drZool
I love the minimalist option screen, made me laugh. Too bad there wasn't any game play.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD11 → minimalist rts
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 62 | 2.16 | 19 | |
| Overall | 66 | 1.81 | 21 | |
| Fun | 66 | 1.48 | 21 | |
| Theme | 68 | 2.14 | 21 | |
| Humor | 30 | 2.57 | 7 | |
| Graphics | 32 | 3.00 | 21 | |
| Polish | 65 | 1.90 | 21 | |
| Food | 22 | 2.44 | 16 | |
| Journal | 40 | 2.80 | 15 | |
| Technical | 55 | 2.27 | 15 | |
| Audio | 2 |
I love the minimalist option screen, made me laugh. Too bad there wasn't any game play.
The whole idea did not seem to fit the theme very well, and well, as drZool said there's not really any gameplay. You did make something though, and that's always a thumbs up!
The game didn't seem like it was aiming to be all that minimalist, but like you said it was unfinished anyways. At least the graphics are ok. :-)
The game design really is too much for a 48 hour game, especially with a theme like Minimalism. If you had successfully completed what you intended to do, it might have been a fun game, but as it stands, there's not much. I would love to play a complete version of the game, since the idea is sound.
Havn't voted because I really couldn't play it.
Might have been okay, if I could actually play. I couldn't figure out anything to do except putting a couple of tiles up and "add worker"
that is one SCARY looking chap on the title screen
Four minutes into the game my cash flow was negative. OSHA came and shut down my factory and my apartments were condemned because the area was zoned commercial. And now I have venture capitalists knocking on my door, thanks a lot...
Um, nothing seems to happen... I placed some buildings, and hit the add worker button (which I didn't see the first time around since I built in the top right), and that was that. The workers wandered about and I don't think anything else happened. You said you didn't finish -- if you decide to work on it more, post a later version because I'm interested in where it will go.
Great options screen. :P A shame you weren't able to finish this, could've been quite nice. If you were to finish the game I'll be sure to play it then. :)
Well, good try... don't think you got a game there, though. I'm intrigued by what it was going to be, I like to make workers go to factories. I don't know how you were going for the theme, other than just that you didn't finish, though.
I too was able to create a flock of workers around my barren apartment complex. They ignored the farm and factory though and sorta just wandered down into the bottom menu screen which made me laugh. I read your design doc as well. Loved the options screen- that trophy you won makes a lot more sense to me now! ;) Better luck next time on finishing something a _little_ further so we can play more! :)
Well it's very minimalist, I created an apartment and watched the workers fly round like some lost flock of birds, then quit.
Neat idea you had planned, although as others have said, I can't quite see how it fits the theme.
I think the theme fits, makes me think of poor communist workers and barren walls and modern art.
Bonus point in the food category for eating corndogs!
Ok, not much to do here? I built my apartment and spawned four guys. The rest seemed to be pretty much placeholder.
Forgetting about the "game" part is all too familiar to me... maybe you've learned something about priorities for next time? :)