Tafl (Lowrez Jam 2018)
Protect your Viking King while he tries to escape Orc attack by reaching the marked corner tiles.
To kill an orc, line up two viking warriors both side of the beast.
Protect your Viking King while he tries to escape Orc attack by reaching the marked corner tiles.
To kill an orc, line up two viking warriors both side of the beast.
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I’ve been experimenting with Tafl variants recently as well. — it’s interesting how much the escape rules change the game. Also i like how you added the Orcs into the story. Also the AI is a challenge, i need to work on mine as well
Good game. Its simple and a good short game.Good luck.
The enemy AI desperately needs fixing on this one, I had it all planned out, just ran out of time for jam in the end.
If I ever go back revisit this idea, I was thinking redoing graphics a little from jam's low res limit and add story mode with maybe 5 stages, and you'll only take surviving Vikings to the next stage.
But not sure if and when that would happen.
Thanks for playing :)
I agree. The AI is quite lackluster, and it'd also be nice to play as the Orcs, but everything else is nice. The graphics and sound design work well together to create a Dungeon Keeper feeling game. I think the aesthetic really works. You did a really good job with the game, but a little polish would go a long way. Good job!
the orc sounds are scary lol
I wonder the best way for AI, I'm working on AI for my game as well.
Working on updated version myself, and it's more complicated as I added new pieces with different actions, but all in all it started pretty simple. I add "score" to each open piece for enemy moves, 100 if it immediately takes a piece, 50 if it creates capture opportunity next move. Then I take those values and "calculate backwards" so any position that would lead to capture next move will get (100/2 - 50 score), any move after that would get (50/2 - +25 score). That way I can look at each piece and check all their possible moves, and pick the highest scoring one.
thanks for the info. i just learned that tafl was played on 13x13 board and my tafl board is only 11x11. I will have to make that change
Depends... the prototype I'm working on has different sizes for different "levels", not always a square shaped board either.