{"id":2035,"edition":11,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":7554,"name":"The First Horde","authors":[{"name":"Santiago Zapata","url":"https://slashie.net","twitter":"slashie_","login":"slashman","gh":3891742},{"name":"Juan Carlos García","login":"QuietGeckoAudio","gh":40271747},{"name":"Esteban Martínez Villegas","login":"Stoltverd","gh":19286141}],"description":"
After having gained intelligence during the battle of Kalka River in may 1223, the Mongol army retreated.
\nThe Kievan Rus felt at ease while Batu Khan planned an invasion like no other before.
\nIt’s 1237 and it’s time to strike!
\nTake control of a commander of the Golden Horde under Batu Khan and destroy the supply lines of the Rus while avoiding them, so you can lay siege to their cities and rise as a powerful Mongol conqueror!
\nFun game, I like how the sound helps you know that you’re getting pummeled.
\n","games":["Journey to the East: Silk Road Adventure"]},{"at":347780536,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"interesting mechanic, it could benefit from some more “eyecandy” (Effects to visually see, that the army unit is fighting my horde, etc.)
\ni wonder, if it would be a better gameplay, when batu khan would only move, when i press a key, and stands still otherwise?
\nsoundeffects and music are simple, but matching the action.
\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":347809533,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Controls in mobile could have been made more better, other than that the game play is really good.\nI really liked it. I enjoyed playing it.
\n","games":["Alquerque"]},{"at":347884929,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Nice idea, fun to play, sometimes when you have to wait for the swords to move can be a pain.
\nNice seen anything like this before as far as gameplay goes.
\nNice music and sounds,
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348042110,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"This was fun! The controls are a bit chaotic at first but then you start grasping them.\nThe graphics are super minimal and it looks great. I guess it looks different depending on which emoji font you have, by the Linux emoji fit perfectly. The music is lovely as well as the sound effects. I ended up dying because I got too greedy. The game is actually very challenging.\nIf I would improve this game, I would say better menus, fonts, dialogs etc would go a long way. But otherwise, the game is already fun.
\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348110036,"author":"newman s lanier","login":"Newman5","gh":1620405,"text":"Okay - Dang! I loved everything about this game. The music really matched the intensity of the play. The Play was simple but engaging. the Graphics, likewise, were simple but understandable and fit the theme. Wow! I got to level 6 and would play again
\n"},{"at":348613666,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"It sees like the circle tie in to the size of your horde somehow, but at one point I only had 2 but I still had tons of circles flying about.
\nI would appreciate if you could defeat some of the armies because otherwise it becomes a very slow game of waiting until they move out of the way to strike at the supply lines.
\nI enjoyed the simple mechanic though and it keeps you entertained for quite a while.
\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":348753887,"author":"stxtus","login":"stxtus","gh":79226770,"text":"Love the beats in the music and the color scheme
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348801439,"author":"Tom Harris","login":"tomhcrazy","gh":128033392,"text":"This was a cool and unique game. The music fits nicely with the theme. The basic gameplay of taking supply lines and raiding the city was fun but could do with some more interaction to keep it interesting - maybe we are able to fight the swords rather than having to wait and avoid them.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348853609,"author":"Jeremy Burns","login":"jaburns","gh":620418,"url":"https://jaburns.net","twitter":"jaburnsnet","text":"Great concept, easy to learn, and the sounds suit the game well. At first I thought I could harm the army a little bit, and they completely destroyed me. It might be nice to be able to trade some amount of the horde off in a skirmish to get at a resource line faster. Overall well done!
\n","games":["CannonBolf"]},{"typ":2,"at":348941241,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"I found the game to be brutally hard. It is difficult to raid the supply lines without getting close to the army units. I found it a bit hard to tell how much impact the various upgrades had on my abilities. I would have liked to be able to move diagonally. Did you consider letting supply line raiding replenish some of the horde?
\n"}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":23,"min":1.08,"score":3.78,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":54,"min":1.12,"score":2.96,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":82,"min":1.24,"score":2.7,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":113,"min":1.21,"score":2.52,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":46,"min":1,"score":2.91,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":63,"min":1.29,"score":2.96,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":62,"min":7.57,"score":17.83,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}