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What is Katharsis?

The love child of an RTS, a Survival game and an Adventure game, Katharsis places the player in the role of Arka, an emergency AI tasked with the mission of protecting a group of survivors on a mysterious alien planet.  

We only managed to finish the first map for the jam.  But we have the second in Drive for whoever wants to play it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ci9tx9PU11DMxJLgy97HybW07zfi9rf1

Hi! First of all thanks for the feedback. Try out the second map by using the link in the game page. That map has a hill 😉. Also the pit is much less shallow and it's much easier to push pieces out. 

Finally as for balancing and other map-based interactions, we have a lot of ideas but we're waiting until the whole team can meet together and really talk them out. 🇦🇨👍🏽

and yes, we were trying to also conserve the overall dynamics used in chess (at a low level) where Towers are for agressive movements, Bishops for quick sneaky ones and Horses for covering space although we're still tweaking masses for this purpose. Obviously experienced chess players see the values at a much deeper level but we wanted the game to be approachable as you said :)

WoW thanks for taking the time to give us your feedback! :D

If you want we have a link for a second map and a slight change to the current one I'm the game page. But keep in mind they're not part of the jam! (We finished it like 30 min late :| )

We only managed to finish the first map for the jam.  But we have the second in Drive for whoever wants to play it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ci9tx9PU11DMxJLgy97HybW07zfi9rf1

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Thanks for the support, it means a lot! If you liked the map we have a Aztec temple map 90% done. Just had a slight issue so we didn't have time to upload it (you can see a bit in the splash art)