Monster Garden (itch) (never_k)

Monster Garden

Pets in roguelikes are cool. What if the whole game was just pets?

Haha, just kidding...

...unless?

The Stakes:

• The player can't attack directly.
• The player will be killed in one hit.
• Collect 16 distinct monsters in the monster-catching-ball and return to the starting area to win.

How to Play: 

• Spawn tamed monsters near wild monsters to attack and defeat them.
• Careful though, you don't control them. They go where they want.
• Click the ball in the lower left, a monster, then a space on the map to spawn a monster.
• Click a tamed monster and "RECALL" to bring them back into the ball.
• Wild monsters with low health can be captured in the same way.
• When tamed monsters do damage to wild monsters, tamed monsters in the ball gain health.
• Click a traversable space on the map to walk there. This cannot be cancelled.
• Click the player to wait a turn.

Monster Melee:

• Click a monster to see a description.
• The vital stats of tamed monsters can be seen.
• The vital stats of wild monsters will be obscured.
• Each monster has a size, speed, and one of five types.
• The attacks of monsters with larger size do more damage.
• The attacks of monsters with higher speed succeed more frequently.
• Each monster type is strong against one other type and weak against a different type.
• The sizes, speeds, and types of monsters will be the same every game.
• Which types are strong and weak against each other will change every game.

Pro Tips:

• Use the player to bait monsters out into the open, but don't get them too close.
• Cycle tamed monsters in and out of the ball to keep them healthy.
• Watch for attacks that are particularly effective, or ineffective, to work out which types are strong and weak against which other types.
• If you exit and reenter the garden, different monsters will repopulate.
• You need 16 different monsters to win, so if you have duplicates in the ball they're expendable (😬gulp... 😰yikes! 😱)

Special thanks to Pokefans.net, for the tileset and spritesheets.

https://fanart.pokefans.net/

NOTE:

Updated 2020-03-09 to fix a game breaking RNG bug.

Updated 2020-03-12 to fix a game breaking "undefined type" bug.