{"id":1982,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":8436,"name":"Turrets and Trebuchets","authors":[{"name":"Johan Åhlgren","url":"www.johanahlgren.se","login":"skanejohan","gh":4025939}],"description":"<p>Mouse only. Click on a trebuchet to load it (increase its strength), or outside it to move it. Click on a village to attack it.</p>\n","source":"skanejohan/js13k","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":347609134,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"<p>Extremely clever idea and I had quite some fun playing it.</p>\n<p>Small things to improve:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>accidental clicks on the trebuchet which load it can be extremely fatal. maybe this could be reversed?</li>\n<li>The game is extremely difficult. Since each tower can attack each of my trebuchet I died even though the chances were pretty low.</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Cathar"]},{"at":347699713,"author":"Mefistofel","login":"mefist0fel","gh":1374506,"twitter":"Polar0cean","text":"<p>Unusuall artillery game, but looks more like a puzzle with big part of random and luck.</p>\n","games":["Castle wars"]},{"at":348367325,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"<p>It took me a while to understand that you select a catapult by hovering it with the mouse. That’s not clear from the UI. So I instinctively was clicking to select, but that also make them stronger. It would be better if you click to select, and then click again to make them stronger.\nIt was also not clear at all that the yellow chestnut was an item to fix the catapult.</p>\n<p>There’s some level of strategy to the game, but ultimately whether you win or loose is strongly down to luck which makes the game less fun and that made me stop playing. But it has potential and I would play an improved version of this idea for sure.</p>\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348407784,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"<p>Well done:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting little puzzle / strategy concept</li>\n<li>I liked that you could move and still shoot. Helped make it less deadly to move and get into a better position</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Feedback:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn’t know what the orange vegetable did at first. Took a few levels to figure out that I needed to move on top of it, but then I didn’t know what it did (was full health already). Took another level to figure out it healed</li>\n<li>I was constantly clicking on the trebuchet to move it, which would then load it instead. Hover then move is an unintuitive  control</li>\n<li>It got really hard around level 5. I would try to move my trebuchets out of range of the towers, but since each tower would attack multiple times the odds that they would hit me were high while the odds that I would hit them were low. Keeping trebuchets close enough to hit would also lead to them being destroyed in one turn</li>\n<li>It would be nice if there was a display to show hit chance so I could gauge how far away I could be but still hit reasonably well</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Necromancer Colony Sim"]},{"at":348654418,"author":"Tim West","login":"westim","gh":11410900,"text":"<p>Fun little game! Easy to learn &amp; play.</p>\n<p>A few things I would change:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow deselecting a trebuchet for attacking (sometimes I accidentally clicked the trebuchet when I wanted to move it first).</li>\n<li>Provide a visual indicator when I can move the trebuchet. We have the text that appears/disappears, but it would be more immediate feedback on the map.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I have mixed feelings about how the game ends. We have numbered levels which suggests that there might be a pre-defined ending, but the game keeps scaling the difficulty up until the player reaches a level that is likely mathematically impossible to win. I would’ve preferred a defined ending, such as a final boss on level 5 where the enemy can move around the map.</p>\n<p>Awesome stuff!</p>\n","games":["Road to Roam"]},{"typ":2,"at":348700348,"author":"Clément Pasteau","login":"ClementPasteau","gh":4895034,"twitter":"ClementPasteau","text":"<p>Hey there!</p>\n<p>The mechanics work really well, it’s a really fun concept and didn’t expect to enjoy it that much.\nSome better design or environment decors would have made it even better!\nA little music too would have made the game feel more complete.</p>\n<p>I do agree with others that a little tutorial explaining the actions you can do could help, but I did get it during the first level.</p>\n<p>Nice one</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348704234,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"<p>Gameplay was a little confusing as the instructions per round wasn’t clear. Could have been a little clearer if there was an indication whether it was still the player’s turn or AI’s.</p>\n<p>Having to figure out the strategy to outmaneuver the opponent made the experience interesting and less predictable. I like how you can also reposition the trebuchets, adds an additional layer of strategy to the game.</p>\n<p>As for controls, what might have made it better when you highlight a trebuchet and it shows the percentage of success hovering over each tower.</p>\n<p>For Level 2, I don’t understand why the towers are able to go multiple rounds shooting down my trebuchets. Not clear as to why this is the case. Maybe</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348854137,"author":"Jeremy Burns","login":"jaburns","gh":620418,"url":"https://jaburns.net","twitter":"jaburnsnet","text":"<p>Fun strategy game. The UI took a little getting used to with the hovering mechanic being a bit surprising and the movement range of the trebuchet not being marked, but beyond that I had fun playing through a few rounds. Nice work!</p>\n","games":["CannonBolf"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":65,"min":1.08,"score":3.33,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":109,"min":1.12,"score":2.38,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":93,"min":1.24,"score":2.57,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":121,"min":1.21,"score":2.38,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":125,"min":1,"score":1.1,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":114,"min":1.29,"score":2.43,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":114,"min":7.57,"score":14.19,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}