War of the Geeks

War of the Geeks is a game made in 48 hours by Anthony Tambrin (copet80) and Min Guo during a hackathon.

It's a (very) casual action battle game, but there is neither blood nor gore here, only armies of cute sprites fighting each other and spewing out stars upon being hit.

How to Play

Choose one from six available teams to play with, each with a unique weapon and attack, and command your team units to battle against five opponent teams all at once. 

When your team "kill" other team units, they transform into your units, growing yours and shrinking them. Your mission is then: dominate the other teams until all of them become yours.

Strategise, dominate, and win!

Controls

Use the mouse (or trackpad) to point at a specific location on the ground (indicated by the war banner) to move your team units to that point. Click the left mouse button to command them to attack at that point.

Dev Story

Thank you for reading up till this point. We salute you!

The story behind this game is a playful take on the culture and interactions between the dev teams that I was working with at the time, where they had healthy internal competitions on time and quality to deliver. During a short period of time before the hackathon, we observed that we love broadcasting dev stats such as "number of bugs reported vs fixed" and "number of features shipped". It was a period of experimental fun.

Based on this concept of "competition" between devs, we thought it would be fun to re-imagine these teams (which adopt wacky names such as Team Sword, Team Scissors, team Paper, Team Hammer, Team Longbow, Team Rock) wearing Viking helmets, swords, hammers, and axes, where they would be fighting each other in a role-playing manner. 

So for the hackathon, we aptly named the character teams and set their weapons to be the exact dev team name. Most of the team names conveniently signify their weapons and thus their attack patterns, except for "Team Paper". After much deliberation, we decided that the concept of papers "burning" seems cooler than cutting".