{"id":2082,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":10489,"name":"The Horde! The Horde! The Horde!","authors":[{"name":"Anthony Cosgrave","url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114}],"description":"<p>The Horde have destroyed nearby cities and ports. Our city may be next! Help your fellow citizens flee to safety and get our mighty soldiers across the river to battle The Horde!</p>\n<p>Alas, a cruel and cunning enemy spy destroyed the existing bridges. Fear not! Some highly confident but, not so skilled, citizens have built fancy extendable makeshift ones!</p>\n<p>Don’t leave your fellow citizens waiting too long to cross the river as they may panic and drown attempting to cross the river themselves!</p>\n<h3>Controls</h3>\n<p>Left mouse button down to extend the bridges.</p>\n<p>Move bridges left or right with your mouse to avoid any burning ships travelling down the river.</p>\n","source":"anthonycosgrave/js13k2023","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":347774501,"author":"Vivian Easley","login":"vivianeasley","gh":650185,"text":"<p>Really interesting game. I like the concept and the graphics. The hit box on the ships seems a bit too large. Also, villagers would sometimes not cross the bridge or just run into the water. I’m not sure if that was intentional. Anyways, great work.</p>\n","games":["Of All Trades"]},{"at":348052531,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"<p>Interesting idea, nice graphics and all works well.</p>\n<p>Improvements / ideas:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>More varied game play</li>\n<li>Levels - hold off horde for 10 seconds, 20 seconds etc</li>\n<li>Sounds</li>\n<li>Ways to hold back the ships</li>\n</ol>\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348123638,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"<p>Unfortunately, I could not play: I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, and you don’t call <code>.preventDefault()</code> on key events, so when I try to start the game, the page search opens for me instead.</p>\n","games":["Sir Bruno’s Minnelied"]},{"at":348316697,"author":"Chris Subagio","login":"csubagio","gh":756253,"twitter":"csubagio","text":"<p>Interesting idea! Sprite work was great, and I like some of the thoughfull touches like civilians running in disarray while soldiers cross in lockstep.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately I couldn’t quite work out how to be good at this game. I tried timing it so I pulled the bridges together first so I could start extending them before the ship has passed the dock point, but the collision for the ship was so broad that the bridges started burning long before they touched the ship. In the end, I couldn’t work out if I could do anything better than just extend the bridges, let the ship burn them to give everyone max time to cross, rinse repeat.</p>\n","games":["Robin of Thirteensley"]},{"at":348406937,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"<p>Well done:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sprites were great</li>\n<li>I like the concept of having to get two separate groups across that each serve different purposes. I also liked that each has their own unique time constraint</li>\n<li>The flaming ships help add a nice conceptual challenge so you can’t just have the bridge extended the whole time and have to strategize when to pull them back</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Feedback:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>I’m not sure what the purpose of being able to move the bridges left/right serves. They can only be used in a certain way (red dock with red bridge) so moving them didn’t seem like it would help. It was especially hurtful if one gets hit or you move to the edge of the screen as the other can move freely and they become out of step with each other and then you can’t line them both up with their respective docks anymore</li>\n<li>I couldn’t ever get further than like the 3rd flaming ship. No matter what I did I couldn’t find a way to get troops across faster</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Necromancer Colony Sim"]},{"at":348459863,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"<p>Cute graphics and nice use of monochrome emoji for the people.\nI don’t undestand what’s going on in the game or what the goal is. The font in my system is also very different that in the screenshot, mine being way way bigger and doesn’t fit in the boxes.</p>\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348607087,"author":"Stiggstogg","login":"Stiggstogg","gh":53380538,"twitter":"Stiggstogg","text":"<p>Nice idea and I like that you came up with an innovative gameloop. However, as it is with new games ideas it takes a bit of tweeking to make it really fun. Here is some feedback to improve the game:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>I did not really get, why you can move the bridges left and right…</li>\n<li>The ships are a cool idea to bring in some action and variation. However, you have not much more choice than simply removing the bridges when a ship is coming. Maybe some more decision making would improve the experience.</li>\n<li>I would definitely add some sounds / music as this adds a lot to a game.</li>\n<li>If you have a game which is controlled mainly with the mouse I would also make the whole menu controlled by the mouse and not by the keyboard.</li>\n<li>Somehow I was able to missalign the two bridges so that they do not fit anymore to both places at the same type.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Anyway, still a very nice idea and congratulations to your game!</p>\n","games":["Cathedral Master Builder"]},{"typ":2,"at":348783033,"author":"Frahaan Hussain","login":"SonarSystems","gh":6967779,"url":"https://sonarsystems.co.uk","twitter":"SonarSystems","text":"<p>Needs more variety and levels but the art was excellent.</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348941489,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"<p>Wow, this was hard. It didn’t feel like my army was able to make much of a dent into the attacking horde, and I quickly lost. It’s an interesting concept though.</p>\n"}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":104,"min":1.08,"score":2.81,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":69,"min":1.12,"score":2.86,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":127,"min":1.24,"score":2,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":110,"min":1.21,"score":2.57,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":126,"min":1,"score":1.1,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":124,"min":1.29,"score":2.19,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":125,"min":7.57,"score":13.52,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}