No Heroes Belong Here (Post-Jam)
A reverse dungeon-crawler where you are the bad guy. Pick up cards every turn and use them to summon monsters - don't let the hero through! Made for the Ludum Dare Game Jam #55.
Note: This is the 2nd version of the game which includes some small post-jam quality of life updates - separated from the original submission game.
Made by just me, with the help of some free music and the occasional sound effects, mostly in the first 48 hours.
I spent the last day trying to create an auto-balancer that would prevent some levels from being too hard, but ended up spending an unproductive 5 hours trying to fix one bug and ultimately ended up ditching the balancer due to performance reasons (turns out trying to predict every possible move the player can make quickly gets expensive). #regrets
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It's all ogre now...
Really solid and cool idea! The main thing I'd say to fix is the hero teleporting to another room instead of backtracking to a room they just came from if they've visited all the other exits.
Teleporting might be able to work if there was some way of seeing which rooms the hero has already been to and a clearer indication of where they might teleport to instead of trying to keep track which can get tough on larger stages with many connecting rooms.
Really creative idea!
My only complaint is how lacking it is.
Would definitely be cool to see a more developed game with this idea.