I knew what action I was about to carry out.

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Good entry!

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316233369,"author":"Michael Primo","login":"michaelprimo","gh":10359577,"url":"https://michaelprimo.it","twitter":"MPMintis","text":"

I like this game! Really polished and well done!

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Unlike others, I get the game really quickly, even if a tutorial can help other players since RTS is not a really famous genre. On paper, the game is really good and minimalistic. On reality, I found this game more harder than normal. Picking up earth is frustrating because it’s really slow, moving the coffin takes literally 1/3 of the earth of one place and there aren’t so much of them. Before the game kinda bugged out because my moth was flying always on right and I couldn’t call back in anyway (I hadn’t enough earth for calling back the moth from the coffin), I finished all the earth of the beginning and that means I kinda stuck. With this knowledge I can replay the game and play differently knowing this, but it’s better to remove some of the frustration and difficulty next time. I know this is a awesome game, with really good visuals, polish and music and you are really good on your stuff, so I know you will do a even better game next time. Keep it up!

\n","games":["Bye Roll!"]},{"typ":2,"at":316567479,"author":"Huabin Ling","login":"pandamicro","gh":632460,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/huabinling","twitter":"pandamicro","text":"

Awesome work !\nIt took me some time to understand the classic RTS control, but once I get it, it’s becoming super fun to explore and gradually build up the defense towers. The best parts are the pixel art and music.\nTechnically, there are plenty of details, the mist, the moth and enemy AI.\nAll in all superbe game !

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I loved this game! The pixel art style, the music, the atmosphere are awesome. The controls are a bit hard at first but can be managed in a few minutes.

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One note, though: the game ends as soon as the first moth reaches the ladder. And the moth can do path finding through the darkness. So if the first thing you do is sending the moth to the ladder, it just goes there.

\n","games":["Cooking for Skully"]},{"at":316613256,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Great game once I knew how the controls worked, and realized I was controlling the moths, not the coffin/grave stone. It would be nice to select individual moths for more control. I’d also like to use right mouse click to explore (instead of having to press the explore button twice.) I see the controls were made for mobile first, but it works for desktop too.

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I wish I wasn’t able to explore close to the ladder, because I was able to win immediately. Maybe add some mist over it. It’s good that you show us where the ladder is, and have an animation from the ladder to the base. That’s good game design.

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We have path finding, fog/mist, sound effects, the ghosts stop a little when I hurt them, I need to hide my moths so the ghosts don’t kill them during the waves. It was a really fun game to play.

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The music and sound effects are great! The graphic is astonishing and overall a great entry. I want to try it again and see how long I can survive. I feel that’s the game’s main feature since escaping is too easy. I believe the end-game is to gather as much dirt and lives as possible before escaping

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316667807,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"

while I struggled at some points with the gameplay (no idea how to select multiple moths; double click to run some action), graphics and music are on point.

\n","games":["Book of Death"]},{"at":316672579,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

I didn’t understand what I could or should do.

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316929216,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"

It took me a few plays to figure out the controls. Cool mix of RTS and tower defence. Lovely graphical style. It feels like a great base to add on to, with more powerful towers and upgrades, etc. Great job!

\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"typ":2,"at":317190250,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

I like the palette, aesthetics, and sounds. Overall I think this desperately needs more instructions, either on the page or in-game. Seems like there’s a lot here for just 13k, good job!

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I feel a tutorial would really help the start of this game, but it’s super complex and well made for the time you had! I really enjoyed the depth within this game, and the enemies were well made too.

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