Play game
Shroomknight Faction's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity/Uniqueness | #20 | 3.486 | 3.600 |
| Use of this year's theme | #30 | 1.807 | 1.867 |
| Clarity of Rules/Mechanics | #31 | 1.678 | 1.733 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Includes Law of Root?
No
Includes PnP?
Yes
Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Comments
Fun theme and some interesting ideas for sure! I do enjoy the multi-control over meeples, very interesting, though I do mirror concerns below about it being unfun to be the target of this, especially as certain factions.
I will say I'm a bit confused over the inclusion of the darkspore faction - I'm not really sure what they do? Thematically, I went into reading this expecting them to be a foil to the lightspores in some way, but they seem rather docile and honestly like fodder to be hit. Perhaps their inclusion is unnecessary? Or I could be missing something! I do enjoy the idea of an opposing mirror getting in the way.
I created that for the zombies to have something to do. And I needed an interesting way to score points. Also I think that this passively helps in the forest not being almost entirely zombified by you.
So the darkshroom faction basically does nothing and sits there waiting to be removed- but other factions can benefit from this meeples not being able to be zombified by you and also can move them away from you.
But yeah I recognize it is a bit confusing so any ideas are welcome
Cool idea to go with stacking pieces, and interacting with other factions warriors in an interesting way!
I'm wondering if the counterplay to them is to remove as many darkspores as possible and just let em have the light ones. Since removing dark spores in battle seems like EZ points.
Btw what are the function of light and dark forts? I see how they are placed but don't know what they do.
Great submission!
Forts arte the crafting pieces
by the way see that a faction can battle its own building if it is on top of a substrate
Interesting ideas, but I'm concerned that the entire premise will destroy some factions. I think one necessary nerf so that other factions can play around being infected is for them to somehow pay to remove spores from their warriors. Currently, you are only playing the game with other people's warriors, which is fun for you, but the opponents will not think that their warriors being uncontrollable is fun. Not sure how to effectively change it, because the entire faction is just using enemy warriors and making them battle, building darkspore warriors just to kill them for vp. A fun idea, but I can't see it added to a game without not being fun for somebody. I like the idea of placing buildings on top of propogates, that seems like a novel idea
You need screenshots of your faction board and stuff. that way we can rate it