Originally invented in 13th Century India as a game to teach children about the virtues and vices of life. (There is a great Wikipedia article about it.)
\nSnakes and Ladders is a two player game. In this version you, the Human, play against a Bot.
\nThe Human goes first.
\nClick the dice to play.
\nColour indicators and text indicate when it’s your turn to play.
\n","source":"Nick-StormID/js13k_2023_SnakesAndLadders","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":347764813,"author":"ch!k0","login":"Chiko4Samples","gh":34527406,"text":"i love the fact you shared about the game-i never knew it was made for such reason. however i wish you could have added your own twist/version of the game to make it more interesting. also the game screen was cut in half, i dont know if it’s supposed to be that way or not. all in all i enjoyed playing this nostalgic game, thank you!
\n","games":["Rock Feud"]},{"at":347790163,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"The board is cute!
\nGameplay-wise, however, I think it’s a miss, pressing the only button and then waiting, pressing and waiting…
\nSpeaking of which, this might be an interesting take on an idle game: imagine that instead of playing yourself, you get to buy players (like smol ancient Indian robots) who each roll and resolve their turns, and you get more money / upgrade the ladders / do whatever, and then there’s the opponent who does the same thing but moves in the opposite direction or something, and upgrades the snakes.
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":347895079,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"Great research on the theme! I did enjoy the illustrations a lot too. This appears to be an entirely competent implementation of the referenced game.
\nUnfortunately the game itself isn’t very engaging. I did watch it take the first dozen turns or so, but I was not compelled to continue to the end.
\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"at":347942592,"author":"Francesco Bedussi","login":"fbedussi","gh":9413715,"url":"http://www.francescobedussi.it","text":"Is there something else to do than just throwing the dice and watch the dot moving?
\n","games":["Guess the letter"]},{"at":347957244,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"G’day!
\nOh, won for the 10th time :D.
\nGood game! In my opinion, it would be even better if you add some sound to the dice play. It would also be an interesting feature to establish the randomness of the positions of snakes and ladders. Also, a game against a person in 2 or even 4 would add emotions :). It would also be a good addition in my opinion - a little animation of snakes and ladders when the character comes across them.
\nJust some crazy random, I’ve run into snakes so many times…. :D. But it was fun, thanks!
\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348021587,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Well made, all works great, fun when you win! I hit the big ladder which was nice, plus avoided the big snake.
\nDid not know this game was 13th Century.
\nGood entry.
\nTo improve, would be cool to have some animations, different size levels and maybe some random events you have to react too and maybe even bonus levels etc.
\nCould go full out and have achivements and upgrades.
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348051327,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A nice simple game.
\nGraphics worked well and looked good.
\nSound effects were fun.
\nMaybe the dice rolls were a bit slow.
\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]},{"at":348455879,"author":"Allen Schmidt","login":"cobrajs","gh":297238,"url":"https://cobrajs.itch.io","text":"Nice implementation of snakes and ladders, just doesn’t make for the most interesting single player game. I like the illustrations, and how when the two players are on the same spot the marker splits to show it. Good job!
\n","games":["Pied Pipe Revolution"]},{"at":348465833,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"Fullscreen issues trying to play the game without scrolling is an issue. Apart from that, audio could use some juice, and a little more innovation would make this game sweeter to play. Oh, And some cookies at the end game.
\n","games":["belly flop","blue retro"]},{"typ":2,"at":348478110,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"I love how the snakes look! almost like gummi worms with cute googly eyes! great work on the game, it ran smoothly and was easy to play. my little kid would have loved this game a few years ago. I appreciated how when both tokens were on the same tile they are drawn combined. a nicely polished entry! well done.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348787334,"author":"Tom Harris","login":"tomhcrazy","gh":128033392,"text":"It’s classic snakes and ladders with minimal gameplay interaction through the use of a dice. The visuals are nice and well polished.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348863584,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"Everything works and it’s pretty well made. I did not know the history of Snakes and Ladders - so that was interesting to learn. Good entry.
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