"You are the Monster King of the lands and the subjects aren't feeling too kind towards you these days. You thought you could make them feel more at ease by starting a week long general audience with the King but things backfired. There are scores of knights and mages coming through your castle doors and you will try your best to stop them. Mixed in with these barbaric hordes are friendly mages and some goblins even dropped some chests with money to combat these animals. Unfortunately the town folk put some chests of their own with bombs in them. Better just leave them alone."
This is my first time attending Ludum Dare and boy, what a trip it has been. I tried to learn Unity, Playmaker and try to remember Javascript all in two days. Not to mention I got locked out of my house for 1 hour. :)
All in all this was an awesome experience and I learned a bunch of stuff. Thanks for that!
If you play the game put your high score in the comments so we can have some friendly competition going! :)
INFO ABOUT THE GAME:
Knights - Click and destroy on sight
Mages - There are friendly and non-friendlies about. Wait until you see which one is at your door
Chests - Click many times to force these things open. If there's a bomb inside, don't click it and let it explode after the door closes. If there's a money bag instead, by all means click that to fatten your score! If you don't click on a chest in a timely manner the door will close and you will lose health because the thought of not knowing what's inside that chest gnaws on your monstery brain matter!
Make it through 7 days and you will be victorious.
UPDATE:
-fixed the not resetting health/score and took out not supported aspect ratios
-fixed a thing with the damage tint leaving on for the start of the second game
-fixed some stupid typos with the scoring of the game. Now chest give the same amount of score as enemies.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 64% |
| #36 | Audio | 3.91 |
| #82 | Graphics | 4.06 |
| #202 | Overall | 3.51 |
| #274 | Fun | 3.31 |
| #293 | Mood | 3.24 |
| #311 | Innovation | 3.25 |
| #436 | Humor | 2.79 |
| #637 | Theme | 3.12 |
Comments
Dude well done on the art style! Loved it. Music was fantastic too. Sorry you got locked out of your house and welcome to Ludum Dare!
I liked it, after first time death, restarting always means instant death(doesn't reset health back up i think)
Greate art. And the gameplay, it is an advanced version of WHAC-A-MOLE？
this is pretty fantastic, i don't think there were really any areas lacking, good art, good sound, fun and unique. I'm jealous. my score 5422.
5081 score :)
This game was really fun :D
The art and music are well done!
Welcome to LD! This is really nice. I liked the mages. Graphics are great. Felt a bit odd that I got hurt for not answering the door to a treasure chest. Music was good.
Interesting concept, nice music.
I don't have a FullHD monitor. I've player on 1280x1024 and have not seen some stuff. You probably need to set the camera size from target width
I got 1947, but I am generally bad at making judgement calls!
It is nice and charming, good job!
Yeah I know. This was basically my first two days with Unity so I didn't get a chance to learn how to set my camera that way. Hopefully I can fix it soon. Thanks for the feedback!
Score: 9525 The art was really cool everything looked really nice. I also liked the gameplay felt really good. Overall a really good entry!
I had the same problem as namrog84. But otherwise, fun game. Great art and pretty music.
Thanks for the feedback I'll fix it and put up a new version shortly.
What I lilke about this game is that you want to keep playing it to get a higher score. It was fun to play! The music was nice and I thought the graphics were fun.
There's just one thing and I'm not sure if it's the same for everyone. But if I replay without closing the game first, my screen has a red haze. just letting you know:).
Good effort!
Awesome little game here, love the graphics and music, if I had had some sleep in the last 3 days I would probably do a lot better. Also thanks playing our game JayWoody.
Okay Now everything concerning scoring should be fixed. I left some stupid typos in there and now you can really find out who is the master at being monster king. It's all about reactions now.
Got about 21k, was a little hooked :P I like the graphics, the gameplay was not easy haha.
Couldn't even make it past 1 day though :(
Thanks Chikoness for your review! The no-changing-day bug should be cleared. I'm sorry for it to happen to you!
Pretty cool game, I loved how I was basically slamming the door in on my enemies. The wizards were also a nice touch as I had to wait to figure out whether he was good or bad. Man they even got me a few times. Overall a really good game. 4/5
nice idea :) the music felt a little too cheery, but the graphics were sweet :)
I mostly died because I clicked the chests too fast and then there were bombs in it :(
Very charming little game. The graphics are nice and the gameplay is quite nice yet it gets a bit repetitive after a while, but not that much. Could have a bit more feedbakcs and some visual indications on the timing. Nice game nonetheless!
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3230. I couldn't quite figure out what I was doing. closing doors?
Nice art style and well suited music. well done!