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Ziege

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Ziege

Outsmart the horde in a battle of wits.


Play as a team of scientists tasked with getting the cure to safety after an outbreak has taken over the lab. Outsmart the Infected as you navigate the board, making strategic moves to ensure the cure's survival in this strategy-driven board game.


Will you escape with the cure?


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Credits

Ziege was written and designed by Ross McCormick.

The music was composed by Ross McCormick.

The game is written entirely in Pico-8.

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Damn, this is a tough one for me to review! I think the game is technically quite solid with a nice presentation, intuitive design, interesting concept, and so on. But I have to admit that I'm not a fan of turn-based board game strategy stuff, and playing this just felt like such a hopeless endeavor, and a slog at that with how long you need to wait for the computer to calculate their move. Also felt strange that the game only had the one mode, where you'd think it would have different scenarios that could be bigger or smaller in scale. Anyway, even though this game ain't for me, I'm putting it down as alright since I think other people easily could have fun with it.

I tried hard first, and won on my first try with no take-backs! It definitely felt like the opponent's turns took way too long. Then I tried easy, and while the opponent moved much faster as expected, I actually found the game to be harder, paradoxically. I tried killing all the Infected and the game froze on the opponent's turn, and then outputted what I assume is some of your source code in an error message.

The game design is great, though. I found myself learning strategies naturally as I took what I thought was the best move one turn at a time, and I accidentally formed a sort of impenetrable diamond pattern

Fun, I managed to win in only a few games (and only had to undo one mistake). I get the impression there is, in fact, a set of optimal moves, but there's no way I'm going to figure it out.

The Zombies take very long to move, which I'm assuming is because of whatever search algorithm you're using for the the opponent. If you're into that kind of thing, I bet it would be fun to optimize.

I must say this a very interesting take on viking chess so well done on that account :)

Infected take a while to move

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Uploaded
Nov 8, 2024
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